In the Lakers' 119-127 defeat to the Grizzlies, LeBron James efficiently got 35 points, 9 rebounds and 7 assists, and the NBA career regular season assists Princess reached 9888, officially completing the surpassing of "Big O" Oscar Robertson and rushing to the seventh place in history. So, do you know who are in the top six on this NBA all-time list?
James has delivered 9,888 assists in 1,339 regular-season games to date, one more than Robertson, who ranks eighth in NBA history in this statistic, and James' next goal to surpass is Magic Johnson, who has delivered a total of 10,141 assists in the regular season of his NBA career. However, it is worth mentioning that the magician has only participated in 906 regular season games, and the magician's career assists average of 11.2 times per game is much higher than the 7.5 times of the Chuang Shen.
If he can surpass the Magician, the next goal James will surpass in the career regular season assists list is Mark Jackson. The player selected with the 18th pick in the first round of the 1987 NBA Draft gave a total of 10,334 assists in 1,296 regular-season games of his NBA career, averaging 8.0 assists per game.
As one of the four guards in NBA history to win the regular season MVP, Steve Nash has delivered a total of 10,335 assists in 1217 regular season games in his NBA career, ranking fourth in NBA history, and he averaged 8.5 assists per game in the regular season.
The NBA player who delivered the most assists in the regular season was Chris Paul, who reached 10,665, ranking third in NBA history, and averaged 9.8 career assists per game. It is worth mentioning that Paul's average assist per game is also the third highest among the 71 players who have assisted no less than 5,000 regular season assists in NBA history so far, behind Magic and John Stockton.
Stockton still holds the record for the highest total number of assists in the NBA's history in the regular season, and in the 1504 regular season games of his NBA career, he has delivered a total of 15806 assists, more than Jason Kidd, who ranks second in NBA history, and Paul, who is currently ranked third in history, has more than 5000 fewer assists than Stockton!
James is the only non-guard player in the top ten of the NBA's all-time regular season career total assists list, and James, who is better at playing small forwards, has even appeared in the starting center position many times this season, and the comprehensiveness of his personal skills can be seen. However, the Lakers, who have multiple "75 superstars", have hovered around 50% so far this season, and it seems that James'snother championship ring is far away.