After James led the team to beat the Wizards at home and scored 50 points plus 7 rebounds and 6 assists with a 72% shooting rate, things are still fermenting, and everyone's discussion about the performance of the 30-year-old man super god continues.
Three-pointers, back-to-back shots, rushing to the basket... The omnipotent LeBron James quietly raised his average of 29.71 points per game with such a dead-end scoring feast, surpassing Embiid's 29.68 points and temporarily ascending to the throne of the scoring king. You know, James is 37 years old, Embiid is only 27 years old and has just entered his peak, and the two are separated by a full 10 years of careers. The thirty-year-old man proved that his words were true with practical actions, and he said in the early days: "If I really want to get the scoring champion, then I can get it every season." "If the 37-year-old can, then there really isn't a reason not to have the previous season.
Perhaps it is indeed a little difficult to compare James with the active stars in their prime, you may wish to focus on the field of stars over 35 years old - James is the first star in history to win 50+ more than once at the "advanced age" of 35 years old, perhaps in the GOAT competition, he will never be able to reach the height of Michael Jordan, the god of basketball, but in terms of eternal youth and career to maintain super competitiveness, no one can look back.
Focusing on the transcripts handed over by those famous names in history at the age of 37, the US media "HoopsHype" listed relevant data: James averaged 29.7 points per game, shooting 51.8% first; In front of James, the "sky hook" Jabbar, known as evergreen, averaged 22 points per game and hit 59.9% of the second place; and then Kobe Bryant could still contribute 17.6 points per game, but the shooting rate was only 35.8%, and the efficiency of the black mamba after the big injury dropped significantly The transformed Duncan averaged 15.1 points per game and shot 49 percent; in fifth place was O'Neal, who averaged 12 points per game and shot 56.6 percent in his later years. And Jordan, Magician, Russell, Chamberlain, Bird and other names do not appear on this list, because they have faded out of the field in the same period.
In this way, only Jabbar is really close, but another set of data listed by the US media "StatMuse" shows that Tiangou was "circled" by the old Zhan of the same period. In the 19th season of his career, James was completely in the ascendancy, and his 29.7 points were followed by Abdul-Jabbar's average of 14.6 points per game, which StatMuse described as "the gap between James and Jabbar is greater than the gap between the latter and 0 points, and LeBron is snared."
Even though there is a factor in which Jabbar started his career more late, James' self-discipline day after day, year after year, and the efforts of millions of people who devote himself to the maintenance of his body every year cannot be ignored. There is no shortcut to success, when many people think that there will be a career cliff decline after the age of 30 with young Zhan's playing style, and as a result, LeBron is nearly 40 years old but still one of the most dominant players in the league.
In addition, Basketball Reference's data expert Justin Kubatko also listed a set of interesting statistics, James is the first player after Wilt Chamberlain to be able to score 2 50+ games and 1 triple-double in a span of three games: James scored 56 points against the Warriors, 50 points against the Wizards, and 23 points, 14 rebounds and 12 assists against the Rockets. The "basketball emperor" Zhang Dashuai achieved this achievement in March 1963, but at that time, the coach was like a dimensional reduction blow when facing many players. Old Zhan can now reproduce such a miracle, it is much more difficult, and then think that someone can do this, I don't know if it will be in the Year of the Monkey. It's no wonder that LeBron was called the "Little Emperor" at the beginning of his debut, and there are some things that only he and the basketball emperor can do.
The Lakers' recent situation after All-Star Weekend has not been good, with only 2 of the 8 games won, coincidentally both games were won by James 50+ to win. The thirty-year-old man used his actual actions and performance on the field to confirm that he said in an interview that "the season is not over" is not just saying. I will not die in battle, but I will fight to the death! The 37-year-old James is writing one of the most tragic journeys of his career, and he deserves enough respect. Can James lead the Purple and Gold Legion out of the mire?