According to the Lakers' statistics for the 2021-22 season, the Lakers will have some statistical breakthroughs in almost every game, such as players wearing purple and gold jerseys.
"Yes, the support is there. I try to send flowers to people, and you have to do the same. Asked how the Lakers would celebrate the milestones achieved by their teammates, Carmelo Anthony said after Sunday's training session. Any achievement. Especially the things that the players of this team are going to accomplish, or the things that can be done, or the things that have a chance to be done. You want to celebrate them. You don't want to ignore those moments and take those moments for granted.
He continued: "It's a very unique situation, Brown has something of his own, he can catch the ball and he can pass the ball. Russ has his own fairway. I have things I can do on my own. We have a lot of stuff in this team. We just want to celebrate and support each other. ”
Lakers head coach Frank Vogel said the Lakers don't have an official program to recognize individual achievements. He said the Lakers PR team typically alerts the dressing room when players are close to milestones or will rise to the all-time roster. Sometimes, they just learn about it on social media.
Vogel said: "When this happens, you have to congratulate him, especially when it comes to LeBron. He's very focused on the moment. I think it's more of an afterthought than thinking about the big picture. You'll feel good when you cross these milestones, but you either won a game or lost a game last night... He's really focused on the moment. ”
As those words suggest, the Lakers are more focused on the most important milestone — the 18th championship, which will give them a championship ahead of the Boston Celtics in NBA history.
But, for now, one of the most interesting aspects of the season — a season that will celebrate the NBA's 75-year history — in regular chyrons your broadcast will point out that historical greatness is only by being a member of the 2021-22 Lakers on the roster, or an important integer just for Lakers veterans.
Before the Lakers' highly anticipated new season kicks off at staples Center on Tuesday, let's focus on a few important milestones of the season — against another team with multiple future Hall of Famers: the Golden State Warriors.
LeBron James
James could overtake Carl Malone to become second on the NBA's all-time scoring list.
LeBron (35367 points) has a difference of 1561 points with the postman. Since joining the Lakers, he has averaged 25.9 points per game. If he continues his record of 25.0 points for 17 consecutive seasons, he can reach that level in 62-65 games.
James would need to play a few more seasons at a similar pace to surpass Lakers icon Jabbar (38387).
LeBron can also reach Malone's shooting percentage, but this season's shooting percentage is 625, which is too demanding. In the past two seasons, LeBron has averaged 9.5 points per game. In the 2021-22 season, he needs to do this 65 times to catch up with Malone.
James (50,055 minutes) was also able to move from 6th to 3rd on the total playing time list. If he averaged 34 minutes per game in 70 games (which, according to Vogel, was the "playbook" of the season), LeBron would have overtaken Kidd, Garnett and Nowitzki.
On other fronts, James is just 304 assists away from becoming the seventh player in history to reach 10,000 assists. 249 rebounds will also bring him to 10,000. Both should be obviously accessible. If he can do that, he will be the first player in NBA history to score more than 30,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists.
Dwight Howard
Howard had 193 fewer rebounds than Nate Thurmond and ranked tenth on the NBA's overall rebounding list. He won 580 seats in 2020-21. Garnett is ninth, 392nd higher than Dwight.
Russell Westbrook
Westbrook has set a record that will define his career and legacy: he is the triple-double in history (184 times), significantly surpassing Oscar Robertson (181 times) in the 2020-21 season.
This season, Major West will have a chance to finish in the top ten of the assists list.
Westbrook is currently in 12th place, 463 behind "Professor" Andre Miller (11th) and 905 behind "Glove" Gary Payton (10th). Westbrook's career-high assists are 820, so it may be up to the top ten until the 2022-23 season. He must have averaged 11.0 assists in 82 games this season to reach that level.
Lajean Rondo, by the way, is at 14th place on the overall transfer list, although he is likely to remain in that position this season unless he is pushed into a more important role than expected.
Anthony
Speaking of the top ten, Carmelo is still far from Lakers legend Shaquille O'Neal, who is ninth on the overall scoring list. Anthony, 37, scored 27,370 points in his career regular season, 1,226 fewer than Aristotle the Great.
Melon needs to score 17.5 points in 70 games this season to dwarf O'Neal. This can't happen unless LeBron and Adelaide are injured, or he bumps into Immortal Springs.
Either way, there will be plenty of flowers in Los Angeles this season, with Anthony, LeBron, Westbrook, Dwight and Anthony Davis making the NBA Round of 75, and the roster will be announced alphabetically this week.