LeBron James says Bronny can’t call him ‘Dad’ this season with the Lakers: ‘We already laid that down’

There are still plenty of questions about how it’s going to work with both LeBron James and Bronny James on the Los Angeles Lakers this season.

The elder James, however, has made one thing clear. There’s no calling him “dad” on the job.

The Lakers selected Bronny with the No. 55 overall pick in the NBA Draft earlier this summer after one season at USC. He then signed a four-year, $7.9 million guaranteed contract with the team, which is rare for a second round pick. Bronny spent time with the Lakers’ Summer League team in Las Vegas in July, and he had multiple games where he scored double figures despite starting a brutal 0-for-15 from behind the arc.

James has long said that he has wanted to play in the league with his son before he retires. Once they take the court together for the first time in a game, they’ll be the first father-son duo to play as teammates in NBA history and just the fourth father-son duo to do so in major American professional sports.

It’s unclear what kind of impact Bronny will have for the Lakers this season under first year head coach JJ Redick, who was hired to take over for Darvin Ham. How he is able to work alongside his father, who is entering his 22nd season in the league, as a coworker remains to be seen, too.

As far as what they’ll call each other, though, James insisted that’s going to be easy for him. For his son, however, that’s a different story.