After watching the focus battle between the 76ers and the Nets yesterday, James must have realized something, which is not just a compliment to the referee for not getting too involved in durant and Embiid's verbal altercation, but "When you meet your former teammates and his new owner, what do you do?" "Yesterday, Durant and Irving gave the perfect answer, and today James gave the same perfect answer, and even more exciting. Scoring 50+ in 2 games in a single season is already very good, and it is even more domineering to add a prefix of "after 35 years old" in front.
Yesterday Durant and Irving joined hands for 18 of 34, including 8 of 17 three points, scored 47 points, led the Nets to a 129-100 away win over the 76ers, leaving Harden's fans dumbfounded; today, James alone did the work of two people, cut 50 points and led the Lakers to a 122-109 victory over the Wizards, so that Kuzma and Pope failed to take the victory from their hometown, and the so-called "full of stars" is no longer mentioned.
This is the Second Victory for the Lakers in 6 days, and both wins were won when James scored 50+ points per game. As the fans said: "Seeing that the Lakers have to rely on this to win, the heart is blocked; but seeing James 37 years old is still so fierce, the heart is happy to blossom." ”
After this game, James beat Embiid and Alphabet Brother with 29.71 points per game, temporarily ascending to the top of the scoring throne. The gap is not large, the competition for the scoring king this season is still not known, but from the current point of view, if the Lakers really have to rely on James to cut high scores to have a glimmer of life, James is unshirkable, he will have a stronger desire to cut points than Embiid and Alphabet Brother, and the chances of getting the scoring king will be greater.
If that were the case, James would undoubtedly be the oldest leading scorer in NBA history and would have improved his original record by a significant margin. When it comes to the record of scoring kings, it is impossible not to talk about Jordan, and this record did belong to the omnipotent Jordan before. In the 1997–98 season, Jordan was 35 years and 60 days old when he finished his 10th career scoring champion. And if James finishes the regular season this season, his record will be fixed at 37 years and 102 days. On the basis of the unprecedented, this record can basically be said to be a no-comer.
In other words, throughout the history of the NBA, James can also be called the most outstanding scorer of the same age, after all, no player at the age of 37, can maintain such a good state as James, and the burden is so heavy, no wonder James complains that everyone "does not mention me when mentioning excellent scorers". When James scored 56 points to snipe the Warriors six days ago, Lakers coach Vogel said a truth: "The Lakers' poor record this season makes people ignore what a wonderful season LeBron has played." "At the age of 37, James is proud to have averaged 29+8+6 per game in the season.
But the Lakers' poor record also makes James blamed at every turn, and his words and deeds this season have been questioned so often that I am afraid that it is difficult to match in his career. James has recently said that no matter what the Lakers' record is, he will play, "My love of the game has nothing to do with the record." As a result, this statement was also labeled as "James does not think about how to save the Lakers, and only wants to brush the score".
At the end of the day, the record is there, not far away, and no one will turn a blind eye. This season's James can often be seen in the social media after the loss of the fans to question the voice of the voice, still in the social media to show his leisurely life (before the game he wore a big gold chain in the car to rap himself). Saying that he doesn't care about winning or losing, saying that he has no heart and no lungs, this season James does show a relaxed mentality of "winning all the championships, taking all the honors, and fulfilling the promises".
With this mentality, even if James makes the stride to catch up with Abdul-Jabbar's scoring record as one of the biggest appeals today, it seems that he can't blame him for anything, not to mention that his high-scoring performance can indeed bring victory.
Interestingly, unlike Jordan, who showed his successful transformation in the twilight of his career, and Kobe Bryant, who showed his affinity and wisdom in the twilight of his career, James was experimenting with possibilities in his twilight years. He averaged 3 seasons of his career to lead the league, and the last 2 seasons of his performance for the Cavaliers occupied 2 seats; in the second season after he came to the Lakers, he tried to play as a point guard, which was the first time in his career, and won the assist king; this season, he was pushed to the fifth position by the duck on the shelf, which was also the first time in his career; now, he is going to attack the second scoring champion of his career.
If the first half of James's career revealed maturity and stability, as smooth as a glacier, then the second half of his career was full of variables and bloomed strange flowers.
Previously, people had said of Iverson: "Any record plus a 'shortest' is unique in NBA history." Today, when applied to James, it is "any record added 'oldest', which is also unique in NBA history." "At 37 years old, season 19 of his career, looking at James's NBA career, this will not be a prominent season. But if you talk about James this season one day in the future, these 2 performances with a score of 50+ will not be erased from the minds of fans. (Supine Braces/Hairy)