{"id":22201,"date":"2025-07-25T04:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22201\/"},"modified":"2025-07-25T04:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-25T04:21:08","slug":"nba-star-steph-curry-makes-honest-bronny-james-statement","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/22201\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Star Steph Curry Makes Honest Bronny James Statement"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_46s1htvib\">Steph Curry and LeBron James will forever be linked as the two best players in the recent era of NBA basketball. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_vxgebasfs\">This week, Curry spoke about a time that he went to James&#8217; house (during his rookie season) when the Golden State Warriors were in town to play the Cleveland Cavaliers. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_im0x3a44u\">Curry also mentioned seeing Bronny James (who was just a little kid). <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_cwlrru6xm\"><a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_ksj615\" href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=YDzEoNyo4ag\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Curry (via Complex)<\/a>: &#8220;I remember how athletic Bronny looked&#8230; Couldn&#8217;t have been more than three or four&#8230; How fast he ran&#8230; I&#8217;m like, he going somewhere. And now, to see him in the league is crazy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_ic905ruf2\">Bronny ended up being selected by the Los Angeles Lakers with the 55th pick in the 2024 NBA Draft (last summer).<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_e8ozikufm\">He finished his rookie year with averages of 2.3 points per contest while shooting 31.3% from the field and 28.1% from the three-point range in 27 games.<\/p>\n<p><img class=\"base_1emrqjj-o_O-initial_fzbddc-o_O-style_1a1csmw\" alt=\"NBA \" title=\"NBA \"\/><\/p>\n<p>May 6, 2023; Los Angeles, California, USA; Golden State Warriors guard Stephen Curry (30) meets with Bronny James following game three of the 2023 NBA playoffs at Crypto.com Arena. Mandatory Credit: Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images \/ Gary A. Vasquez-Imagn Images<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_lhss5vpd5\">While Bronny got limited playing time in the NBA, he was outstanding during the G League regular season. <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_iqf048the\"><a class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_ksj615\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/nbagleague\/status\/1932179824853799356\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Via NBA G League:<\/a> &#8220;Bronny James\u2019 rookie year in the G League was ELECTRIC! \ud83e\udd29 <\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_mk51ocn1x\">At just 20 years old, he averaged 21.9 PPG, 5.2 RPG, and 5.4 APG last season with the @southbaylakers. In Laker wins, he shot 51% FG, 45% 3PT, and 88% FT.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Bronny James\u2019 rookie year in the G League was ELECTRIC! \ud83e\udd29 <\/p>\n<p>At just 20 years old, he averaged 21.9 PPG, 5.2 RPG, and 5.4 APG last season with the <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SouthBayLakers?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@southbaylakers<\/a>. In Laker wins, he shot 51% FG, 45% 3PT, and 88% FT. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/kxJTIWpdCW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/kxJTIWpdCW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA G League (@nbagleague) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/nbagleague\/status\/1932179824853799356?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">June 9, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_us5jqnlx1\">As for Curry, he is considered among the best 15 players of all time.<\/p>\n<p class=\"tagStyle_16dbupz-o_O-style_mxvz7o-o_O-style_12bse5w-o_O-style_6s3kpz\" data-mm-id=\"_irh8bam1k\">The Warriors legend finished last season with averages of 24.5 points, 4.4 rebounds, 6.0 assists and 1.1 steals per contest while shooting 44.8% from the field and 39.7% from the three-point range in 70 games.<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Steph Curry and LeBron James will forever be linked as the two best players in the recent era&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":22202,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":["post-22201","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=22201"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22201\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/22202"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22201"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22201"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22201"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}