LeBron James 20k milestone game: HEAT (24 - 12) @ Warriors (23 - 12) Game Thread

[Faptastrophe]

HEAT (24 - 12) @ Warriors (23 - 12)

Wednesday, Jan 16, 2013,
Tipoff: 10:30 PM EST, ORACLE Arena
TV: ESPN, CSN Bay Area | Radio: KNBR 680


STARTING LINEUPS:

HEAT:
M. Chalmers, D. Wade, C. Bosh, U. Haslem, L. James

Warriors:
S. Curry, K. Thompson, F. Ezeli, D. Lee, H. Barnes




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Heat Milestones:

The Miami Heat forward is 18 points away from becoming the 38th player in
NBA history to score 20,000 points.
That in itself isn't necessarily the history part. It's the fact that the three-
time MVP will become the youngest to reach that level. He will be 28 years, 17 days old on Wednesday.



[list][Video]LeBron James Career Points Milestones[/list]

[list]LeBron happy about milestone, not scoring[/list]

[list]At the other end of LeBron's 4,998 assists[/list]

[It's A VC3!!!]

Hopefully the Heat lose tonight and the Nets win. P.J is two games away from coaching the East all-star team.

[All Net]

GS always tough at home.. Could be a another miami loss.

[pauk]

“Getting the 5,000 assists seems like more of an accomplishment to me than the scoring,” James said. “Chris Paul just got his 5,000th assist [last month] and it’s cool to have the chance to join him. I never have seen myself as a scorer.”


I agree with that, that scoring milestone is a cool accomplishment... but 5000 assists is a much more unique accomplishment for a non-PG at age 28, did you know Lebron is on pace to be the 1st non-PG in NBA history to be on the top 10 all-time assist leaders list? That milestone will be as untouchable as any record in NBA history unless you think some non-PG in the future will come and average consistenly more APG than Lebron (which means 8 apg for example).... very unlikely...

Whats scary is that if Lebron was a scorer (focused on scoring) he would have done even more impressive scoring milestones... including if he was only focusing on passing...

[Mr. Incredible]

I hope Miami actually shows up and plays with a sense of urgency. You can usually tell if Miami will win the game or not in the first 6-12 minutes.

[fpliii]

http://www.interbasket.net/news/1033...00-points-nba/

Pretty impressive. Assuming he pulls it off tonight, he'll have done it in fewer games than Shaq, Bird, Kobe, and a lot of other all-time greats.

[lebeast666]

Another team that will be ready to have a perfect game against Miami. The question is will Miami be focused and prepared.

[Lebron23]

Miami needs to win this game. I expect Wade to put up some good numbers againts the Warriors.

[lakerspng]

Miami might get caught looking forward to tomorrow night's matchup, which against the Warriors could be dangerous. Regardless Lebron should pass 20,000 points, which is a hell of an accomplishment. Congrats to him.

[Faptastrophe]

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[RoundMoundOfReb]

[RoundMoundOfReb]

i predict a David lee 20/20 game btw.

[RoboticWang]

Not going to lie, someone reaching 20k points and 5k assists in the same game would be ****ing cool.

[bdreason]

Fukc the Miami Heat.

[tazb]

LeBron the GOAT. Kobe only has 600 more assists in 7 more seasons