“Lakers are 6-6 when LeBron James scores 30 points or more, before this season they were 32-13”: NBA Reddit breaks down LeBron and co’s struggles this season

Akash Murty | 27/12/2021
"Lakers are 6-6 when LeBron James scores 30 points or more, before this season they were 32-13": NBA Reddit breaks down LeBron and co's struggles this season

As LeBron James tries to keep his team alive in the race to the Playoffs. The rest of the Lakers players are not able to live up to the expectations.

The Los Angeles Lakers are the most underwhelming team this season. Their star-studded roster might have been critiqued for their age at the beginning of the season, but should still have been one of the best squads ever assembled.

Purple and Gold currently have, at the very least, 6 future Hall of Famers playing for them. Four of them have been faces of a franchise or two for most of their career. Not to forget, the same four are NBA’s top-75 players of All-time. And the Lakers are currently two games under the .500 mark.

After their horrific performance against the Brooklyn Nets on Christmas Eve, the Lakers sit at 7th in the Western Conference standings. This loss came after their 37-year-old leader of the team LeBron James played over 39 minutes and put up 39 points, 9 rebounds, 7 assists, 3 steals, and a block.

That’s been the case for the team in half the game LeBron scored 30 or more.

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Lakers are 6-6 when LeBron James scores 30 or more this season

It is nothing short of amazing that the old guy already has 12-thirty point games in just 34 games. But the Lakers are now 6-6 when LeBron James scores 30 points or more, and before this season they were 32-13. As an NBA Reddit user breaks down, that’s a shift from 71 percent to fifty.

However good this team should or could have been, now it’s apparent that LeBron James and GM Rob Pelinka were dead wrong to get rid of almost everybody in last year’s team to build this team. Almost all the players that the Lakers have traded since LeBron joined them back in 2018 are playing great consistently.

The window is still open for James and the Lakers’ management to undo their wrongdoings. They have more than a month, until 10th February, which marks an end to the trade deadline, to make trades and fix what they have done.

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It might again blow up in their faces with little to no time to get the team chemistry right. But again, they aren’t going anywhere with this team either, so better do it now than the next season. LeBron James cannot beat time forever.

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About the author

Akash Murty

An Electrical and Electronics Engineer by degree, Akash Murty is an NBA Editor at The SportsRush. Previously a Software Engineer, Murty couldn’t keep himself away from sports, and his knack for writing and putting his opinion forward brought him to the TSR. A big Soccer enthusiast, his interest in basketball developed late, as he got access to a hoop for the first time at 17. Following this, he started watching basketball at the 2012 Olympics, which transitioned to NBA, and he became a fan of the game as he watched LeBron James dominate the league. Him being an avid learner of the game and ritually following the league for around a decade, he now writes articles ranging from throwbacks, and live game reports, to gossip. LA Lakers are his favourite basketball team, while Chelsea has his heart in football. He also likes travelling, reading fiction, and sometimes cooking.

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