Yang Yi: The Lakers directly guaranteed Bronny’s contract after drafting him in the second round. No other team could do this.

October 10th Today Yang Yi talked about James and Brownie in his latest podcast.

Yang Yi said: "The Lakers selected Bronny in the draft, and after the second round, they directly gave him a guaranteed contract, a 2+2 guaranteed contract. We said at the time that no professional sports team in the world would do this. As for Bronny, he is an athlete who obviously does not have the ability to compete at the NBA level. I said the same thing last year."

"He does not have the NBA level."

To be honest, there is no problem with his playing ability. We compared Rivaldo's son last year, right? In this second-division league in Brazil, not only did I choose this kind of athlete, an athlete without NBA level playing ability, but I also directly gave him a four-year guaranteed contract. Then a team from top to bottom, from the general manager to the head coach, all parties were talking about this kid and said he was good. If you have talent, it doesn’t matter whether you can see it or not. I can see it. It’s okay. With this level of intensity and the Lakers’ culture of treating stars, it’s really impossible for other teams. No other team in the NBA can do this. We have never seen other teams do this kind of thing.

"My father's generation also had other teams, such as Stockton in the Jazz. Young Stockton couldn't get a contract in the Jazz, so he only played in the pre-season training camp, and was waived immediately after entering the season. His father was not enough to blame the deer for the horse, so Until then, the Lakers can still say that they are happy for James every day, and I will give you incense every day. You don’t care how well you play, you just retire with us. Until this black swan incident happened, no one thought that such a thing would happen - Doncic came to the Lakers. "