LeBron James scored 61 points in Miami Heat's 124-107 victory of the Charlotte Bobcats last night - beating his previous single-game points record of 56, achieved for Cleveland back in 2005. Of his phenomenal haul last night, he landed 22 of 33 shots and eight out of 10 three-point attempts.
He also beat the Heat's franchise record of 56, set by Glen Rice in 1995, and increased his season's points average by nearly one point per game.
He compared the ease of his scoring to having "a golf ball (and) throwing it in the ocean". His exploits last night are still short of Wilt Chamberlain's NBA record of 100 points in a single game, set back in 1962, and is unlikely to be beaten any tome soon - a bit like the other, far less official NBA record. Either Wilt was just that good, or the 1960s was a less defensively taxing era, because he dropped 60 in a game on 32 separate occasions.
LeBron James tonight: • Career-high in points (57) • Career-high in FG (21) • ties career-high in 3-pt FG (8) pic.twitter.com/QmUUaqYBRU
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 4, 2014
LeBron got no help smh pic.twitter.com/tupXMCyrTK
— Mike Prada (@MikePradaSBN) March 4, 2014
LeBron: 61. http://t.co/sIceuPqk1T pic.twitter.com/KlHNhFH7W9
— Eye on Basketball (@EyeOnBasketball) March 4, 2014
LeBron: "I felt like I had a golf ball throwing it into the ocean."
— Ethan J. Skolnick (@EthanJSkolnick) March 4, 2014
ICYMI: LeBron James is pretty good. He went off for a career-high 61 Pts last night. » http://t.co/taEkQWVoWE
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 4, 2014
LeBron James' 1st career 60-point game would be no big deal to Wilt Chamberlain. Wilt dropped 60 THIRTY TWO times. pic.twitter.com/cpigZYJZX1
— SportsCenter (@SportsCenter) March 4, 2014
H/T: BleacherReport
