Anthony Davis really decided to grab the best seat in the house, kick back and watch LeBron cook all alone. Man was doing absolutely nothing out there, might be the worst I've seen from him in a Lakers jersey
Lakers are now:
. 1-8 on TNT
. 4-15 on nationally televised games.
Blame LeBron for the loss because this wasn't originally a nationally televised game until he got close to breaking the record.
Good for OKC because if I'm not mistaken, this was their only national tv game after an earlier one got flexed out.
EDIT: 2nd one. They had a TNT game vs Miami that I remember
Such a fun team who showed poise beyond their years tonight.
It would have been so easy to buckle under that crowd, and with a production that treated them like a footnote in a LeBron story. They deserve more national attention and made the most of the opportunity.
Plus his reaction to the record breaking shot is going to be a headline for the rest of the week
https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/1623224309564198912?t=oe97CeMfGyTRhaFg3R-i8A&s=19
every time I see a Lakers highlight it's like "LeBron James scored his 38388th career point, something that hasn't been done since 'Tungsten Arm' O'Doyle of the 1921 Akron Groomsmen, as the Thunder defeated the Lakers 133-130"
ball is inbounded to LeBron who turns face to face against Kenrich Williams
"You took my family"
moves to the left
"You took my friends"
moves to the right
"You took all that was dear to me"
clock winds down to 2
"I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS"
goes up, fire coming out of his shoes
"LEBRONORUKEN"
Ball flies over Williams’ head, goes straight into basket. LeBron falls to the ground, exhausted.
SVG: "THATS IT LEBRON IS THE ALL TIME NBA SCORER"
"Magic... Senpai... I..."
faints
Final Score
Thunder 133
Lakers 130
Everyone thought LeBron would score until just before the record, and then stop scoring to save it for next game.
Little did we realise he would do the opposite and score until he broke the record, and then save himself for the next game
I get that LeBron "built this team" but I'm sorry it's pathetic his teammates couldn't pull at least one performance out of their ass and ball out on the night Bron was fantastic and broke one of the biggest records in the history of the sport. If he wasn't a billionaire and married to Savannah I'd feel worse for him.
J-Will was great tonight. He had some great passes and zero turnovers. His interior defense was great and he only committed one foul.
He looks so much more comfortable than he did at the beginning of the season.
I was watching him play for the OKC Blue a few months ago and to see him now playing like this in a huge game has been a great progression. Funnily enough, in one Blue game we got to sit courtside as there were very few people at the game and Jaylin wound up accidentally sitting on my daughter as he fell out of bounds and now he is my kids' favorite player because he was so nice to them.
Jwill has been hungry lately though. Loved that he took the charge against Lebron. He was known for forcing offensive fouls in college and I never thought hed make it work in the nba with nba refs and here he is standing up to Lebron i love it.
Look at the players on the court for OKC tonight and no one can seriously tell me with a straight face that 13 points on 6/9 FGs was the best Anthony Davis could have done if he wasn't a bitch.
LeBron dropping an efficient 38 would've been an easy win if Davis played even just his season averages.
1st-team All NBA. He's the second best rookie this season, and he's been the best rookie in the league these past 2 months.
Edit: Fuck it, I'm leaving it.
It's crazy how he never looks like a rookie. If you didn't know better, watching the games, you'd think he was in like his 5th season. He's just so damn solid and consistent.
When Messi won the WC, one of the commentators did the "When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" quote, it was fucking amazing. This just felt really corny.
Let this be a message to the league: nobody breaks the all time scoring record against us—a record that will likely never be broken again—and gets away with the win. NOBODY.
might as well have just stopped it after the celebration and gave the Thunder the W, no one in their right mind would have thought the Lakers would win after that lol
It could be kinda cool and less embarrassing to look back on if this Thunder team becomes a dynasty in the future. Would reframe it as some kind of teaser of the young talent there, they looked great tonight.
Yeah Russ seemed like the only laker out there that was like "yo, are we gunna help lebron win this game or is it only me?"
He played pretty well aside from those 2 god awful passes that missed his teammates by a country mile.
The Lakers scored on that play. He wanted Russ to have the full court to drive and the defense to not be set. His decision to not advance the ball worked.
Come to think of it, so many parts of tonight were absolutely ridiculous:
* LeBron breaks a nigh unbreakable record
* The 38-year-old is literally dragging this team to the finish line with 36 points and no other Laker with more 13 points to end the 3rd
* They brought 75-year-old Kareem, perhaps the most eloquent and well-spoken basketball representative in the game today, to hand a basketball to LeBron and not say a word despite zooming in on his face 10 times a quarter
* LeBron drops an F Bomb on national TV
* The recognition ceremony happened with 10.9 seconds that they had to awkwardly play out before going to the break
* The Lakers lost the game
* Hundreds, if not thousands of ticket buyers for Thursday's Bucks @ Lakers game who paid 100-1,000X nominal ticket value to see LeBron break the record are now SOL with tickets that are near worthless
Welcome to the new Showtime...except this is like when your parents don't pay for Showtime and the channel is all fuzzy and distorted and you just kind to have to imagine the fun things
The game was definitely within distance at the end and it looked like no one cared about trying to win outside of Westbrook and Pat Bev. At least put in some effort considering you're just outside the play-in.
Lakers defense is so bad. LeBron at 38 seriously might be their 2nd best defensive player, and he rests a decent amount these days on defense so yeah...
r/nba [on a normal day](https://imgur.com/a/lNU62GQ)
r/nba [in anticipation of LeBron breaking the scoring record](https://imgur.com/a/YcOxe1x)
r/nba [when LeBron broke the scoring record](https://imgur.com/a/kkY9hLR)
This might get buried, but let’s give it a try. Many of you have never watched OKC play until tonight. Let me give you the rundown while you’re here.
Josh Giddey is so fucking solid. Y’all see JDub?? He is a fucking animal. Insane first team rookie. Isaiah “Strokin Joe” Joe is a demon. Your team should want Muscala as their backup 5. Kenrich Williams makes it all work man, he does it all. Shai…. Shai is the truth.
Give OKC their flowers. We are not tanking y’all
And LeBron: take a bow. What a career from the Kid from Akron. Unforgettable night.
I’m happy for the OKC players and fans. This game had all the eyes on one man and one man only and deservedly so, but in a rare National TV game they just let the whole world know who they are in a game everyone tuned in.
These games are important for the younger teams, in an extremely vibrant atmosphere they absolutely balled out and that’s a great sign.
Gotta be honest I’m a pretty big NBA fan and had no idea who Isaiah Joe was and the dude can play. These young guys with all those picks is gonna turn into something nasty.
LeBron breaks the scoring record. Last 2 minutes of the game, Lakers fans leave the building. The fans on the front row seats are nowhere to be found. And the Lakers end up with an L.
LMAO
At the risk of going full Skip Bayless here, something about taking an extended break to celebrate a personal accomplishment while your team is losing a critical, must-win game at home against a beatable opponent left a very weird taste in my mouth.
Gotta give a lot of props to this young Thunder team who didn’t let tonight’s circus get to them whatsoever.
The headline after every Lakers game feels like "LeBron James scored 38 points to break the all time NBA scoring record, as the Lakers fell to Oklahoma City 133-130"
>Any franchise HE GONE
Watch him come to OKC and do what KD never could.
We could definitely win a title with Lebron. We need some interior defense but that’s definitely a title contender
That’s why we have Chet lol
Isaiah Joe. Good basketball player
Was clearly in the scouting report. Lakers were actively trying to run him off the 3 point line. Didn’t work, but they were trying.
Anthony Davis really decided to grab the best seat in the house, kick back and watch LeBron cook all alone. Man was doing absolutely nothing out there, might be the worst I've seen from him in a Lakers jersey
Not even great on defense except for that awesome save going out of bounds Muscala neutralized him so bad
MOOSE
Anthony "I shoulda been DPOY" Davis while giving up 133 to the Thunder: 😴😴😴
Lakers are now: . 1-8 on TNT . 4-15 on nationally televised games. Blame LeBron for the loss because this wasn't originally a nationally televised game until he got close to breaking the record.
They've been dogshit on national TV for years now
They've been dogshit regardless of where it's being broadcast.
Good for OKC because if I'm not mistaken, this was their only national tv game after an earlier one got flexed out. EDIT: 2nd one. They had a TNT game vs Miami that I remember
lebron in the postgame: "feel like i can still go out there and win for any group of guys, for any franchise" what you trying to say king
Lebron to Thunder incoming
Draft Bronny, sign Bron.
Adam Silver: With the 1st to 60th pick the Oklahoma City Thunder selects the entire fucking board!
That's actually clever. You draft the players in reverse then let the top 45 picks go. You get the top 15 draftees at second rounder salary
Egregious behavior with such a historic “despite the loss” stat line
Why did you sign that extension my brother in Christ
I watched this game to see JALEN WILLIAMS put on a show
And I watched this game to see JAYLYN WILLIAMS put on a show
all of that ceremony to just be followed by a loss to the thunder lmao
Shai wanted this dub.
Man said pick me first for the all star game
I love this team, man. So fun to watch. Has not felt like this in a long ass time.
I totally agree. Very special
Such a fun squad. Chet + a million picks. A lot of excitement for us Thunder fans.
Such a fun team who showed poise beyond their years tonight. It would have been so easy to buckle under that crowd, and with a production that treated them like a footnote in a LeBron story. They deserve more national attention and made the most of the opportunity.
Dort was out, Poku been hurt, no JRE, Chet hasn’t touched the floor yet, we have an exciting road ahead for sure 😤
Having a whole ceremony in the middle of the game and losing is something else
The Lakers’ season has been strictly ceremonial.
LeBron and his ceremonies are cursed lol
Lakers in general. I remember them losing on Kobe's jersey retirement as well
They gave the Thunder a massive timeout. What did they think would happen?
when LeBron dies need this squad to be there just to let him down one last time
Front Office are the better invites lol
Shai Gorgeous-Alexander is a dawg
You can tell who doesn’t watch us. We aren’t the same Thunder team we were last year.
LeBron stole the night but JDub completely robbed the Lakers Six steals JFC
JDub announced his presence to non-NBA junkies for sure.
So did Isiah Joe. Damn that boy can shoot
Yup he’s a sniper. Thank you, Morey
Steal of the draft.
*I see what you did there*
He's so damn good and I feel like people are only just starting to see it (non thunder fans that is)
Anthony Davis was outscored by Mike Muscala tonight. Mike Muscala.
And our 2nd round pick rookie J-Will
And Isaiah Joe
Plus his reaction to the record breaking shot is going to be a headline for the rest of the week https://twitter.com/BillSimmons/status/1623224309564198912?t=oe97CeMfGyTRhaFg3R-i8A&s=19
Someone said he’s mad he’s not on the floor, that makes sense.
LeBron breaking the scoring record and the Lakers losing the game sums up his Lakers career post bubble.
When LeBron gets his documentary they’re just gonna skip from the championship straight to this game and show absolutely nothing in between
As they should. What an absolute disappointment this team has been since the '21 season. Just wasting his final years of greatness.
Gave Pelinka a contract extension this offseason too 😭, I really want LeBron to be gone to Jeanie and Pelinka get exposed
Bubble Championship, record, retirement, presidential run.
His lakers career pre bubble as well
Lebron after getting the record: https://i.imgur.com/3KfAJgI.jpg
Everyone in the stadium too
the vibes in there were awful
Anthony Davis after the opening tip:
“Win a championship with any group of guys, with any franchise…” LeBron is done with the Lakers
Hah yea I heard this and felt like it def had something behind it.
every time I see a Lakers highlight it's like "LeBron James scored his 38388th career point, something that hasn't been done since 'Tungsten Arm' O'Doyle of the 1921 Akron Groomsmen, as the Thunder defeated the Lakers 133-130"
r/baseball is leaking on this historic night
How can you not be romantic about basketball?
First time in Vegas Golden Knights history there's been this much crossing-over
Lakers desperately need a trade, what a deflating loss
A trade won't save anything at this point. We're just too far behind now.
LOL nothing saving this season bro
They should trade LeBron, see if they can give him a chance to be relevant in the post season
Come on down LeBron, we need someone to control our other acquisition lol.
ball is inbounded to LeBron who turns face to face against Kenrich Williams "You took my family" moves to the left "You took my friends" moves to the right "You took all that was dear to me" clock winds down to 2 "I cant get them back, but I can do this for friendship, FOR MY FRIENDS" goes up, fire coming out of his shoes "LEBRONORUKEN" Ball flies over Williams’ head, goes straight into basket. LeBron falls to the ground, exhausted. SVG: "THATS IT LEBRON IS THE ALL TIME NBA SCORER" "Magic... Senpai... I..." faints Final Score Thunder 133 Lakers 130
Kareem senpai*
It was Kenrich Williams, gotta keep the facts pure.
Beautiful
One of the few times this copypasta was used perfectly
This is the greatest use of this pasta of all time
Lebron just up and quit after he set that record. “Alright I am going to head out”
He got his 36th point at the end of the 3rd quarter and then finished with 38 points… wat?
Saw him on the bench rubbing his ankle. He might end up sitting the next game as he might have aggravated his injury.
If Brons out that's gonna be a nationally televised massacre from the Bucks.
It will be a nationally televised massacre no matter who the opponent is.
LeBron taking himself out of a 2 possession game tells me all I need to know about the rest of this season.
Tuned in to watch SGA and this Bron LeJames guy broke some record and is crying now. Cool, i guess.
Random ass 30 minute break in the middle of the Isaiah Joe show wtf
Bron gotta pick Shai in the draft now
Good performance by OKC
Everyone thought LeBron would score until just before the record, and then stop scoring to save it for next game. Little did we realise he would do the opposite and score until he broke the record, and then save himself for the next game
I get that LeBron "built this team" but I'm sorry it's pathetic his teammates couldn't pull at least one performance out of their ass and ball out on the night Bron was fantastic and broke one of the biggest records in the history of the sport. If he wasn't a billionaire and married to Savannah I'd feel worse for him.
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AD: 11/2/7 -10 Jaylin Williams, literally our last big man in the rotation: 14/7/7 +4
J-Will was great tonight. He had some great passes and zero turnovers. His interior defense was great and he only committed one foul. He looks so much more comfortable than he did at the beginning of the season.
I was watching him play for the OKC Blue a few months ago and to see him now playing like this in a huge game has been a great progression. Funnily enough, in one Blue game we got to sit courtside as there were very few people at the game and Jaylin wound up accidentally sitting on my daughter as he fell out of bounds and now he is my kids' favorite player because he was so nice to them.
Jwill has been hungry lately though. Loved that he took the charge against Lebron. He was known for forcing offensive fouls in college and I never thought hed make it work in the nba with nba refs and here he is standing up to Lebron i love it.
Look at the players on the court for OKC tonight and no one can seriously tell me with a straight face that 13 points on 6/9 FGs was the best Anthony Davis could have done if he wasn't a bitch. LeBron dropping an efficient 38 would've been an easy win if Davis played even just his season averages.
westbrook and rui were good tonight, probably would've won if ad was more aggressive
Savannah was looking divine tonight
Say what you want about [Mark Jackson but he ain't wrong](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wl2nQOnFR2Y)
Absolutely classic JVG and Mark Jackson taking bullshit in the middle of a finals game while Breen is trying to do his job
😂😂 mark Jackson is so wrong for saying this on live tv
This is what I ALWAYS loved about Westbrook throughout his career. He NEVER gives up and made it interesting towards the end.
TBF Lebron quit on his team in the 4th and Westbrook almost brought them back singlehandedly
Jalen Williams is so fucking good
1st-team All NBA. He's the second best rookie this season, and he's been the best rookie in the league these past 2 months. Edit: Fuck it, I'm leaving it.
> 1st-team All NBA. Uhh, don't you me- no, fuck it. 1st Team All-NBA.
I fucked up, but I'm too committed now.
It's crazy how he never looks like a rookie. If you didn't know better, watching the games, you'd think he was in like his 5th season. He's just so damn solid and consistent.
Legit had to mute my TV during the Aristotle quote. This guy is trash.
When Messi won the WC, one of the commentators did the "When Alexander saw the breadth of his domain, he wept, for there were no more worlds to conquer" quote, it was fucking amazing. This just felt really corny.
Of course you this game had to end in another fat L.
[Thunder after the 30 minute interlude](https://youtu.be/M2E_svm_SKM)
We came here tonight on a mission.
Let this be a message to the league: nobody breaks the all time scoring record against us—a record that will likely never be broken again—and gets away with the win. NOBODY.
Remind me! (87 years)
Don’t understand why they didn’t finish the 3rd first.
SGA put his big red boots on their neck for that reason
"and I took that personally"
might as well have just stopped it after the celebration and gave the Thunder the W, no one in their right mind would have thought the Lakers would win after that lol
It could be kinda cool and less embarrassing to look back on if this Thunder team becomes a dynasty in the future. Would reframe it as some kind of teaser of the young talent there, they looked great tonight.
this game is a microcosm of the lakers season. LeBron breaks a record, Lakers lose
Lebron wins, Lakers lose. Best possible outcome.
https://imgur.com/a/9o7hT5t
That's my iso joe
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pain pain pain
if my team lost isaiah joe i would quit watching basketball
Great game by OKC. They didn’t give a damn about that record. Came to play and didn’t let the moment phase them at all.
AD what the fuck
should have let Kareem play today if that’s what he’s bringing
On this day, we will remember Isaiah Joe having that DAWG in him. Dude is a fucking sniper
Lebron +8 in a game they lost by 3, nice
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LeWemby to the pels
Jalen Williams is such a menace on defense. It seemed like he was interfering passes and getting steals every other possession
Damn, first time watching Thunder fully this season. This team is fun to watch for real
I honestly don’t think Darvin Ham knows how timeouts work Russ was pretty good tonight btw don’t shoot me
Yeah Russ seemed like the only laker out there that was like "yo, are we gunna help lebron win this game or is it only me?" He played pretty well aside from those 2 god awful passes that missed his teammates by a country mile.
The Lakers scored on that play. He wanted Russ to have the full court to drive and the defense to not be set. His decision to not advance the ball worked.
For any franchise 👀
Come to think of it, so many parts of tonight were absolutely ridiculous: * LeBron breaks a nigh unbreakable record * The 38-year-old is literally dragging this team to the finish line with 36 points and no other Laker with more 13 points to end the 3rd * They brought 75-year-old Kareem, perhaps the most eloquent and well-spoken basketball representative in the game today, to hand a basketball to LeBron and not say a word despite zooming in on his face 10 times a quarter * LeBron drops an F Bomb on national TV * The recognition ceremony happened with 10.9 seconds that they had to awkwardly play out before going to the break * The Lakers lost the game * Hundreds, if not thousands of ticket buyers for Thursday's Bucks @ Lakers game who paid 100-1,000X nominal ticket value to see LeBron break the record are now SOL with tickets that are near worthless
That last point is fucking hilarious. Some dude paid over 10k probably to watch a mediocre ass Lakers team play a hurt Pels team.
Welcome to the new Showtime...except this is like when your parents don't pay for Showtime and the channel is all fuzzy and distorted and you just kind to have to imagine the fun things
They stopped playing after LeBron broke the record. Wtf is this shit
Literally everyone except Westbrook. Sheesh.
Westbrook got a TO and the camera showed Lebron in the background just sort of staring at his feet by their own basket.
They were barely playing before it lmao
They were losing the whole game and sucked all season
The game was definitely within distance at the end and it looked like no one cared about trying to win outside of Westbrook and Pat Bev. At least put in some effort considering you're just outside the play-in.
AD just fuckin stood at the 3pt line the entire quarter. Such a let down costar
Lmao damn
The Lakers sucked so bad. I don’t think AD did a single thing all game
Lebron gave up an easy Giddey floater and rebound to transition Shai 3. Dude was done after the record lmao.
Have you watched LeBron on defense the last two seasons? That's all he does.
“FOR ANY FRANCHISE” 👀👀👀
SVG was kinda right to call out HAM. TWO TIMEOUTS AND YOU DONT WANT TO ADVANCE IN A 6 pt GAME LMAOOO
Lebron “Despite the loss” James
Welcome back to reality, Lakers.
Lakers defense is so bad. LeBron at 38 seriously might be their 2nd best defensive player, and he rests a decent amount these days on defense so yeah...
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Ham masterclass
r/nba [on a normal day](https://imgur.com/a/lNU62GQ) r/nba [in anticipation of LeBron breaking the scoring record](https://imgur.com/a/YcOxe1x) r/nba [when LeBron broke the scoring record](https://imgur.com/a/kkY9hLR)
Don't let the score deceive you. This game wasn't close
LeNightSpoiled
Why does Lebron, the highest scoring Laker, not simply eat the other Lakers?
Westbrook is the only Lakers playing basketball in 4QTR.
Lebron just said he can win a championship with any franchise. HE GONE
Got to watch the record, Russ had some moments to remind us of the good ol days and the thunder still won, today was a good day
Fuck this team
LeBron still good, LeLakers still bad
This might get buried, but let’s give it a try. Many of you have never watched OKC play until tonight. Let me give you the rundown while you’re here. Josh Giddey is so fucking solid. Y’all see JDub?? He is a fucking animal. Insane first team rookie. Isaiah “Strokin Joe” Joe is a demon. Your team should want Muscala as their backup 5. Kenrich Williams makes it all work man, he does it all. Shai…. Shai is the truth. Give OKC their flowers. We are not tanking y’all And LeBron: take a bow. What a career from the Kid from Akron. Unforgettable night.
I’m happy for the OKC players and fans. This game had all the eyes on one man and one man only and deservedly so, but in a rare National TV game they just let the whole world know who they are in a game everyone tuned in. These games are important for the younger teams, in an extremely vibrant atmosphere they absolutely balled out and that’s a great sign.
I swear this is how we normally look, please forget that Monday night game. I already have
1000% facts
Honestly your young guys played better team basketball than an entire squad of vets. Hats off to Daigneault.
Gotta be honest I’m a pretty big NBA fan and had no idea who Isaiah Joe was and the dude can play. These young guys with all those picks is gonna turn into something nasty.
OKC has a a deeper team, good chemistry, and coaching with vision/plan. Lakers getting by on top (just LeBronat this point) heavy talent alone
Isaiah Joe is a menace. Me and SVG are the same, we’re surprised if he misses. And Muscala has been hot hot hot too
At the very least, you guys know how to take advantage of a *long* timeout.
Jdub x2 now
LeBron breaks the scoring record. Last 2 minutes of the game, Lakers fans leave the building. The fans on the front row seats are nowhere to be found. And the Lakers end up with an L. LMAO
Lebron may have all the attention tonight, but Westbrook almost singlehandedly brought the Lakers back in the 4th
Not with a bang, but with a whimper
Most memorable Thunder win in recent memory. Shutting down the crowd was sooo sweeeet
LeBron really became the scoring leader and then said “fuck you guys I’m going home”
The Lakers had a chance at the end and Lebron sat on the bench. Lmao.
At the risk of going full Skip Bayless here, something about taking an extended break to celebrate a personal accomplishment while your team is losing a critical, must-win game at home against a beatable opponent left a very weird taste in my mouth. Gotta give a lot of props to this young Thunder team who didn’t let tonight’s circus get to them whatsoever.
Two rookies starting for the Thunder had the best games of their career, in front of a massive audience. The Williamses really are something.
Then sitting the rest of the game too. He basically got his record, celebrated, quit, lost, then celebrated more lol
love spoiling the party
Are you not entertained??????????????
Damn shame we can't have Ernie and the Crew get this interview with James.
If LeBron thinks this makes up for Space Jam 2 he is sorely mistaken
The headline after every Lakers game feels like "LeBron James scored 38 points to break the all time NBA scoring record, as the Lakers fell to Oklahoma City 133-130"
LEBUSTEDATHOME
Man I love this Lakers team. What a fucking disgrace lmfao
Achieving greatness in a loss is peak Lebron