The Los Angeles Lakers announced that they have assigned Bronny James to the South Bay Lakers ahead of the G League season opener on Saturday.
This has been the plan all along as James is expected to split time between the Lakers and G League this season in order to get reps to develop his game.
Considering Bronny hardly played at USC last year and is not part of the Lakers’ rotation, the main way for him to work on things and develop during his rookie season will be with South Bay. Everyone is on board with this plan and it appears that it will start on Saturday when South Bay hosts the Salt Lake City Stars.