“King” LeBron James becomes record holder for games played in the NBA

LeBron James continues to write his basketball legend. Star of the Los Angeles Lakers, he seized the record for games played on Saturday with a 1,612th NBA regular season game against Orlando, one more than Robert Parish.

The “King”, aged 41 and in his 23rd NBA season – another record – thus overtakes Parish, retired in 1997, after having already seized the record for points scored three years ago. Quadruple NBA champion, LeBron James equaled this record on Thursday while producing a triple-double during a success in Miami, reaffirming that the twilight of his career remains associated with high performances.

Retirement not yet on the agenda

On Saturday, he was one of the Lakers’ five starters for a trip to Orlando less than a month before the end of the regular season. He scored 12 points, including a powerful dunk in transition in the first minute, during his team’s 105-104 victory. The Lakers, third in the West (46v-25d), won for the 9th time in a row with, as since the start of their series, a match at least 30 points behind their Slovenian magician Luka Doncic (33 points, 8 assists), who scored 60 points Thursday in Miami.

The former hero of Cleveland and Miami, who plays in the same squad as his son Bronny, also remains unclear about the rest of his career at the end of the season. “I didn’t sit down and ask myself what records I wanted to break. It just happened, it wasn’t part of my goals. The number of matches played, points scored, the series of matches with 10 points or more, I did not have these things in mind,” he assured Thursday. “I wanted to be the best player in history, win the championship, be voted rookie of the year, be selected for the All-Star Game, win an Olympic gold medal, be MVP… Those were my goals. »

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LeBron James multiplies the records in the NBA after seizing the most notable three years ago, the number of points scored, ahead of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He again surpassed the Lakers legend at the beginning of March, this time in the number of baskets scored.