{"id":472195,"date":"2023-12-08T06:49:47","date_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=472195"},"modified":"2023-12-08T06:50:33","modified_gmt":"2023-12-08T10:50:33","slug":"lebron-helps-lakers-to-trash-pels-and-reach-ist-final","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-helps-lakers-to-trash-pels-and-reach-ist-final\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron helps Lakers to trash Pels and reach IST Final"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James, who will become 39 years old very soon, beat Father Time and showed he is still one of the best players in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p>He led the LA Lakers to a 133-89 victory against the New Orleans Pelicans at T-Mobile Arena in a matchup from the \u00bd finals of the NBA In-Season Tournament, and his team will have the chance to lift the title.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Heading to the In-Season Tournament FINALS \ud83d\udde3\ufe0f <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/D0OYz3fmED\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/D0OYz3fmED<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1732983065948094666?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Add it to the books &#8212; LeBron is the first player in NBA history with 30+ points, 5+ assists, &amp; 5+ rebounds in under 23 minutes \ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/2mLGtzEqt5\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/2mLGtzEqt5<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Los Angeles Lakers (@Lakers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Lakers\/status\/1732991064976589105?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LeBron notched 30 points and finished with 8 assists and 5 boards to secure Los Angeles a clash vs. the Indiana Pacers, who eliminated the Milwaukee Bucks in the Eastern Conference semifinal, the 2 organizations will face each other on Saturday to determine the 1st winner of the new National Basketball League tournament.<\/p>\n<p>In his 21st campaign in the league, James made 9 of 12 shots (including 4-for-4 from 3), had 0 turnovers, and finished with (+,-) of +36 in the 23 minutes he was on the court.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;My trainer was like &#8216;one thing you haven&#8217;t done in your 21 [year] career is be in a Final 4&#8217;&#8230;this is definitely heightened, being NBA players, and what&#8217;s at stake.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>LeBron James after leading the Lakers to the inaugural NBA Cup game.<\/p>\n<p>(via <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">@NBA<\/a>)<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/41YnjPJOpZ\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/41YnjPJOpZ<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 ClutchPoints (@ClutchPoints) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/ClutchPoints\/status\/1733002904355869150?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">December 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James, who will become 39 years old very soon, beat Father Time and showed he is still one of the best players [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":472196,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16970,17837,17204],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17645,18565,1067],"acf":{"announce":"James played phenomenally and led Los Angeles to the triumph.","video":["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\/472195"}],"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\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":472198,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/472195\/revisions\/472198"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472195"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=472195"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=472195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}