In the Lakers' 131-120 away win over the Cavaliers, James played 41 minutes against his old club and had 38 points, 11 rebounds and 12 assists on 17-of-29 shooting.
After this game, James averaged 30 points per game, temporarily rising to the top of the league. So far this season, James has played in 54 games and scored 1,618 points. The Lakers have 10 games left, and even if James plays all of them and doesn't score a single point, he can average 25+ points per game this season.
In this way, James achieved the feat of averaging more than 25 points per game for 18 consecutive seasons, continuing to break his own record. So far in his career, James has averaged less than 25 points per game in his rookie season, but he has also averaged more than 20 points per game, reaching 20.9 points.
Aside from James, the longest record of 25+ per game is 12 consecutive seasons of Kobe, Durant, Malone and Jordan, and there is a significant gap with James. In addition, Durant will also play an average of 25+ per game this season, which is his 13th consecutive year of averaging 25+ per game, ranking second in history alone, behind James.
For James, the performance of averaging 30 points per game is still very rare, and he has only had two such performances in his career, and both were in the early days of his career, more than 10 years ago. Now that James is 37 years old, he can still play an average of 30 points per game, and is expected to win the top scorer, which is unprecedented.
It is worth mentioning that in 2020, the 35-year-old James has become the oldest assist king, and if he can get the scoring king this season, he will surpass Jordan and become the oldest scorer. James set a whole bunch of youngest records when he was younger, and now that he's older, he's starting to set all sorts of oldest records.
In addition, in addition to James, Embiid, Alphabet Brother and Durant have all averaged more than 29 points per game this season, and they are all likely to average 30 points per game.
In the past 55 seasons, only two times at the end of the season have three players averaged 30+ points per game, and only once in the past 35 seasons, that is, in the 05-06 season, Kobe Bryant averaged 35.4 points per game, Iverson scored 33 points and James scored 31.4 points.
There is also hope for this feat to be seen again this season, and James will once again be one of them.