NBA brothers scoff at negative notions surrounding Bronny James: 'Just an incredible moment'

Bronny James lived a lifelong dream last month when he heard his name called during the NBA Draft.

The 19-year-old was the 55th selection in the draft, but the circumstances surrounding it have led to negative chatter. 

Of course, his father is LeBron James, and his Los Angeles Lakers drafted his son.

The talks of a power trip and nepotism have been running rampant since that day, but two brothers, who will soon play against one another in the NBA, are brushing all the negativity to the side.

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"I think there’s gonna be negativity regardless of who you are. There’s always going to be trolls on the internet trying to take you down no matter what," incoming rookie Cody Williams said in a recent interview with Fox News Digital. "(Jayson) Tatum just won a championship and people are still saying he’s the most overrated player. People are still gonna try to do whatever to tear him down.

"I think it’s just an incredible moment – a son and a dad are both talented enough to play in the best league in the world. It’s not like you get there because you suck," he continued. "Both of them are good, they both deserve to be there. Special moment they’re sharing."

Williams' older brother is Oklahoma City Thunder rising star Jalen, who is entering his third season in the NBA.

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The two brothers think alike, and Jalen himself says he can't understand why people can't look at history "for what it is" – LeBron and Bronny are the first active father-son duo in NBA history.

"You can’t take anything away from anybody that gets into the NBA. This is one of those things where time will tell. I, personally, don’t know how people can’t be excited for that," Jalen says. "I think that’s one of those things where that’ll be really cool to do. People don’t take it for what it is. 

"Bron, playing for as long as he has, playing up until August almost every year, to do that for 20-plus years and wait out until his son gets the opportunity to play on the same exact team as him, I think people downplay that, and that’s just the nature of our sport. Everyone has a voice on social media now, so everybody’s gonna have an opinion, but just from the outside looking in, that’s an extreme accomplishment on both ends. Just one of those things I can’t help but to admire."

James averaged 8.8 points per game in the NBA Summer League, playing in four games.

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FLASHBACK: See how Kamala Harris answered when she was confronted in 2020 as 'the most liberal senator'

Then-vice-presidential candidate Kamala Harris laughed as she was grilled in 2020 by CBS News for being the "most liberal" U.S. Senator at the time.

During a CBS "60 Minutes" episode on Oct. 25, 2020, CBS News anchor Norah O’Donnell brought up the Democratic California Senator's liberal voting record, noting how progressive it is to the point where her and even then-presidential candidate Joe Biden clashed on some issues.

"You’re considered the most liberal United States senator," O’Donnell told Harris.

"Somebody said that and it was actually Mike Pence on the debate stage," Harris said, laughing.

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However, O’Donnell was unwilling to write off the charge as a conservative smear, pushing back, "Well actually, the nonpartisan GovTrack has rated you as the most liberal senator."

The anchor listed off the issues where Harris had displayed her liberal bent as compiled by U.S. Congressional database GovTrack.us. The self-described "government transparency website" scored Harris as the "most liberal compared to all senators" in 2019, outranking even Sens. Bernie Sanders, Vt., and Elizabeth Warren, Mass., at the time. 

"You supported the Green New Deal, you supported Medicare for all, you’ve supported legalizing marijuana," O’Donnell adding, noting, "Joe Biden doesn’t support those things." 

She then asked if Harris would bring those liberal policy points of hers to the White House.

Harris replied, "What I will do – and I promise you this, and this is what Joe wants me to do, this was part of our deal – I will always share with him my lived experience as it relates to any issue that we confront. And I promised Joe that I will give him that perspective and always be honest with him."

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The anchor asked if that would be a "socialist or progressive perspective." Harris laughed and said, "no."

Since Harris has become the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee for 2024, her opponents have tried to remind voters about her liberal record. Former President Trump’s campaign recently told Fox News Digital that Harris is "dangerously liberal."

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While Trump’s campaign has kept Harris’ liberal record in the spotlight, the same website O’Donnell cited in her Harris interview four years ago has not.

Earlier this week, GovTrack confirmed to Fox News Digital it had removed its 2019 web page that ranked Kamala Harris as that year's "most liberal" U.S. senator sometime within the last two weeks.

The web page with the ranking was recently deactivated, and its link now displays a "Page Not Found" message. The Internet Archive shows the page was deleted some time between July 10 and July 23. 

Biden dropped out of the White House race and endorsed Harris on July 21, and she has since quickly consolidated party support to become the presumptive 2024 nominee.

GovTrack founder Joshua Tauberer told Fox News Digital the page was removed because the company adopted a policy "several years ago" to end its single-year ratings of lawmakers and only do ratings based on Congressional sessions, which are two years.

Fox News Digital’s Yael Halon contributed to this report.