{"id":2418,"date":"2023-04-11T15:41:54","date_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=2418"},"modified":"2023-04-11T15:41:54","modified_gmt":"2023-04-11T19:41:54","slug":"bronny-james-earns-comparison-to-former-michigan-state-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/?p=2418","title":{"rendered":"Bronny James earns comparison to former Michigan State star"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2>The most talked about high school athlete in the nation, Bronny James, has been compared to a former Michigan State star.<\/h2>\n<p>If you follow recruiting, there&#8217;s no doubt that you&#8217;ve heard the name Bronny James mentioned countless times. One, because he&#8217;s the son of LeBron James. And two, because he was a McDonald&#8217;s All-American and that was seemingly all that was talked about during the game.<\/p>\n<p>James is also one of the most highly sought-after prospects in the nation because he has yet to commit to a school and, for one reason or another, his recruitment has been mysterious.<\/p>\n<p>Bronny, a five-star prospect now, has been talked about by every single scout and everyone offers up their own comps for the guard, but one of them stood out on Monday: Gary Harris.<\/p>\n<p>Yes, the most famous high school athlete currently has a game that&#8217;s being compared to a former Spartan star and now a starter for the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cAs a prospect, he reminds me a lot of Gary Harris.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/johnhollinger?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@johnhollinger<\/a> on Bronny James<\/p>\n<p>(<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/RBI1E90w2s\">https:\/\/t.co\/RBI1E90w2s<\/a>) <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/G0gUsYE6Wl\">pic.twitter.com\/G0gUsYE6Wl<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LegionHoops\/status\/1645611023569932288?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 11, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Obviously huge LeBron and Bronny fans took this comp as a sign of disrespect because they expect him to be the second coming of his father, but Harris was no slouch as a prospect. In fact, he came to the NBA with a ton of promise and had a solid stretch of seasons with the Nuggets from 2015-2020. He&#8217;s hovered around the 10 points per game mark ever since with the Magic, but he was a really solid player at his peak.<\/p>\n<p>Can&#8217;t be too mad at being compared to a plus defender who has a career 37 percent 3-point conversion rate and has averaged 11.1 points and 1.1 steals over his nine-year NBA career.<\/p>\n<p>It is kind of cool to see that one of the hottest names in the high school recruiting ranks in recent memory is being compared to a former Michigan State great.<\/p>\n<p>The casuals will knock the comp, but I can bet that LeBron is happy with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Gary Harris at his peak was so good.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":2440,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[296,59,297,190,189],"class_list":["post-2418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball","tag-bronny-james","tag-featured","tag-gary-harris","tag-michigan-state-basketball","tag-michigan-state-spartans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spartanshadows.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}