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Bronny James, left, and his father, LeBron, warm up Sunday before the Lakers’ preseason game against the Phoenix Suns in Palm Desert. (William Liang / Associated Press)
LeBron James wasn’t on the court for one of the most significant games for him last season.
It wasn’t a Lakers game or even an NBA game.
It was the Dec. 10 matchup between USC and Long Beach State, during which his oldest son, Bronny James, made his collegiate debut with the Trojans less than five months after suffering sudden cardiac arrest.
“Every minute he ran, every minute he jumped, took a bump to his chest — it’s just a lot of nerves for sure,” LeBron James said during an interview on the Netflix docuseries, “Starting 5.” “For me, the best play of the whole game is when the game ended and he walked off on his own, in his own power.”
LeBron and Bronny James are now Lakers teammates, after Los Angeles drafted Bronny with the 55th overall pick in June.
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Less than a year earlier, during a July 25 Trojans workout, Bronny James collapsed on the Galen Center floor. The family later said the probable cause of his sudden cardiac arrest had been identified as an “anatomically and functionally significant congenital heart defect.”
“Shout-out to the man above, one, to the whole coaching staff, training staff, members of that program,” LeBron James said on the docuseries. “They are the reason Bronny is alive now and smiling and thriving and doing what any 19-year-old should be doing, and that’s living out their dream.”
James described the period of time after the incident as “a hard-ass few months, watching our son go through the things that he was going through personally. I mean, it affected all of us in our household.”
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His wife, and Bronny’s mother, Savannah James got choked up while discussing that time on “Starting 5.”
“It was tough,” she said. “I think that we processed it differently. I think at the end of the day, it was just about us supporting each other and just being…
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Publish date : 2024-10-10 22:04:07
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