On March 28, Beijing time, the NBA regular season Lakers against the Pelicans, the whole game, the Lakers once led by 23 points, but then the opponent completed a big reversal, the Lakers old Ingram cut 26 points to lead the team to win, the score of 116-108. On the Lakers side, leader James blasted down 39 points, 9 rebounds and 5 assists on 14 of 27, with the help of 39 points in this game, James continued to break the youngest scoring record, surpassing Abdul-Jabbar (40 years and 277 days) at the age of 37 years and 88 days to become the youngest Mr. 37,000 points in NBA history, and the number of career sports goals was surpassing Malone (13528) and rising to the second place in history. James completed the milestone again.
It is worth mentioning that this is the 37th consecutive time that James has broken the youngest scoring record, including 37 youngest scoring records from 1,000 points to 37,000 points! These records are enough to highlight the length of James's peak period, and when it comes to maintaining personal peaks, James is the no. 1 in real history.
Unfortunately, James's milestone in this campaign became a "mileage sad" Lakers suffered a 23-point reversal in this game, while losing to the direct rival of the playoffs, the Pelicans, which is a game that should not be lost.
In addition, James was still short-legged during the game, and there was a very serious sprain on his left foot, but at that time, James chose to tighten his shoelaces and continue to play. After the game, James himself said he didn't know how serious the injury was: "I don't know how I finished the game, it feels bad, I hope the ankle injury will not be too serious, let me miss the game, I have started treatment at the moment, tomorrow to see how it feels." At present, Davis, another core of the Lakers, is still recuperating from injury, and once the scoring arrow James is off, then the competitiveness of this Lakers will further decline.
The Lakers' next 8 games can be called the Devil's schedule, all the opponents in the 8 games are Western teams, except for the Thunder, no opponent has a considerable chance of winning, including the Lone Ranger, Jazz, Pelicans, Suns, Nuggets and Warriors, of which the Nuggets need to play twice. Almost all of these 7 games are hard battles, and losing every game can cause the Lakers to miss the playoffs and directly bid farewell to this season. Especially after 5 days of encounter with the Pelicans, if the Lakers lose again this time, they will basically say goodbye to this season. At present, the Lakers' Western Conference ranking has slipped to 10th, 0.5 wins behind the Pelicans at no. 9, and the 11th-place Spurs behind them are only one win away from the Lakers.
The team with James has always received the most attention from the outside world, not to mention the Lakers at the level of giants, once the dismal ending of this season, the Lakers will inevitably usher in a lineup shock, it can be expected that James with ticket appeal and popularity will not be let go, but the rest of the players believe that they will leave one by one. In the past, the same was true on the eve of Kobe's retirement, even if the Lakers have been losing, but the Purple And Gold Army will only choose to have stars to continue to survive, which is stubbornness as a giant team!
(Lin Xiaoxiang)