{"id":515800,"date":"2026-01-04T09:42:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:42:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515800\/"},"modified":"2026-01-04T09:42:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-04T09:42:27","slug":"nba-fans-react-to-bronny-james-20-point-night-in-lakers-g-league-game-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/515800\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA Fans react to Bronny James’ 20-point night in Lakers G League game"},"content":{"rendered":"

NBA Fans react to Bronny James’ 20-point night in Lakers G League game<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Bronny James helped steal the show for the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>\u2019 NBA G League team on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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With the Lakers off for the night and in Los Angeles, the second-year guard had another opportunity to play in the developmental league to fine-tune his game.<\/p>\n

Facing the Memphis Hustle, the Lakers went into overtime, where they outscored the Hustle 7-3 after the game was knotted through regulation.<\/p>\n

James was a major contributor to the victory, checking in for 30 minutes.<\/p>\n

How Did Bronny Perform?<\/p>\n

Bronny James shot 8-11 from the field on Saturday night. He knocked down 1-4 of his shots from three, and made both of his free throws.<\/p>\n

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James had 20 points, the third-most for LA. Along with his scoring, he came down with five rebounds, snatched three steals, and dished out seven assists.<\/p>\n

The Lakers defeated the Hustle 125-121.<\/p>\n

NBA Fans React to Bronny\u2019s Night<\/p>\n

@LONDO87540615<\/a>: Got the W in OT. Not bad<\/p>\n

@WrldCade<\/a>: League him<\/p>\n

@FickDan<\/a>: he literally just needs confidence… he has NONE when hes inserted into the main squad.<\/p>\n

@murdamonkk<\/a>: Goat<\/p>\n

@outthewaytre<\/a>: Hooper<\/p>\n

@CraneRivers<\/a>:\u00a0hope this is the game gets him going. he also need to be super duper aggressive on defense end. instead being playing like a polite gentlemen for too long. it won’t help him staying in the main team play “safe”<\/p>\n

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@DonButler20<\/a>:\u00a0He be showing out in g league games I need this confidence in laker games when he does touch the court so he can have more opportunities to play .<\/p>\n

@jaybaudelaire_<\/a>:\u00a0when he plays on ball and is able to get everyone involved, he\u2019s really good man. his defense is elite and i hope he\u2019s able to get some minutes on the lakers cause they need what he did tonight..<\/p>\n

This year, Bronny has split time between the main roster and the G League.<\/p>\n

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During South Bay\u2019s Tip-Off Tournament run, Bronny appeared in six games. He averaged 9.5 points, 4.5 assists, and 2.8 rebounds.<\/p>\n

In the two regular season matchups before Saturday\u2019s action, he averaged 15.5 points (57% from the field, 54% from three), and posted 1.5 rebounds and 5.0 assists per game.<\/p>\n

When playing with the LA Lakers, Bronny saw the court for 8.2 minutes per game in 18 matchups. He posted averages of 1.6 points, 1.3 assists, and under one rebound. He\u2019s still working on becoming an everyday contributor for the main roster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NBA Fans react to Bronny James’ 20-point night in Lakers G League game originally appeared on The Sporting…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":515801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3790],"tags":[7,1006,4034,1698,300,4044,33121,251,150,4033,4043,30596,6],"class_list":["post-515800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles-lakers","tag-basketball","tag-bronny-james","tag-la","tag-la-lakers","tag-lakers","tag-lalakers","tag-league-team","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-losangeles","tag-losangeleslakers","tag-memphis-hustle","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115836180820486946","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515800","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=515800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/515800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/515801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=515800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=515800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=515800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}