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The Washed King scored 50 points to lead the Los Angeles Lakers to a 122-109 victory over the Washington Wizards. At 37, he now is the oldest player in NBA ...

“I think what stands out to me is the league has never seen a player at his stage of his career do what he’s doing. I just tried to stay in that zone as long as possible and hit a couple.” The Los Angeles Lakers have won two games this week with one strategy.

The Los Angeles Lakers honored Kyle Kuzma and Kentavious Caldwell Pope with a tribute video during the win over the Washington Wizards.

“Just a really positive experience with both of those two individual players in my time here, the two years that we were together. Both Kuzma and Caldwell-Pope left the Lakers last summer after four seasons with the team, landing in D.C. as part of the Russell Westbrook trade. Meanwhile, Caldwell-Pope played a crucial role in L.A.’s successful title pursuit that year, moving to the starting lineup and orchestrating the Lakers’ perimeter defense in Avery Bradley’s absence.

LeBron James had 50 points for the second time in three games to rally the Lakers to victory, leading coach Frank Vogel to say the NBA "has never seen a ...

"I just tried to stay in that zone as long as possible and hit a couple.'' "It was just about having those guys in there to win," Vogel said of his closing lineup. "When he had 47, I knew he was going to get 50, so that's why I went to try and get him the 3. Vogel pulled him with 8 minutes, 37 seconds remaining and kept him on the bench the rest of the way. It was the 14th 50-point game of James' career, tying Rick Barry for the sixth most all time, and his teams have now won their past 12 games when he has gone for 50 or more. And he did it in a variety of ways, starting the flurry with an 18-foot fadeaway, followed by an and-1 layup, then a pull-up 3 from 31 feet. It's just unbelievable the level that he's playing at." Doing whatever the team needs to win games. L.A. appeared to be heading toward another loss, down by nine early in the third quarter, when James got red-hot. So, that's what goes into it." They have the right to have any response they want," James said. "Listen, the Laker faithful knows when bad basketball is being played and they know when good basketball is being played.