{"id":297507,"date":"2025-11-21T12:47:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:47:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297507\/"},"modified":"2025-11-21T12:47:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T12:47:12","slug":"for-lebron-james-its-not-about-6-7-27-is-the-magic-number-for-lakers-legend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/297507\/","title":{"rendered":"For LeBron James, it&#8217;s not about 6-7 \u2014 27 is the magic number for Lakers legend"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so, so many remarkable things about LeBron James when you start digging into the numbers of one of the NBA&#8217;s all-time greats.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, he&#8217;s the league&#8217;s all-time leading scorer, having reached a record 23rd season now spread across the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/cleveland-cavaliers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Cleveland Cavaliers<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/miami-heat\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Miami Heat<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/los-angeles-lakers\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>But there&#8217;s one stat that circulated this week that&#8217;s pretty much impossible to believe.<\/p>\n<p>Almost all of LeBron&#8217;s career scoring averages round to 27 points per game.<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/nba\/news\/8th-grade-michael-porter-jr-dominate-wnba\/eefee11b2e1fcda6af9d0c31\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">8th-grade Michael Porter Jr. would dominate the WNBA, according to Michael Porter Jr.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Check out this magic from statistician Jay Cuda:<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">lebron james career points per game rounded to the nearest whole<br \/>number (reg. season) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/xO9aLkf1bo\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/xO9aLkf1bo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Jay Cuda (@JayCuda) <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/JayCuda\/status\/1991714111550583061?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">November 21, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/ca\/ncaa-basketball\/news\/damian-lillard-return-weber-state-nba-legend-college-basketball-eligibility-question\/6f82f4ee887ae527c1e48f14\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Damian Lillard floats the idea of returning to Weber State<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Maybe James should&#8217;ve been wearing 27 on his jersey all these years instead of 23.<\/p>\n<p>His career is full of statistical craziness. For example, for a long time, James&#8217; career averages worked out to 27 points, 7 rebounds, and 7 assists per game, and yet he has never had a game with exactly 27-7-7.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s gotta be fun to be a stats guy and dig into the things LeBron has done. There&#8217;s just so much data there. He&#8217;s been around forever, doing a lot of things no one has ever done before.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This wild 27s stat really just emphasizes the omnipresence of James. In the last nearly quarter-century of the NBA, the King has always been there, doing his thing.<\/p>\n<p>We are all witnesses.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"There are so, so many remarkable things about LeBron James when you start digging into the numbers of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":297508,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-297507","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297507","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=297507"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/297507\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/297508"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=297507"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=297507"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=297507"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}