{"id":505285,"date":"2025-11-19T02:23:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:23:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=505285"},"modified":"2025-11-19T02:23:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T06:23:23","slug":"lebron-james-debuts-against-utah-starts-record-23rd-season","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-debuts-against-utah-starts-record-23rd-season\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James debuts against Utah, starts record 23rd season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LA Lakers superstar LeBron James made his campaign debut vs. the Utah Jazz today, starting his NBA-record 23<sup>rd<\/sup> year.<\/p>\n<p>The legend finished with 11 points, 4-of-7 shooting, to go along with 12 assists in his team\u2019s 140-125 victory. LeBron spent 30 minutes on the court and scored twice from the 3-point line on 3 attempts.<\/p>\n<p>James missed the 1<sup>st<\/sup> 14 matches of the campaign, with sciatica, a nerve issue that affected his lower back and kept him sidelined for the start of the season.<\/p>\n<p>With his start vs. Utah, LeBron became the 1<sup>st<\/sup> NBA basketballer in history to compete in 23 campaigns, breaking a tie with Vince Carter.<\/p>\n<p>He returned to training with the Lakers at the beginning of the week, joining his Los Angeles teammates for his first 5-on-5 action with them since his organization\u2019s 1<sup>st<\/sup>-round postseason elimination vs. the Minnesota Timberwolves in the spring.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron, already the league\u2019s all-time scorer, entered the game 50 matches behind Boston Celtics legend\u00a0 Robert Parish for the all-time lead in matches played, and now is 496 assists behind Jason Kidd for the 3<sup>rd<\/sup> spot in the all-time list.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LA Lakers superstar LeBron James made his campaign debut vs. the Utah Jazz today, starting his NBA-record 23rd year. The legend finished with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":492407,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16972,16970],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17644,17645],"acf":{"news_source":"","link_picture":"","announce":"The legendary basketballer made his debut this campaign.","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\/505285"}],"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=505285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505286,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/505285\/revisions\/505286"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/492407"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=505285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=505285"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=505285"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=505285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}