SEASON SUMMARY
Before the 2018-19 season started, LeBron James had appeared in 95.1 percent of the 1,453 games in his 15-year career, including all 239 playoff games, and spent more time on a basketball floor than all but eight players in NBA history.
His indestructibility coupled with his best-in-the-world game was the key reason why the Lakers were projected as, at worst, a mid-tier playoff team in a loaded Western Conference. And that’s where they stood, in the No. 4 seed, when James suffered the most significant injury of his career on Dec. 25 during a blowout win at Golden State.