Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James is putting his foot down on his son Bronny calling him ‘Dad’ when they’re playing on the court together.
James, in an appearance on “The Shop” Tuesday, was asked what Bronny would be calling him at practice or in the locker room
“We already laid that down. He cannot call me dad in the workplace,” James said. “Once we leave out of the practice facility and the gates close, I can be dad again in the car if we ride together.”
“We cannot be running down the court, and he’s like ‘Dad, push the ball up!’ or ‘Dad, I’m open, dad!’ No, you cannot do that,” James insisted.
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Bronny Can Call LeBron James ‘GOAT’
While there is clearly an element of humor to his comments, LeBron is right. You can’t exactly have Bronny calling you ‘Dad’ around a bunch of NBA players.
It’s embarrassing. That said, the four-time NBA champion did run through a list of names he finds acceptable when the two are conducting Lakers business together.
“No, he got to call me ‘2-3’, or ‘Bron’,” he said before joking, “Or ‘GOAT’ if he want to. That’s up to him.”
That’s pretty funny right there. Maybe Bronny can call him ‘meal ticket’ since the only reason he was drafted and given a 4-year, $7.9 million guaranteed contract after averaging just 4.8 points per game in college was because of his Dad.
Or ‘coat tails’.
Just throwing out some suggestions here for Bronny James and his Dad.
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Will They Play Together?
This isn’t the first time LeBron James has suggested his kids call him the ‘GOAT’. During a playful pickup game with Bronny and his other son, Bryce, LeBron was hitting lasers from long-range and dropping a ‘GOAT’ reference.
The video showed Bryce desperately trying to get into the head of King James. He peppers his dad with taunts of “trash” and “lucky shot.”
It didn’t work. LeBron just kept making bucket after bucket.
“Hey,” James fires back. “I’m GOAT, bro. G-O-A-T.”
Of course, he’s not. James, who is currently tied for 27th on the list of NBA players with the most championships, would have a tough time cracking the top 10.
Michael Jordan, Kobe Bryant, Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Shaquille O’Neal, Bill Russell, Oscar Robertson, Julius Erving. Name one of those guys you’d take off the list and replace them with LeBron.
Bronny won’t likely be playing in any games with the self-proclaimed ‘GOAT’ any time soon. The Lakers are reportedly eyeing sending him to the G League for the 2024-25 season because he “remains far from a rotation-caliber player.”
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