Back when Lakers star LeBron James said his son Broni was better than many players in the NBA, he is still creating waves among fans and athletes in the league.
Was LeBron crowning him when he said Broni was better than some other NBA players?
DeMar and PG chimed in with a surprising answer 😳
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“We’ve got some sad moms in the league, I’ll be honest. I kind of keep my opinions to myself. I’m taking a back seat,” said the Bulls player, but he couldn’t contain his language when referring to those players. “We have a lot of sad moms.” in the league.”
We can’t go on and on saying DeRozan totally gets along with LeBron, but we kind of get the idea that he says some players in the league aren’t as good as many might make them out to be.
“Being in the league for so long, you realize how many moms don’t like the game of basketball,” added the 33-year-old. Who takes it for granted. Who feels it.
Who just wants whatever comes with it but doesn’t want to take the work out of it. It’s very frustrating. you know what i mean?”
If there’s one common denominator in what both players agreed on, it’s that the younger generations coming into the NBA feel like they deserve all the attention in the world, rather than earning it day in and day out.
“We’re playing in an era where you have to earn everything. I’ve got a lot of guys who come in and think they’re only playing because the house boy told them they were cute. It was like bro, you’re no good,” DeRozan continued.
“So I definitely get Bronn’s point on that because you’d be surprised.”
The podcast host broke it down into numbers, to get a clearer view of just how many of these “types” of players are actually part of the league. According to George, roughly 450 players in the league and 75 to 100 “smelt,” DeMar put it.
The Clippers player made sure to add to the “good guys though.”
DeRozan mentioned how important Kobe Bryant was in shaping him
When the Bulls star was a teenager, he said that being a part of Kobe Bryant’s training camp was a dream come true and changed his life forever.
“I think the first time I met him was – I was 15-16 years old in a Cuban camp,” he recalled. “It was a time when everyone had their own little camp. It was an image floating there of when we were at his camp, and I was sitting in the front row. You see Clay, sitting in the second row, but we were literally locked in to everything he was saying.”
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DeRozan said he was like a sponge absorbing every word that came out of the Lakers legend’s mouth, and he especially felt the need to emulate Kobe’s unquenchable thirst for glory.
He added, “From that moment on, being in his camp, I didn’t realize that he knew who I was.” “It starts with small talk like ‘Do this, do this’ and the next thing you know it’s ‘I’m a bird,’ I’m having this open run into this,” it turns into like, ‘Yo, I’m in the gym, let’s do it.’ It slowly started to morph into a completely different kind of relationship that just grew out of respect for me being an athlete, and really paying attention to everything he said.
“By the time I was in high school, I would get his shoes, and he would personally give me his shoes.”