{"id":488906,"date":"2026-03-20T08:36:43","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:36:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/?p=488906"},"modified":"2026-03-20T08:36:43","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T07:36:43","slug":"lebron-james-ties-robert-parish-for-nba-games-played-record-and-answers-critics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/lebron-james-ties-robert-parish-for-nba-games-played-record-and-answers-critics\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James ties Robert Parish for NBA games-played record and answers critics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"1744\" data-end=\"2120\"><strong data-start=\"1744\" data-end=\"1760\">LeBron James<\/strong> matched <strong data-start=\"1769\" data-end=\"1786\">Robert Parish<\/strong> at <strong data-start=\"1790\" data-end=\"1812\">1,611 career games<\/strong> during the <strong data-start=\"1824\" data-end=\"1847\">Los Angeles Lakers\u2019<\/strong> win over the <strong data-start=\"1861\" data-end=\"1869\">Heat<\/strong>, adding another milestone to one of the most decorated r\u00e9sum\u00e9s in league history. The achievement came after a difficult turnaround that included an overnight flight, a 5 a.m. hotel arrival and treatment on his arthritic left foot throughout the day.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2122\" data-end=\"2426\">James also delivered on the court, finishing with <strong data-start=\"2172\" data-end=\"2213\">19 points, 15 rebounds and 10 assists<\/strong> as the Lakers extended their winning streak to eight games. Speaking to ESPN, Parish praised James\u2019 discipline and longevity, saying his commitment to fitness and recovery makes him worthy of breaking the record.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"2428\" data-end=\"2651\">After the game, <strong data-start=\"2444\" data-end=\"2460\">LeBron James<\/strong> also addressed the public narrative that the Lakers had played better while he was sidelined. He dismissed that argument, saying it may attract attention, but in his view it is simply wrong.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James tied Robert Parish for the NBA all-time games-played record with game No. 1,611<\/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-488906","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\/488906","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=488906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488906\/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=488906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488906"},{"taxonomy":"rumors","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/rumors?post=488906"},{"taxonomy":"typology","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/typology?post=488906"},{"taxonomy":"posizionamento","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sportando.basketball\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posizionamento?post=488906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}