One former Los Angeles Lakers champion is going after another one this week.
Lakers star LeBron James targeted retired former NBA point guard Ron Harper on the latest episode of his “Mind the Game” podcast with Steve Nash. While the conversation was on San Antonio Spurs guard Dylan Harper, Ron’s son, and Dylan’s chances of winning NBA Rookie of the Year, James got a profane dig in.
“Dylan’s great,” said James. “I mean, his daddy ain’t s–t. But he’s good. I’ll see [Ron] when I see him.”
Here is the video of the clip (but watch out for the bad language).
LeBron on Ron Harper:
— Witness King James (@WITNESSKJ) April 17, 2026
“Dylan is great. I mean, his Daddy ain’t sh*t, but he’s good. I’ll see him when I see him.”
TALK YO SH*T, BRON
(via @mindthegamepod) pic.twitter.com/M0Geta3dz4
The five-time NBA champion Harper, now 62 years old, actually played for the Lakers from 1999-01 and won two championships there. As the father of both Dylan Harper and Boston Celtics guard Ron Harper Jr., Harper currently has two sons playing in the NBA.
But the elder Harper clearly drew the ire of James with some inflammatory comments he made a couple of months ago about James’ style of parenting (in reference to James’ son Bronny being teammates with James on the Lakers). James has profanely called out other prominent figures in recent months for mentioning Bronny and clearly has no qualms about doing the same here to the former Chicago Bulls guard Harper.
