2024 NBA mocked draft prospects. Bronnie James is a top 10 pick. What do you think about that? I love it. He's a legitimate McDonald's all American. James is grown, filled out his frame, found another gear with his explosiveness, and you don't go see what everybody might talk about. Bronnie's okay, man. Bronnie's good defensively. Michael Jordan's son, Marcus Jordan. I saw him as a basketball player. Bronnie James is different. Nobody's drafted a lottery pick who six two because he's great defensively. Is he a starter? No. Is he a rotation player? No. Is he a bench guy? There are people who question the legitimacy of rankings. What exactly has Bronnie become? Never going to be in the same sense as LeBron James. I do not believe that LeBron James Jr. is better than any current NBA player. Does Bronnie start to come off the bench? Who? Bronnie. He's the best. I'm sure he's the best. Tell him what I know. On March 6, 2023, at 1143 p.m. LeBron James tweeted out, man, Bronnie definitely better than some of these cats I've been watching on the past today. Lightweight hilarious. The very next morning on March 7, on three recruits tweeted this, new. Bronnie James ranks number nine and five star in the latest 2023 on 315. Quite a coincidence and immediate, a firestorm of media coverage came. LeBron James son was now a five star. Only was he? Because according to the website, 247 sports, a site that takes a composite ranking of multiple recruiting websites and puts them together for one final ranking. Bronnie James is still a four star recruit and just the number 33 player in the nation. Which is strange because ESPN just projected Bronnie to be a top 10 pick in the 2024 draft. And guys, I'm very, very excited to share with you. I have a brand new channel named Corsair, where I am doing a three, two minute segments, every single video and on Corsair, three, the three segments we just did, included an old school not human segment. We are on a grind to get to 10,000 subscribers there. I really wanted to succeed, so I really want your honest feedback as well. I really appreciate you go watching Corsair number three. It will be linked below. But for now, let's get into a Bronnie James. Bronnie James is a McDonald's All-American, something that seemed an absolute certainty because his projected current NIL value is $7.2 million, which also means Bronnie's name is certainly bringing in the big bucks. But is it just his name that is causing this attention? Is it just because he is LeBron James's son that he is a projected top 10 pick? Or does Bronnie deserve everything? And instead is headed on the path that I'm sure we all truly would love to see a real top 10 pick in the NBA and a future star. So I wanted to dive in myself and find out is Bronnie worth the hype? And so I figured there were two pretty foolproof ways to look into this. The first being to compare Bronnie's current stats against a recent number nine recruit on 247 sports. The second of course is we have to dive into the game tape. So I went to YouTube, I searched Bronnie's name and I went through every single game I could find because I know that the last time I watched Bronnie. I'm not going to mince words here. I did not think he was a projected top 10 pick. What I said in my last videos was I thought that he was a potential second round pick. And then if he continued to grow as a player, I thought that he would become an NBA role player. And my last video on Bronnie was not that long ago. So to hear he was suddenly now a top 10 pick was pretty eye-popping for me, which meant I had to know is the hype worth it. Now the statue right away here are Bronnie's final season stats for his senior year. Bronnie averaged 14.2 points per game, 5.5 rebounds per game, 2.4 assists per game, and 1.8 steals per game. Now those are stats that to me at least do not exactly look incredible, especially the assist when we hear so much about Bronnie's passing and his teamwork. Also recently Syracuse guard Joe Gerard averaged 50 points per game in his senior season. So I understand that if guys like Joe Gerard are out here averaged in 50, why is Bronnie a projected top 10 pick only averaging 14.2? However, looking at the number nine player in the class of 2021, Kennedy Chandler, senior season stats, we see Chandler averaged 14.8 points, 4.2 rebounds, and 3.3 steals a game, which really just tells us that on stack-tie school basketball teams with sometimes questionable coaching, there can be so much talent that in terms of pure numbers, everyone sacrifices on the stack sheet, especially if your school is a bit more isoball based. Even Amari Bailey, Bronnie's teammate who had an incredible stat-stuffing junior season, averaged 18.5 points, 5.6 rebounds, and 2.6 assists a game in his senior season. And when we dive into the actual games, what we see is, but I would say a four star prospect, but a top 30ish guy. I'm right there with 2.4, 7 sports real ranking. I think that one is way more fake. Bronnie has his strengths for sure. He is a great on ball defender and a very willing defender. He's also someone who is able to cover the court very well. This combination mixed with his a very evident increase in athleticism, as well as his very evident increase in skill set. To me, it does indicate that he can fill a role in the NBA, as right now at least a rotational piece. The draft comparison of Deanthony Melton has been thrown around a lot lately, and that feels right. But Deanthony Melton was the 46th pick of the draft, and he had to grind to get where he is today. But where he is today is a big time piece of the 76er success. Does Bronnie have it in him to continue this grind? Once he gets to college, is he going to continue to put his head down and work? Then once he gets to the NBA, is he going to work even harder? Because Bronnie does have weaknesses. We cannot ignore the fact that Bronnie does struggle to put a point sometimes, and that practically every scouting report you will read will label him as a passive player at times. I also really feel like it cannot be understated that despite Bronnie's athleticism, he's struggled to put up points at times because he struggles to create separation off the dribble at times. It appears that for whatever reason, his blow-by ability to get to the rim, or his ability to create space off the dribble, is just lacking. Which combined with his past of this, does call into question if he is ready offensively for an NBA role. With that said, Bronnie has continued to improve his stance still jump shot. So my final thoughts here are that, it's not like Bronnie is wildly far away from a five-star player. Top 10 right now is a stretch, I would say. I feel like that's probably a clear media play in order to drum up some hype for Bronnie and for that recruiting website. Personally, I've got to say with a lot of this stuff, the number nine label, the projected top 10 pick, I feel for Bronnie. The pressure on him as a teenager is absurd. It is possible that that pressure is more than the pressure of LeBron himself though. When he was told he'd be a failure if he did not make the NBA hall of fame. How does it feel to know that if you're not eventually a hall of fame caliber player, it's not good enough to be good or an all-star, if you're not eventually a first rank hall of fame, a lot of people will say you were a bust or overhyped. So the final verdict for me here is that I do believe Bronnie is on the path to make the NBA. I do believe he has the work ethic to get there and I do believe he has the mindset to continue to grind once he gets to the league. The reason I believe this is that Bronnie has shown a tremendous improvement already and he has been famous his entire life. He has also been LeBron James, son his entire life. So the money has been there as well. It is quite clear that Bronnie is chasing his own legacy here. And I have the ultimate respect for that. I also would really hope that LeBron James as his father would be able to evaluate his own son's potential because if LeBron did not actually believe in Bronnie in this way, it would be wildly reckless to hype him up to the entire world. So are people using Bronnie's name right now? Are they inflating his draft ranking possibly to get clicks? Probably, but Bronnie did just have a great senior season. We have seen the improvement. Now, will we see if he can be a great draft prospect in college? Thank you guys for watching. 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