The 39-year-old made 9 of 10 3-pointers as the Lakers recorded their sixth win in their last seven games.
LeBron James was once again an eternal wonder as he played in the 1,485th game of his career, scoring a season-high 40 points and leading the Los Angeles Lakers to a 116-104 victory over the Brooklyn Nets. Looked.
James had the sold-out Barclays Center crowd on its feet Sunday night when he put the finishing touches on a 3-pointer in the fourth quarter.
The Lakers have now won six of their last seven games. With this win, they have seven games left in the regular season and are nine games over .500, a season-high.
Los Angeles remains in ninth place in the Western Conference, but the Lakers could move past the Sacramento Kings for eighth place or the Phoenix Suns for seventh place to get out of the single-elimination 9th-10th place play-in game. There is sex.
If James has another game like this in the postseason, almost anything can happen to the NBA's prodigious career scorer at 39 years old. James, a 20-time All-Star, finished Sunday night with a 17-13 overall record.
“I spent a lot of time working on my work,” James said.
James also made nine 3-pointers against the Clippers on January 24, 2023, going 9-of-14.
His 90 percent accuracy was the second-best mark in a game in which he made at least five 3-pointers, according to the Elias Sports Bureau.
James single-handedly kept the Nets at bay with 3-pointers in the third and fourth quarters, the eighth of which came off a corner kick to the left to give the Lakers a 108-91 lead.
On the next possession, James isolated against Claxton on the perimeter, dribbling between his legs multiple times before making his career-tying ninth 3-pointer to make it 111-93.
The LA Lakers travel to Toronto to take on the Raptors on Tuesday night.
