James, who sprinted 40,000 points, is really going to admit defeat to the years this time?
In the season opener, the Lakers lost to the Nuggets, James had 21 points, 8 rebounds and 5 assists, and he is now 1,327 points away from the 40,000-point goal.
This is the 21st season of the elder Zhan, and his 21+8+5 accidentally set another record, becoming the first player in NBA history to play 20+5+5 in a single game in the 21st season.
This season is quite eye-catching, the old is James, he will turn 39 years old by the end of the year, is the oldest player in the NBA, the younger is Venban Yama, this champion is only 19.
Lao Zhan and Xiaowen, 20 years apart, are simply two generations.
In fact, Venbanyama is only 9 months older than James' son Brownie.
To put it mildly, before the birth of Venbanyama, James had 661 points, 198 rebounds, 201 assists, 50 steals and 23 blocks in the NBA.
Now, Venbanyama is in the NBA, and James is still playing in the NBA, which is really the longest river.
Before James, five players played in the NBA for 21 years, and the highest points per game in the 21st season was Vince Carter's 7.4 points in 2018-19, a figure measured by James' average of 28.9 points per game last season, which is the amount of a quarter.
Jordan is the more he watches his game video, the more he feels terrifying, and the more James looks at his statistics, the more he thinks he is powerful, but friends who are critical of Old Jen will say that he brushes data.
We can't enter James's heart, can't be sure of his true attitude to data, but even if it is brushed, brushed to close to 40,000 points, the "411" project is almost completed, it can be regarded as a ceiling level.
James is arguably the most polarized player in NBA history, and those who like him will blow him up as an NBA historical position, and those who don't like him will mock him for being honored, and there is almost no middle ground between praise and disapproval.
If Jordan's career is applied to James, it is completely unmatched, Jordan has Jordan's route, and Old Jen has Old Zhan's airspace. Jordan defined the template for basketball superheroes, and James independently defined his own basketball path outside of the template.
A voice that is not very friendly to James will say that he is calculating and playing pure, but it is this impure player who has really entered his NBA career into the 21st season and continues to refresh the upper limit of veteran combat power, and it will not be just talent to do this, right?
James has reason to become a benchmark of professionalism, he has maintained self-discipline and hard work on and off the field for twenty years, but in fact, the evaluation of Old Jen is mixed, which naturally has his own reasons, such as the national live broadcast that year was purely willful to almost collapse his public image, another reason is that the outside world has always had high expectations for him, and the standard for evaluating him is different from evaluating other players, or what he has done is not important, what he has not done is more important.
Whoever makes him James, if he wants to wear a crown, he must bear its weight, label himself as a "king", he must understand that he is the target of everyone, and it is natural to do well, and if he is not good, he will inevitably speak ill,
Some negative evaluations of James actually stem from James' over-praise, such as the race against time of Old James, he is evergreen, but he can never beat the years.
Since the groin injury in 2018, James's physical durability and explosiveness have deteriorated year by year, and he has been unable to guarantee high attendance, and the once all-out Jen and even the so-called "Thanos Zhan" can only come once in a while, and can only last for half time, and the subsequent physical strength can not keep up.
Although James has practiced well this past offseason, the "old man" can still dunk, but when the game really plays, Hamm only let James play 29 minutes, although it is really impossible to beat the Nuggets Don't spend LeBron, but 29 minutes is likely to be a regular operation this season, simply put, a limited time to protect the body, hope to play as healthy as possible.
James also admitted after the loss to the Nuggets that he and Hamm had talked about how long to play before the game, and were neither surprised nor angry about the less than 30 minutes of playing time. No one knows his physical condition better than James, he has averaged 37 and 35 minutes per game in the past two seasons, the effect is that both ends of the offensive and defensive ends must do physical strength addition and subtraction, offensive power defense has to downshift, defense tight attack has to slow down, now compress the time load, old Jen's offensive and defensive output may be balanced.
In this game of the Nuggets, although the Lakers lost, James' +7 plus-minus was the highest on the team, and there were no mistakes, Hamm saved a little, and Old James was still quite able to play.
No one can overcome the laws of nature, James will one day say "I lost" to the years, and his efforts now are to delay the arrival of that day, but it will still come.
By the time he reaches the end, James should have completed "411", he will leave with those trophies and data, the world of "honey" and "black" will be quiet, leaving only memories, that is him, and many of us from adolescence to middle age, that is a way to only go forward without return, because there is no going back, only to collect memories.
If you love to watch basketball, whether you are "Zhan Mi" or "Zhan Hei", watch and cherish the current old Zhan.