LeBron James on Tuesday made his season debut, becoming the first player in NBA history to play 23 seasons in the league.<\/p>\n
James missed the first 14 games of the NBA season due to sciatica. He had previously never missed a season opener.<\/p>\n
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The 40-year-old was in the starting line-up against the Utah Jazz just one day after his first team training session with the Lakers.<\/p>\n
In his season debut, James overtook Reggie Miller and moved up to sixth on the all-time list of three-pointers made after splashing his 2,561st.<\/p>\n
The four-time MVP is among the all-time leaders in nearly all statistical categories, including assists and steals.<\/p>\n
James still trails Robert Parish in games played with 1,563 to the Hall of Famer’s 1,611. In 2023, James passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.<\/p>\n
Without James, the Lakers won 10 games and lost four, good for fourth place in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James on Tuesday made his season debut, becoming the first player in NBA history to play 23…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294262,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,7896,7232,590,169028,54603,33195,85,11898],"class_list":["post-294261","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lebron-james","tag-los-angeles-lakers","tag-nba","tag-reggie-miller","tag-season-debut","tag-season-opener","tag-sports","tag-utah-jazz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294261","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294261"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294261\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294262"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294261"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294261"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294261"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}