{"id":3686,"date":"2023-01-02T04:30:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-02T04:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/lakers-news-hawks-center-considers-this-laker-nba-goat-all-lakers\/"},"modified":"2023-01-02T04:30:00","modified_gmt":"2023-01-02T04:30:00","slug":"lakers-news-hawks-center-considers-this-laker-nba-goat-all-lakers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/lakers-news-hawks-center-considers-this-laker-nba-goat-all-lakers\/","title":{"rendered":"Lakers News: Hawks Center Considers This Laker NBA GOAT &#8211; All Lakers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> [ad_1]<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div><!-- tml-version=\"2\" --><\/p>\n<p>On Friday night, LA posted a surprise W, 130-121, against the Atlanta Hawks team of the Atlanta Hawks to start the 38th season of Los Angeles Lakers superstar LeBron James.<\/p>\n<p>James hasn&#8217;t shown much signs of rust aside from his NBA age. He shot 18 of his 27 from the field, grabbed 10 boards, put out 9 his dimes, and scored 47 points.  The four-time champion seems all but certain to be his 19th All-Star on his team to tie the record next month.<\/p>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\"\/>\n<p>Hawks center Onyeka Okongwu, who started in place of injured big man Clint Capela, made a bold claim regarding the all-time ranking of the Lakers&#8217; newest all-time great star.<\/p>\n<p>Around <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KLChouinard\/status\/1609030065249034240?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1609030065249034240%7Ctwgr%5Eee8c6420d04843fd89143e9ce516dd4dd5a7607f%7Ctwcon%5Es1_&amp;ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Flakersdaily.com%2Fhawks-center-onyeka-okongwu-after-guarding-lebron-james-to-me-hes-the-greatest-of-all-time%2F\" onclick=\"return phoenixTrackClickEvent(this, event);\" target=\"_blank\">Kevin Chouinard of Hawks.com<\/a>Okongwu praised LeBron James following his recent encounter with the Lakers all-time.<\/p>\n<blockquote tml-render-layout=\"inline\" class=\"m-blockquote l-inline\">\n<p>&#8220;For me, he&#8217;s the best ever,&#8221; Okongwu said after Friday&#8217;s game.  &#8220;It doesn&#8217;t help that me and John are in foul trouble. He&#8217;s just a physical specimen going downhill. Sometimes it&#8217;s so hard. You have to foul him. He&#8217;s tough.&#8221; It&#8217;s a great cover. I&#8217;ll be seeing him again for a week from today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-c\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-b not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-a not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-1\"\/>\n<aside class=\"m-in-content-ad-row l-inline mm-in-content-ad-row--in-content not-size-b not-size-c not-size-d\" data-ad-group=\"in_content-0\"\/>\n<p>At 42:35 on Friday night, Okongwu did his best to keep the Lakers at bay.  The 6&#8217;8&#8243; big out of USC shoots from the floor in 8 of 11 innings where he scored 17 points, dropped 8 rebounds, blocked 3 shots and 2 swiped the steel.<\/p>\n<p>In his 20th season in the NBA, James has an unprecedented scoring average at this point in his career: 28.5 points, 8.1 rebounds, 6.6 assists and 1 steal on .506\/.309\/.753 shooting splits. Granted, he&#8217;s no longer a level player who could elevate his cast of mediocre supports to greats (LA says he&#8217;s 15-21), but given his age and mileage, his Individual count statistics are still impractical.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><br \/>\n<br \/>[ad_2]<br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/__i\/rss\/rd\/articles\/CBMiWGh0dHBzOi8vd3d3LnNpLmNvbS9uYmEvbGFrZXJzL25ld3MvaGF3a3MtY2VudGVyLWNvbnNpZGVycy10aGlzLWxha2VyLXRoZS1uYmEtZ29hdC1hazE5ODfSAV1odHRwczovL3d3dy5zaS5jb20vbmJhL2xha2Vycy8uYW1wL25ld3MvaGF3a3MtY2VudGVyLWNvbnNpZGVycy10aGlzLWxha2VyLXRoZS1uYmEtZ29hdC1hazE5ODc?oc=5\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[ad_1] On Friday night, LA posted a surprise W, 130-121, against the Atlanta Hawks team of the Atlanta Hawks to start the 38th season of<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3687,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":[],"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3686","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","two-columns"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/01\/onyeka-ogkongwu-12-23-22.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3686"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3686\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3687"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3686"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3686"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atswins.ai\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3686"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}