After James scored 50 points against the Wizards, his average of points per game this season has come to 29.7 points per game, surpassing Embiid to rank first in the league. At the age of 37, he can still rank first in the league in terms of points per game, which is definitely a historical performance. After the Lakers and Wizards game, the US media HopsHype counted the league's historical superstars on social media at the age of 37, of which James ranked 1st with a large lead of 29.7 points, while Bryant ranked 3rd with an average of 17.6 points per game, Duncan and O'Neal also appeared in this list, let's take a closer look at the specific ranking of this list.
In no. 1 is James, who at the age of 37 can also average 29.7 points per game, which is something that no one in the history of the league can do, and is significantly ahead of other superstar performances of the same age. Now that James is playing at historic level, in the twilight of his career, he still has the opportunity to storm the honor of the regular season scoring king, which is very difficult, and James this season deserves to be respected.
In second place is Abdul-Jabbar, the league's evergreen, who averaged 22 points per game at the age of 37 and shot 59.9 percent from the field, although the efficiency is still high and the personal data is also very good. But it is undeniable that at that time, Abdul-Jabbar was playing with experience, and the core position of the team was already Magic Johnson, and it was difficult to play the performance of his youth in the game.
Bryant was able to score 17.6 points at the age of 37, the last season of Kobe's career, and after 20 years in the league, Kobe Bryant's status has also dropped sharply, and his efficiency in the game is very low, and the score is not high. That season, Bryant shot only 35.8 percent from the field, setting a career low, and apart from scoring 60 points in a retirement game, Bryant did not perform very brightly in the final season of his career.
Ranked 4th and 5th are Duncan and O'Neal, two players who, as one of the top interior players in league history, have become the team's role players at the age of 37, and have not received enough possession in the game, and their stats have declined on the court. Duncan averaged 15.1 points per game at the age of 37, shooting 49 percent from the field, while O'Neal scored 12 points and shot 56.6 percent. The performances were not bad, but from the peak of their careers, the two superstars still experienced a sharp decline at the age of 37.
Through the comparison of data with other superstars, it is undeniable that James, like no old, at the age of 37, he can still play the performance of superstars, compared with his peak data, there is no decline, on the contrary, he has a significant improvement. James' ability to stay in form is definitely historical, and in the long river of development in the league, it is difficult to find a player like James who has been at his peak for so long.
After James scored 50 points, the famous commentator Stephen M. A. Smith has said on social media that when James actually leaves the league, we really miss him. James is 37 years old this year, his career has entered the countdown, for fans, James's game also belongs to the kind of watching a less series, when James has not yet retired, we should cherish the game with him.