{"id":36114,"date":"2025-07-31T05:01:07","date_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36114\/"},"modified":"2025-07-31T05:01:07","modified_gmt":"2025-07-31T05:01:07","slug":"pacific-notes-bronny-suns-saric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/36114\/","title":{"rendered":"Pacific Notes: Bronny, Suns, Saric"},"content":{"rendered":"

Lakers guard Bronny James<\/a> is adjusting to life ahead of his second pro season, as he told Dave McMenamin of ESPN<\/a> in a fresh interview.<\/p>\n

James, who still deals with occasional health issues after suffering a cardiac arrest in the summer of 2023, is looking to improve his conditioning and develop his defense. After his second Summer League stint, the 6\u20192\u2033 USC alum seems to feel a bit more secure in who he is and his own upside.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy confidence level is, for sure, taking a leap,\u201d James told McMenamin.<\/p>\n

James\u2019 head coach JJ Redick, who was also in the midst of his own rookie season in 2024\/25, believes that the 20-year-old can potentially crack the team\u2019s rotation sooner rather than later \u2014 provided his fitness improves.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe biggest thing for Bronny is that he has to get in elite shape,\u201d Redick told McMenamin. \u201cThat\u2019s the barrier of entry for him right now. And if he does that, I think he\u2019s got a chance to be a really fantastic player in the NBA.\u201d<\/p>\n

Lakers athletic trainer Mike Mancias explained how James, son of All-Star L.A. teammate LeBron James<\/a>, can continue to build on his conditioning.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis conditioning is like a basketball 401(k),\u201d Guthrie said. \u201cIt is all about daily deposits\u2026 That 401(k) will be great because he\u2019s been putting in the work starting now, starting in the offseason, focusing on his diet, focusing on sleep, focusing on all those things. That\u2019s all part of conditioning. It\u2019s all tied together.\u201d<\/p>\n

There\u2019s more out of the Pacific Division:<\/p>\n

Former Suns director of safety, security and risk management Gene Traylor has been fired by Phoenix as he sues the club for discrimination, harassment and retaliation, sources inform Baxter Holmes of ESPN<\/a>. \u201cMr. Traylor was terminated from his position as a security manager because an independent, outside investigation concluded that he violated company policies with respect to confidential information about security operations and he was intentionally untruthful with the investigator,\u201d Suns Senior Vice President of Communications Stacey Mitch said in a statement to Holmes.
\nNew Kings center Dario Saric<\/a> is determined to play meaningful minutes for Sacramento after riding pine with Denver for most of 2024\/25, per Johnny Askounis of Eurohoops<\/a>. The 31-year-old spoke with gathered reporters after a practice with Team Croatia, as the club gears up for the second round of the 2027 FIBA World Cup pre-qualifying matchups. \u201cI went to Sacramento, passed medicals, talked to the coach and general manager,\u201d Saric said. \u201cI received positive feedback. I hope to get minutes at the four and five positions. But you never know for sure. I thought I was going to play in Denver too, but I ended up sitting on the bench.\u201d Instead, the 6\u201910\u201d vet appeared in just 16 games for the Nuggets.
\nIn case you missed it, restricted free agent Warriors forward Jonathan Kuminga<\/a> remains frustrated<\/a> by his stalemated contract talks with Golden State.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Lakers guard Bronny James is adjusting to life ahead of his second pro season, as he told Dave…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":36115,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[5405,49,48,25307,6689,459,82],"class_list":["post-36114","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-bronny-james","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-dario-saric","tag-jonathan-kuminga","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36114","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=36114"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36114\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/36115"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36114"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36114"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36114"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}