{"id":163130,"date":"2021-01-26T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T05:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/lakers-lebron-james-scores-46-points-to-beat-cavaliers\/"},"modified":"2021-01-26T08:39:58","modified_gmt":"2021-01-26T05:39:58","slug":"lakers-lebron-james-scores-46-points-to-beat-cavaliers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/lakers-lebron-james-scores-46-points-to-beat-cavaliers\/","title":{"rendered":"#Lakers’ LeBron James scores 46 points to beat Cavaliers"},"content":{"rendered":"

“#Lakers’ LeBron James scores 46 points to beat Cavaliers<\/strong>”<\/p>\n

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CLEVELAND \u2014 Back home, LeBron James kept the Lakers perfect on the road.<\/p>\n

James went on a scoring tear in the fourth quarter, getting 21 of his 46 points with a variety of dazzling shots and plays only he seems to make, leading Los Angeles to a 115-108 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers on Monday night.<\/p>\n

James\u2019 first game<\/a> in Ohio in more than two years couldn\u2019t have gone much better.<\/p>\n

\u201cHome cooking,\u201d said James, who got a meal made by his mom, Gloria. \u201cIt felt good to be back in my haven.\u201d<\/p>\n

Anthony Davis added 17 points as the defending NBA champions improved to 10-0 away from home. The win for Los Angeles came on the eve of the one-year anniversary of Lakers legend Kobe Bryant\u2019s tragic death in a helicopter crash.<\/p>\n

James\u2019 outburst in the fourth was reminiscent of something Bryant might do as well, and it was fueled by him wanting to shut up a member of Cleveland\u2019s front office group sitting in the social<\/a>ly-distanced front row across from the Cavs\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n

When James was short with a 3-pointer at the end of the third quarter, the unidentified Cavs executive celebrated.<\/p>\n

\u201cI felt he was a little too excited about seeing me miss,\u201d James said playfully. \u201cI knew I had another quarter and the fourth quarter is my favorite. It\u2019s a good thing for him I only come here once.\u201d<\/p>\n

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LeBron James scored 46 points against the Cavaliers on Monday.<\/figcaption>
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Over the final 12 minutes, James made 9 of 10 shots, posing to hold his form after draining a 34-foot 3-pointer just before the 24-second clock expired to put the Lakers ahead 103-98.<\/p>\n

James followed that with a step-back 3 and then drained a fadeaway turn-around jumper in the corner before shaking his head at Cleveland\u2019 bench.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen he\u2019s playing like that, it\u2019s fun to watch,\u201d Davis said. \u201cWhen he had what 19, 17 in the first? It\u2019s over. \u2026 He wasn\u2019t missing. He was everywhere on the floor.\u201d<\/p>\n

Andre Drummond scored 25 and added 17 rebounds for the Cavaliers, who were blown out by 38 on Sunday in Boston. Cedi Osman added 20 points and Collin Sexton 17 for the Cavs.<\/p>\n

Coach J.B. Bickerstaff said before the game that he wanted his team to \u201cscrap\u201d and that\u2019s exactly what the Cavs did \u2014 until James took over the way he did in Cleveland for 11 seasons.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhen a guy is doing what he did, he\u2019s hard to deal with,\u201d Bickerstaff said. \u201cWe\u2019ve all seen that.\u201d<\/p>\n

While still a homecoming for James, this one felt very different.<\/p>\n

Due to COVID-19 restrictions, there were only 2,000 fans inside 18,000-plus-seat Rocket Mortgage FieldHouse, which was known as Quicken Loans Arena when James led the Cavs to the 2016 NBA championship and ended a 52-year title drought in Cleveland.<\/p>\n

The sparse crowd welcomed him warmly and the building was dotted with plenty of fans wearing James\u2019 purple-and-gold LA jersey.<\/p>\n

It was only James\u2019 second trip<\/a> back to Cleveland since he left the Cavs for the second time as a free agent after the 2018 season. Last year\u2019s game was cancelled by the pandemic.<\/p>\n

After dusting off his pregame chalk toss, a ritual he started with the Cavs and only breaks out these days for special occasions, James dropped four 3-pointers and scored 17 in the first quarter.\n <\/p><\/div>\n

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