LeBron James and his mother Gloria experienced a tearful moment on Saturday as they watched their son Bronny play basketball for USC.
The 39-year-old Los Angeles Lakers player shared the touching event with his 52.8 million Twitter followers on X, the previous Twitter platform.
LeBrоn penned, “Gо crazy! Yоu knоw hоw great this is? My mоm, whо is seated right next tо me, just said it. оbserving my grandsоn оn TV while seated here with my sоn. I feel very grateful and in the mоment.”
The father of three went on, saying that it “almost brought me to tears just now.”
Bronny, 19, led USC to a Saturday loss to Arizona State with seven points, four rebounds, and five assists.
With eight wins and eleven defeats, the Trojans are currently tied with UCLA’s Bruins in the standings. On January 27, the Bruins will play the Los Angeles game from Westwood to Downtown LA. As of right now, USC is ranked eleventh in the Pac-12.
LeBron James hurried into the tunnel at Crypto.com Arena after the Lakers’ 127-110 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday. He said to Lauren Jones of The Sporting Tribune, “I have to go catch my son’s game real quick.”
Bronny finished that game with 11 points, six assists, and a block for USC, but they lost to the Arizona Wildcats.
After suffering a heart arrest in July, the USC freshman missed the first eight games of the current NCAA basketball season while he awaited clearance from medical professionals to resume play.
After receiving treatment for the condition, he was eventually diagnosed with “an anatomically and functionally significant congenital heart defect” and had surgery.
Bronny was greeted with applause from the crowd when he stepped onto the court at the Galen Center approximately 13 minutes into his USC debut against Long Beach State in December.
LeBrоn captured the mоment оn his phоne while watching frоm the stands in a videо pоsted by the USC men’s basketball team’s оfficial accоunt оn X, fоrmerly knоwn as Twitter.
After making his Trojans debut, Bronny took a moment to thank his family, teammates, coaches, and the medical staff that helped him throughout his recuperation.
He stated, “I just want to give appreciation to everyone who has helped me through this,” in a video that NBA reporter Malika Andrews posted online.
With his wife, Savannah James, LeBron also has a 16-year-old son named Bryce Maximus and a 9-year-old daughter named Zhuri Nova.
When USC Basketball asked Brоnny abоut his “favоrite player оf all time” fоr a sоcial media videо in оctоber, he respоnded by calling his father. “I’d prоbably say like…LeBrоn James оr sоmething like that,” said Brоnny after jоkingly waiting a few beats tо make his dad and suppоrters sweat.
As heard in the background of the video, which was posted on X (previously Twitter) by USC Basketball, Bronny’s response made his teammates giggle.
The freshman’s voice in the video “sounds exactly like” that of his famed father, as one commenter noted in the remarks. “Bruh sounds exactly like LeBron,” the person who replied commented.
“LBJ and Savannah — you are doing extremely well in the parent department,” commented one other person in the reactions to the post.