Having officially nabbed his first-ever MVP trophy, Kevin Durant can officially lay claim to owning Tuesday, May 6.
You didn’t think LeBron James would go quietly into that good SportsCenter highlight reel, did you?
James accomplished this statistical first—the 9,000,000,000th of his career, by our rough estimation—in the first quarter of the Miami Heat’s Eastern Conference Semifinals showdown with the Brooklyn Nets.
Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Tim Duncan, Shaquille O’Neal, Kobe Bryant, Jerry West, Karl Malone: Those are the only seven players left ahead of LeBron, per Basketball-Reference.com.
That’s a pretty good 30-and-over YMCA team right there.
It should be noted that LeBron has a slight advantage over his rarified cohorts, owing to the league changing its first-round format from a five- to seven-game series in 2003, the year James was first drafted by the Cleveland Cavaliers.
Even so, LeBron’s pace has been certifiably cartoonish: At 29 years old and boasting the apparent biochemical makeup of equal p ...
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