Interesting new AZ MBB commit
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Maybe just trying to get some NIL money. Not sure if he is any good. Bronny would have been a good 3 or 4 year college player.
Worth the risk. Their media exposure, attendance etc. will increase substantially even if for a short period of time.
If the Lakers are smart, they will trade LeBron after this season so they don’t have to have LeBron and his two sons with him the following year
I have a feeling that this will be similar to Marcus Jordan (Michael Jordans son) at Illinois.
I'm sure he can find some extra money in the couch seats!
In year 3 in a normal situation he’s a d1 starter probably. Instead he was drafted and pushed into nba games a year before he’d have been good enough to start at mediocre usc.
Curtis Jones is dramatically more nba ready right now at every single phase of the game than bronny will be in a year or two. Same combo guard position, same age, on no draft boards.
The other Jordan kid at UCF was actually a solid player. Not NBA caliber but good d1 player and showed out obviously better than bronny without getting shoehorned onto an nba roster. We’d have definitely used him at ISU.
He was at our game last year.
Well assuming he is delivery NIL money to UNC, I am fine with him investing in AZ as well.
It would probably help the Big 12 publicity/hype the same way ESPN crowned 4th place Colorado king of the Big 12 for their Deion love and barely mentioned in the Alamo Bowl that BYU was dominating them.
The thing is Arizona doesn't need a gimmick. They just need to be as good as their average team over the past quarter century.
Then again do we all get 15 schollarships in basketball next season or the season after. If it's 15 that means most teams could take a flyer like James and hope it pans out and they score a little bit of publicity or maybe he plays on an AAU team that has a big fish they are really after. I bet with the new schollarship rules a lot of teams start taking maybe a lesser player on scholly so they can get the bigger fish. Just a guess. Maybe the kid is better than we think.
Yeah, I have no idea how good he is. Bronny was pretty obviously worse than I thought he'd be at USC. I knew he didn't have LeBron's one a billion physical gifts (who does other than maybe Gianis), but I thought he'd be a pretty dangerous combo guard right away in NCAA.
in all fairness to Bronny in college he had a really rough start with the heart problem. So I give him a pass on that. I wonder how he would have did had he stuck around and didn't have his dad draft him, which he did nothing to show he deserved to get drafted.
That's ok if he was a college player and his future years were fighting through it to become a college starter/star.
Having that and still getting drafted as a one and done...it makes the nepotism stuff 10x worse.
Which always helps draft stock of a 6'2" guard shooting 36% off the bench at 19 minutes a game.
That's part of the whole point.
In any other case it would need to be "yeah there's a heart condition health risk, but the kid shot 50% from the field and had explosive athletic ability while leading the conference in assists so maybe let's draft him in spite of that health risk".
Bronny would have been a really nice Mid-Major Plus player by year 3.
There are 200 guys like him playing NCAA basketball right now. 6-2 guard that can do a little of everything but doesn't have one elite skill. Kind of guy that plays 4 years at St Bonaventure and then makes $4k a month in Europe.
There are 200 guys like him playing NCAA basketball right now. 6-2 guard that can do a little of everything but doesn't have one elite skill. Kind of guy that plays 4 years at St Bonaventure and then makes $4k a month in Europe.
