In today's Lakers vs Warriors regular season opener, although the Lakers eventually lost to the Warriors 114-121, James's performance in this battle surprised Lakers fans, the nearly 37-year-old James shot 13 of 23 in this game, including 5 of 11 three-pointers, soaring 34 points, 11 boards, 5 assists, 1 steal and 1 block of the powerful data. After the war, James broke the NBA record held by NBA legend Carl Malone for 18 years and reached the top of history.
What record did Kalmaron break by James? That is the NBA regular season opener total scoring record, Malone scored a total of 463 points in the NBA regular season opener, creating an NBA record and maintaining it for 18 years, after James scored 34 points today, the total score of the regular season opener has reached 481 points, surpassing Malone and topping the statistics.
For this record, some people may feel that it is not worth mentioning, in fact, this record is very gold-containing, why say so? Because to set this record, you have to have 3 conditions at the same time, one is that you have to have a long career, because there are only 1 opener game per season. The second is that you have to be healthy and make sure you can play in the opening battle. The third is that you have to have a strong scoring ability to get a high score in the opener.
James has now played 19 season openers (each season opener) and has performed well in many openers, such as 38 points, 4 boards and 8 assists in the 2009 opener, 37 points, 10 boards and 6 assists in the 2011 opener, and 29 points, 16 boards and 9 assists in the 2017 opener. In 19 openers, James averaged 25.3 points, in which case James surpassed Malone's NBA record, which shows how hard it is to break. It is worth mentioning that there are 75 players who have had at least 15 season openers in history, and James ranks second in the opening game with an average score of 25.3 points, second only to Kobe Bryant's average of 26.5 points per game.
It is not an exaggeration to say that James's NBA record may be unprecedented, because for latecomers, if you want to break James's record, even if you can shoot 30 points on the opening battlefield, you have to play 17 openers to do it, that is to say, at least 17 seasons, which shows how difficult the record is to break.