Bronny gets GAME-WINNING BUCKET with LeBron watching in Ohio! - ESPN Broadcast Highlights

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high school basketball from ESPN and welcome to Columbus Ohio for what promises to be a special night. LeBron James is here to watch his son Ronnie play a high school

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in person for the first time. The muscular freshmen and Sierra Canyon are here to face off. his father's alma mater st. Saint Vincent Mary Ted Emmerich Colby and cardi and Rachel Nichols and Rachel we can all see why Sierra Canyon is the biggest show in high school basketball. It was so emotional knowing that I was going to see his son play first because the first thing is to be there. but it also means that he misses a lot of things about dad and hasn't been able to go to a single tab of Ronnie's

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, so that feels special and then of course our men see Brawny against his old school, you know, the uniforms.

The B-state kids are wearing tonight, he paid for them, he helped restore it, he said after him, and of course the original idea was to have this game at the arena that bears his name in Akron, but there's been a lot of interest , there's 30,000 people in the building here tonight they couldn't have that in that high school alone Akron and even Drake is out studying Erik Canyon here sit on weird and funny guys I gotta tell you it's a little surreal for me too you know this week mark 17 years, hey, LeBron played his first yes, last game.

My little bronze goal to cover it was going to be a potential first time and sitting here and

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his 15-year-old son is like looking at his past and some of the The rest of our paths will run through this building. I think it will be a very heartfelt night for the entire James and Rachel family. We are very glad that you can be with us now. Paul Seer Canyon is much more than just the muscular James. They have one. of the best players in the class of 2020 in BJ Boston yes, BJ Boston is about getting

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s athletic long frame scores the ball at all three levels.

He is one of the most creative and exciting players in the high school game in all three ranked by ESPN. Sierra Canyon players, including Amari Bailey, one of the top ten sophomores in the class of 2020, Terran Frank, as well as No. 79 in the ESPN 100, the senior class that signed with TCU and, indeed, Paul, for the second game in a row, BJ Boston will come off the bench for Sierra Canyon meanwhile for st. Saint Vincent Mary of Akron Malachi Branham the name to know a player from ESPN 60 in the junior class a great scoring wing at 65 years old skilled with the ball good outside shooter we have talent we have important programs and the high school level - we Put LeBron James sitting to our left.

Sierra Canyon played a game at the American Airlines Center at the home of the Dallas Mavericks over Thanksgiving. About 10,000 people attended and for a game like this they needed a Nationwide Arena, home of the Columbus Blue Jackets. the NHL Sierra Canyon at Navy St. St. Vincent Mary in white and the first

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comes from a seven-foot, three-inch overhead view from China Scottsdale Arizona beating a good sophomore from the Millennium team, Shai Odom, coached on the other side for St. St. Vincent Mary , of course, coached LeBron his junior and senior year of high school. Five state championships in the four without LeBron.

This program hasn't gone away since LeBron graduated and went to the NBA. Dru Joyce is a fixture on the City of Akron's player development championship teams. go play college basketball not only that Division one level, but the small college basketball strategy can hold up and they want to execute it. Ciera Kenya wants to race two against one. Here's the alley that was on the table and you can see why. Miss Johnson tries to get the robbery loose right in front of us Frank throws it to Bailey and that leads to a timid and-one Odom puts it into Sierra Canyon who died for it.

Pick him up, throw him to his teammate Bailey, and then. Odom's shot that has no offense and brings a good level of energy to the number zero table in the Armada for Sierra Kenya now Grider knocks down Cham from three first now Malachi's triple was going to play for st. Saint Vincent Mary from LeBron Darrin Frank to the glass and puts it when he becomes a junior and senior, he will be one of the best big ankle 12 players off the screen. Marcus Johnson is working on that 15 footer and drains. and Frank knocks down the three Sierra Canyon is one point tarron Frank continues to impress Braun's alma mater on the opposite side of the muscular chains that came off the bench three minutes later and are there right now over zero in the Navy acai .

Branham No. 28 on ESPN 60 was snubbed and Amore Paley ranks him among the top ten rotation players in the sophomore class. We have to change that from our previous endings to the other end of Frank's rotation, as he was alone when he was a thirty-year-old kid. -old people play video games everyone plays video games Ronnie from the outside too strong offensive rebound from Boston and throws it remember that LeBron started his freshman year at six one he finished it sick important genes has to continue growing in and out of Morton in Ted is excited. I remember seeing LeBron as a freshman with a passionate heart, honey, trying for the Euro Cup pass, I lost it, but timid Odom cleans it up.

He mentioned it when you were an assistant here in Columbus at Ohio State as Brandon misses the offensive rebound jumper late. you were drafted into LeBron early in his high school career before Sierra Canyon dropped him again. Joyce has created an extraordinary program here at Ohio State with st. St. Vincent Mary much more than LeBron James during his two years as head coach Fire hits the Free Saints in St. Mary, this place went crazy and you realize I'm actually here for the first time to see them play to my son. I think he was a lot more nervous than my son, you know, coming here and you know he's been so surreal.

The moment you know it from myself, from the family, from Brontë himself, it's great and it's not just that you're seeing him play for the first time, but of course he's playing against your old high school and you kept so connected to save these that you restored. His gym is now named after you, you gave them these arenas and with these uniforms that they will wear against your son tonight, is it strange to cheer them on? Yes absolutely. I told my wife that she needed to know that Steph Curry's mother always does good. have security in the same area have Sierra Kane Jersey for this game, but you know my heart will always be the same as the coach drew, he was like a father to me, a father figure, he taught me a lot not only about the game of basketball but also about life and what it means to be a young man off the court, so I'll always be in debt, he claimed to be a coach, Drew and you know, it's like I said, it's like a full circle that I'm here in my home state, my son is here with his high school playing my alma mater and all my guys from my high school, the Fab Five are here tonight too so it's crazy that you've kept using words the last few days like surreal and emotional the fact that you're here with your boys. you had dinner before this game with all your old teammates it's like a homecoming it's a homecoming you know we can't spend as much time as we'd like but every time we get back together we finish right where we left off so you know what I have my guys here to see Coach Dru to see, you know, save Saint Mary and the fans here and then to see Sierra Kane and my son, this is, I don't know, it doesn't make sense, it doesn't make sense. it doesn't make sense that's how cool it's just doesn't make sense now i mentioned this the first game you got to see in person i saw you after the games you pulled out your phone you got the ipad you're streaming you got your feet in an ice bucket so you keep going looking at your son.

I heard you yell on the team plane and everyone says, oh yeah, he's watching another game of his son's, how different it is. coming to be here and now you're still yelling but he can hear you this time he can't hear me, hopefully I won't make too much noise and I'm distracting him from what's main and while she's trying to win. So, but I'm so proud of you, not just Brownie, but Bryce and Zuri, my three kids, we're just trying to raise them the right way to be, you know, like I said, a great new community, be cool with your teammates or classmates or whatever.

The case may be, you know, you represent the name James, you know it with the utmost respect, you know it to everyone, so you know, like I said, it's an honor for us to be here, it's an honor for me to have my family and for us to be seeing something like that. beautiful game, he's the only guy for Sarah Kenyon who can really go help BJ Boston Frank unleashes the too strong three Bailey has been quiet in this game Harris out of the window for st. B regains the lead, certainly not the biggest team, but they are just as tough, there are floaters and Harris sincere with another try in the first year.

North Canton goober Harris had just two points in the first half, Sierra Canyon Branham's third straight loss. the run outs and the bucket three consecutive steals Andre Scheffel up Chevallier let's talk about it with his team and stop the tide because st. Saint Vincent Mary has opened up a six point lead quick hands lead to quick runs Malachi Branham big catch slowed down bought the bench here in the second half number zero in the Navy here he is in the corner running back Lowell from about 17 feet and now brownies in numbers doubles that were closed in the painting skill level shown by the fifteen year old boy and speaking of skill level, how about I say we go to the back of st. feed burner will get it right now drive the zipper comes off a foot that's a long runner including Sierra can you tell you more about that here in a moment here's Bronte James the other thing that brownie James has to do?

Oh that's a nice scoop with the left hand, now 12 points for Brogni when he hits that growth spurt like LeBron did in his first year, that's when you'll see his game rise, he has good instincts of where to go and when he's open, and this time. with the left hand little time to hang and what dad has to say is my son tied for two when we start the fourth Ronny has given his team a great offensive spark in this game, the crossover and only of the sincere Harris has played the role of Batman at his old high school he has to play Robin a little bit right now because of Malachi Brandon, but they play off each other very well.

The bench opens on weekends for BJ Boston, the Kentucky signee, well he just slipped, yeah, he slipped because I thought since then. Harris, who is a good man, Harris has evaluated the fouls. I heard Wade D. Wade's son came out again tonight. He missed last Saturday's game against Paul West in Scottsdale, Arizona, as the ankle injury heals. Sierra Canyon's starting point guard and this team really needs him. because he organizes them well 44 everything at random the miss Johnson the offensive rebound and rebounds it Marcus Johnson swung outside the basket tries to turn him into a shooter and that's not what Sierra Canyon wants Morris 5/7 number four in the Navy like Branham on the opposite block he puts it through Dwyane Wade's window in the game for the first time here in the fourth quarter Daly three balls from the corner for Sierra Canyon's big shot it's a one point game you can see CMM played at Duke, yes No break here with the Pelicans, yes, tell them it wasn't the Lakers, I was going to say, but that long, silky smooth play with the ball in their hands always trying to make you lose your balance can score from three different levels.

Sierra Canyon after Branham made a basket to give them a three-point lead. BJ Boston is Sierra Canyon's highest-ranked player, but Ronnie James is the story. The double-digit freshman tonight got going in the second quarter. I saw him this summer. and I've watched him this year so far, and this was by far his best performance scoring in a variety of ways off the dribble, he showed the floating game in transition and LeBron and Savannah very happy as parents, his team and I saw those things . up close what the guys do when they are not in the game on the bench, his body language is good, he will continue to get better and better Harris and takes him to st.

St. Vincent's Mary Bailey committed a fatally out-of-control offensive foul at Sierra Canyon, but there's plenty of time for a team that scores the ball so well. Frank goes in and out on the baseline chain. Boston picks it up, smothered by Harris, the wraparound pass, and Odum, the lack of it. The shy Odum will be on the line after the timeout. He's got some barking now in the final minutes of regulation, as Harris, for no target, says, "Give me some of that here in Columbus Ohio st. St. Vincent Mary, then it's the Gonzaga buzzes Greg Brown of Texas like Memphis Auburn and Kentucky, a lot of talent on the Boston board of the robbery, places it, we are tied at 52 on the corner of Malachi Branham Street.

V la's top scorerscoop Saint will be on top James us on Isaiah Engle on Cole fights with Johnson inside Marcus Johnson down the court Ronnie James Catching Fire Boston is there for the back stick and a timeout for Sierra Canyon with 102 left, the Trailblazers are down for one what action up and down, a trip Ronnie James, the little fader, retired and there is BJ Boston on the glass, as he has been all game. I was impressed to see PJ Boston coming off the bench sending st. feet from the line, otherwise the Irish can just run it oh, Ronnie James Woody's deflection and steal has given Sierra King the lead, making him the winner of the game, make him the top ten of SportsCenter Harris POW there at thirty-nine point one. he

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the steal, he finds his way to the basket for a minute, there I thought he was going to take off and try to hit it and dad is very happy.

Fishel Saints, step back, sir, step back, dad and mom, and I know she deserved it. He loves it. do the assistant and he would take care of the basketball Harristrying to tie it he does it's when Eve golf due to the lane violation coming in early did Marcus Johnson get called let's take a look say hello with the free throw made see what happens here, balls up, now Harris crosses the line before the ball hits? the hoop officer fires him now that you have a trap, you have about two traps before you have to follow that street.

Saint Vincent Mary fouls again in less than 30 seconds of timeout with Teryn Frank in trouble twenty-seven point two undefeated they have Minnesota getting our own tough traps now you have to think about following him Frank Marcus Johnson gives him a hug with 12 and a half seconds left to finish go and the future TCU Horned Frog try to have a chance to tie or take the lead, it's always important to make that person, so now it will be a three point shot or a two point shot with 12.5, you have to go for the three. If you're down, please, Frank hits the line three-point lead, decisive time, free throws from tenant Frank, taking so much time, you have to go for the three and the gold Johnson on Frank, vote off the rebound and the foul with three-tenths of a second left LeBron applauding the effort that Sara Canyon was behind for much of this st.

St. Vincent Mary did a lot to win this game, but Sierra Canyon had too many weapons at the end. BJ Boston in the second half for LeBron. Think about this as a parent and as a former St. Vincent Mary player, you watched your alma mater play an incredible game in front of a full house against your son's current high school team, and by the way, your son, the muscular James, he was fabulous tonight and a big reason if Sierra Canyon wins this game is at the beginning of the one and one it doesn't matter that's here in Columbus Ronnie James with the best performance of his young high school career, the freshman 15 year old at Ohio State with his father watching from the court in Sierra Canyon he scores 5956 against LeBrons alma mater San Vicente st.

Mary Ronnie James was spectacular coming off the bench, yes she was fabulous, she lit up the team in the transition game, made some beautiful floaters, how about the left-handed drive, the defense in the second half, the deflection, the push and layup, Ronnie James' father simply? Referee very happy trying to control it, but Ronnie James off the bench was the catalyst for Sierra Canyon tonight. LeBron, of course, is always the catalyst for any team he's on. He led a comeback victory with the Lakers in Miami last night and was muscular giving it to Sierra. Canyon a boost off the bench here tonight 15 points, eight of them in the second quarter and Sierra Canyon stays perfect now eight and OH as they eliminate st.

Saint Vincent Mary, all smiles from Ronnie on the Trailblazers. 13,000 were here tonight to see the spectacle that is Sierra Canyon. We've documented Ronnie James, of course, but as we all know, Sierra Canyon is much more than just Ronnie BJ Boston, the #12 ranked player. ESPN 100 joins us on the court now Ted Emmerich Paul B and cardi this was a tough game yeah just as you expected to come to Ohio you're traveling all over the country this year which allowed you guys to come from behind and take this game. You know, I had seen my coaches tell us when we came out slow and soft and didn't play ACC basketball, so I feel like that conversation brought us closer and we had to play harder in the deeper event.

Ronnie gave you a great spark off the bench. His performance tonight was outstanding. I'm proud of him. You know, I told him to continue because it's his stay. You know this is Brendan. The whole family moves on. BJ, which allowed you to improve your game in the fourth quarter, when it counted most. You know my team, I think we're a good team, but you know I had to step up as a leader in the fourth quarter just to get the game in our hands. You've been having some big games and you're coming off the bench, what's the strategy behind you coming off the bench?

You know me coming off the bench. I watch the game before entering the court. You know I can navigate to where I need to be. VJ Ports is committed to Kentucky, in fact signed to John Calipari. and the Wildcats for what drew your attention to Kentucky above all else Kentucky. I like how they recruited me and my family to train and kept it real throughout the process. You know, I feel like I got better there and they know the goal. that players want to get to You're one of the best scoring guards in the class What do you think you need to improve between now and when you get to Kentucky Now, when I get to Kentucky, do I feel like I'm just playing my game?

I know it and I don't care about anything else. You know, get stronger and just elevate my game to the next level. What is your game? all over Boston get buckets it's a good game Vijay 13,000 of us are here tonight and of course LeBron is there on the court what's it like to be a high school player with this kind of atmosphere? He's crazy, you know, not many kids really take advantage of this opportunity. So you know, I just said team, I tell them that even though you have to be ready for it, you know we have to play like we've been here before and we're ready to play.

Hey Jay, congratulations, they pulled out the win, still undefeated there and off you. Come on, see you in Minneapolis in the new year 2020. It's one big matchup after another for Sierra Canyon and the wide smile of the muscular James and his father LeBron as Sierra Canyon turns in 59 56 and again more games are coming on the ESPN networks for Sierra Canyon is close to the next opportunity to see the Trail Blazers on January 3 on

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2 against Patrick's School in the nation's number one junior. Jonathan will arrive the following night at the Target Center in Minneapolis, home of the Minnesota Timberwolves, facing Jalen Suggs and Chet Holmgren. and Minnehaha Academy Rancho Christian with the number one player in the class of 2020, Evan Mobley, on the ESPN app, then on January 18 at Hoop Hall in Springfield Mass against Wisconsin Dominican, January 20 on ESPNU against a team of the nation's top 10 at Paul Six. by Virginia Paul Final Thoughts Tonight Well, Sierra Canyon came from behind to win this game.

BJ Boston gave them a great spark off the bench and the muscular James the Frenchman was the catalyst for them tonight again, another team effort, Sierra Canyon 5956, the last Sierra Canyon 8. and OH for the year, thank you very much for being with us because Paul carded Rachel Nichols and our entire team. This is Ted Emmerich, saying goodbye from Columbus.