{"id":429508,"date":"2025-02-21T11:54:52","date_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:54:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=429508"},"modified":"2025-02-21T11:54:52","modified_gmt":"2025-02-21T10:54:52","slug":"lebron-james-drops-40-in-lakers-win-makes-more-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-drops-40-in-lakers-win-makes-more-history\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James drops 40 in Lakers&#8217; win, makes more history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1986\">Despite playing on the second night of a back-to-back, <strong data-start=\"1301\" data-end=\"1317\">LeBron James<\/strong> led the <strong data-start=\"1326\" data-end=\"1348\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/strong> to a <strong data-start=\"1354\" data-end=\"1365\">110-102<\/strong> victory over the <strong data-start=\"1383\" data-end=\"1409\">Portland Trail Blazers<\/strong>, scoring <strong data-start=\"1419\" data-end=\"1432\">40 points<\/strong>. He became the <strong data-start=\"1448\" data-end=\"1478\">only player in NBA history<\/strong> with multiple <strong data-start=\"1493\" data-end=\"1530\">40-point games at age 40 or older<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1246\" data-end=\"1986\">Lakers coach <strong data-start=\"1545\" data-end=\"1558\">JJ Redick<\/strong> praised James&#8217; relentless mentality: \u201cAt 40, with every record and accolade, he still plays like this.\u201d James, who passed <strong data-start=\"1681\" data-end=\"1697\">Vince Carter<\/strong> in career games played, said he\u2019s motivated to show his son <strong data-start=\"1758\" data-end=\"1768\">Bronny<\/strong> the ropes of being a professional. Even with <strong data-start=\"1814\" data-end=\"1830\">11 turnovers<\/strong>, the Lakers&#8217; effort secured the win. <strong data-start=\"1868\" data-end=\"1885\">Austin Reaves<\/strong>, who added <strong data-start=\"1897\" data-end=\"1910\">32 points<\/strong>, summed it up: \u201cHe has nothing left to prove\u2014unless you\u2019re a Jordan fan.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>At 40 years old, the Lakers superstar continues to defy time with another record-setting night<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":146,"featured_media":372083,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_spbk_hide_featured":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[399],"tags":[],"rumors":[],"typology":[],"posizionamento":[],"class_list":["post-429508","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/5\/2024\/02\/Los-Angeles-Lakers.jpg","digistream_id":0,"digistream":false,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429508","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/146"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=429508"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429508\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/372083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429508"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429508"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429508"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=429508"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=429508"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=429508"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}