On March 22, Beijing time, the Los Angeles Lakers challenged the Cleveland Cavaliers away, and this game made this game more meaningful due to James' return to Cleveland. Cleveland fans even recruited James on the sidelines holding signs asking him to go home before the game. In this game, the Lakers adjusted the starting lineup, lining up the lineups of James, Westbrook, Gabriel, Howard, and Rivers, while the Cavaliers' starting lineups were Garland, Mobley, Markkanen, O'Corro, and Stevens.
Before the game began, the Cavaliers saluted James, congratulating him on surpassing Carl Malone as the second-highest scoring player in history, and James also waved to the fans in the stadium. As soon as the game began, the Lakers, who were obviously playing away, entered the game earlier, scoring 6 consecutive points at the beginning to take the lead. Then the Cavaliers gradually pulled the score apart, the Lakers had difficulty responding, and the Cavaliers played a 31-17 offensive wave. In the first quarter of the game, the Lakers' Augustine became a surpriser, and in the first quarter of the game, he shot all 4 of all, and scored 11 points in a single quarter, narrowing the point difference to 7 points.
In the second quarter of the game, the Lakers launched a counterattack, James in this quarter to give and take, not only to break through sharp, the same shot is also quite accurate, and even in the face of Lefour completed the next person dunk, really to their good teammates are not merciless at all. In this quarter, James scored 17 points, leading the team to overtake the score, at the end of the half, James scored 21 points, while another Lakers player Westbrook had 10 points, 3 rebounds and 7 assists, the two stars joined forces to overtake the score, and the Lakers took a five-point lead at the end of the half.
At the beginning of the second half, the two teams kept dunking and bombing the basket, providing a wonderful dunk feast for the fans, and then Rivers shot a 3-point shot to widen the point difference to 8 points, but the Cavaliers players immediately fought back, Garland, O'Corro, Mobley continued to close the score, and the Cavaliers tied the score. James incarnated as the organizer in this quarter of the game, combing the team's offense very well. In this quarter, Mobley had his fourth foul, rivers was elbowed, but the Lakers still had the advantage in this quarter, and Westbrook even hit a 3-pointer.
However, Garland did not give up, his offense is still very sharp, with Garland to fly Stevens, the Lakers' point difference has been reduced to 2 points, the Lakers once again called a timeout. James scored four straight points at the end of the quarter, but the Cavaliers relied on Stevens' score to overtake the score at the end of the quarter. At the beginning of the fourth quarter, the Lakers scored 7 consecutive points and chased the score back again, and the Cavaliers had difficulty responding, and could only rely on Stevens to complete a difficult layup to continue the Life of the Cavaliers. But the Lakers were too accurate in this quarter, and after a wave of 12-2, the Cavaliers stopped.
Back from a timeout, Okoro got an empty three-point opportunity to close the gap. James reached a triple-double after rebounding, his 105th career triple-double. The Lakers fouled in the middle of the fourth quarter, but as James scored again, the point difference reached 7 points, Garland's finger was suspected of poking, and the Cavaliers were on the safe side to stop the game. The Cavaliers then made two consecutive turnovers, and the Lakers stretched the gap to 11 points. Finally, the Lakers won!