Laker LeBron James Drop 50 points in a win over the Washington Wizards

NBA – The Los Angeles Lakers host the visiting Washington Wizards for their first meeting of the 2021–2022 NBA Regular Season at Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles California.

The LA Lakers had lost their last 2 – games after a monster performance by LeBron James against the Golden State Warriors scoring 56 points and sit down against the Spurs and a sorry lost to the Rockets in OT.
 

The Lakers are looking to snap their 2-Game Losing skid over the Wizards. The Wizards are also coming from a loss against the LA Clippers prior to this Lakers games.

Currently the Lakers are sitting 9th in the Western Conference Standings with 28 wins and 37 losses, while the Wizards is at 11th placed in the Eastern Conference Standings with 28 wins and 35 losses.

In the game, the 1st quarter is almost equally matched, tied at 26–26 as the early quarter ended. LeBron James and Kristaps Porziņģis led their teams in scoring respectively.

In the 2nd quarter, the Wizards came out hot outscoring the Lakers 33–26 in the quarter and finish the halftime up by 7 points 59–52 Wizards.

In the 3rd quarter, the quarter where the Lakers usually collapse did not happen in this game instead, LeBron James exploded for 21 points, outscoring the Wizards 37–23 to end the quarter up by 7 points 89–82.

In the 4th and final quarter, the Wizards had their moments of coming back in the game led by the former Laker Kyle Kuzma, who finished the game with 23 points, but the Lakers are hanging tough in this game especially LeBron James who continue his hot game scoring 50 points to lead all scorers.

Lakers never look back and posted a double digit lead to win their 29th game of the season and remain at 9th seed 5 games behind with the 8th seed LA Clippers.

LeBron James scored his second 50 points of the season just 3 games past after scoring his season high 56 points against the Warriors.

Incredibly LeBron James is now tied with Joel Embiid and Giannis Antetokounmpo for season points average of 29. 7 points per game a race to win in this season NBA Scoring Champion.

Also LeBron James is 2 shy away from reaching the 10,000 career assist he is expected to reach the said milestone in the next game.