{"id":77505,"date":"2024-05-14T21:54:19","date_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:54:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/?p=77505"},"modified":"2024-05-14T21:54:19","modified_gmt":"2024-05-15T01:54:19","slug":"2024-nba-draft-bronny-james-names-3-pros-he-wants-to-be-like","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/05\/14\/2024-nba-draft-bronny-james-names-3-pros-he-wants-to-be-like\/","title":{"rendered":"2024 NBA Draft: Bronny James Names 3 Pros He Wants to Be Like"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what side of the aisle you\u2019re on, USC freshman Bronny James is the beau of the ball.<\/p>\n<p>Arriving in Chicago to take part in the 2024 NBA Draft Combine, James\u2019 namesake has <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/05\/14\/bronny-james-sets-record-straight-about-dads-draft-dreams\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">seemingly carried him this far<\/a>. Yet, many successful NBA players have flown under the radar. James isn\u2019t the usual underdog given that people have had high expectations for him since high school. However, as he\u2019s yet to demonstrate the level of talent that his pedigree suggests, doubt has crept into assessments of his future outlook.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps it makes sense then that when asked which NBA players impact winning the way he wants to, he named three of the most underrated veterans in the league: Boston Celtics guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/h\/holidjr01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Jrue Holiday<\/a>, Celtics guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/w\/whitede01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Derrick White<\/a>, and Sacramento Kings guard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.basketball-reference.com\/players\/m\/mitchda01.html\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Davion Mitchell<\/a>.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Bronny named Jrue Holiday, Davion Mitchell and Derrick White as players who affect winning in the way he wants to \ud83d\udcaf <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/dZlu9fwFG1\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">pic.twitter.com\/dZlu9fwFG1<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SportsCenter\/status\/1790542434302058681?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">May 15, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Here\u2019s more on those three players.<\/p>\n<h2>Bronny James Names 3 Pros He Wants to Be Like<\/h2>\n<h3>Jrue Holiday<\/h3>\n<p>Holiday is a well-rounded guard with elite defense due to his strength, technique, and basketball IQ.<\/p>\n<p>A two-time All-Star and five-time All-Defensive selection, the 33-year-old\u2019s impact has been <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/04\/22\/nba-players-name-choices-for-most-overrated-underrated-players\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">recognized by the league<\/a> on multiple occasions. However, Holiday\u2019s popularity rose among the more casual NBA fans after he helped the Milwaukee Bucks win their championship in 50 years.<\/p>\n<p>With the Celtics, Holiday has sacrificed scoring opportunities for the betterment of the team. Despite averaging 19.1 points per game over the previous six seasons, he\u2019s recognized that Boston is the deepest team he\u2019s been on. As a result, he\u2019s averaging 12.5 points per game this season.<\/p>\n<h3>Derrick White<\/h3>\n<p>Similar to Holiday, White is an all-around guard.<\/p>\n<p>However, he\u2019s more of a jack of all trades than Holiday. He isn\u2019t as aggressive a scorer, as efficient a 3-point shooter, or as much of an event creator on defense. Nonetheless, he makes a number of timely, heads-up plays at both ends of the floor, leading to him having the second-highest on-court plus-minus (+12.4) among their rotation players.<\/p>\n<p>This season, there were calls for White to <a href=\"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/2024\/01\/03\/how-many-all-stars-will-the-celtics-have-this-season\/\" target=\"_blank\" target=\"_self\">be named an All-Star<\/a> for the first time in his career. Although he never got the nod, it speaks to his growing popularity. His impact is so great that he\u2019s transcended the traditional way of thinking about what an All-Star is.<\/p>\n<h3>Davion Mitchell<\/h3>\n<p>Mitchell is the least versatile of the three, as he\u2019s primarily a defensive specialist. With outstanding footwork and anticipation, would-be scorers and ball-handlers find it hard to get past him.<\/p>\n<p>However, Mitchell\u2019s determination to improve has been another card. To that point, after shooting just 31.6 percent from 3 as a rookie in 2021-22, he knocked down a career-high 36.1 percent of his 3s in 2023-24.<\/p>\n<p>That said, he averaged career-highs of 11.5 points, 4.2 assists, and 0.7 steals per game as a rookie. So, when Mitchell saw increased playing time, his subsequent production was par for the course. When averaging 20-29 minutes per game last season, Mitchell averaged 9.7 points per game on 47.0 percent shooting from the field and 41.5 percent shooting from 3.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No matter what side of the aisle you\u2019re on, USC freshman Bronny James is the beau of the ball. Arriving in Chicago to take part in the 2024 NBA Draft Combine, James\u2019 namesake has seemingly carried him this far. Yet, many successful NBA players have flown under the radar. James isn\u2019t the usual underdog given [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5008,"featured_media":77512,"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":[556,1608,5,62,3,29],"tags":[4572,4269,1090,239,98],"class_list":["post-77505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba-draft","category-basketball","category-celtics","category-nba","category-news","category-kings","tag-bronny-james","tag-davion-mitchell","tag-derrick-white","tag-jrue-holiday","tag-nba-draft"],"modified_by":"Quenton S Albertie","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77505","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=77505"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77505\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/77512"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=77505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=77505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lastwordonsports.com\/basketball\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=77505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}