{"id":27980,"date":"2026-04-08T02:19:25","date_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:19:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/luka-doncic-breaks-kobe-bryant-points-record-for-la-lakers\/"},"modified":"2026-04-08T02:19:25","modified_gmt":"2026-04-08T02:19:25","slug":"luka-doncic-breaks-kobe-bryant-points-record-for-la-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/luka-doncic-breaks-kobe-bryant-points-record-for-la-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Luka Doncic breaks Kobe Bryant points record for LA Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">LeBron James scored 14 points for the Lakers against the Cavaliers as he also set an NBA record for the most combined regular season and play-off wins.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He achieved his 1,229th victory and surpassed the previous best set by centre Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;He&#8217;s great on both sides of the ball,&#8221; said Lakers coach JJ Redick of James. &#8220;He&#8217;s just doing a little bit of everything at a super-high level for us.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;Luka may get the headlines here and there, AR [Austin Reaves] may get a headline. But really it&#8217;s been every single guy, and LeBron has led on that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">The Lakers, who are third in the Western Conference, had clinched a play-off spot and the Pacific Division title prior to their win as the Phoenix Suns were beaten 115-111 by the Orlando Magic.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.com\/sport\/basketball\/articles\/c4gx2kwxgg9o?at_medium=RSS&#038;at_campaign=rss\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James scored 14 points for the Lakers against the Cavaliers as he also set an NBA record for the most combined regular season and play-off wins. He achieved his 1,229th victory and surpassed the previous best set by centre Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. &#8220;He&#8217;s great on both sides of the ball,&#8221; said Lakers coach JJ Redick [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":27981,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-basketball"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27980","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27980"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27980\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27982,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27980\/revisions\/27982"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.godj.com\/sport\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}