{"id":153066,"date":"2025-07-07T09:18:10","date_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/153066\/"},"modified":"2025-07-07T09:18:10","modified_gmt":"2025-07-07T09:18:10","slug":"bronny-james-scores-10-points-in-2025-summer-league-debut-throws-down-thundering-dunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/153066\/","title":{"rendered":"Bronny James scores 10 points in 2025 Summer League debut, throws down thundering dunk"},"content":{"rendered":"

Bronny James saw an opportunity and seized it less than 30 seconds into his 2025 NBA Summer League debut Sunday in the Chase Center’s “California Classic.”<\/p>\n

The second-year Los Angeles Lakers guard rocketed forward and picked the pocket of Miami Heat guard Kasparas Jaku\u010dionis. James scurried to corral the loose ball before seamlessly transitioning to a fastbreak runway, where the 20-year-old elevated a few feet past the free throw line for a thundering, one-handed dunk.<\/p>\n

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Like father, like son.<\/p>\n

Just as LeBron James so often does, Bronny gathered and flushed in a fluid, sweeping motion, complete with an emphatic dismount, which he followed with a slow walk and stare down past the baseline.<\/p>\n

What a 6-foot-2 Bronny lacks in height, he makes up for with bounce.<\/p>\n

A minute and a half later, James drained the first of his two 3-pointers on the day. He scored 10 first-half points but didn’t play in the second half, clocking out with only 11 minutes in a 103-83 Lakers victory.<\/p>\n

Of Los Angeles’ five starters, James played the fewest minutes.<\/p>\n

He’s coming off a rookie season in which he appeared in 27 games for the Lakers, averaging 2.3 points in 6.7 minutes per contest while posting a 31.3% field goal percentage. In the G League, however, the second-round pick shined for the South Bay Lakers<\/a>, averaging 21.9 points, 5.5 assists and 5.1 rebounds on 44% shooting in the 11 games he played with the club.<\/p>\n

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James’ best NBA performance this past season arrived on March 20 when he shot 7 of 10 and recorded 17 points and five assists<\/a>, albeit in a blowout loss to the Milwaukee Bucks.<\/p>\n

After starting 2 for 2 on Sunday, the USC product missed his next three shots: a sidestep 3, a second-chance floater later on and then a catch-and-shoot 3 from the right wing.<\/p>\n

But he knocked down his second triple before intermission, courtesy of an assist from fellow 2024 draftee Dalton Knecht. James also added a pair of free throws before halftime.<\/p>\n

James finished with a plus\/minus of +4 and shot 3 of 7, including 2 of 5 from deep. He snagged two rebounds to go along with the steal that created his highlight-reel dunk.<\/p>\n

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Knecht, notably, struggled for the second game in a row. A day after he shot a mere 3 of 13 from the field, and 0 of 6 from 3, he again failed to connect from long range.<\/p>\n

Last year’s No. 17 overall pick had as many points as turnovers Sunday against the Heat: four. He shot 2 of 7 and missed all three of his 3-point attempts.<\/p>\n

Knecht, who averaged 9.1. points per game with a 37.6% clip from 3 with the Lakers in 2024-25, even took an elbow to the face from Heat rookie big man Dain Dainja, whom Knecht fouled on a layup attempt.<\/p>\n

Former Villanova and Syracuse forward Cole Swider led the Lakers with 20 points on 7-of-10 shooting.<\/p>\n

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James, though, made a bigger impression with one all-too-familiar sequence in the first minute of play.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Bronny James saw an opportunity and seized it less than 30 seconds into his 2025 NBA Summer League…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153067,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,1006,15267,16379,1250,185,251,150,189,121,6,3494],"class_list":{"0":"post-153066","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bronny-james","10":"tag-california-classic","11":"tag-cole-swider","12":"tag-dalton-knecht","13":"tag-lebron-james","14":"tag-los-angeles","15":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","16":"tag-miami-heat","17":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","18":"tag-nba","19":"tag-nba-summer-league"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114811207984081108","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153066","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153066"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153066\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153066"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153066"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153066"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}