Bucher Reveals How LeBron's Numbers Give Cavaliers More Chances!
Veteran NBA reporter Ric Bucher accused LeBron James of "stat chasing" when he recorded his most recent triple-double.
The NBA community is still buzzing about Miami Heat star Bam Adebayo's 83-point game on Tuesday. It was the second-highest individual scoring effort in league history, putting him past Kobe Bryant in that department, and plenty of people are still outraged about the allegedly farcical nature of how it happened. That game has seemingly resulted in a reevaluation of how certain statistical feats or records are attained and how legitimate they are.
Veteran NBA reporter Ric Bucher discussed this on a recent episode of his "On the Ball" podcast , and he used it as an opportunity to take a shot at LeBron James. Bucher said that when James recently became the oldest player to record a triple-double, he was "stat chasing. " "LeBron James has stayed in games to achieve some sort of statistical mark so routinely now that we're almost numb to it.
The latest being the oldest player to ever achieve a triple-double... the game was out of hand, there was no reason for him to be on the floor. ...
The guy is staying around at age 41 just to get an extra rebound, just to say in the history books, when everybody forgets how it was done, that he was the oldest guy to get a triple-double. That is stat chasing. That is undermining the statistical achievement.