The lakers' last game in consecutive away games, the opponent is the Atlanta Hawks, there will still be no James, according to the Lakers' official injury report, James continues to miss due to left knee pain, which will be the third game he has missed in a row. James does not play, the impact on the Lakers is very large, the current two games he is missing, the Lakers have lost, after eating two consecutive losses have fallen to the ninth place in the West, from the sixth place through the playoffs has as many as 4 wins.
James has missed three games in a row, so that the number of games missed in his Lakers career has reached 72, the 15 years before the Lakers, James's cumulative absence is only 71 games, and now counting tomorrow's absence against the Hawks, James Lakers' career absences officially exceed the previous 15 years combined.
James Lakers career has been 3 and a half seasons, in addition to the first season is a full season, the second season due to the epidemic, stopped in the middle, to the park closed game, the regular season is compressed. Last season was also a compression season, with fewer than 82 rounds. Therefore, James's 3 and a half seasons of missing 72 games, and may even continue to be injured, is enough to see that the years are old.
James was 34 years old when he came to the Lakers, he was almost an all-around fighter before that, rarely injured, and excellent physical condition was also one of James's labels for the outside world at the beginning. Especially the second cavalier journey, leading the team to win the championship and meeting with the Warriors in the Finals consecutively, the impact on James's body is very large.
As an NBA legend, the 37-year-old James still has many goals, in addition to fighting with his son in the league, there are also impact NBA historical scoring kings and 40,000 miracles, of which impact 40,000 points is the ultimate goal. Some time ago, James reached the 36,000-point milestone, and if he wants to achieve 40,000 points, he still needs to guarantee enough appearances and points.
Of course, thinking of James's age, even if his state can remain very good, the future still needs to reduce the number of games used as much as possible, "good steel is used on the blade", is the most critical.