LeBron James on his feelings over his double-digit scoring streak ending: “None. We’ve won.” [1:15m]
That last play was like the ending of Cars
“It’s just an empty (NBA) cup”
“He did WHAT in the cup?!”
Greatest line in cinematic history
My love of cars has skyrocketed since I had kids who insisted on watching it every day
My youngest brother, who is 11 years my junior, loved watching it on repeat when he was 7.
I now love it more than him.
Lightning’s character arc is genuinely really good
I think they did him a bit dirty in 3 but the biggest mistake for me was never actually seeing him win a piston cup on screen.
YES!!!! Number 2 should’ve been something along these lines… even just showing his dominance at least
I’m here with you. I had never seen it as a kid. I now watch it at least once a day.
They were still willing to put some decent adult aimed jokes in there too - the twins flashing and “he did WHAT in his cup?” are brilliant
Ill throw out “Who ordered the Poo Poo Platter?’ from A Bugs Life for contention
Or Mr. 3000 when Bernie Mac gives up his chance at a 3,000th hit to lay down a sacrifice bunt to win the game.
Rip Bernie, man …. 😭
Or Mr. Baseball when Tom Selleck gives up his chance at the homerun record and lays down a bunt
Dawg… this is such a great analogy. 10⁄10.
It was like the ending of Gran Torino
It was exact like Speed Racer
I can’t believe how much it was like Fast and the Furious
Like the ending of Old Yeller
Saw a lot of parallels to Friendship (2025), especially when Bronny kissed him on the mouth
Old man/LeBron singing?
MJ fans: Kachigga, Kachigaaaa…OWWWW
I was thinking Talladega Nights. Shake and bake.
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Like Cars 3
Paul Newman’s last film credit! (Also a Northeast Ohio Guy)
Anyway RIP LeBron James.
cars 2 makes cars 3 look like cars 1
Felt the same way when Westbrook made that pass against OKC in the playoffs last year…
Way to make the extra pass
Having the game winning assist to end the streak is the best possible ending it could have ever had. He knows it, too lol.
No one is ever touching that streak anyway, so I highly doubt he cares that it finally ended, especially since his team won the game
20 ppg streak ending is gonna hurt 1000000x more tbh
And Lebron still won’t care if the Lakers are winning games
Why would he lmao? He has nothing else to prove just saying it’s gonna be painful to watch he’s averaged 20 nearly my whole life 😭
His counting stats are so insane that the only thing he can do to add to his legacy at this point is win another championship. So I think winning (and contributing to that winning) really is all he cares about now.
Mostly agree but I also think he’s keeping excellent track of the all-time assist leaderboard. If he stays relatively healthy (and plays at least one more season) there’s a good chance he passes Kidd, and could even very well pass CP3 for second all time.
As you said, so fucking insane.
He’s always been about winning. Another championship is all he needs to do to continue cementing his legacy. If he isn’t playing for a championship, what is he playing for?
His legacy was cemented down 3-1 to Warriors.
For real. I’m not a big fan of GOAT arguments because I think it’s dumb to compare eras but that alone cemented it for me as Lebron being the best on my list.
Im not either. Its should be a tiers. God Tier is that top of the top. Guys like Dirk 2nd tier, Steve Francis is 3rd tier.
Lebron was by far the best player on that court and the other team had the back to back MVP and 2 other all NBA players.
I mean he already ended the 25 ppg streak, and that’s way more impressive…
none of it matters really since he’s got like 1 or 2 seasons left and wasn’t gonna extend the streak much more anyway
Why? I feel like that one’s not as well known
Legit dove down this hole to try to figure out what it was. What is it?
20 ppg for the year. he’s at 15 rn. previous low was 20.9 as a rook
Both basically unbreakable records so who cares. LeBron wants another ring
A huge pressure prob came off his chest tonight
He’s prob more happy than anything
Nah bro best possible ending is Game 7 Finals where he passed to Luka and he hit the game winning clutch shot in a 2 games OT where lebron been slumping all game but some how have 7 pts 7 rebound but 27 assists
He got the elusive 27/7/7 stat line but the plot twist is he didn’t get it in point but in assists
PEAK fanfiction I know but can you imagine though 😂
Playoffs don’t count though.
They’re not mutually exclusive though.
Nike tried to make LeBron accept the bad guy when he went to Miami, it didn’t work. Everybody knows he’s not that guy.
Next game 27/7/7
The internet would melt down lol.
What’s the importance of that 27/7/7? I’ve seen it a few times but I don’t know the context. Only started watching NBA after the Luka trade broke into my timeline lol
His average across his career has consistently been 27/7/7 but he’s never once had that exact statline in a game
The funniest part about it all is that this was his stat line in the all McDonald’s game before his career started
Cant write it better
“All McDonalds” lol
He had a farm right?
E I E I O right?
That is crazy I’ve never heard that tidbit before damn
Also that the statline is called a “Lebron”, coined by Bill Simmons. So anytime a player has a 27/7/7 they say he got a “Lebron” even though Lebron has never had a “Lebron”
his career averages are 27/7/7 but hes never recorded 27/7/7 in a game
Bro just got 100 versions of the same reply in 10 min lol
that’s what i’m thinking 😭
It’s the amount of replies you’ll receive saying the same thing
Even tho his career average is 27/7/7, he never finished a game with exactly 27 points, 7 rebounds and 7 assists.
Bron’s career average is 27/7/7 but he’s never had that statline once in his career
His career average is 27/7/7 but he’s never recorded it in a game before
even though over his career he averaged 27/7/7
LeBron has averaged 27/7/7 for his career yet he has never had a game where his line was 27/7/7
in all of Lebron’s games he’s never had that stat line
Lebrons career stats average is 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists, despite that he has never gotten 27/7/7 in a game before
Lebron has never scored that stat line, even though that is the average for his career
That is LeBron’s career average, and a stat line that he has yet to achieve in a game.
You may be on to something here, but I think those are LeBron’s career averages that he’s never actually recorded in a single game ever
I’m pretty sure Lebron’s never had a 27/7/7 game in the nba, can anybody else verify?
it’s lebron’s career averages. it is relevant since lebron didnt have a single nba game with those numbers, yet
I would bet my first born child on LeBron scoring 27/7/7 for the first and only time in his final game. It’s his destiny…
Then retiring on July 7th, 2027.
The record is never being broken lmfao he was just putting it more and more out of reach
1279 games is in the ballpark of the career total games for a star player
So take into account you having to score 10 points for 1280 games (if you even play that long to begin with) and getting hurt mid game does not keep the record safe.
I think someone said that there are only 25 or 26 28 players in the entire NBA history who played in that many games.
Shits crazy man.
What makes his records so unreachable is that they are an equal part of all time ability and longevity
Thousands of years from now if the NBA is still around people will think he was a fucking alien.
Which is funny because that’s what we think of Wilt. Yet he gets disrespected because of who he played against. Not starting a Wilt v LeBron discussion, just noting his records like Lebron’s
Wilt disrespect is absurd. If you watch film of him for more than 5 minutes you can just tell he would have been great in any era.
Wilt is the answer to what if Giannis was 3 inches taller and somehow more athletic
Wilt is kinda like Shaq for me but a bit better. Insane once in a generation athlete, but I think his own head kept him from top 3 all time comparisons
It’s not a question of whether he would be great. It’s whether he would drop 100 points in a game or average 50 in any other era.
Imagining current sports in 1000 years seems laughable. Look at how these kids today are trained - 20 years from now the game wont be the same. In a 1000? Lol wont be surprised if we still around and dont go through genetic engineering to full on cyborg or something else. Nba will be an ancient sport for the books
I’d be surprised if we’re still around at all tbh
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We won’t. We would probably need a combo of a breakthrough in energy, a reversal in climate change, and still enough clean water to drink. Saying all of that will happen while believing we won’t end ourselves through war or some other global crisis is a stretch to me.
Reminds me of that parody video of the finals always being Lebron vs the warriors in the 2010’s and they fast forwarded to the future where Cyborg Lebron was in the finals
If you’ve never seen it, Football in 17776 is well worth a glance.
Nahh, humanity average age will be at 200 with athletes playing on their prime strength for 70+ years, they’ll say Bron played against plumbers.
It would be 28th
For a hall of fame player lol not just a star
Russell Westbrook hasn’t played that many games
Seriously. Going off this list of games played leaders, there are 25 guys who have played 1300+. 2 are LeBron and Chris Paul. Of the remaining 23, 17 are in the Hall of Fame.
Luka is maybe the best scorer in the nba the last 7 years, and hes had 6 games where he has less than 10 points. Noone will ever come remotely close to Lebron.
Michael Jordan only played 1,072 regular season games to put it in perspective. (Btw the streak was 1,297, you flipped a couple numbers)
Gonna be crazy when 61 year old LeBron breaks it
Did this record include post season, too?
No. Post season his streak was like 800 games. MJs streak including postseason was 1041 iirc
Yeah he had 8 in the finals against Dallas so it would go from June 2011 instead of 2007
And in the 2014 ECF so it’s actually from 2014 to today
Oh yeah the game where he got nuked by the refs! I forgot about that.
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AR went from undrafted to the guy you double when the game is on the line. Crazy
I mean Pistons wanted to draft him at 42 but he told them not to and signed two way contract with Lakers. Still his growth is super impresive but he is not exactly completly “undrafted”.
Well..if he was drafted at 42, he’ll be a second rounder that becomes an all nba. Still sick
He didn’t simply just say not to, just that he wants a guaranteed deal, and there were still 18 more picks after that and teams didn’t care to look into drafting him so still, literally undrafted.
What even tf is a “not completely undrafted” lmao it’s a yes/no. Y’all make it hard for yourselves
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Sean Connery?
CP3?
Turd Ferguson?
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LET IT SNOW
You mean the hair?
I mean, I know the reports should’ve asked this question, but did anyone actually think he would lose sleep over it? Guy won literally everything in his career, and unlike the critics of being a stat padder and all, he actually puts winning in front of everything. Even the end of streak came with a pass to win the game.
I’m sure it means something to him that he just doesn’t care to voice here
It’s both. The streak definitely means something to him, I saw him work his ass off to keep it alive vs the Suns the other night while down 20, only to check out as soon as he got it. But it’s not as important to him as winning and he also knows that streak is already untouchable, he was just extending it for the coolness factor. And there’s no better way for him to have lost the streak than how that game ended.
Yep this is the correct balanced take. Obviously he cared about it, but when the clock was winding down and there was a better play available? Zero hesitation.
What’s crazier is that taking it to the rack wouldn’t have even been a bad play, there was an opening and he’s made that dunk / layup countless times with multiple defenders closing on him. But he already had it in his mind that he was going to make that pass if it presented itself, the streak didn’t matter in that moment.
Bro probably doesn’t care to announce it because it will be a long time until it’s broken. Nothing to do with the press
It’s going to be his next instagram post that’s for sure lol
He’s been statpadding in blowouts lately to make sure he got to 10, he definitely gave more of a shit than he acts like he does. He tried really hard to get it today too but couldn’t because he went 4⁄17.
He tried really hard to get it today? How?
He had the ball at the top of the arc and the defense was scrambling, he could have forced a layup. That would have kept his streak going.
LeBron haters are so fucking crazy.
They were referring to the aggressive 4⁄17 attempts not just the last play.
Luka is out. Ayton doesn’t shoot. Reeves dropped 44. It’s LeBrons role in a game like today to try and be aggressive & shoot. Not like Gabe Vincent is gonna create plays lol
Yes, getting points is usually good for the team - was he trying to help win the game or was he trying to get his 10? Just because you have a poor shooting night doesn’t mean you aren’t trying to win, he had 11 assists. Luka is away and the whole team needed to make up for the loss of scoreing.
There’s a massive difference in scoring a handful of points during garbage time and then giving up his chance for the game winner.
So yes, he cares, but not enough to actually impact when the game is on the line.
Bro look at the clip from last game after he hit his 10th point in the blowout loss against the Suns. Immediately looked at the scoreboard & then checked out of the game 15-30 seconds later
And he’s done that shit so many times lol. He can say he doesn’t care at all since they won, but we can also point out that he might care just a little tiny bit because we have eyeballs
I don’t want to sound corny, but witnessing history like this is pretty cool
It was indeed. Didnt sink in that much until i saw new FLOODED with posts about it lmao
I was about to say bs. No way he doesn’t care it’s over. But damn watch the post-game on court celebration. Lebron is fucking HYPED about the shot and the win. There isn’t a single though on his mind about the streak ending and he’s just out there excited with his team about the win.
The way he’s been acting the last two games, I feel like he’s smoking a big blunt in the fourth quarter and this is his go away year.
Honestly I half think this was a practically a choice for him.
Not to say he wouldn’t have liked to get those 2 points at some point earlier in the game - but Lebron is a smart guy. I’m sure he put together that this team is pretty good and what they need from is absolutely not for him to constantly be worrying about the streak.
He’s also 40 and I can imagine as you move onward to that stage of your life you’re certainly more capable of putting something like that into perspective.
Its giga brain cause if Rui misses, the game goes to OT and he gets his streak then
Perfect way for the streak to end.
It really was. And very on-brand. Deferring to the open man when so many others would greed that shot.
LeBron tossing a Zyn at 1:10?
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Haters be doomed, can’t imagine not loving Lebron. Will be devastated when he hangs it up for good. He has been nothing but good for the game of basketball and the people in his life, while under immense pressure from everyone at the highest level. If you can’t appreciate it you got some real introspective work to do.
Im bummed but I aint tellin you that bra
I honestly think hes relieved
My guess is he was but may not actually recognize it until he walks through his front door (or whenever) and realizes he really doesn’t care that much.
At the end of the day it was basically just an imaginary number ticking upward and he wasn’t even really competing with anyone over it. He’s now more free to play to his current strengths as he approaches the end of his career, and I’m sure he’s well aware of that fact.
HE SAID WIN LOSE OR DRAW HE QUOTED WESTBROOK
The streak is longer than almost every NBA players entire career lmao
Ending it like that is pretty sick
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Yall want Lebron to crash out so bad. He’s embraced his role and the haters can’t stand it.
By taking 17 shots? 🤣🤣🤣
i’m sure the top 5 player in the world not playing had something to do with that
With Luka out, 17 attempts doesn’t seem wild at all. That was his role tonight…they just weren’t falling.
why yall acting like bron ain’t happy he doesn’t have to drop buckets every game he def been tired of that
Damn, where are all the people that said he cared more about his streak than winning for one bad moment now?
That’s why he’s the goat. THE GOOOOAAAAT
He’s the all time leading scorer.
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Man, flashback to the early days when he passed up a last second shot for a pass to Donyell Marshall or someone, and media trying to make a huge deal out of it. Full circle baby!
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The haters are actually something else referencing past games. Why do you even care if he has stat padded? Mostly in inconsequential situations? It’s not like he intentionally sucked in the Suns blowout. There was an opportunity to keep the streak alive in a lost game. Big whoop.
Obviously he likely cares more than he lets on here but the main point is he ended the streak on his terms. He could have came as close to a guarantee as one can to another two points by either making the shot or it alternatively going to OT for another 5 minutes. Instead in a tight game he made the right play by passing it to an open Rui and let fate decide the rest.
We are not going to see someone like LeBron again for a long long time. Mind boggling longevity at a high level
It’s poetic he did this against us.
It’s the retirement home version of LeBronto.
Im pissed about the result, but I fucking love this man.
King shit
Respect. Made the right b-ball play regardless of circumstances.
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That’s an OG competitor response, gotta love it.
Lebron is the best player of all time of 3 franchises, Cavs, Heat, and Lakers without argument, and arguably the greatest of all time. Will never see it again
He’s definitely consistent with this mindset.
Respect
Sure bro..
I’ll never understand how people can hate this guy
Yay, Raptors are part of a Lebron record! We in the documentary!
(Kobe scored 81 on us 🫠)
He’s so corny.
I wanted one of them to ask about their previous possession when he started going to the bench assuming JJ would call a timeout after Ingram put them up 2 lol. All the Raps defenders looked kind of on the backfoot while Reaves scored like everyone had expected a timeout there, and tbh I did too off how the flow of the game felt at that moment.
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yea ok he was chucking that shit up last game lets be real
Fakest guy ever. All he cares about is records.
Bro is thinking about how that clip will sound in his end of career doco
He’s about to cry he’s so pissed
Everyone knows he’s so salty over this lmaooo
Alright guys now that his streak is over what are the chances his next 10 point game streak is longer than this one? Somebody give me the odds!
I mean he very clearly had feelings for it when he stayed in a blowout to keep it going
Now the curse is broken watch him age
He definitely wanted it, he attempted 17 shots making just 4. He just realized towards the end that it wasn’t in the cards.
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