LeBron James admits he was VERY EMOTIONAL to see Bronny get drafted | SportsCenter YT Exclusive

LeBron James admits he was VERY EMOTIONAL to see Bronny get drafted | SportsCenter YT Exclusive

this is Sports Center good morning welcome to sports center on YouTube Ryan Smith Drew Carter with you at the Olympics the US is loaded with basketball royalty but King James is still the headliner as he seeks his third gold medal all right LeBron is 39 and father time is undefeated but it’s never taken on the father of a teammates as you might have heard bronnie is a Laker that’s where we start Dave mcmanaman’s conversation with LeBron we’re going to have a chance to talk about some history yeah in the fall with the 55th pick in the 2024 NBA draft the Los Angeles Lakers select bronnie James LeBron James and Ronnie James will not only be the first teammates to be fatherson duo in the league history first time it’s ever happened period yeah just take you back to New York what was that moment like for you um it was very emotional it was very emotional to uh to hear uh I mean that’s that’s been his his dream for quite a while he said he wants to play in the NBA and you know and then he had an opportunity to talk to his agent Rich Paul and Rich asked him what what is his ultimate goal in this whole thing and he said I just want to hear my name called and for it to happen you know with us all being together and him being able to hear his name called an NBA draft is like a moment that we will never ever forget between the lines to some extent basketball’s going to take care of itself for sure but outside of those lines he’s starting to have some of the same arrows slung at him that you had when you were a teenager what’s going to take for him to withstand that um I don’t know if people really understand Brony he doesn’t care I actually cared a little bit when I came in I wanted people to like like me and some of the things that people were saying about me it kind of bothered me early on in my career I let it get to me Ronnie doesn’t he doesn’t give a he doesn’t bronnie plays he works his tail off when he’s done he goes home and plays his video games he does not care about nobody he doesn’t even listen to that stuff he’s like the complete opposite of his dad his dad will say something yeah bronnie does not care like me personally when I was coming up I had no choice I literally had no choice I had to make it out like I had no choice I had to make it out for me my mom my family has all the choices in the world so it’s like a whole another people don’t understand how hard that is in the commitment for him to be coming out of heart surgery less than a year ago for him to be able to to be in the NBA this the kid is he’s he’s special but he doesn’t care he doesn’t it it doesn’t bother we have breaking news just six days after drafting bronny James the Lakers have signed his father you signed a new contract with the Lakers it potentially could take you through 23 seasons in the NBA was pretty good number yeah that is good a great number do you think this could be the last deal you ever signed as an NBA player I mean it could be um not going to sit up here and say oh I don’t maybe not yeah it could be easily but um we’ll see what happens Rich Paul told me uh leading up to you signing that deal that you’d be willing to take a pay cut to sign an impact player but here we sit Klay Thompson’s with the Dallas Mavericks DeMar rosen with the Sacramento Kings what do you think happens um it takes two to tangle I mean at the end of the day I think um you know our front office our coaching staff they try to do the job that they wanted to do or try to get guys to come and just they didn’t have it and that’s okay that’s part of the it’s part of the business since 2020 as the team has its ups and downs we’ve had some private conversations about just how much winning still matters to you you know you have all the accolades we talked about the stuff you’ve been able to earn through this game but you still want to win can you do it here with the Lakers between now and the end of your career can it happen again of course of course what gives you that confidence cuz we’ve done it before that’s it it’s over this historic 2020 NBA championship belongs to the Los Angeles Lakers the Lakers conquer the bubble and banner number 17 will soon hang in the rafters we still have two guys who commit every single day and myself in ad we commit to Excellence and commit to winning we’re not that far off you know we were one year removed from the Western Conference finals this past year didn’t go as well as we would like but we’re not that far off and there’s so many teams in the league you know so many great teams in the league and the Western Conference and Eastern Conference but we don’t see that we are that far off anyways LeBron and AD entering their sixth season as Lakers teammates but since winning that title in the bubble in 2020 they’ve only made it past the first round once JJ reck is their third head coach in that span so glad we’re on the semi-finals of the Euros they’re getting underway today with a Titanic matchup Spain taking on France for a spot in the final now France entered the tournament with the second best odds to win it all but have been way off their game mbappe broke his nose early on hasn’t been himself all tournament meanwhile France forgot how to score goals hasn’t had one an open play they take on a high-scoring Spanish team that’s been rolling all tournament and now we’re rolling with lme we welcome an ESPN soccer writer and analyst Luis Miguel ichai okay Luis Miguel starting with the favorite in this matchup what makes Spain so dynamic in these euros Ryan they finally have a bite and what I mean by that is that for a very long time Spain especially at the World Cup in 2022 Spain were just about control and possession they were like a beautiful painting that you watch at a museum you look at it you go oh that’s nice but there’s no outcome there’s no Killer Instinct Spain finally have it the most attempts in this competition The Joint most goals scored as well and it’s also because of their death and this phenom lamine yamal 16 years old three assists the most chances created for Spain Nico Williams on the other side this is a complete Spanish team now Germany the Germany game uh gave him a lot of suspensions and an injury to py so they’re going to have to watch out but Spain is finally Dynamic and multi-dimensional Ryan okay they got to be careful but they’re real good right now A Tail of two teams leading up to the semi-final game but cuz you look at France man they have not been able to score what do they need to do to break out of what you call their boring slump they need to wake up and realize their friends in a team with Antoine Griezmann kumani Osmani demele you mentioned kilan mbapp yes he has a broken nose but he’s still Killian mbappe they’ve scored three goals two of them are own goals and the other one is a penalty zero goals from open play I mean they’re good defensively but they need to be more direct they need to be more offensively creative and when you look at Spain who have won every single game France really need to wake up here they need to realize that they have the weapons to do it it’s going to be difficult but they have to wake up today and they have to be more reliant on the amazing talent that they have it’s going to be a very difficult battle I still see Spain winning this but France have to wake up man man they do and Spain if they win they advance to their fifth final at the European Championship that would tie Italy for the second most final appearances all time Luis Miguel ichai with Insight ahead of Spain France thank you so much my friend when you think Big 12 you think Tucson Provo Salt Lake City Cincinnati Orlando you do now that’s the reality in college athletics even if you’re still getting used to it the college football season unofficially starts today with Big 12 media days in Vegas and in case you missed any of the new cartography on the conference landscape or you’re not sure who’s playing where or who’s coaching whom or you just want to feel like kickoff is coming soon here’s Professor Ryan McGee ah summer is here here the Mercury’s Rising the AC’s getting cranked up G I can already feel myself sweating through my clothes but don’t worry I have a frosty fix for that fever just close your eyes conjure up images of crisp Fall Foliage swaying gently in the cool breezes of aumn dancing to the snare snap of a drum line that’s right college football is just weeks away way the electricity the atmosphere it’s the beauty of college football but to be ready for this season we’re going to need to do a little homework because our familiar 155 year-old friend has never looked more different like that one crazy ant who shows up every Thanksgiving looking like another episode of botched so who and what is where open your notes app and listen up the titans of the Southwest are are now in the Southeastern Conference the Pack 12 is now the two pack as everyone else has either departed for the Big 10 Big 12 or if you’re in the Bay Area the ACC no not the Chesapeake Bay the San Francisco Bay the travel secretaries of all these schools are going to have a field day kayn dor is the new head coach at BAM so yeah Nick sa is no longer calling the shots in Tuscaloosa though he does still live there has an office there and his statue stands right outside the stadium Jimbo Fisher is also gone replaced as the number one 12 Man by Mike Elco and Jim Harbaugh walked off Michigan’s cfp celebration stage and headed for the NFL that leaves only three active College head coaches with national championship rings North Carolina’s m brown won it back in 2005 the other two Clemson’s dbo Sweeny and George’s kiry Mark live only 75 M apart and they play week one in [Music] Atlanta meanwhile the transfer portal is running like a merry-go round driven by Max for sto Washington State QB cam Ward is now a hurricane Dylan Gabriel who I’m pretty sure played for new rockney is now with his third team under Center at Oregon former Clemson QB DJ oui unul is now with the Tigers Nemesis and fellow ACC realignment rattel Rouser Florida State it is a new era of college football transfer portal really all throughout the year all of this while Ohio State just had a better offseason Talent Hall than anyone not named the Philadelphia Eagles in Colorado man I don’t even know what all is going on with the Buffalo I just know I can’t stop reading coach Prime’s social media [Music] post Then Fall will well fall into a winter time the likes and Links of which we have never seen a college football playoff braacket expanding from four teams to 12 imagine Friday and then the Saturday on campus that’s what I think a lot of these teams have wanted to earn see I told you it was a lot to know but honestly all we really need to know is this your school is still your school college football is still awesome and kickoff is just weeks away can not wait CFB is coming of course that means coach Fran Brown at Syracuse plenty of exciting matchups to kick off the college football season starting starting with Florida state Georgia Tech and Ireland in week zero week one you got Georgia Clemson Miami Florida Notre Dame Texas A&M USC and LSU meetting Las Vegas and then in week two defending champ Michigan host Texas first of all love Ryan McGee Pond American not to have Nick Sabin on the sidelines but fun to have him on the college game day set this fall I know I wonder if he’s going to stop in the studio talk to us maybe a little bit what do you think that’s going to feel like if he says I don’t want to answer that question so quit asking yeah okay Nick whatever you say thanks for watching sports center on YouTube yeah

On this edition of SportsCenter’s YouTube exclusive:
0:00 Introduction
0:30 LeBron and Bronny James
5:30 Spain vs. France in the Euro 2024 semifinals
7:30 Big 12 Conference Media Days

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