LeBron James Makes NBA History After Return to Los Angeles Lakers

Bronny James (born LeBron James Jr. on calved Oct. 6, 2004) played precocious schoolhouse hoops for Chatsworth Sierra Canyon successful the San Fernando Valley earlier graduating to the assemblage of Southern California.

While the NBA docket has often kept LeBron from being capable to be a afloat slate of his son's games, he's been known to spell to large lengths to ticker Bronny successful action. In fact, helium erstwhile chartered a level connected an off-day to drawback Sierra Canyon play against his ain alma mater, St. Vincent-St. Mary successful Akron, Ohio.

"To spell ticker my lad play...and besides versus my alma mater," LeBron told reporters, "it's a beauteous surreal, come-full-circle, unbelievable thing."

In June 2024, Bronny was drafted to the Los Angeles Lakers, making him and LeBron the archetypal father-son duo to play successful the NBA astatine the aforesaid time.

Also helping to marque up the Sierra Canyon all-star squad? Zaire Wade, the eldest lad of retired Miami Heat prima (and erstwhile LeBron James teammate) Dwyane Wade.

"You've got to clasp it," Zaire, who transferred determination successful December 2019 from Florida, told Yahoo! Sports astir the antithetic magnitude of attraction being paid to his team. "There are cameras connected america wherever we go. There has been a batch of attraction connected maine my full life, but this is crazy. This is different level."

However, Zaire—unhappy with the deficiency of playing clip helium ended up getting—announced connected Instagram In April 2020 that he'd beryllium transferring to Brewster Academy successful Wolfeboro, Fla.

Zaire was the 10th prime successful the 2021 NBA G League draft, joing the Salt Lake City Stars. He went connected to play for Cape Town Tigers of the Basketball Africa Leagu earlier signing with the of the ASEAN Basketball League successful April 2024.

The retired shot prima has a girl who whitethorn beryllium capable to permission him successful the particulate by now. After all, Cha'iel Johnson is a way and tract prima who competed successful the 2017 AAU Junior Olympics astatine 12, winning the girls' 800-meter run.

She ran for St. Thomas Aquinas High School successful Florida, earlier joining the University of Kentucky athletics team.

The NBA Hall of Famer's third-eldest child, who measures up astatine 6-foot-10, played assemblage hoops for UCLA earlier being sidelined with a bosom information that required surgery.

After missing retired connected his 2018-19 play with the California-based school, helium transferred to Louisiana State, wherever there's a 900-pound bronze statue of Shaq extracurricular the LSU Basketball Practice Facility successful grant of its celebrated alum.

Shaq's 6-foot-2 girl (pictured present with her member Shareef O'Neal) announced her LSU enrollment successful 2020 to articulation her sibling successful playing assemblage hoops for the school.

"One of the astir hard decisions for a idiosyncratic my property to make, is the leap from precocious schoolhouse to college," she shared astatine the time. "Although I don't afloat cognize what's up of me, I americium acceptable for the challenge. I ne'er imagined myself saying this, but I americium excited to accidental that I person decided to perpetrate to being a pupil jock astatine LSU on broadside my member Shareef O'Neal. I americium Sooooo grateful to walk my adjacent 4 years arsenic a Tiger."

The eldest girl of two-time NBA All-Star Zack Randolph played hoops alongside chap NBA prima scion Izela Arenas, girl of Gilbert Arenas, during her studies astatine Sierra Canyon.

"I went to Michigan State nether manager Tom Izzo," Randolph told the Los Angeles Times successful December 2020. "He was a dog. Just hard. The boys you tin beryllium a small unsmooth with. The girls, they person you wrapped astir your finger. The girls look astatine you, 'Dad, I'm trying.' You person a peculiar spot for the girls."

MacKenly said she'd beaten her dada 3 times successful one-on-one, quipping, "He doesn't play immoderate defense."

The Sierra Canyon postgraduate started each 4 years and won 2 authorities titles. He played assemblage shot for Vanderbilt, earlier signing a two-way declaration with the Los Angeles Lakers successful 2022.

After a little stint connected the NBA G-League affiliate the South Bay Lakers, Scotty Jr. signed a two-way declaration with the Memphis Grizzlies successful 2024.

The erstwhile Chicago Bulls prima and five-time NBA champion is simply a batch of things—and a dada is 1 of them.

His son Dennis Rodman Jr.—or DJ—played hoops and shot astatine Corona del Mar High School successful Newport Beach, Calif. After graduation, helium became a guardant astatine Washington State, earlier transferring to University of Southern California successful 2023.

"He's 1 of the much under-rated oregon chartless players successful Southern California," his precocious schoolhouse coach, Ryan Schachter, told the Orange County Register after a crippled successful 2017.

Though Dennis' lad DJ followed his footsteps into basketball, his girl Trinity Rodman carved her ain way successful the satellite of soccer. After the COVID-19 pandemic canceled her freshman play with the Washington State Cougars, she went nonrecreational and joined Washington Spirit successful 2021 and United States women's nationalist shot squad successful 2022.

It's lone fitting that golfing's GOAT has a kid who's got huffy skills connected the course. Charlie Woods made his televised-golf debut astatine the property of 11 alongside his dada astatine the 2020 PNC Championship.

When asked if helium had been moving connected his plaything up of the father-son outing, the 15-time large champion said, "I haven't enactment successful immoderate time. I don't truly attraction astir my game. I'm conscionable trying to marque definite that Charlie has the clip of his beingness and is capable to bask each of this.''