January 11 News Recently, Lakers forward LeBron James accepted an exclusive interview with ESPN
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Speaking of the Lakers’ sub-.
When I was in a losing game, it didn’t feel right. I was trained to win, I was born to win. When I started my basketball career in the junior league, we were trained to
To win, to play the right way, to play for our teammates, but we want to win.
“So as we sit here now, as a team, as a sub-.500 team, we’ve been playing well lately, but we want, I want to win at the highest level.
Breaking records, setting records or surpassing legends in a losing effort was never in my DNA.
“I think back to last season, I had a conversation with Maverick, Rich, PR and Randy, and at the end of the season, I had an opportunity to lead the league in scoring. But I said, ‘But we’re going to make it anyway.
No playoffs, and I’m going out there and trying to score in games that don’t matter, it’s just too old-fashioned for me.’ So, I said, I’m not even going to qualify because I
Not going to play in any of the next games. So it’s never important to me, unless it’s to win.”
In the 2021-22 season, after returning from injury to participate in the home loss to the Pelicans, James did not play in the last 5 regular season games of the Lakers due to a sprained left ankle.
After James’ truce, the Lakers continued to lose to the Nuggets and the Suns, and officially missed the playoffs in theory.
James also missed the competition for the scoring champion because the 56 games he played in the season did not meet the requirement of at least 58 appearances in individual statistics. Joel Embiid won the scoring champion of the season.