Two nights after Kobe Bryant lit up Madison Square Garden and the "Seven seconds or less" Knicks for 61 points, LeBron James and the 38 up and 9 down Cleveland Cavaliers came to town. The New York media was apparently aflutter over whether LeBron would try to eclipse Kobe's point total, which broke the Garden scoring record, previously held by Bernard King.
It is not exactly in keeping with the Global Icon's selfless win-first style to try to beat another guy's individual point total. So LeBron did what global icon's do, went out and did his own inimitable thing. 52 points, 11 assists and 10 boards, the NBA's first 50 point-plus triple-double since Kareem in 1975. (It was later revised down to 9 boards, falling just short of the triple-double.)
Oh and by the way, it is not a technicality, it is reality to say that LeBron's 52 points plus 11 dimes (resulting in 22 points) is a greater net contribution to his team's scoring than Kobe's 61 points and 3 dimes (resulting in 6 additional points.)
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Three of King James' assists went for threes. That makes 25 points off of his assists.
IaMrock-
Nice! Way to be on top of the details. LeBron is that much better than Kobe, even if the party poopers at the NBA office are trying to take away one of his rebounds and thereby his triple double. (Just gonna make him madder.)
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