Three days earlier, the NBA made James another featured Las Vegas headliner, pitting him and the summer league Lakers against the Dallas Mavericks and their heralded No. 1 pick of the 2025 draft, faced Bronny James and the Lakers in NBA summer league. And so it was like, 'We're going to run this to death, and you're going to learn all the reads.'" I'm going to sub you out, I'm going to show it to the team. And the standard you hold yourself has to be higher than the standard I'm going to hold you to."