LeBron James is absurdly leading the NBA in scoring at 37

LeBron James continues to do absurd things at the age of 37.  

LeBron James continues to defy father time and redefine what a star is capable of in the back end of his career.

On Friday night, James dropped 50 points and led the Los Angeles Lakers to a 122-109 victory over the Washington Wizards. It was his second 50-point plus performance in his past three games.

The first 50-piece came against the Golden State Warriors where James scored 56 points in the Lakers win. James now has dropped 50 points in back-to-back Laker home games. The last Laker to do that was Kobe Bryant in 2008.

James now has 14 career 50 point plus performances, tying Rick Barry for the sixth-most all-time, per ESPN’s Dave McMenamin. James also became the oldest player to have multiple 50-point games in a season.

According to the New York Post, New York Knicks legend Bernard King was the previous oldest to do it at 34 during the 1990-91 season with the Washington Bullets.

The thing is, even though the Lakers are 2-0 in games James has scored 50+ points since the All-Star break, they are 0-6 in the rest of the games and stand firmly as the ninth seed in the Western Conference.

In a season where the Lakers have severely disappointed their fans, James received a rare “MVP” chant from a sellout crowd at Crypto.com Arena.

"[via ESPN]“Listen, the Laker faithful knows when bad basketball is being played and they know when good basketball is being played. They have the right to have any response they want. They’ve seen so many great teams, so many great individuals… So, for me, being a part of this franchise, I feel like I just try to give them an opportunity to have memorable nights as well.” – LeBron James after the Lakers win over Washington"

At this point, that’s all Lakers fans have to look forward to. Anthony Davis is hurt, Russell Westbrook hasn’t lived up to expectations, and they are four and a half games behind the Clippers for the eighth seed in the West with just over a month left in the regular season.

It seems farfetched that the Lakers could make a run in the playoffs. That’s if they even survive the play-in tournament. So, let the LeBron James scoring title campaign begin.

After his two big 50-point performances and scoring 20 or more points in 30 straight games, James now leads the league in scoring at 29.7 points per game.

If the season ended today, James would become the oldest player in NBA history to win the scoring title, per Elias Sports Bureau. The current oldest player to do it? That ghost that James is chasing Michael Jordan who was 35 years old when he won his last scoring title in the 1997-98 season.

James has only won the scoring title once, back in the 2007-08 season where he averaged 30.0 per game. Jordan has 10 scoring titles so James is not catching the “ghost” when it comes to scoring titles but another one would only help his legacy. Plus, doing it in his 19th season at 37 years old could be such a flex.

One thing LeBron will have over Jordan is that James is set to become the first player ever to score over 30,000 points, grab over 10,000 rebounds and dish out over 10,000 assists.

"This 30K-10K-10K feat proves “LeBron is much more than a scorer and impacts all aspects of the game as his playmaking and rebounding numbers suggest and the eye test proves on a nightly basis. At the same time, when it comes to the scoring aspect of the game, LeBron is one of the best of all time,” writes Brian Martin for NBA.com."

No player has ever come close to LeBron’s consistency this deep in his career. His efficiency productivity at 37 years old is second to none.

LeBron owns the fifth-highest career scoring average in league history (27.09) — behind only Jordan (30.12), Wilt Chamberlain (30.07), Elgin Baylor (27.36), and Kevin Durant (27.11) — and he’s still increasing that average in his 19th season in the Association.

The Lakers may be a mediocre basketball team that could easily lose in the play-in tournament and miss the playoffs altogether, but they are still worth watching because of what that man King James is capable of on a nightly basis.