Bronny James records first NBA playoff points in Lakers' postseason win

Bronny James scored his first National Basketball Association playoff points Friday night in the Lakers’ 112-108 overtime win over the Houston Rockets. (sports.yahoo.com) (fadeawayworld.net) The baskets came on back-to-back second-quarter possessions in Game 3 at Toyota Center, pushing Los Angeles to a 3-0 lead in the first-round Western Conference series. (sports.yahoo.com) (fadeawayworld.net) First, Bronny hit a pull-up 3-pointer after LeBron James boxed out Jae’Sean Tate to free space on the play. Then Bronny finished a transition layup off a LeBron assist. (sports.yahoo.com) (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) Bronny finished with five points, and one game account said he outscored Houston’s bench, which managed three. LeBron’s role in both baskets turned the sequence into a father-son playoff first. (fadeawayworld.net) (news18.com) That moment landed one game after the series’ earlier milestone: LeBron and Bronny became the first father-son duo to share the floor in an NBA postseason game during the Lakers’ Game 1 win on April 19. (olympics.com) (nationaltoday.com) The context around the series mattered, too. Reports from Game 1 said the Lakers were without Luka Dončić and Austin Reaves, and Houston was without Kevin Durant, forcing Los Angeles deeper into its rotation. (olympics.com) Bronny had played brief minutes earlier in the series without scoring. In Game 3, he broke through with two clean possessions that immediately entered the playoff record book alongside his father. (timesofindia.indiatimes.com) (sports.yahoo.com) The Lakers now head toward a possible sweep with a 3-0 edge, and Bronny’s first playoff points arrived in the middle of a series already defined by James-family history. (fadeawayworld.net)