{"id":328677,"date":"2025-12-05T04:34:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:34:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328677\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:34:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:34:13","slug":"lebron-james-double-digit-scoring-streak-ends-with-assist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/328677\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James\u2019 double-digit scoring streak ends with assist"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">LeBron James finds Rui Hachimura in the corner for the game-winning 3 at the buzzer in Toronto.<\/p>\n<p>TORONTO (AP) \u2014 LeBron James\u2019 streak of 1,297 consecutive double-digit regular-season scoring efforts ended Thursday night, when the NBA\u2019s career points leader was held to eight points in the Los Angeles Lakers\u2019 123-120 win over the Toronto Raptors.<\/p>\n<p>James could have tried to win the game \u2014 and extend the streak \u2014 on the final possession, but he instead passed the ball to Rui Hachimura in the left corner.<\/p>\n<p>Hachimura\u2019s 3-pointer dropped as time expired, and James \u2014 who has said countless times over his 23-year career that he always tries to make the right and smartest play \u2014 threw his hands in the air in celebration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBron told me right before this, \u2018I got you. It\u2019s going to come to you,\u2019\u201d Hachimura said in an on-court televised interview.<\/p>\n<p>With that, the streak ended. The win was all that evidently mattered.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLeBron is acutely aware of how many points he has at that point,\u201d Lakers coach JJ Redick said. \u201cHe did it like he\u2019s done so many times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James finds Rui Hachimura in the corner for the game-winning 3 at the buzzer in Toronto. TORONTO&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":328678,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,184185,590,85],"class_list":["post-328677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-lebron-james-streak","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328677","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=328677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/328678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=328677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=328677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=328677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}