Beijing time on April 11, the Lakers in the regular season finale once trailed by 17 points in the case of an overtime to beat the Nuggets 146-141, the losing rookie Austin Rivers got the 31 + 16 + 10 data became the key to the Lakers' upset win, one of his data became the second person in the history of the Lakers in the past 40 years, comparable to Kobe Bryant, completed the feat that LeBron James has not achieved.
The Lakers have long lost the qualification to impact the playoffs, and the final game against the Nuggets has sent role players to the game, but there are still many highlights in this game, in addition to the big reversal that once fell behind by 17 points, Munch scored 41 points with more than 50% shooting, and Rivers played a performance comparable to Kobe Bryant.
Rivers played 41 minutes in this game, 7 of his 17 shots were not very efficient, but he had 3-of-5 shooting outside the three-point line, got the most 14 free throw opportunities in the game and hit all of them, got 31 points, 16 rebounds, 10 assists, 2 steals and 1 block, and got the first triple-double data of his NBA career, and one data also became the second person in Lakers history in nearly 40 years.
In the Lakers' long team history, only Algin Baylor, Jerry West, Abdul Jubbar, Magic Johnson and Kobe Bryant have ever scored 30+ points, 15 rebounds and 10+ assists in a single game in the regular season, the most recent of which was Kobe Bryant's 33 points, 15 rebounds and 12 assists in the Lakers' victory over the Clippers on November 1, 2002. Further ahead was Magic Johnson's 33 points, 15 rebounds and 17 assists on March 29, 1981, meaning rivers became the second player in nearly 40 years to score 30+15+10 in the regular season.
LeBron James, who has averaged 25+ points per game in the regular season for 18 consecutive seasons, and Russell Westbrook, the "NBA all-time triple-double", have not obtained 30+15+10 data in the regular season during their time with the Lakers, and Rivers has not been selected in the draft, which is his first NBA season, and in terms of this data alone, Rivers' performance this night is of landmark significance. However, we can't ignore that Rivers' average of 23.2 minutes per game in 61 regular season games this season is only 7.3 points, 3.2 rebounds and 1.8 assists per game with 45.9% shooting.