Despite the loss LeBron has the most 35+ point games after turning 40 years old.
4 - LeBron James
3 - Michael Jordan
That’s it.
Also LeBron now has over 4,000 more regular season points than Kareem.
No Reaves, Ayton, or Luka and that Lakers roster barely resembles a G League team’s.
If you took the 3 best players off any team the rest of the team would resemble a G League team
Not okc tbh or spurs
They may not be a “G league” team but they would be highly uncompetitive in the NBA minus their top 3.
Idk, that happened to the Celtics a few years ago and they still made it deep into the playoffs.
Not pistons either
Wirhout Sga, Williams and Chet they are bad.
Nah, that roster could still compete with the bottom half of the league.
LeBron is definitely still better than Ayton be fr. Lakers missed their best, second, and fourth best
Idk, even the Wolves would be led by Jaden McDaniels, Naz, and Divo. It wouldn’t be pretty, but that’s not a G-League team.
Would be one of the worst teams in the league and get a top 5 pick for sure.
Also Rui
So pretty much his 2018 finals squad
Whenever he looks old he just comes out and does shit like this. Unbelievable longevity
From hearing multiple players, even Doc Rivers level of players, talk about playing as you get older. It doesn’t just magically go away and you’re cheeks.
It’s just some days, some minutes, your body is fine… and then others you just don’t have it. You can see the plays; but then as you try to get your body to make them, your burst isn’t quite there. Or instead of plowing through contact like you’re 25 and bulletproof- you just wince away from it.
That last part absolutely kills older quarterbacks. The moment they start flinching at the oncoming contact instead of delivering through it- they’re done.
Says a lot about today’s NBA and the H to the G to the H
Yeah, no wonder these two mfs are the greatest of all time 😭😭
The thing about LeBron aging is that his level of play hasn’t really dropped off. The only sign he’s getting older is that he can’t play as much as he used to and he can’t play through injury the same way either.
I mean, his level of hustle on defense has definitely dropped off in the past few years. He’s not running back on defense on every possession.
Not many do
Not running back? Even when in defensive position, he’s only playing defense like 30% of the time. He loses his man all the time, gets lost on switches and a lot of the time he generally looks lost.
Offense is an issue too because there are multiple line ups with even this Lakers team, that are better without him. Since he came back, he has been better with moving the ball but he still has those ball stopper tendencies.
Lol…OK.
His level of play hasn’t dropped off ? Dude have you seen LeBron perform pre Covid ? Do yourself a favor watch him play in 2017⁄2018 season and than comeback and say he hasn’t dropped of.
Lebron in his ‘40s is still better than 90% of the league. His level in 2017 was out of this world.
His drop is from GOAT 1B to Star. Most go from star to Kevin Willis or Vince Carter….spare parts
And he still played fucking 38 minutes tonight
Even at 40 lebron James is carrying bums (no offense)
no one would take offense from you dude, no one can spot a bum better than a wizards fan, yall had a lot of practice
Hey, don’t hate on us we just won a championship almost 48 years ago. We’re basically a dynasty.
41 in a week too
The lakers outside of lebron shot under 10 percent from 3 and 31% from the field😭😭😭
That’s just a ridiculous thing to say and frankly insulting to lebron lol why does this have upvotes
Lol no. He has trouble driving past the D via speed. He’s no bullet train anymore, just an old but still powerful train
20pts, 6reb, 7ast, under 70% FTs, under 30% for threes, his lowest FG % since year 3, 34min, so like 2 minutes less than a typical year. He’s often a liability offensively and defensively. He’s rather inconsistent now and he can no longer take over series or be the “traditional LBJ” and lets be real, no one is even mildly concerned about him. How often do you see him just give up and chuck up a 3? Its often……. Personally i’d call this a “drop off” a “decline”, i’d take it a step further and say he needs to stop, he needs to retire. He is hindering the team more than helping them.
He missed the whole training camp and first 15 games of the season for the first time in his career. Since the Raptors game, where he dropped the 10-point streak, he’s playing really good and the numbers back that up.
Wait they lost to the clippers?
Lakers outside of LeBron shot 19⁄60 FG (31.7%) and 3⁄31 from three (9.7%) today.
That’s why they lost. Also Luka getting injured early doesn’t help at all.
4 starters wiped out
Well yah, but the Lakers roster is Luka and 4 role players who would be nothing higher than mid minute second string players on any contending team. Nothing wrong with being a second string role player btw, Rui’s great, i’d love to bring him over. But, not exactly a well constructed team.
Reaves and Bron are not “mid minute second string players” on contenders
3 starters out entering the game, Luka was clearly hurt and played dogshit and then was ruled out for the 2nd half
It’s still the clippers
They are still an NBA team.
Debatable
They were down 5 rotation players. Be for real lol
Compare our roster without reaves, ayton, Luka, and rui to their roster lmao. We were missing like 100M in salary in the 2nd half
This is actually a high IQ play. By letting the clippers win, OKC doesn’t get their pick, which will allow someone else in the west to win in the next few years
LeBron was doing absolutely everything to drag that team forward but they just could not score. And nobody but LeBron had any ability to attack the basket, so they were all stuck going 3⁄31 from three. LeBron was reliving his early cavs days.
LeBran putting work. Respect.
At least this game showed he still got it. Gotta appreciate greatness while he’s still playing. After breaking his 10 point streak, he’s been looking more like himself
He’s also the oldest to score 30 in a game
Old geezer still got it. He’s Kame at this point.
4k? Damn, it’s really been a while since he set the record
All the while LeBron’s 2022 lakers had a worse record than any Jordan’s wizards teams
I think what’s crazy is how the NBA still does these massive marketing campaigns for LBJ instead of moving on to younger players to promote. He’s clearly done and like… we didnt even see this with MJ.
Because casual fans are player first fans. Thats their target demographic
Yah but the same was true with MJ and Kobe too. The league still recognized when it was time to start promoting other players. And i think we saw it with Curry actually but then like, something happened. Maybe it was him going to the Lakers or something else, but the NBA just forgot about promoting other players and went right back to LBJ. I don’t understand it, its inevitable. The NBA has always been good at moving on and spreading promotions until i don’t know, 2020? 2019? somewhere around there.
I wonder what possibly happened in 2020 that could’ve made the NBA promote LeBron alot more….
Curious
That was also David Stern’s NBA
Always gotta put a positive spin on his early trip to Cancun
23 years, 3.5 rings 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
How many championships do the T-Wolves have in that timeframe, or any timeframe for that matter? Winning titles is hard. LeBron came into the NBA with the greatest expectations of any player ever and somehow exceeded them. His career is a great success and considered as such by any serious sports fan. You and your ilk are just haters.
Can we just stop with the we lost but Lebron this. Dude a loss is still a loss. Also my guy has the most turnovers ever.
They celebrate every longevity stats because LeBron can never reach what MJ accomplished in his 15 years of career. Aside from the most turnover he also hold the record with the most field goal missed already. yeah “l0nGEviTy”
michael jeffrey jordan is a bald gambling addicted bum 👍 what a legacy
And Lebron thinks there ain’t no party like a diddy party.
I’ll take the gambling.
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Facts, he should apologize for trying to win with the other 4 starters missing. What a scrub.
At first I thought you wrote “shaft padder”, but then realized I was in r/lebron and not r/Remixx5sMom
Another meaningless stat for LeBron to be proud of
Go pick a flower you daisy-fucker. Who would’ve thought you’d have to tell a botanist to touch grass
It’s fucking so sad to look at someone’s comment history and see they’ve found every single thread possible to shit on someone. Like, do they just get a massive hard on seeing the Lakers lose so they can rush to r/NBA and spout shit?
It’s pathetic
It’s even more sad viewing someone’s Reddit post history lmao
Yes, the ten seconds I spent verifying that you have an unhealthy obsession with shitting on one of the two best players in history is more sad.
Get a fucking hobby, you’re a joke.
Good work Internet sleuth. What else did you find? And there’s really no need to get so upset
Calling LeBron top 2 nephew confirmed lmfaooooo
Nope it’s very impressive regardless of what mentally ill people like you think 😂
Maybe for Reddit nephews
lost to the clippers tho
I bet if three of your top 4 players were out y’all would too😂Bron was the only reason they had a chance to come back
Nah as much as i hate the thunder, if bron was playing with their bench, he blowing the clippers outta the water
Facts, I’m just salty that it wasn’t a 40+ point legacy game come back😂the documentary is full enough already, but lord the dramatic commentary that would have taken place over this if they pulled out a win would be priceless.
Btw this guy above u is a clippers fan and changed his flair to the thunder for more credibility lmfao
Cool, took him 10 more seasons to do it but sure
We’ll give you a second attempt
That’s what the league told lebron for about 10 years now
Man what school did you go to ? Is your English comprehension that bad ? If it took LeBron 10 more years he would be 50.
LeBron was given 8 more seasons to seal the GOAT debate and here we are talking about “while wearing blue sneakers” stats, in case i needed to spell out the joke for you.
That’s not what you said in your original comment. You said cool it took him ten more seasons to compete this stat.
I was given a second chance and used it, unlike lebron
No this is an after 40 stat. LeBron has only been 40 for 1 season so far and Jordan was playing at 40 for half of his last season
Interesting…Jordan got 40 February 2003, he finished his NBA career April 2003, so he played half his season with 40? Get back to school my friend.
Lmao, reading is hard
Jordan stans now upset lebron cannot magically up his age to beat their bald gambler goats stats.
Reading is hard for Jordan stans
Is schooling that bad in Minnesota??
Uhhhhhhhh
TIL LBJ has already played more than 10 seasons since last year