Bronny scores first playoff points

Bronny James scored his first NBA playoff points Friday night in the Lakers’ 112-108 overtime win over the Houston Rockets. (espn.com) (sports.yahoo.com) The shot came in Game 3 of the Western Conference first-round series on April 24 in Houston. Bronny played nine minutes, went 2-for-2 from the field and finished with five points. (espn.com 1) (espn.com 2) His first postseason basket was a three-pointer off a pass from LeBron James. ESPN identified it as the first father-son assist-to-score sequence in NBA playoff history. (espn.com) LeBron James led Los Angeles with 29 points and hit a tying three-pointer with 13 seconds left in regulation. Marcus Smart scored eight points in overtime as the Lakers erased Houston’s late lead and moved ahead 3-0 in the series. (espn.com) (nba.com) The playoff moment followed two quiet games for Bronny. He played four minutes in Game 1 and three minutes in Game 2, scoring zero points before Friday’s breakthrough. (espn.com) Yahoo Sports reported Bronny had opened the second quarter in each of the first three games of the series. That put him on the floor long enough Friday for the father-son connection to happen in a postseason game. (sports.yahoo.com) The Lakers entered the 2026 playoffs as the No. 4 seed in the Western Conference, with Houston seeded fifth. The first round began April 18, and Los Angeles is now one win from the conference semifinals. (nba.com 1) (nba.com 2) For Bronny James, the stat line was small and the sequence was specific: one playoff three, one pass from LeBron, and one more piece of a Lakers series edge. (espn.com)