Engaged in the seventeenth NBA season of his career, LeBron James is still tireless. After passing 28 points in Miami on Friday night, he headed to Ohio to attend his son, Bronny’s game on Saturday against his former high school. Then he joined his teammates Sunday in Atlanta, with whom he improved a little more the excellent record of the Lakers, who lead the Western Conference.
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The Californian franchise did not have its best game of the season, far from it: against the weak Hawks, they never led by more than 11 points, and trembled until the very last moments of the meeting, where Cam Reddish missed a long-range shot that would have tied the two teams ten seconds from the buzzer.
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But failing to be imperial (only 16% at three points), the Lakers, engaged in a road trip of five matches, tried to be serious … and to put on a show.
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In this sector too, it was James who set the example by achieving one of the nicest assists of the season: on the offensive transition, the winger passed the ball blindly, between his legs, to Dwight Howard who crushed the ball in the hoop. Among his 32 points, three were also marked with a shoot triggered from the logo of the Atlanta floor.
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Anthony Davis (27 points, 13 rebounds) also took part in the party, as did Rajon Rondo (11 points, 7 rebounds, 5 assists) who split with an alley-oop feint to put his defender in the wind. , James then miming his own teammate’s shot.
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As often too lonely, Trae Young (30 points) could not slow the collective strength of the Lakers, who obtain a seventh success in a row before two trips that promise to be complicated, in Indiana then Milwaukee, leader in the East. The stakes will be lower on Tuesday, when the Hawks will face the Knicks for the duel between the two worst teams in the conference …
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