Bronny James made NBA history on Sunday night by feeding his father for the first son-to-father assist in league play, and the Los Angeles Lakers used the moment to beat the Golden State Warriors 119-103.
James stole possession before finding LeBron James for an uncontested dunk, a play that landed in the same game in which the 19-year-old guard finished with 10 points and three assists. LeBron James added 26 points and 11 assists as the Lakers closed strongly against a Warriors team that could not keep pace.
The Lakers sat fourth in the Western Conference after the win, while the Warriors were 10th. Both teams had already secured places in the post-season play-offs beginning on 18 April, so the result did not change their playoff status, but it did add another line to a season that has already turned the James family pairing into a rare NBA attraction.
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That is what made the sequence matter. Last month, LeBron James and Bronny James recorded the first father-to-son assist in a game against the Brooklyn Nets, and Bronny’s selection by the Lakers in the second round of the 2024 NBA draft made the partnership possible in the first place. Now the family has done it from the other direction as well.
The clean symmetry hides the harder part: the Lakers have spent two seasons with LeBron and Bronny on the same roster, and the attention has followed every step of the arrangement. Sunday’s play was more than a crowd-pleaser. It was a piece of basketball history that happened in a game the Lakers controlled and a reminder that the unusual is now part of their nightly routine.
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For Bronny James, the numbers were modest but useful. For the Lakers, the 119-103 win left them in a stronger place in the West. And for LeBron James, 41, it was another night in which his family tie became a stat line the league had never recorded before.
