{"id":94195,"date":"2015-02-25T07:57:30","date_gmt":"2015-02-25T07:57:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=94195"},"modified":"2015-02-25T07:57:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-25T07:57:30","slug":"milestone-season-lebron-james-crushes-another-nba-record","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=94195","title":{"rendered":"Milestone season: LeBron James crushes another NBA record"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Cavaliers forward LeBron James has broken yet another NBA record.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">With a second quarter assist against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday, James passed NBA legend Scottie Pippen for the most career assists by a forward with 6,136.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pippen, who played 17 NBA seasons, took 1,178 regular-season games to hit his mark while James, who averages 6.9 assists per game, managed to pass him in his 890th contest.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The feat makes James arguably the greatest passing forward in history at only 30 years old \u2014 and he\u2019ll probably continue to storm the record books for years to come.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0L1nr3k4SE4\" width=\"620\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Just last week, James passed one of his childhood heroes, Allen Iverson, for No. 22 on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring list. \u201cIt\u2019s very, very humbling, and it\u2019s an honor to just be named with some of the greats that I watched growing up,\u201d James told reporters on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cAnd now to know that I passed Allen Iverson on the all-time scoring list, for someone that\u2019s not much of a scorer\u2013as you guys have deemed me\u2013it is pretty cool.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">In passing Pippen, James also moves into 27th all-time in assists, with Jerry West next in his sights.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Source: Fox Sports<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cavaliers forward LeBron James has broken yet another NBA record. With a second quarter assist against the Detroit Pistons on Tuesday, James passed NBA legend Scottie Pippen for the most career assists by a forward with 6,136. Pippen, who played 17 NBA seasons, took 1,178 regular-season games to hit his mark while James, who averages [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":94196,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3,38,31],"class_list":["post-94195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-professor-adei"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=94195"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/94195\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/94196"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=94195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=94195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=94195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}