LeBron sets up Bronny for a 3-pointer for the NBA’s first father-son connection.<\/p>\n
LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 LeBron James literally passed it on to the next generation Friday night.<\/p>\n
The NBA says James recorded the league\u2019s first father-son assist when he passed to Bronny James for a 3-pointer in the second quarter of the\u00a0Los Angeles Lakers\u2018 game against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n
The Lakers\u2019 father-and-son duo played meaningful minutes together for the second straight game when the Lakers returned from a successful road trip to host the struggling Nets. Bronny James was on court with his father for nearly 4 1\/2 minutes after they checked in together to start the second quarter.<\/p>\n
Both generations scored during their sequence together, with LeBron making a driving layup before exchanging passes on the next possession with Bronny, who hit his 3-pointer from a step behind the line.<\/p>\n
Bronny James has largely played mop-up minutes this season, his second with the Lakers, while also making trips down to their G League team during the season.<\/p>\n
But with starting guard Marcus Smart sidelined by injury for the past two games, Bronny got rotation minutes for the Lakers\u00a0against Indiana\u00a0and Brooklyn this week.<\/p>\n
LeBron and Bronny are the first father and son ever to play in the NBA at the same time, let alone on the same team.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron sets up Bronny for a 3-pointer for the NBA’s first father-son connection. LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 LeBron…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":549984,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[244863,355,99],"class_list":["post-549983","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-lebron-james-bronny-james","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549983","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=549983"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/549983\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/549984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=549983"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=549983"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=549983"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}