We Will Never See Anything Like This Again

just the other night I watched an old

man torture one of the best teams in the

NBA I've seen him do it a million times

this Behavior should be to No Surprise

and yet it is because LeBron James in

his 21st season is still one of the best

basketball players on the face of the

planet in the largest comeback of his

entire career LeBron James scored 19

points in 6 minutes and either scored or

assisted on 30 of the Lakers 39 fourth

quarter points

eviscerating the Clippers in the process

prancing down the court tongue out

torturing a Clippers crowd they can't

believe what they're witnessing and

neither could I a masterpiece of a

performance by the old Geyer but LeBron

has been excellent in the fourth quarter

all season in fact here's a chart of

every player this season and they're

scoring in the fourth quarter the

further right they are the more

efficient they have been in the fourth

the higher up they are the more they are

scoring in the fourth over over 500

players who have logged minutes this NBA

season here's Jaylen McDaniels he should

probably pass the rock late in these

games here's drik Lively he should

probably shoot more in the fourth

Jonathan kaminga has been great late in

games this season and then there's

Jordan P who shouldn't be anywhere near

a basketball in the fourth quarter but

way up this chart you'll find the best

fourth quarter scoring threats in the

league guys like Tatum Durant Steph Luca

and the best fourth quarter scorer in

the NBA this season Giannis an DMO with

a sizable gap on everyone else except

LeBron James the oldest player in the

NBA and still one of the best players on

the planet we need to talk about

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order with all the young Talent booming

in the NBA today it's always nice to see

old guys thriving On Any Given night a

vintage step performance a barrage of

mid-range jumpers from KD Kyle Lowry

coming off the bench to stink it up for

25 minutes and over time you get used to

stuff like this you see it enough enough

times and it all becomes pretty normal

at a certain point however this under no

circumstance is normal 34 8 and six on

80% true shooting and 19 points in the

fourth quarter to finish off a 21 Point

comeback I think I'm going to be sick

this man is old enough to be someone's

grandfather and he's doing this to

Kawaii and the boys even crazier

according to the game score metric this

wasn't nearly his best game of the

season so while everyone else continues

to make light of what this man is doing

this season I'm going to show you

exactly how unbelievable LeBron has been

in his 21st season over the last 53

games now there really isn't any

precedence to what LeBron is doing

because there have only been six other

players who even played 21 seasons in

the NBA here are those players and their

averages in their 21st season really

just making it this far into your career

is a miracle but not for LeBron oh wait

these are LeBron's stats in the fourth

quarter this season his actual stat line

is nearly equivalent to all of these

other players in their 21st Seasons

combined now as I mentioned before as

heroic as LeBron's performance against

the Clippers was statistically it wasn't

even his best game of the season his

best game this year was against the

Thunder where he earned himself a game

score of

39.4 a game where he went for 40 7 and

seven on 84% true shooting now it goes

without saying that LeBron is the only

player to ever have a performance like

this for a guy in their 21st season but

there has been a few other games of this

caliber from players in their 20th

season three other games to be exact and

they were all from LeBron as well he's

also the only player to have a

performance like this in their 19th

season in the league and 18th season in

fact here's a list of the only games in

NBA history that were better than

LeBron's 40-point night against the

Thunder from players at least 15 Seasons

into their career it's LeBron LeBron

more LeBron oh look there's Paul Pierce

and more LeBron a 47 piece from Kobe and

more LeBron Steph 60 bomb from this

season and LeBron and that's it as far

as Old Man Records go LeBron's pretty

much got every single one right now

LeBron is averaging 20 58 and seven a

game on 61% true shooting which at this

point is just another season for him but

21 years in and there's no reason why or

how a player should be putting up these

numbers prior to this year there have

only been four players in NBA history

who have averaged these numbers in a

season Michael Jordan Nicole yic James

Harden and LeBron but here's the

difference when Jordan did it he won the

MVP the two times joic did it he won the

MVP and when Harden did it he came in

second in MVP voting LeBron not only

missed out on the award when he put up

this statline in the past he's not even

within the top 15 on the NBA's MVP

leaderboard this season which is not

only a testament to how great players

have gotten over the last decade but

also how accustomed we have grown to

these numbers from LeBron but despite

the consistency in his numbers LeBron

continues to adapt and evolve his game

even after all these years the game has

changed immensely and his game has

changed with it there's new players new

schemes and play Styles driven by data

that resembles nothing of the league he

entered 21 years ago new one-off

unicorns and guys with freakish

abilities and skill sets and yet it's

LeBron in his 21st season who Still

Remains a one of one here is a chart

tracking LeBron's three-point percentage

throughout his career starting his

career at an ays dismal 29% from three

and somehow peing this season in year 21

at

41% but here's where it gets even

crazier here are LeBron's three-point

attempts per game over his career so

he's not only shooting better from long

range this season than he ever has in

his career he's also shooting more

threes than he did for the majority of

his career in fact this season LeBron is

one of just 14 players who is attempting

at least 5.5 threes a game and shooting

at least 40% from long range essentially

making the 6'9 in 250 lb power forward

one of the League's most valuable

three-point Shooters but LeBron is also

one of just five players to attempt at

least eight shots a game from within 5T

of the basket while shooting at least

65% from that distance making him one of

the best interior scorers in the league

as well these two ends of the scoring

Spectrum do not mix players are either

in one category or they're in the other

but LeBron has found a way to sneak into

both now here are those same 13

three-point Shooters and where they land

on a graph of League wide three-point

shooting and here are those four other

interior scorers who land on a graph of

interior scoring and here is where they

don't mix players who can shoot threes

can't really score inside and players

who can score inside can't shoot worth a

lick and then there's LeBron literally

the only player in the league who can do

both at an elite clip as the oldest

player in the NBA but again this might

be surprising if we haven't come to

expect this from LeBron did you know

that LeBron is the only player in NBA

history to be listed as a point guard

shooting guard small forward power

forward and center and when I say listed

I don't just mean that was the formal

position given to him I mean he started

and played the majority of his minutes

at every single position for at least

one season of his career in today's

positionist League you would think this

is far more common than before but

LeBron Remains the only player to not

only possess this range of skill set and

size but he's the only player to do it

at an ultra Elite level earning all NBA

honors at all five positions throughout

his career it's safe to say the torch

has been passed down to younger Talent

around the league players who can put up

video game numbers on a nightly basis I

don't think anyone would AR AR that

LeBron is playing at the level of joic

or Shay or Luca right now but there's

something about watching LeBron cook up

hardwood Classics and stack up monster

stat lines at this stage in his career

that really puts a smile on my face if

LeBron doesn't get any nods this season

for the MVP award I'm sure he'll be just

fine at this point it almost feels like

everything he does is just icing on the

cake like an extra scene after the

credits of a movie you thought the thing

was over 20 minutes ago and yet there

you are still in your seat getting more

more than you ever expected but I think

there's one metric that really

demonstrates LeBron's impact even in

year 21 of his NBA career estimated wins

is a metric derived from the estimated

plus minus stat estimated wins tracks

how well a player is playing and

converts their efforts on the court into

a number equal to the amount of wins a

player has contributed to their team in

any given season in other words how many

wins has a player contributed to their

team's total and here is a graph of

estimated wins from every single player

this NBA season now at the bottom are

players who are essentially a net

negative to their team hence why they

have a negative estimated wins in fact

you have to climb to the 308th spot just

to find a player who has a positive

addition to their team's wins keep

climbing and you'll start to find

players who play considerable minutes

every single game like Terren man cam

Thomas Anthony Simons we're nearing the

top 100 and already you'll start to find

some really quality players here Bradley

Beal lamelo ball Kade Cunningham RJ

Barrett but you'll have to go a lot

further to find consistent star caliber

players Scotty Barnes lands at the 30th

spot with 7.2 estimated wins Victor

wanyama is already 28th in this metric

with 7.3 estimated wins here's Fox and

sabonis Steph Mitchell Edwards Tatum and

the top five players in the league this

season according to this metric Brunson

joic Luca Giannis and sheay gilis

Alexander so where exactly does LeBron

land he's right here ranked fifth among

all players this season when it comes to

estimated wins contributed to their team

essentially the fifth most valuable

player in the NBA as an old man in his

21st

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