On December 29, the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Houston Rockets 132-123 on the road, ending a five-game losing streak, and LeBron James, who was the team's starting center, once again played a dominant performance.
James had 35 points, 11 rebounds and 11 assists on 11-of-19 shooting, his fifth triple-double since he was 35 years old. In the history of the NBA, in addition to James, he can play such a statistic in a single game after the age of 35, and has only appeared twice.
And he's been doing this for five times. The data shows that James can average 34.4 points, 10 rebounds, 6.4 assists, 1.6 steals and 1.4 blocks per game, shooting a combined rate of 58.2%.
It's hard to imagine that in two days he will be 37 years old.
There is also an interesting statistic to mention, after today, James's career scoring officially exceeded the 36,000-point mark, only 928 points away from Malone, the second highest in the NBA's scoring list.
After the game, when Lakers acting coach Fitzdale mentioned James's appointment as the team's starting center, he said, "James's plus-minus when playing center is simply incredible, which is why I decided to let him be the starting center." ”
Statistics show that James' time as center in the last five games before this game today was 105 minutes, during which the plus-minus value was +27, and the team's plus-minus was -91 in the 100 minutes of jordan, Howard and Anthony as centers in the same period.