The hypocrisy of ESPN now claiming disgust over Bronny James goes again most manifestly to draft day — I consider it was the second of the brand new two-day draft, one other Adam Silver particular — when its protection tried to determine a scorching marketplace for Bronny. The community steered on a number of events that Bronny may not be obtainable when the Lakers selected. A Lakers reporter pulled a quote from Anthony Davis about how Bronny can “guard a number of positions” and “flip into an elite shotmaker.”
“Definitely he’s a reputation price watching,” Dave McMenamin stated on the published. “We’re simply ready to see, just like the Lakers are ready to see, if he’ll nonetheless be obtainable once we get to No. 55.”
After all, the reality was all the time that Bronny could be drafted by the Lakers, and that he was neither prepared for the NBA nor worthy of any 2024 choose. As one government texted just a few days earlier than the draft, “If his identify had been Joe Thomas, we wouldn’t be speaking about him. I don’t actually see it proper now. If he had one other two years in school, it may be completely different however undecided.”
Nonetheless, ESPN constructed their total draft protection round a forgone nepotism choose, and now, over seven months later, tried to current Bronny’s struggles as each predictable and an indictment on LeBron’s parenting.