{"id":582941,"date":"2026-04-14T04:18:09","date_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582941\/"},"modified":"2026-04-14T04:18:09","modified_gmt":"2026-04-14T04:18:09","slug":"lebron-james-wins-western-conference-player-of-the-week-award","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/582941\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James wins Western Conference Player of the Week award"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves out due to hamstring and oblique strains, respectively, LeBron James immediately had to go from his cushy role as the <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/los-angeles-lakers\/13\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Los Angeles Lakers;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;Los Angeles Lakers&quot;}\" class=\"link \">Los Angeles Lakers<\/a>&#8216; third scorer to their main superstar again. It was a transition he handled quickly and ably.<\/p>\n<p>In four games after those injuries occurred (he missed one game with a foot ailment), James averaged 25.5 points, 6.8 rebounds and 11 assists a game while shooting 55.7% from the field and 37.5% from 3-point range. The Lakers won each of their last three games of the regular season, allowing them to finish with a 53-29 record and the fourth seed in the Western Conference.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>James has been named the Western Conference Player of the Week as a result of his excellent play.<\/p>\n<p>This is the 70th time James has won a Player of the Week award, and the first time he has received one this season. He last won it in early February of last year.<\/p>\n<p>The 41-year-old ended the regular season with averages of 20.9 points on 51.5% field-goal shooting, 6.1 rebounds and 7.2 assists a game.<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on LeBron Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/lebronwire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/2026\/04\/13\/lebron-james-wins-western-conference-player-of-the-week-award\/89600608007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:LeBron James wins Western Conference Player of the Week award;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" data-yga=\"{&quot;yLinkElement&quot;:&quot;context_link&quot;,&quot;yModuleName&quot;:&quot;content-canvas&quot;,&quot;yLinkText&quot;:&quot;LeBron James wins Western Conference Player of the Week award&quot;}\" class=\"link \">LeBron James wins Western Conference Player of the Week award<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With Luka Doncic and Austin Reaves out due to hamstring and oblique strains, respectively, LeBron James immediately had&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582942,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[64],"tags":[11654,107827,3013,1055,3014,355,99,2970,17814],"class_list":{"0":"post-582941","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-austin-reaves","9":"tag-brandon-ingram","10":"tag-lebron-james","11":"tag-los-angeles-lakers","12":"tag-luka-doncic","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-sports","15":"tag-toronto-raptors","16":"tag-western-conference"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582941","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=582941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}