{"id":565611,"date":"2026-01-28T05:29:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:29:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565611\/"},"modified":"2026-01-28T05:29:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-28T05:29:10","slug":"lebron-james-did-not-ask-lakers-to-draft-bronny-james","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/565611\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James did not ask Lakers to draft Bronny James"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Courtside Buzz: REPORT: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CourtsideBuzzX\/status\/2016297867917357335\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Read more on x.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">ESPN\u2019s Ramona Shelburne says that she \u201cknows\u201d that LeBron James did NOT ask the Los Angeles Lakers to draft Bronny James in the 2024 NBA Draft<\/a>. ESPN\u2019s Steve Mason responded with, \u201coh, cmon! Oh, please! That is an unbelievably ridiculous concept!\u201d But, Shelburne then pushed back that part of the reason the Lakers drafted Bronny is because LeBron would like that. They also believed in Bronny\u2019s talent, like the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/golden-state-warriors\/9\/\" data-autotag=\"b851f12c-2556-43d0-b31a-c0eca28025da\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Golden State Warriors<\/a> &amp; <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/phoenix-suns\/21\/\" data-autotag=\"5b1d8499-f4c6-4857-a8e9-6d2e8a35bac3\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":b|e|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">Phoenix Suns<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\"><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/CourtsideBuzzX\/status\/2016297867917357335\" rel=\"nofollow\" title=\"Read more on x.com\" data-t-l=\":b|z|k|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_a\">x.com<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Courtside Buzz: REPORT: ESPN\u2019s Ramona Shelburne says that she \u201cknows\u201d that LeBron James did NOT ask the Los&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":565612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[72400,7,6,12,72987,72988,72404,76939,72860,72515,72546,72689,72570,72666,72553,72406,72687,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-565611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-nba-draft","12":"tag-sstssportsnbarumors","13":"tag-sstsnnba-rumors","14":"tag-tagbasketball","15":"tag-tagbronny-james","16":"tag-tagespn-inc","17":"tag-taggolden-state-warriors","18":"tag-taglebron-james","19":"tag-taglos-angeles-lakers","20":"tag-tagnba-draft","21":"tag-tagoverall-negative","22":"tag-tagphoenix-suns","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-tagtwitter","25":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115971081172955780","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565611","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=565611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/565611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/565612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=565611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=565611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=565611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}