Jonathan Zaslow

And, of course, he did end up playing—I text my son after the game as he's on his way home, and I'm like, triple-double for LeBron, 60 points for Luka.

You got your money's worth, dude.

Like, that was the best possible—I mean, maybe it would have been better if the Heat won, I don't know, but—

If you would have asked me, even maybe midway through the fourth quarter, when Luka already had 40-plus points, who the best player on the floor was last night, I would have said LeBron.

He was in complete control of that game from the very jump in a way that was startling because he's playing on the second night of a back-to-back as a 41-year-old man.

And he was, I mean, the entire night flirting with that triple-double gets to it.

I think he had 15 rebounds.

He was dominant.

And the thing about what has made the Lakers great over these last, what, Tony, you said 11 of 12?

Well, first he said 11 in a row.

It was eight in a row, 11 of 12.

They lost to the Denver Nuggets somewhere in between.

But again, semantics argument.

Right, and that was by a few points.

Seven, yeah.

LeBron's...

excellence is that he's now playing completely off the ball he is offensively cutting throughout the game allowing luca to be a half court player that has vision with a guy who is intelligent knows when to cut has a feel for the game he's rebounding he's running off of rebounds so that he did you know lebron james leads the nba in fast break points yes

It's insane.

Right.

But sure.