{"id":576713,"date":"2026-03-31T17:26:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:26:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576713\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T17:26:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T17:26:09","slug":"lebron-james-confirms-shattered-backboard-in-1-on-1-vs-bronny","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/576713\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James confirms shattered backboard in 1-on-1 vs. Bronny"},"content":{"rendered":"

LeBron James<\/a>‘ dominance in his Miami Heat<\/a> days also translated to the driveway.Editor’s Picks<\/a><\/a><\/p>\n

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After the Los Angeles Lakers’ Friday night 116-99<\/a> win over the Brooklyn Nets<\/a>, Bronny James<\/a> spoke confidently in the locker room about the last time he and his father matched up<\/a> in a game of one-on-one.<\/p>\n

The result? According to Bronny, the elder James broke a backboard.<\/p>\n

And he wasn’t lying.<\/p>\n

After the Lakers’ 120-101<\/a> win over the Washington Wizards<\/a> on Monday night where LeBron stuffed the scorebook with 21 points, 10 rebounds and 12 assists, he confirmed that the one-on-one game against his son ended up with glass on the driveway.<\/p>\n

“We had a hoop in our driveway and I drove around him and dunked it. I didn’t mean to shatter the glass but, I shattered it,” LeBron recalled.<\/p>\n

The game, which the James duo says happened in 2014, took place at their Miami residence. LeBron says that while Bronny, now 21, made a couple of shots in the game, the outcome was never in doubt.<\/p>\n

“That’s like Miami Bron — that’s like invincible Bron, so it’s not like he was about to win,” LeBron joked.<\/p>\n

After the backboard was broken, LeBron couldn’t recall if they replaced the backboard at their Miami house.<\/p>\n

“I didn’t mean to shatter it — I had to buy another one, or did I even buy another one? Bronny, did I even buy another hoop?” LeBron asked.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think you did,” Bronny replied.<\/p>\n

“I don’t think I did either. Yeah, I think that was it.”<\/p>\n

As the world awaits a one-on-one rematch between the duo, LeBron is currently averaging 20.9 points, six rebounds and seven assists in the 2025-26 regular season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James‘ dominance in his Miami Heat days also translated to the driveway.Editor’s Picks 1 Related After the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":576714,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-576713","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576713","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=576713"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/576713\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/576714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=576713"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=576713"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=576713"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}