{"id":159973,"date":"2025-09-16T03:44:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159973\/"},"modified":"2025-09-16T03:44:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T03:44:07","slug":"an-insane-stat-highlights-lebron-james-nba-longevity","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/159973\/","title":{"rendered":"An insane stat highlights LeBron James&#8217; NBA longevity"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James continues to scale new heights when it comes to his longevity. He already holds the NBA records for the most All-Star game appearances and All-NBA selections, and once the 2025-26 season starts, he will set another record by beginning his 23rd season in the league.<\/p>\n<p>He is still playing at a superstar level, and he&#8217;s showing no signs of slowing down yet. He has played in multiple eras of NBA basketball, and one stat illustrates how long he has stuck around.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>According to Legion Hoops, James has played either with or against 36.43% of all the players who have ever played in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>Last season, the 40-year-old averaged 24.4 points on 51.3% field-goal shooting and 37.6% from 3-point range, 7.8 rebounds and 8.2 assists a game. His scoring, rebounding and assists numbers per 36 minutes have been remarkably stable dating back to his second or third year in the league, which is a testament to how well he has maintained his health and fitness.<\/p>\n<p>With Luka Doncic now assuming the Lakers&#8217; main ball-handling and facilitating duties, perhaps James will be able to age even more gracefully the rest of the way.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lebronwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/lebron\/2025\/09\/15\/an-insane-stat-highlights-lebron-james-nba-longevity\/86174192007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:An insane stat highlights LeBron James&#039; NBA longevity;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">An insane stat highlights LeBron James&#8217; NBA longevity<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LeBron James continues to scale new heights when it comes to his longevity. He already holds the NBA&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159974,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[23139,6306,3013,97377,3014,355,99],"class_list":{"0":"post-159973","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-all-nba","9":"tag-lakers","10":"tag-lebron-james","11":"tag-legion-hoops","12":"tag-luka-doncic","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=159973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159973\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159974"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}