At the risk of trying to get inside James’ head, he probably knows that, at this point in his career, no one will care if he scores 45 points on any given night. I gotta do this for this guy.’ You know? So he’s really just keeping a count of what’s going on.”Īlthough that might sound a bit goofy time imagine - you’d think LeBron knows what’s happening since he rarely leaves the court - it does provide somewhat of a counterpoint to the stat-padding narrative. How could this player be more effective? ‘I gotta get this guy shots here. And it’s not like he’s looking to say, ‘Well s***, I got like 30 points, I’m padding stats.’ He’s looking at it to figure out with numbers, how can he be more effective. “You know, everything he’s doing is strategic, you know? So, even how he plays the game, he’s always watching the stat sheet. And, you know, one thing that I respect about him is just how he conduct himself as a businessman,” Howard explained on the Knuckleheads podcast. “When we get on the court, it’s time to go to work. According to the big man, though, it’s not about a selfish pursuit of more stats. Well, if we take Dwight Howard at his word, LeBron does check out the score sheet during the game.

If you believe that to be true, it’s easy to imagine the Lakers star sitting on the bench, studying the box score and deciding that he needed to score 10 more points before calling it a night. If you listened to the likes of Skip Bayless, LeBron James spent the end of the 2021-22 campaign padding his own stats as he chased a scoring title and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record.

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