Lakers star LeBron James has broken countless records over the course of his 17-year career. As a 16x All-Star, 16x All-NBA player, and 4x NBA Champion, there is no questioning his place in basketball history.
But on Friday night, James broke another NBA record — except this time, it wasn’t the good kind.
Last night, LeBron James broke another record.
He now has the most turnovers in NBA history, with 4,525 of them.
— Legion Hoops (@LegionHoops) February 13, 2021
With five turnovers last night, LeBron became the leader in league history for turnovers, with 4,525. On Twitter, fans were having fun flaming him for the milestone…
https://twitter.com/IrvingsGoat/status/1360630890246901764
Bron and Malone having the most turnovers in history and scoring over 34K points thru uncalled offensive fouls pic.twitter.com/e3t3OOknia
— LeCancun James (@Le0verrated) February 13, 2021
MJ would never
— Javon 🌌 (backup) (@Jtbucketssx) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/ballez2016/status/1360630814543904772
Damn CP3 Has More Assists & About Half The Turnovers 🥴
— P 🏁 (@803Underdawg) February 13, 2021
https://twitter.com/SixersGraeme/status/1360631144635633666
Impressive, it took him 1,292 games where he passed Karl Malone which his career spanned 1,476 games. Two seasons earlier basically to pass the previous record holder
— MZ (@mzelinski5) February 13, 2021
Interesting! So what’s is his assist-to-TO ratio? Compare that to MJ
— JeremyPreppy (@JeremyPreppy) February 13, 2021
Obviously, breaking the All-Time turnover record is not a good thing, but it’s easily explainable with context.
As a high usage player, with over 17 seasons of experience under his belt, it’s really no surprise that he has racked up his turnover total. In fact, we can probably expect it to go up pretty significantly over the next few years.
Still, it won’t do much to change all the good things LeBron has done over the years.
