{"id":568536,"date":"2026-01-29T13:22:15","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:22:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/568536\/"},"modified":"2026-01-29T13:22:15","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T13:22:15","slug":"skip-bayless-makes-ridiculous-bronny-james-claim-during-lebron-james-return-to-cleveland","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/568536\/","title":{"rendered":"Skip Bayless makes ridiculous Bronny James claim during LeBron James\u2019 return to Cleveland"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Skip Bayless has drawn criticism after making a provocative claim about Bronny James during LeBron James\u2019 return to Cleveland.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LeBron James returned to Cleveland as the Los Angeles Lakers faced the Cleveland Cavaliers, with Bronny James also appearing in the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Los Angeles Lakers lost 129-99 to the Cleveland Cavaliers, marking their worst defeat of the season so far.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Photo by Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"571\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cfb1c4417d876a71be74920b98c0d374.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Photo by Jim McIsaac\/Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Skip Bayless compares Bronny James and LeBron James after Cleveland loss<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Skip Bayless reacted on <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/RealSkipBayless\/status\/2016700432761155593?s=20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">X<\/a> following the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 30-point loss to the Cleveland Cavaliers. The Cavaliers played without Evan Mobley, Darius Garland, and Max Strus.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">He suggested that Bronny James\u2019 late-game cameo was enough to outshine LeBron James\u2019 poor 11-point performance.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">\u201cBronny just outplayed his dad in Cleveland! But Lakers lose by 30, worst loss of the season, even though Cavs were without Mobley, Garland, and Strus.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bayless is known to be critical, even over-the-top when it comes to his analysis of LeBron James. This is just the latest in a long line of absurd comments the former ESPN and Fox Sports analyst has made.<\/p>\n<p>Game statistics undermine Skip Bayless claim<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">LeBron James played 27 minutes and finished with 11 points on 3-10 shooting, including 0-3 from three-point range. He also recorded three rebounds, five assists, one steal, and six turnovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Bronny James appeared for eight minutes and scored eight points on 3-3 shooting, including 2-2 from three-point range. He added two rebounds, one assist, one steal, and committed no turnovers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The comparison has been criticised due to the limited minutes and differing roles each player held during the game.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Many see this as Bayless using Bronny\u2019s brief outburst late in the game to undermine LeBron James, something he has, in the eyes of many, built his career off of doing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Read more:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Skip Bayless has drawn criticism after making a provocative claim about Bronny James during LeBron James\u2019 return to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":568537,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3772],"tags":[7,1006,306,305,193,3846,791,576,185,150,872,6,3202],"class_list":["post-568536","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-basketball","tag-bronny-james","tag-cavaliers","tag-cleveland","tag-cleveland-cavaliers","tag-clevelandcavaliers","tag-darius-garland","tag-evan-mobley","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-max-strus","tag-nba","tag-skip-bayless"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115978604192350304","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568536","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=568536"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/568536\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/568537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=568536"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=568536"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=568536"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}