King is going for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time record for points and will have to raise the team’s demands if they don’t want to repeat last season’s role.
LeBron James showed up at NBA noon at the start of the new season, the 20th of his impressive career. He is the leader of Los Angeles Lakers that they need to show their faces and reverse the terrible image left in 2021-22 when they didn’t even reach the Play-Ins.
“Being here and knowing that I’m about to probably break the most wanted record in the NBA, something that people said could never be achieved, it’s super overwhelming for me and super cool.”said LeBron in his first official press presentation at Media Day. This refers to the record he holds Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of 38,387 points in the regular season, against his 37,062. LeBron has more points in total, a record he achieved last season, if you take the total of annotations: regular period and post season. But the NBA does not consider points earned in the playoffs.
“Whenever my name is mentioned among the greats, like Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or others, it’s overwhelming,” he added.
LeBronwho will be 38 in December, had to lead a team that was a complete failure last season when they didn’t even qualify for the Play-In, they finished eleventh in the Western Conference with a 33-49 record, which bet in a group with many veterans: Anthony Davis, Russell Westbrook, Carmelo Anthony, Dwight Howard and Rajon Rondo. For the 2022-23 season they announced the arrival of patrick beverleythe Mexican Juan Toscano-Anderson, Dennis Schroder, and Lonnie Walkerbut the change of coach is also known: Frank Vogel left his post and announced Darwin Ham as Head Coach of the franchise.
The kingas team leader, formulated a collective and a personal critique: “Obviously you have to put the ball on the edge, of course, and in our league there are good teams that can do that, but the teams that can defend and stop the attack when they need to are the most successful in our league .”, He said that job protection is pointed out as the aspect to improve with the new leadership.
And on his own performance, 56 games out of 82 in the 2021-22 regular season, he said: “Obviously, there are some injuries that you can’t control… But as one of the leaders of this team, being available is the most important thing.”
LeBron was picked first in the 2003 draft by the Cleveland Cavaliers.he played there for seven seasons until he was transferred to Miami Heat for the 2010-11 season. In Florida Franchise he won two rings: 2011-12 and 2012-13. after four seasons back to cav in 2014-15 and earned his third ring in 2015-16, it was his dream because he was born in Akron, Ohio. Since the 2018-19 season he has been a part Los Angeles Lakers and there He got the fourth ring in his history, in the 2019-20 season, in the Disney bubble.
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