With their 141-129 double-overtime win over the Sacramento Kings, the Miami Heat won their 12th game in a row, finishing off February with a 12-1 record.
It was a struggle most of the way to slow down Sacramento, as Miami's defense had a bit of an indifferent attitude on defense for the majority of the game, but luckily the Heat have these guys on their team who can score a ton of points.
Spoelstra on LeBron (40-16-8) and Wade (39-8-7): "Even playing in double overtime, those are still video-game numbers."
— Tom Haberstroh (@tomhaberstroh) February 27, 2013
Oh, and that 40-point night LeBron had in which he seemed to do something on every single play, that's another one of those "nobody's done that in a long time" things again.
Closest anyone has come to matching LeBron's 40/16/8 masterpiece was... LeBron - w/ 40 pts,15 assists & 13 rebs as a Cav in February of 2010
— Tommy Beer (@TommyBeer) February 27, 2013
Looking even further back, we find out that his game was even more interesting than it initially seemed.
LeBron James: 40 pts, 16 ast and 8 rebs. No one's done that since 1986 according to @b ...
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