{"id":394963,"date":"2022-12-03T00:06:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T05:06:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=394963"},"modified":"2022-12-03T03:11:52","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T08:11:52","slug":"james-overtakes-johnson-on-nbas-assists-lits-lakers-beat-bucks","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/james-overtakes-johnson-on-nbas-assists-lits-lakers-beat-bucks\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers beat Bucks in thriller, James overtakes Johnson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James overtook Magic Johnson on the NBA\u2019s career assists list, helping the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 133-129 on Friday night.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Exhale, Lakers fam. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rraTrRk0Y4\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rraTrRk0Y4<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1598877065654448129?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>James scored 28 points, 11 assists and eight rebounds, improved his career assist total to 10,144 and moved into sixth place on the list, ahead of Johnson (10,133).<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">LeBron James is good at basketball. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/hIWyQ0ywDF\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/hIWyQ0ywDF<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1598904611607351298?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 3, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt means a lot, obviously,\u201d James said after his 900th career win. &#8220;What\u2019s even more humbling and super-duper cool is the fact that I\u2019m doing it in a Laker uniform and knowing how much Magic means to the Laker franchise.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Anthony Davis finished with a season-high 44 points in the thriller, which marked Lakers coach Darvin Ham a triumphant return to Milwaukee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI saw him before the game and he said, \u2018I need 30 tonight,\u201d Davis said. &#8220;I just saw him and he said, \u2018I only said 30, not 40. It\u2019s always good for him to come out and watch the Lakers play.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">Ham was part of Bucks coach Mike Budenholzer\u2019s staff from 2018-22, and the former colleagues shared a big hug before the game.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was a beautiful night,&#8221; said Ham, who also played for the Bucks from 1999-2002.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The Lakers withstood a 40-point night from Milwaukee\u2019s Giannis Antetokounmpo, who also had seven rebounds and five assists.<\/p>\n<p class=\"Component-root-0-2-67 p Component-p-0-2-58\">The Los Angeles also spoiled the season debut of Milwaukee\u2019s Khris Middleton, who had 17 points and seven assists in his return from offseason wrist surgery.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James overtook Magic Johnson on the NBA\u2019s career assists list, helping the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Milwaukee Bucks 133-129 on Friday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4224,"featured_media":394964,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970,16726],"news_category":[16706,16715],"gn_keywords":[],"acf":{"announce":"Anthony Davis scored a season-high 44 points, Lakers coach Darvin Ham with a triumphant return to Milwaukee","video":[]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394963"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4224"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=394963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/394963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/394964"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=394963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=394963"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=394963"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=394963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}