LeBron James, first player who reaches 50,000 points in NBA
LeBron James conducted his first kick on Tuesday, a triple, to become the first player to score 50,000 points combined in the regular and postseason season.
Los Angeles – The 40 -year -old superstar of the Lakers, LeBron James, became Tuesday night the first NBA player with 50,000 points.
James He arrived at the Lakers match against the New Orleans Pelicans needing a point to reach 50,000 combined points of his career in the regular season and the postseason. He reached the milestone in his first shot, connecting a triple from the left wing after a Luka Doncic pass to put the Lakers up 13-6 with 8:34 remaining in the first quarter.
During the dead time he followed, the announcer of the Lakers, Lawrence Tanter, highlighted the achievement and told the crowd: “Ladies and gentlemen, we all just witnessed the story.”
James ended with 34 points, 8 rebounds and 6 assists in the victory of Los Angeles for 136-15. The Lakers have won 17 of 20 games and are located second in the West Conference with a 39-21 record.
James is the historical leader of the League in regular and postseason season, with 41,871 points in the regular season and 8,162 in the playoffs.
“They are many points and I feel very lucky to be able to add so many points in the best league in the world with the best players in the world throughout my career,” he said James A Spectrum Sportsnet in an interview on the court after the game. “It’s quite special.”
In 28 matches since he turned 40, James averaged 26.4 points with 54.1% success in shots (42.3% from the three -point line), 8.2 rebounds and 8.1 assists.
James He recently shared an Instagram graph that shows how these averages are favorably compared with his last MVP season in 2012-13, when he averaged 26.8 points with 56.5% of success in field shots (40.6% from the three-point line), 8.0 rebounds and 7.2 assists for the Miami Heat.
“I have had the opportunity to play the game that I love and I have always been faithful to him, so I will always try to return what I received,” he said James Tuesday night.
James He succeeded 10 of 18 field shots and 5 of 10 in triples, with an effectiveness of field shots greater than 50% for the sixth time in his last seven games. Doncic scored 30 points in 9 of 19 shots (6 of 13 in triples), 15 assists and 8 rebounds, and He and James became the first couple of teammates from the Lakers to score 30 points each with five or more triple in the same game in the history of the franchise.
“It’s amazing,” Doncic said about James. “Seeing it doing these things at this age is simply incredible. 50,000 points, I can’t even explain how incredible it is. It can reach 70,000, you never know.”
The 22 -year -old veteran reached the 50,000 points milestone just after being appointed player of the month of the West of February. He averaged 29.3 points, 10.5 rebounds and 6.9 assists and had a 10-2 record.
“We would not be in the position in which we are without him playing at the level at which he has been doing it,” said the coach of the LakersJJ Redick, before the match against the Pelicans. “And that is offensive and defensively.”
Redick also admitted that Lakers They would not be in a position to celebrate the 50,000 point of James on Tuesday if the league had correctly recorded the points that James He scored in recent years in some of the new calendar modifications.
In three play-in tournament games (2021, 2023, 2024), James He scored a total of 75 points. Those points have not joined the total playoffs of James’s career. And in the match for the seasonal tournament championship in 2023, James He scored 24 points. These points are not reflected in the total career in the regular season.
“I have a strong feeling towards the play-in tournament, that these little game scenarios are playoff matches,” said Redick. “I think these matches should, without a doubt, in the playoffs.”
Although the 70,000 points barrier imposed on James may be out of reach, veterans of Lakers They did talk about what has allowed him to continue competing to the level at which he has been for so long.
“Simply unloading the process,” he said James. “Keep falling in love with the process, that is the most difficult, every year. You know it will be a long season, there are 82 games, 41 of them as a visitor. There are many trips. And as you get older, it affects you even more differently. If you have a family, it affects you even more differently. So, the process. Trying not to disregard the process is the most difficult.”
