Luka is now 5th all time in 40+ point games as a Laker.
122 - Kobe
88 - Baylor
66 - West
26 - Shaq
24 - Luka
23 - Mikan
18 - LeBron
15 - AD and Kareem
He’s definitely overtaking shaq this season
Side note, seeing Luka and dirk together on Nightcap made me SICK to my stomach
At this rate he is gonna overtake Shaq within a week
you know damn well shaq is gonna complain when he finds out
This season? Hell, it might be next week.
Their next several games are against the Pistons, Hawks, Bucks, Suns, Hornets, Jazz, Kings, Jazz again
He might reach 30 40+ games before December lmao
He is not going to keep this rate, but if he did, he’d overtake the Logo this year.
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He only just played his 100th game for the Lakers btw
Actually wild he’s already ahead of Lebron
It’s not crazier he’s 2 away from shaq?
Also crazy. Even crazier that both Shaq and Lebron were on the Lakers for 8 seasons
Crazy how much better Shaq’s Lakers tenure was.
Shaq left the Lakers in his age 31 season and LeBron joined the Lakers in his age 34 season.
It’s not surprising Shaq’s tenure was better when he played there in his prime and LeBron was leaving his prime.
He’ll pass Shaq by next week at this rate
Shaq only had 49 career 40 point games and 61 total even if you include playoffs. That’s across all teams. It’s surprising it’s low but he was always this consistent 25-30 PPG but not as high of an upside.
Luka already has more career 40 point games than Shaq, factoring in all teams they played for.
Luka has 74 40 point games, 11th All-Time.
For reference, Lebron and Allen Iverson are tied for 6th with 79 games each . He will most likely pass them this year for sole possession of 6th most All-Time. Elgin Baylor is 5th with 88 games
He will pass them next month
Anyone scoring 40 was much rarer in those days as well.
No
Shaq spent the majority of his Lakers career in the dead ball era, and got the majority of his points from 2-pointers (i.e. his game-to-game point were low variance, meaning his outlier games would be rarer)
LeBron ain’t really a 40 point game kinda player. He probably had a ton of 35 points and 9 assist games with us
Doesn’t Luka avg. more assists too?
correct
So you’re saying he’s already better than LeBron?
LeBron only ever goes for 40 when he has to. It’s usually a sign that the defense is sucking and other guys aren’t making shots. Luka goes for it every night.
To be honest he kind of has to as well, every game has been close so far.
Give it ~3 years and he’s #2 on this list
Give it 3 and he passing Kobe
Give it 4 years he’s passing himself.
luka on an insane generational run
Nico you dumbass
This is an insane stat given how many legends have played for the Lakers.
He should pass Shaq shortly as well, the rest will take longer but maybe not that long at this pace
Love him or hate him, man, Luke is just something else…
imagine if the self declared most dominant big man ever wasnt lazy as shit, probably could’ve had more
Have to imagine Kobe would’ve had even more games if he came up in today’s era
He’s gonna get traded to the Bucks before he passes Jerry West
With how they actually treated Jerry west, they will do all they can to see that happen
Hasn’t even been here for 3 full seasons
He hasn’t even been here for 2 years yet. Trade was early last year.
No fucking way
Yup, only 100 games played for the Lakers. Basically 1.25 seasons.
Damn, 40 points in 24% of games
Closer to 1 1⁄2 full seasons. He’s only played 101 games in LA.
He also has the 3rd most points ever through 9 games, behind only Wilt’s 62-63 season and Wilt’s 61-62 season. Dude has ascended to another level this year
What the fuck
So he’d be #4 in a week!
24% of Luka’s games as a Laker have been 40+. By the time we get Luka in year 32~, he’ll (statistically speaking) be the Laker with the second most 40+ games in franchise history. Disgusting
Just to show how insane Lukas start to the season has been: If he kept up this years pace of 40 point games indefinitely he would catch Kobe before the end of next season, even without playoff games. Utterly ridiculous.
Also he has moved down to 5th in MVP rankings! What a coincidence
This joke doesn’t really work when he’s literally 1st in MVP rankings
All this shows is how easy it is to score in today’s game. 40 today is the old 60
Luka is legit gapping everyone by 10 PPG this year. This isn’t just some ‘modern NBA too soft’, Luka is on a legit generational run
Absolutely dogshit take. You know anything about mid 80s basketball? Or Wilt and Oscar when half the league were plumbers and smoked a pack a day. There has never been more talent and defensive talent in the league.
Going way too far in the other direction the plumbers and smokers stuff.