One day, the NBA record books will be safe from LeBron James. But not Thursday.<\/p>\n
The Los Angeles Lakers star recorded 28 points, 12 assists and 10 rebounds in a 124-104 win over the Dallas Mavericks<\/a>, making him the oldest player in NBA history to record a triple-double at 41 years and 44 days. Karl Malone was the previous record-holder at 40 years and 127 days.<\/p>\n It was also James’ first triple-double since Feb. 1, 2025, breaking the longest drought of his career. He now has 123 total in the regular season, placing him fifth all-time behind Russell Westbrook, Nikola Joki\u0107, Oscar Robertson and Magic Johnson.<\/p>\n Advertisement<\/p>\n As for the oldest triple-double leaderboard, here’s how that looks now:<\/p>\n LeBron James (41 years, 44 days)<\/p>\n Karl Malone (40 years, 127 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (40 years, 33 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (40 years, 22 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 359 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 342 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 333 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 321 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 319 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 316 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 314 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 301 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 106 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 88 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (39 years, 28 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (38 years, 353 days)<\/p>\n LeBron James (38 years, 320 days)<\/p>\n James has spent the past few years shredding every idea we have of what is possible this late in a player’s career, and the above list is certainly one way he’s doing that. Thursday was also James’ fourth straight game with double-digit assists, breaking John Stockton’s record for the longest such streak by a player 40 or older.<\/p>\n So there’s something else Malone and Stockton share.<\/p>\n The Lakers were still missing Luka Don\u010di\u0107, who remains out with a hamstring injury<\/a>, but had no trouble with a limited Mavericks roster down one Cooper Flagg<\/a>. The game was still close early in the third quarter, but a late run gave the Lakers a double-digit lead and Dallas never get within striking distance in the fourth quarter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"One day, the NBA record books will be safe from LeBron James. But not Thursday. The Los Angeles…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":465908,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[761,760,32089,3013,1055,3014,355,1756,14828,99,61900],"class_list":{"0":"post-465907","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-cooper-flagg","9":"tag-dallas-mavericks","10":"tag-karl-malone","11":"tag-lebron-james","12":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","13":"tag-luka-doncic","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-nikola-jokic","16":"tag-russell-westbrook","17":"tag-sports","18":"tag-triple-double"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465907","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=465907"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465907\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/465908"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465907"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465907"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465907"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}