The Truth About Bronny James Playing In The NBA

with the 2024 NBA draft in the books there is one major discussion that has dominated the NBA space over the last week it isn't about the number one overall pick it isn't about the Outlook of these teams going into next season it's about a late second round pick and for good reason because his name is LeBron James and he's going to play in the NBA with LeBron James it's a weird and unprecedented circumstance that the NBA has never encountered before a player who many fans consider to be the Great of all time playing in the

NBA with his own son a story so strange you'd think the NBA script writers outsourced their work to chat GPT picked the most badshit result and called it a day but after 2 years of speculation we now know with certainty that bronny James will be an NBA player and right on Q the criticism of his merits and value as a future player in the NBA have already came pouring in Scouts and GMS claiming Brony as a prospect is isn't even worth using a late second round pick on and that the real value lies in his

last name and the leverage it comes with but how valuable is a second round pick really and is brony a legitimate NBA player or is he only in conversation solely because of who his dad is who you want to play with bronie is number one on my list I got to be on a floor with bronie today's video is sponsored by SeatGeek the MLB season is in full swing your favorite artists are on tour and y'all are going to need some tickets now you guys have used my promo code so much that SeatGeek wanted to

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the SeatGeek app and use code Jimmy 10 for 10% off any order this is Ken griffy former major Leaguer and three-time Allstar this is Ken Griffey Jr son of Ken griffy and in 1990 these two did one of the coolest things a father and son can possibly do they played in the MLB together and when I say together I don't just mean they played in the MLB at the same time they were on the same team in fact they weren't just on the same team they shared the same Outfield with each other it's probably the

rarest and most badass thing you'll ever see in sports making it to the big leagues is one thing but playing in the big leagues next to your kid is a club exclusive to only these two and if that wasn't incredible enough on September 14th 1990 the griffy pulled off something that you will never see again in your lifetime put an inch back up there now well hit the center field Devon white going back go on a two-run home [Applause] run and he hits one well the left center field Dante bashet that's backto back home runs

what else can these yeah do the Griffies were great and they were the first and only fatherson duo in the history of Major League Baseball but they weren't the first fatherson duo in professional sports this is Gordy how one of the greatest players to ever touch the ice he won four Stanley Cups six MVPs held the NHL record for total career points at the time of his retirement and is a member of the NHL's 100th anniversary team Gordy had an incredible pro career as a hockey player and yet out of all of his accomplishments the

coolest thing he ever did was this this is Mark and Marty how Gordy sons and he played professional hockey with them in both the wh and the NHL for Five Seasons now if you're thinking that guy looks a little old to be playing professional sports you're right Gordy began his career in the NHL in 1946 when he was just 18 years old by the time he retired for good he was 15 1 a career that stretched from the 1940s to the 1980s and only with a career like this can a player even have a shot

at playing in the league together with their son why exactly am I talking about home runs and Gordy how well because they're awesome but also because of these two and what they're about to accomplish in their own sport LeBron and bronny James who are on track to being the first father and son Duo to play together in the NBA an idea that seemed far-fetched when LeBron first mentioned it years ago but has now become a reality but how legitimate is brony's spot in the league and is the backlash towards the Lakers selecting him with a

second round pick in the draft warranted well to answer this question we first need to know just how good Brony is as a prospect and as an incoming NBA player right now nbadraft.net has bronnie rated at an 88 overall across their 12 Prospect metrics this overall rating puts on the lower end of all second round picks and future prospects over the last 3 years but well within range of your typical mid to late first rounder now here are Bron's numbers during his one season of college basketball Five Points three rebounds and two assists to game

on 47 30 69% shooting splits now these numbers especially from a relatively undersized guard do not scream NBA potential but for perspective here are the average Collegiate stats from every late second round pick that played college basketball over the last 5 years and even when compared to late second round picks Bron's numbers aren't nearly as impressive in fact Brony is arguably the least productive College Prospect in NBA history here is a list of every player in the entire history of the NBA to be selected in the first two rounds of the draft that average less

than five points three rebounds and three assist a game in college and that's it just three players who were selected in the NBA draft with college numbers equal to or less than Bron's College numbers compare that with the fact that these prospects had at least the benefit of having NBA frames and physical tools to be potentially built off of and the case for bronnie warranting a pick in the NBA draft becomes more and more difficult to make but to really demonstrate exactly where bronny Falls amongst other second round picks here is a chart of every

college basketball player selected in the second round of the draft over the last 10 years with box plus minus on the xaxis and minutes per game on the Y AIS 298 selections spanning 10 drafts more than half of these players not even in the NBA today where's bronnie he's right here most late draft picks even the guys who go on to not even make a roster in the league were first or maybe second options in their college program bronny on the other hand was an undersized rotational player on a sub 500 team it doesn't take

an NBA Scout to know that bronny james' collegiate career wasn't that of your typical second round draft pick but how good is the typical second round pick with the rise of second round sleepers in recent history most notably players like Nicole yic Jaylen Brunson herb Jones and Jordan Clarkson the potential value of a second round pick in the NBA draft is about as high as it's ever been with the help of advanced metrics the curtain has been pulled back on the value even a solid role player can provide to a winning team Prospect scouting has

gotten more comprehensive than ever before and these second round picks have held considerable weight within recent trades around the NBA but how valuable does that truly make them gathered from 10 years worth of draft classes from 2013 to 2022 data shows that on average out of the 30 players drafted in the second round about six of them won won even suit up in the NBA that's about one in every five players selected in the second round that will never see a minute of action in the league out of the 24 players who do make a

roster in their rookie season about 17 of them end up playing a second season in the NBA of those 17 players that are good enough to stick around for more than a few seasons only about eight of them will go on to be a role player or rotational level player go one step further and on average only four of these second round round picks will become a starting caliber player in their career that's about one in every eight players selected in the second round and finally of the 298 players selected in the second round of

the draft from 2013 to 2022 only two of them became Allstars Nicole yic and Jaylen Brunson if we think about the last 10 years of second round picks on a scale of box plus minus with Nicole yic being on one end and the players who W even make a roster on the other then most players aren't in the middle in fact they're not even close most second round picks fall way down here somewhere in between what basketball reference would classify as an end of the bench player and out of the league when considering how to

use a second round pick the idea of drafting a guy who ends up being a real contributing player a starter or even a future MVP the perceived opportunity costs can tend to outweigh the actual value of the pick drafting a player of this caliber in the second round is like finding a diamond in the rough but giving away a pick or a potential player that ends up being of this caliber would be a mistake that no front office wants to live with but that doesn't change the fact that the vast majority of the time these

second round picks in the NBA draft go on to be these endof thebench level players just out of curiosity does anyone know who the last few 55th overall picks in the draft were and how their careers are turning out last year's 55th overall pick has played one game in the NBA the the one before that has played 23 games in two seasons the 55th pick in 2021 Aaron Wiggins is actually having himself a solid career so far but the one before him is out of the league the one before that one is also out of

the league he's also out of the league out of the league out of the league was never in the league out of the league and out of the league as a late second rounder if bronny can contribute on any level in the NBA he has already exceeded his draft value and that's really the proposition in all of this it would be incredible if Brony developed into a Davon Mitchell or Aaron holiday caliber player but the reality is if Brony can provide any net positive value to his team then selecting him in the draft will have

been a great pick there has never been a player projected to go this late in the draft with any expectations on what they should or will do in the league these late draft picks have historically been reserved for players who might have been overlooked players who maybe underperform their potential at the Collegiate level players who organizations are willing to roll the Dyson because there's virtually no opportunity costs associated with late second round picks it's all upside at this point in the draft if they don't work out well that's typical if they do work out well

then they've beaten the odds and the very large point being overlooked in all of this talk about potential and value to the team and X's and O's LeBron James has the opportunity to play basketball with his kid in the NBA ba let's just be honest this is blatant nepotism a classic case of it's who you know not what you know but nepotism has ran rampid in the NBA for decades and no one cared countless players coaches Executives owners who got their shot with far less Merit than bronny has but now here we are sitting around

talking about the Integrity of a man who's played 21 seasons in the league and his son because they made the most of an otherwise p 55th pick in the draft and the nepotism leaned in their favor this time around we can criticize this decision all we want preach about how this move was a breach of Ethics a slap in the face of the game we love but then we would all be Hypocrites because there isn't a man on Earth who would pass upon the chance to play in the NBA with his son even if it

meant pulling a few strings to make it happen as much as bronnie benefits from sharing the same last name as arguably the best basketball player of all time that tag has also came with equal scrutiny we have never seen a late second round pick get discussed and Limelight like we've seen with Brony but we've also never seen a late second round flyer get completely dissected and criticized like this LeBron and bronny have a chance to do something that has never been done in the history of the NBA and that is worth more than any late

second round pick will ever be [Music]