LeBron’s Family Moment
LeBron James connected with his son Bronny for a three‑pointer in a father‑son highlight that also came amid a milestone night — LeBron became the only player aged 39+ to record 25+ points and 10+ assists in a game, one of 29 such instances including playoffs. It’s a reminder that he’s still producing headline moments on and off the box score ( ).
One pass from LeBron James to Bronny James turned a routine second quarter against Brooklyn into something the National Basketball Association had never logged before: the league’s first father-to-son assist, with Bronny hitting a three-pointer a step behind the line on March 27, 2026. The play only happened because Bronny was getting real rotation minutes, not a last-minute cameo, after Lakers guard Marcus Smart missed time with an injury. Bronny and LeBron checked in together to open the second quarter, and Bronny stayed on the floor with his father for nearly 4 1/2 minutes. That pairing is rare even before the pass, because LeBron James and Bronny James are the first father and son to play in the National Basketball Association at the same time and on the same team. The assist made the relationship visible in one possession: father draws the defense, son gets the open shot, ball goes in. LeBron was 41 years old on April 10, 2026, and he is in his 22nd National Basketball Association season after debuting on October 29, 2003. Basketball-Reference lists Bronny directly in LeBron’s player page under relatives, which is a funny little database detail for a family story that now sits in the record book. The family highlight landed in the middle of a run where LeBron was still posting star-level box scores long after most players are retired. StatMuse counts 29 games, regular season and playoffs combined, in which LeBron recorded at least 25 points and 10 assists after turning 38, and no other player age 39 or older has matched that line. That number works like a stress test for aging in basketball. A 25-point, 10-assist game means one player is still creating offense as both the engine and the finisher, which is usually a young star’s job, not a 40-something forward in Year 22. LeBron’s career averages still explain why these moments keep happening. Across 1,620 regular-season games, he has averaged 26.8 points, 7.5 rebounds, and 7.4 assists, which is why one possession with Bronny never feels isolated from the rest of his résumé. So the snapshot people remember is not just the three-pointer itself. It is that the same player who entered the league in 2003 is old enough to set up his own son for a made National Basketball Association shot and still productive enough to keep adding new entries to the stat sheets around it.
