Bronny James wasn't considered a first-round pick by many people entering the 2024 NBA Draft. As it turns out some of those people were also in NBA front offices.
The eldest son of LeBron James, ranked by Yahoo Sports' Krysten Peek as the No. 54 prospect in the draft, went unselected in the first round Wednesday. It's not a huge surprise given where the younger James was ranked by most talent evaluators, but there was enough speculation that a team might select him to leverage his father that anything seemed possible.