As he celebrated his 36th birthday yesterday on the San Antonio floor, LeBron James gave himself a nice little gift. Not only did the Lakers win, but the King also hit the… 1,000 straight game mark with at least 10 points in the regular season. #Monster.
A phenomenon of longevity, durability and consistency, LeBron James holds a host of NBA records. Among them, that of the most consecutive games with at least 10 points on the clock in the regular season, the King overtaking Michael Jordan at the end of March 2018 with 867 games in a row. This figure has continued to climb since. And that night in Texas, where LeBron carried the Lakers to victory by finishing the game with 26 points, 5 rebounds and 8 assists, he therefore became the first player in history to string together 1,000 matches with 10 or more points on the clock. Yes, a thousand matches is simply out of the ordinary. This huge streak began on January 6, 2007, with 19 points for BronBron in an opposition between the Cavaliers and the Nets. In the previous meeting, LeBron had finished with just eight points on the Bucks floor. At the time, James was only in his fourth NBA season and had just turned 22 years old. Today, the King is 36 and has just started his 18th Grand League campaign. So it’s been 14 years without ever going below 10 points in the NBA, the equivalent of a big career at the highest level, from Cleveland to Los Angeles via Miami.
Congrats to @KingJames on scoring 10+ PTS in 1,000 consecutive regular season games! pic.twitter.com/vUwuiWhqTh
– NBA (@NBA) December 31, 2020
As said above, this series is only valid for regular season games. Some Michael Jordan fans are sure to recall that LeBron has twice fallen below 10 points in Playoffs during this period (and during his career), the first time in the 2011 NBA Finals (8 points against Dallas in Game 4) and the second in 2014, during the Eastern Conference Final (7 points against the Pacers in Game 5). MJ has never scored less than 15 points in a Playoffs game, bringing his total of consecutive games to at least 10 points to 1,041, Playoffs included. You do with it what you want. But on this last day of the year 2020, we will avoid getting into yet another LeBron – Jojo debate, and just appreciate the greatness of the King. The fact that he’s still here, almost two decades after his arrival in the NBA with great fanfare, and that he’s still playing at an MVP level, it’s just huge. So let’s take advantage of the guy, who should still raise his streak like it should be.
1000 regular season games in a row at least 10 points, nothing to add, the sentence is pretty crazy like that. And something tells us that this record is not about to be broken.
Text source: @NBA
– Me: I would like to put 10 points in an NBA game
– LeBron : pic.twitter.com/1vsK19skLP
– TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) December 31, 2020
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