NBA – A stab from (very) far and LeBron James made history again

37 years old, and more than 37,000 points now on the clock. For LeBron James, it’s almost become a habit, but the Los Angeles Lakers star made history again, becoming the second NBA player to break the 37,000 career point mark. Everyone was waiting for the Angelinos’ number 6 exit against Brandon Ingram’s Pelicans, because he only had 15 points left to reach the fateful bar and to join Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the only player to have reached this milestone so far in American League history.

The danger James seems far away and yet…

In line with his recent performances (absent against Philadelphia through injury, he had managed, in three days, to pass 36 points and twice 38 points, respectively against Toronto, Washington and Cleveland), “King James” has perfectly answered, by planting no less than 39 points, with an insolent success at 3 points (7/13), to reach 37,024 points registered since his debut in 2003. It is also by far that he managed to go beyond the symbolic cap. Right in the middle of the second quarter, while his team were leading against the Pels, “LBJ” was eccentric on the left, in front of the outside line, when he claimed the ball from Malik Monk. Marking on the former player of Cleveland and Miami, Jaxson Hayes manages to deflect the pass from number 11 of the Lakers to James.

But the ball still arrives in the hands of the man with 4 champion rings. Hayes, having pushed him back several meters, thinks he has averted the danger, but as often, LeBron James finally surprises everyone by attempting a long shot, which returns safely. If he managed to maintain this level of performance until the end, James, who finished as the best scorer of the match, did not however manage to avoid the defeat of his team (116-108), and he even saw the Pelicans steal their 9th place from the Lakers. What almost spoil the historic evening he experienced.