The Lakers performed their last preseason sport, dropping to the Golden State Warriors by a rating of 132-74 Friday night time in San Francisco.
They rested all their finest gamers and gave huge minutes to younger prospects (together with Bronny James).
Bronny had 17 factors, 4 rebounds, an help, three steals and a block whereas taking pictures 7/17 from the sphere.
Hundreds of individuals reacted to Bronny’s huge night time, and Kevin Durant’s mom left a remark.
Wanda Durant wrote: “Goooood! »
Many NBA followers will probably get pleasure from seeing Wanda’s commentary, as Durant (and LeBron James) are two of probably the most notable gamers in NBA historical past.
They’ve confronted one another 3 times within the NBA Finals (Durant is 2-1).
That mentioned, LeBron is 23-17 in his whole of 40. confrontations.
Bronny was the fifty fifth choose within the 2024 NBA Draft, however he’ll proceed to draw a number of consideration as a result of historic feat of with the ability to play along with his father.
He completed the preseason with averages of 4.2 factors and 1.7 rebounds per sport whereas taking pictures 29.7% from the sphere in six video games.
The Lakers went 2-4.
On Tuesday night time, the Lakers will play their first sport of the 2024-25 common season once they host Julius Randle and the Minnesota Timberwolves in Los Angeles, California.
Final season, they misplaced to Nikola Jokic and the Denver Nuggets within the first spherical of the 2024 NBA playoffs (in 5 video games).
