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James's 40,000th points and 411 miracles ushered in the Nuggets, which is in line with James's positioning, that is, he is good at playing high-end games. It's just that James is already 39 years old and the oldest active player who is playing in his 21st season, and in the face of the defending champion led by Jokic, the first person in the league, he did not activate the zone state of the Los Angeles derby, and because of the position, he could not directly defend Jokic, and finally could not prevent the Lakers from losing to the Nuggets. But all of this is the background of James' 40,000th point, and history will not treat James badly because of this ordinary regular season loss, because the background of 40,000 points represents the entire process of the greatest basketball player in history.
James' 40,000th point, even if you don't count the more than 11,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists he still has in the regular season, and 1,204 consecutive regular season scoring double-doubles, it is already a very grand moment in basketball history when discussed separately. James's number one record in history, if not the only one in history or the first person in history, is also in the first gear in history. And James's all-time No. 1 record can basically be regarded as the most difficult record in history that can never be broken, such as this 40,000 points and 411 miracles, as well as the 20 consecutive All-Star starts, and the five statistics of the Finals that have been reviewed countless times to rank first among the two teams, and so on.
As the most versatile player in history, in the Internet era of destroying the pinnacle of gods, James was dwarfed because of a huge advantage. But he is powerful enough to subvert the conventional wisdom and add exceptions to the standard on his own, but it is very reasonable. Just like James only has 1 scoring title, but his scoring background far exceeds the upper limit of the all-time scoring champion, which has been positioned.
On the other hand, these exceptions are just the result of James not using the corresponding style of play. If James wants to lead the team by scoring and go all out, then the image he presents to the outside is a different version. In the recent Los Angeles derby, James dominated the Clippers with a miracle of 19 points in the final quarter, and the fact that the 39-year-old can still be so fierce in the high-end game directly shows how simple it is that he wants to score. James said this domineeringly more than ten years ago: As long as I want to, I can be the scoring champion every year. His strategic abandonment of the challenge of becoming the oldest scorer of all time in 2021 is the most effective illustration of this conclusion.
Scoring is not the main task James has set for himself, but it is his ability. There is a saying, "I want to keep a low profile, but my strength does not allow it". Just like James publicly promised to give way to Davis a few years ago, but even if Davis is as healthy as this season, he locks the Lakers' tactical core and ability ceiling, but he still can't really replace James as the Lakers boss, even if you don't count the attributes of leadership temperament, just basketball. So James needs to score, especially after the Lakers are not a strong team, the recruitment strategy has failed, and Davis sometimes has been recovering from long-term injuries.
Because James is so versatile, the most relevant in history, he can complete the transformation in any way. James has shot career-high three-pointers, and his mid-range has begun to stabilize to the point where he progresses to the point where he randomly uses tricks like step-back, floating, and stop-and-go on a specific round. James' strong scoring ability is built on this foundation, and the most versatile advantage allows him to get more space than the average scorer with his own background.
Packing, pressing, and dueling are the usual means of limiting the supergiant, but few teams dare to pack, press, and dominate the confrontation. In the Los Angeles derby, Tyronn Lue tried to make an exception by relying on his experience coaching James, and was punished for frantically trapping James. James faced the Clippers, and in the fourth quarter, one person scored more than the entire Clippers team with Leonard and Harden, and the number of times he scored more points than the opponent's entire team in the final quarter was the only historical first since the statistics began, more than the second Kobe Bryant and the third Wade combined, and greater than Kobe, Durant, Curry and Harden combined in this regard.
In the context of James playing more efficiently without the ball, shooting a career-high three-point shot, becoming the scoring champion over 25 years old after the All-Star break, and even getting older may not be his weakness, the 40,000th point came as scheduled in the high-end game of the Lakers against the Nuggets. James' attitude towards 40,000 points and 411 miracles is clear: definitely meaningful, but not a top-ranked glory. James said that becoming the all-time scoring leader and scoring 40,000 points has not been a goal since his debut, and he will not deliberately brush up on the data for this. Just like James after entering the zone state in the Los Angeles derby, he didn't think about how to be cool, but to stay stable and didn't shoot randomly. So the fact of 40,000 points is even underestimating James' scoring ability. And as James said, 40,000 points is meaningful but really not his highest goal, the 411 miracle is just one of his countless huge advantages, not the main capital of James's competition for the first person in history.