{"id":66254,"date":"2024-03-06T14:44:01","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:44:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=66254"},"modified":"2024-03-06T14:44:01","modified_gmt":"2024-03-06T19:44:01","slug":"bronny-james-mindset-amid-avalanche-of-criticism-revealed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/03\/06\/bronny-james-mindset-amid-avalanche-of-criticism-revealed\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronny James\u2019 Mindset Amid Avalanche of Criticism Revealed"},"content":{"rendered":"

In her latest feature<\/a>, The Ringer\u2019s Morin Fader pieced together a picture of Bronny James<\/a>\u2019 mindset as he\u2019s met with a wave of criticism aimed at his underwhelming showing at USC.<\/p>\n

Bronny James\u2019 Mindset Amid Avalanche of Criticism Revealed<\/h2>\n

Despite facing immense pressure, Bronny James is \u201cnot even worried about\u201d the notoriety that he faces. In fact, the USC freshman \u201cblinds it.\u201d At least that\u2019s what friend and Memphis Grizzlies forward Ziaire Williams<\/a> has to say about it. USC head coach Andy Enfield would say \u201che wants to do well for himself, but he\u2019s all about the team.\u201d \u201cHe has no ego,\u201d Enfield says.<\/p>\n

The characteristics that Williams and Enfield speak of have been apparent throughout James\u2019 basketball career. In fact, one of his major criticisms throughout high school was his lack of aggressiveness. A combo guard who follows his father\u2019s \u2018right way\u2019 approach, it may be out of his nature to assert himself as much as others want him to. At 19 years old, he could also just be growing into himself. Even on the basketball court, James has always been a bit of a late bloomer.<\/p>\n

First They Love You<\/h3>\n

Bronny James had a major health scare<\/a> in July, suffering cardiac arrest during practice. At the time, James was flooded with supportive messages. The seriousness of the situation seeming to leave the basketball world suspended in time. After all, it was only months after the NFL safety Damar Hamlin suffered cardiac arrest<\/a> on the football field. Expiring during the game, Hamlin was eventually resuscitated. He even on to play again in a momentous occasion. He also won the 2023 George Halas Award<\/a> for overcoming adversity.<\/p>\n

The firstborn son of NBA legend LeBron James<\/a>\u2014 a hoops prince\u2014 had experienced a similar fate. Fast forward nine months. As Fader notes, his noble bloodline has been met with jeers from spectators. Bearing the expectations<\/a> of being James\u2019 son\u2014 literally bearing the name LeBron James Jr.\u2014 he\u2019s shown that he has an NBA-level feel and body.<\/p>\n

However, his numbers are mediocre for anyone\u2019s son. With the 2023-24 regular season coming to a close and NBA Draft season quickly approaching, everyone\u2019s already counting him out. For this draft cycle at least. Yet, James has yet to make his draft decision. Klutch Sports superagent and family friend Rich Paul has said that he was making his decision based on team interest rather than draft position. Such a statement indicates at least a mild interest in declaring for the upcoming draft.<\/p>\n

It should be said that if James does return to school, note prospects like Allen Iverson<\/a> played in college for multiple seasons, as former NBA All-Star Stephon Marbury<\/a> recently noted in defense of the youngster<\/a>. Nonetheless, James could make the process a whole lot easier on everyone, including himself by just playing better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In her latest feature, The Ringer\u2019s Morin Fader pieced together a picture of Bronny James\u2019 mindset as he\u2019s met with a wave of criticism aimed at his underwhelming showing at USC. Bronny James\u2019 Mindset Amid Avalanche of Criticism Revealed Despite facing immense pressure, Bronny James is \u201cnot even worried about\u201d the notoriety that he faces. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":66274,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_lmt_disableupdate":"no","_lmt_disable":"","sfio_featured_image":false,"sfio_embed_code":"","_ef_editorial_meta_date_first-draft-date":"","_ef_editorial_meta_paragraph_assignment":"","_ef_editorial_meta_checkbox_needs-photo":"","_ef_editorial_meta_number_word-count":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[62,1608,26,3],"tags":[4572,38,98,4392],"class_list":["post-66254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","category-basketball","category-lakers","category-news","tag-bronny-james","tag-lebron-james","tag-nba-draft","tag-ziaire-williams"],"modified_by":"Jacob Stephens, Associate Editor","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66254","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5008"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=66254"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66254\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/66274"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=66254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=66254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=66254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}