LeBron James is about to interrupt the NBA’s all-time scoring document, with solely 36 factors to go till he surpasses Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s document of 38,387 factors.
We have completed a deep dive on James’ stats this season and previous seasons to see if he’s as much as the activity towards OKC tomorrow on their residence court docket.
On Saturday evening, James scored 27 factors, 9 rebounds and 6 assists in the Lakers’ most up-to-date recreation, which was a 131-126 loss to New Orleans.
“I’m tired as hell,” James stated after the recreation however added, “I’ll be ready to go on Tuesday.”
Unlike LA, who may have had a 3 day break, the Thunder can be coming off a back-to-back towards Golden State, so could also be feeling a little bit bit drained.
Although when requested about James breaking the document, OKC taking pictures guard Giddey has the utmost religion in his teammate Lu Dort.
“We’ve got one of the best defenders in the league that’ll do a good job on that,” Giddey said.
Last season, James had 33 factors, six assists and 5 rebounds in a single recreation towards the Thunder, so he’s definitely able to recording a high-scoring recreation tomorrow.
During the 2020-21 season, he averaged 26.3 factors, 8.7 rebounds and eight.7 assists in three video games towards OKC.
His most up-to-date 37 level recreation towards the Thunder was in February of 2018 when he was with the Cavs.
Throughout his complete profession, the 4 time MVP’s highest scoring recreation towards OKC was 44 factors in December of 2009 with the Cavs and his second-highest was again in 2013 when he performed for Miami the place he notched 39 factors.
38-year-old LeBron’s present PPG common is 30 factors, so it looks as if The King is greater than able to surpassing a document Abdul-Jabbar has held since 1984 with only one extra recreation.
