{"id":683544,"date":"2026-03-28T04:44:15","date_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/683544\/"},"modified":"2026-03-28T04:44:15","modified_gmt":"2026-03-28T04:44:15","slug":"lebron-passes-to-bronny-for-a-3-pointer-and-the-nbas-first-father-son-assist-league-says","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/683544\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron passes to Bronny for a 3-pointer and the NBA’s first father-son assist, league says"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 LeBron James<\/a> literally passed it on to the next generation Friday night.<\/p>\n

The NBA<\/a> says James recorded the league’s first father-son assist when he passed to Bronny James<\/a> for a 3-pointer in the second quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers<\/a> ‘ game against Brooklyn.<\/p>\n

The Lakers’ father-and-son duo played meaningful minutes together for the second straight game when the Lakers returned from a successful road trip to host the struggling Nets. Bronny James was on court with his father for nearly 4 1\/2 minutes after they checked in together to start the second quarter.<\/p>\n

Both generations scored during their sequence together, with LeBron making a driving layup before exchanging passes on the next possession with Bronny, who hit his 3-pointer from a step behind the line.<\/p>\n

Bronny James has largely played mop-up minutes this season, his second with the Lakers, while also making trips down to their G League team during the season.<\/p>\n

But with starting guard Marcus Smart<\/a> sidelined by injury for the past two games, Bronny got rotation minutes for the Lakers against Indiana and Brooklyn this week.<\/p>\n

LeBron and Bronny are the first father and son ever to play in the NBA at the same time, let alone on the same team.<\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/NBA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 LeBron James literally passed it on to the next generation Friday night. The NBA…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":675485,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[5],"tags":[7,1006,185,150,326,1407,6,12],"class_list":{"0":"post-683544","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba-draft","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-bronny-james","10":"tag-lebron-james","11":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","12":"tag-marcus-smart","13":"tag-national-basketball-association","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nba-draft"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683544","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=683544"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/683544\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/675485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=683544"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=683544"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=683544"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}