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Bronny James Names His Favorite NBA Players To Watch Growing Up

Bronny James names who were his favorite players to watch in the NBA when he was growing up.

Gautam Varier
Oct 16, 2024
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Bronny James is featured on the cover of the latest edition of Men’s Health and spoke on a wide range of topics during his interview with the magazine. At one stage, James was asked who were his favorite NBA players to watch growing up and he gave quite an interesting list.

“Jamal Crawford, for sure,” Bronny said. “Melo (Carmelo Anthony), just because he was so close to us. I used to watch old (Allen) Iverson highlights. And then Gilbert Arenas, because I played with him a bunch in 2K.”

Bronny’s father LeBron James wasn’t on that list, which is a surprise. Perhaps the 20-year-old felt it was a given that his dad would be in there and didn’t feel the need to mention him. Bronny did call LeBron his favorite player of all time, so there’s no way he wasn’t one of the players he loved watching growing up.

As for the ones he did mention, let’s look at them one by one. We start off with Jamal Crawford, who was one of the more exciting players to watch in the NBA at his best.

Crawford may not have turned out to be a star in the league after being selected with the eighth pick of the 2000 NBA Draft, but he has gone down as one of the greatest ball-handlers of all time. He also has a case to be regarded as the greatest sixth-man ever, having won the award thrice.

LeBron’s good friend Carmelo Anthony was the second player Bronny mentioned. Anthony was one of the finest scorers of his generation and won the scoring title in 2013. With how great he was and how close he has been to the James family, Carmelo is perhaps the least surprising inclusion here.

Allen Iverson was next and he was a favorite for an entire generation of hoopers. Bronny, who was born in 2004, couldn’t quite get to witness Iverson at his best but did watch some of his crazy highlights and fell in love with his game.

Lastly, we get to Gilbert Arenas, who interestingly became a favorite of Bronny’s thanks to NBA 2K. Arenas was one of the best players in the NBA from 2004-05 to 2006-07, during which he averaged 27.7 points per game, but his career went downhill after that thanks to injuries and that infamous gun incident.

Arenas also appears to have a good relationship with the James family like Anthony. Earlier this year, Arenas revealed LeBron requested him to train Bronny and he was impressed by what he saw. 

Fast forward to the present, though, and Bronny hasn’t really impressed in preseason thus far for the Los Angeles Lakers. He has averaged 1.0 points, 1.0 rebounds, 0.3 assists, and 1.0 blocks per game and has shot 12.5% from the field. He has had some good moments on the defensive end, but his offensive game needs a lot of work.

Bronny is going to have to take some big strides on offense if he is to stick around in the NBA for over a decade like his favorites did. Will he? Well, only time will tell.

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Gautam Varier is a staff writer and columnist for Fadeaway World from Mumbai, India. He graduated from Symbiosis International University with a Master of Business specializing in Sports Management in 2020. This educational achievement enables Gautam to apply sophisticated analytical techniques to his incisive coverage of basketball, blending business acumen with sports knowledge.Before joining Fadeaway World in 2022, Gautam honed his journalistic skills at Sportskeeda and SportsKPI, where he covered a range of sports topics with an emphasis on basketball. His passion for the sport was ignited after witnessing the high-octane offense of the Steve Nash-led Phoenix Suns. Among the Suns, Shawn Marion stood out to Gautam as an all-time underrated NBA player. Marion’s versatility as a defender and his rebounding prowess, despite being just 6’7”, impressed Gautam immensely. He admired Marion’s finishing ability at the rim and his shooting, despite an unconventional jump shot, believing that Marion’s skill set would have been even more appreciated in today’s NBA.This transformative experience not only deepened his love for basketball but also shaped his approach to sports writing, enabling him to connect with readers through vivid storytelling and insightful analysis.
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