Even by Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James’s lofty standards, this number was something else.
James’s layup early in the second quarter against the Denver Nuggets Saturday evening gave him precisely 40,000 points in his distinguished NBA career, a quantity with no equal in league history.
The number of statistics that can put James’s career in proper perspective is dwindling, but Laker Film Room podcast host Darius Soriano offered a telling factoid during the game.
