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In the NBA game between the Los Angeles Lakers and LA Clippers, the Lakers set up a come-from-behind victory in the fourth quarter of the match when they were trailing by a margin of 21 points. LeBron James led the attack in the final quarter with a staggering 19-point last-quarter finish and outscored the Clippers.
It was the one-man show from Lakers star forward LeBron James, who heaped on the Clippers to outdo them by erasing the deficit to finish the game at 116-112 victory. The 39-year-old alone scored 19 points in the last quarter, which was three points more than the combined points accumulated by the Clippers in the fourth.
Watch LeBron James' 4th quarter heroics:
Till the fourth quarter of the match between LA Lakers and LA Clippers, the latter were leading 98-77 and were progressing to a well-established win when the opposite started to happen with the Clippers losing the grip horrendously.
It will also certainly go down as the greatest ever come-back by any team in the NBA as the teams have lost 866 games on the trot when they were down with 19+ points heading into the fourth quarter. It took LeBron James’ greatness to break this long streak on Thursday.
After LeBron James’ greatest show in his 21-year-long career, netizens were left amused on X (formerly Twitter) with people expressing their amusement after the jaw-dropping performance by the Lakers.
Netizens reacted to the stellar show by LeBron James on X
After LeBron James helped the Lakers to win the match from nowhere with an exceptional effort in the last quarter of the match, even his longtime critic American commentator Skip Bayless, and NBA legend Magic Johnson among others praised the basketball legend on X (formerly Twitter).
Let’s take a look at some of the reactions by the people on X:
LeBron James is now just 40 points short of becoming the first and only player to reach the milestone of 40,000 career points in the NBA. The Lakers will next host the Washington Wizards at the Crypto.com Arena on Thursday night in the 2023-24 NBA regular season.
