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Bass Drum of Death’s music feels like a headbanging night of fun and questionable decisions. At its best, it satiates with the brevity and heft of the greatest punk rock. At its worst, it gets the band lumped into a box with similar artists such as the White Stripes, Wavves, and Ty Segall. Fortunately, these garage rockers refuse to be typecast—even when they nod to their rock ’n’ roll contemporaries or predecessors.
The story behind the Bass Drum of Death’s new fifth album, Say I Won’t, sounds like a double dog dare. Singer and bandleader John Barrett launched the project as a one-man band in Oxford, Mississippi, in 2008, playing both guitar and bass drum. He created the first two Bass Drum of Death albums on his own, bringing in a rotating cast of musicians for tours and occasional session work. But Say I Won’t is the project’s first album to be conceptualized and recorded with his current touring band, a three-piece featuring his younger brother, guitarist Jim Barrett, and drummer Eric Parisi.
That collaborative approach gave Barrett space to tackle various songwriting details, and it’s allowed the band to grow artistically while staying true to their “banger after banger” template. The record’s fresh melodies and whip-tight breakdowns make for a pretty good listen, and fans who have followed BDoD from their 2011 debut, GB City, will notice their evolution. The band have also returned to their first label, Oxford-based Fat Possum, and in that sense, Say I Won’t is a bit of a homecoming. Songs such as “Say Your Prayers” and “No Doubt” pack in great riffs and tight turns of phrase: “No time to shake it when I get this way / Wild-eyed and dangerous is the way I play,” Barrett sings on “No Doubt.” This is dusty, 70s-inspired rock with a chip on its shoulder—a soundtrack to whiskey-kissed nights and hangover-tormented mornings. And while Bass Drum are as vulnerable as any rockers to charges of relying on formula, they also sound like master students who still have room to grow.
Bass Drum of Death’s Say I Won’t is available through Bandcamp.
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Bass Drum of Death’s music feels like a headbanging night of fun and questionable decisions. At its best, it satiates with the brevity and heft of the greatest punk rock. At its worst, it gets the band lumped into a box with similar artists such as the White Stripes, Wavves, and Ty Segall. Fortunately, these garage rockers refuse to be typecast—even when they nod to their rock ’n’ roll contemporaries or predecessors.
The story behind the Bass Drum of Death’s new fifth album, Say I Won’t, sounds like a double dog dare. Singer and bandleader John Barrett launched the project as a one-man band in Oxford, Mississippi, in 2008, playing both guitar and bass drum. He created the first two Bass Drum of Death albums on his own, bringing in a rotating cast of musicians for tours and occasional session work. But Say I Won’t is the project’s first album to be conceptualized and recorded with his current touring band, a three-piece featuring his younger brother, guitarist Jim Barrett, and drummer Eric Parisi.
That collaborative approach gave Barrett space to tackle various songwriting details, and it’s allowed the band to grow artistically while staying true to their “banger after banger” template. The record’s fresh melodies and whip-tight breakdowns make for a pretty good listen, and fans who have followed BDoD from their 2011 debut, GB City, will notice their evolution. The band have also returned to their first label, Oxford-based Fat Possum, and in that sense, Say I Won’t is a bit of a homecoming. Songs such as “Say Your Prayers” and “No Doubt” pack in great riffs and tight turns of phrase: “No time to shake it when I get this way / Wild-eyed and dangerous is the way I play,” Barrett sings on “No Doubt.” This is dusty, 70s-inspired rock with a chip on its shoulder—a soundtrack to whiskey-kissed nights and hangover-tormented mornings. And while Bass Drum are as vulnerable as any rockers to charges of relying on formula, they also sound like master students who still have room to grow.
Bass Drum of Death’s Say I Won’t is available through Bandcamp.
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Bass Drum of Death’s music feels like a headbanging night of fun and questionable decisions. At its best, it satiates with the brevity and heft of the greatest punk rock. At its worst, it gets the band lumped into a box with similar artists such as the White Stripes, Wavves, and Ty Segall. Fortunately, these garage rockers refuse to be typecast—even when they nod to their rock ’n’ roll contemporaries or predecessors.
The story behind the Bass Drum of Death’s new fifth album, Say I Won’t, sounds like a double dog dare. Singer and bandleader John Barrett launched the project as a one-man band in Oxford, Mississippi, in 2008, playing both guitar and bass drum. He created the first two Bass Drum of Death albums on his own, bringing in a rotating cast of musicians for tours and occasional session work. But Say I Won’t is the project’s first album to be conceptualized and recorded with his current touring band, a three-piece featuring his younger brother, guitarist Jim Barrett, and drummer Eric Parisi.
That collaborative approach gave Barrett space to tackle various songwriting details, and it’s allowed the band to grow artistically while staying true to their “banger after banger” template. The record’s fresh melodies and whip-tight breakdowns make for a pretty good listen, and fans who have followed BDoD from their 2011 debut, GB City, will notice their evolution. The band have also returned to their first label, Oxford-based Fat Possum, and in that sense, Say I Won’t is a bit of a homecoming. Songs such as “Say Your Prayers” and “No Doubt” pack in great riffs and tight turns of phrase: “No time to shake it when I get this way / Wild-eyed and dangerous is the way I play,” Barrett sings on “No Doubt.” This is dusty, 70s-inspired rock with a chip on its shoulder—a soundtrack to whiskey-kissed nights and hangover-tormented mornings. And while Bass Drum are as vulnerable as any rockers to charges of relying on formula, they also sound like master students who still have room to grow.
Bass Drum of Death’s Say I Won’t is available through Bandcamp.
Joakim Noah takes just seconds to cast his mind back and remembers his first time seeing an NBA team. It was 1997, and the Chicago Bulls were in Paris for the McDonald’s Championship, a tournament that brought together the best teams from various parts of the world to face off against each other. The tickets had been bought by his dad, Yannick, a French tennis hero who little over 10 years earlier had become the first French men’s singles player in 37 years to win the French Open at Roland Garros. What the Noahs did not realise was they were witnessing the beginning of what would become The Last Dance and the most famous season in Bulls history.
At just 12 years old, Joakim got to see it live and up close: Jordan’s 27 points against Olympiacos in the final, seeing him crowned MVP in front of over 1,000 reporters from over 50 countries. It was where Noah’s NBA dreams began, a path that took him to being a first-round draft pick for the Bulls in 2007, a two-time All-Star and an All-NBA first team selection in 2014.
“Every time Michael Jordan steps on to a court it’s inspiring,” Noah recalls now in conversation with ESPN. Noah is back in Paris as an ambassador for the Bulls, who are in town for Thursday’s regular-season matchup against the Detroit Pistons. The hope, for the NBA and the teams, is that they inspire more Joakims of the future as well as get more fans to fall in love with the game.
Noah remembers being asked a question at the end of that 1997 game. His family wanted to know: Did he want to be like his dad, the French tennis icon, or Michael Jordan — the guy who seemed like he’d brought Paris to a standstill.
He can recall his answer, too: “I want to be like Mike!”
The NBA has long strived to grow the game outside North America. It has hosted over 200 events in more than 20 countries. There have been more exhibition games in more countries than you could remember — the first happening in Israel in 1978, and from then on continuing in a range of countries, from Beijing to South Africa. There have been preseason games in four different continents, with Africa edging closer to holding one in the years ahead. And there have been regular-season games, too, including games in London between 2011 and 2019.
Thursday sees a second regular-season game in the French capital, and the NBA’s first since the COVID-19 pandemic.
Joakim Noah (right) meets with Detroit Pistons legend Ben Wallace and Andre Drummond of the Chicago Bulls. Catherine Steenkeste/NBAE via Getty Images
As the world shut down in February and March 2020, so did the NBA. For Ralph Rivera, managing editor of NBA Europe and Middle East, it was a problem.
“When we actually did our last game in Paris at that time we announced that we were coming back the following year. That was in January 2020, and obviously because of COVID-19 we weren’t able to bring games,” Rivera says. “It also impacted our other on-court activities through that time.
“So this is the first opportunity for us to bring the game back to Europe, back to Paris, and we could not be more excited.”
Fan interest for tickets for Thursday’s Bull-Pistons game has maintained from the league’s last Paris game three years ago. A lot of the interest is continually driven by the NBA’s current European stars. Two of them — Giannis Antetokounmpo and Nikola Jokic — have won back-to-back MVP awards in the last four years.
“There has never been a better time to be a fan of the NBA in Europe than right now, and part of it is that we are able to distribute the games and our stories, both via broadcast and online,” Rivera adds. “There is so much content that is available, but in particular, the fact there are so many successful and MVP-caliber players from Europe in the NBA obviously increases the interest.
The NBA’s first landing spot for regular-season games in Europe was London. The league played one game per season for eight years in the English capital before making a surprise move to Paris. Rivera says the move happened because it was time for a change.
“We only have one game in Europe each year, and we consider it to be our European All-Star game. And so, it made sense to move that game around a bit having been in London for a number of years consecutively. It made sense to move to another place in Europe.”
There is no shortage of interest from countries in hosting NBA games — the league recently hosted two preseason games in Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates, and will move further south soon as it begins talks over hosting a preseason game in Africa. But Paris remains its European home.
Will we ever see an expansion of the regular-season footprint, much as London and now Germany have become homes for multiple NFL games per season in the past 10 years? “We don’t have plans right now to host more than [the] one game that we’re doing,” Rivera says.
“A part of that is just the logistics around it. We usually play every other day, so a team could be playing three times in a week. That’s a bit different than say the NFL, where they play once a week, so a part of the challenge there [for the NBA] is the travel, the adjustment, and then playing the game and doing the same thing on the way back. That’s why we’ve limited it. Never say never, but right now there are no plans to have more than the one game that we’re having.”
The NBA is yet to determine the international schedule for the 2023-24 season, though Paris is likely to be a leading contender to host once again.
Michael Jordan starred at the McDonald’s Championship when the Bulls last played in Paris in 1997. John Gichigi /Allsport
The Bulls’ story in Paris began in 1997 with the game that captured Noah and the rest of Europe. It was, quite literally, where The Last Dance began.
Adam Silver, then president of NBA Entertainment, arrived in Paris for those 1997 games with a plan to convince Phil Jackson and Michael Jordan to allow the camera into the locker room and capture everything unfiltered. If you look closely, in Episode 1, you can see Silver and Jackson in Paris talking on the steps of the Bulls’ team hotel.
Almost 26 years later, that meeting has led to a whole new wave of fans from across the world.
“If you think about it too, in terms of the available programming at that time, not having live sport available and to have ‘The Last Dance’ coming during the period and help satisfy people’s hunger for the game,” Rivera says.
“It was extremely well-done, and it’s been a global phenomenon — on ESPN it’s their most watched documentary ever. So all around the world it had a tremendous impact, and it just reminded everybody of that time, the game at that point, the Bulls, Michael Jordan, all of the other iconic teams and players during that time.”
The Bulls — ever since Jordan — have been one of the most supported NBA teams in Europe, no matter how they perform. Thursday’s game brings all those worlds together: the Bulls-Pistons rivalry for those alive to see it in real time, and those who only know it from “The Last Dance.”
“A lot of is about logistics and scheduling — when is the last time teams have travelled, trying to identify if there are any particular ties or interests that teams have to a certain market — and in this particular case there was interest in coming to Paris from the Bulls and the Pistons,” Rivera adds.
“Again, having the Bulls and the Pistons having that classic rivalry is great, and then we also have European players on both those teams, and they’re popular teams.”
For all of Joakim Noah’s achievements — an NBA defensive player of the year, a France international — he never played an NBA game in his home country. This is the first time the Bulls have returned to Paris since that tournament in 1997.
“It’s a full-circle moment for me and my family, just to have the Bulls playing in Paris,” Noah says. “It’s surreal to be done playing and having a moment like this to be able to share with my family and friends. It’s special.
“A lot of family weren’t able to come see my games, just to be able to give them a moment of: ‘This is what it looks like, this is the level of competition.’ Even though I’m done playing, I was always proud to wear that [Bulls] jersey, and it represents a lot. It represents the greatest to ever play the game.”
The NBA continues to grow around the world, with its overseas games a chance to inspire further talent. Noah learned that at 12 years old. He still believes it now.
“I think it’s giving the next generation a chance to dream and believe,” Noah says. “We are here. The structures are here; just look at the facilities. Basketball is growing, and it’s only getting better and better.”
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CHICAGO — WHEN THE Chicago Bulls first came to Paris for a pair of exhibition games in the 1997 McDonald’s Championship, they were on top of the basketball world.
Fans lined up outside the team hotel to catch a glimpse of Michael Jordan, Scottie Pippen, Dennis Rodman and the other Bulls, who were coming off a second consecutive NBA championship and about to embark on a season that would come to be known as The Last Dance.
Wherever the Bulls traveled that season, whether it was Paris, Los Angeles or Indianapolis, they were not just basketball royalty, but among the planet’s biggest stars.
During the October preseason trip to Paris, fans showed up in droves when the team arrived and left the practice court, and when they visited the Louvre and other Parisian must-see sights, simply yearning for a glimpse of Jordan.
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Nearly 1,000 media members were credentialed for the games. Current Bulls vice president Arturas Karnisovas played for Olympiacos in the championship game — which Chicago won 104-78 — and remembers his teammates in the locker room before the game debating who would be the one to guard Jordan. At the top of their minds: the opportunity to be in a photo matched up with an icon.
“It was everywhere, everyone wanted to see Michael, Scottie and Dennis,” Bill Wennington, a center on the 1997-98 Bulls and current team radio announcer, told ESPN. “The fans were screaming, yelling, everywhere the team went as a whole. There were large crowds following just wanting to see.”
Jordan scored 27 points in the game against Olympiacos, but Pippen and Rodman were both out, as were a slew of other Bulls. Still, the fan response in Paris proved the Bulls had conquered not just Chicago, but the adoration of fans from around the globe.
“It was fantastic. It was so much fun,” said Golden State Warriors coach Steve Kerr, who played for the Bulls in 1997-98 and scored 10 points in the game against Olympiacos. “I think we were hit pretty hard with injuries. It was Michael and a bunch of scrubs.
“To go to Paris at the height of the Bulls heyday was pretty fun.”
Michael Jordan was the center of attention when the Bulls visited Paris in October 1997. Andrew D. Bernstein/NBAE via Getty Images
Now, 25 seasons later, the Bulls return to Paris for a regular-season game, facing the rival Detroit Pistons Thursday at 3 p.m. ET (NBA TV). But this version of the Bulls is far from Jordan & Co. against the Bad Boys, and Chicago is not the same dynastic force that swept through Paris in the fall of 1997. At 20-24, the Bulls are clinging to the final spot of the Eastern Conference play-in tournament, and the All-Star trio of DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic has yielded mixed results.
And yet, despite the dip in on-court results, the Bulls return to Paris as one of the NBA’s biggest international draws.
Tickets for Thursday’s game at the 20,300-seat Accor Arena are sold out and a single ticket on the resale market is going for a minimum of $200. Despite years of mediocrity and one playoff trip since 2017, Chicago is the third-most popular team in international merchandise sales and among the top five most popular teams on NBA League Pass outside the U.S., according to recent figures provided by the NBA. While Jordan’s shadow looms over everything the Bulls do in Chicago, it’s his long-lasting legacy that has made the franchise one of the most popular American sports teams across the globe.
“Chicago Bulls is one of the biggest brands, franchises in the world,” said LaVine, who has been with the team since 2017, making him the longest tenured player on the roster. “You play on the road, sometimes it’s a home game for us on the road. It’s great seeing that you have that fanbase. Not just here in Chicago, but wherever we go to.”
Zach LaVine and the Bulls are a major draw in Paris, despite sitting near the bottom of the East standings. Jeff Haynes/NBAE via Getty Images
THE SUCCESS OF the documentary series “The Last Dance” was perhaps the clearest example of the love the world still has for the Jordan dynasty.
The 10-part series about the 1997-98 Bulls season, which resulted in their sixth and final championship, premiered in April 2020 and was ESPN’s most-watched documentary ever, averaging more than 12.8 million viewers per episode. For five straight Sundays, the documentary was the No. 1 trending topic on Twitter.
Still, the Jordan legacy is something of a double-edged sword for Chicago. Current Bulls chief operating officer Michael Reinsdorf, the son of team owner Jerry Reinsdorf, said the Bulls have had internal debates for years about whether the franchise should continue to lean on the success of the ’90s team or spend more time marketing the current roster comprised of multiple All-Stars and a young core of potential.
“When you’re around it and you see how much the Bulls in the ’90s have meant to people and how popular they were and how people who never saw Michael Jordan still identify him as the greatest player in the world, I’m happy to embrace it,” Michael Reinsdorf told ESPN.
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While the Bulls are constantly trying to find the perfect blend of nostalgia and the future, the impact of “The Last Dance” and seeing things like how many fans line up to come see and take a photo in front of the Michael Jordan statue in the atrium of the United Center — even on non-game days — has made Reinsdorf believe he Bulls should embrace their history.
“You got ‘The Bean,’ you got the Chicago hot dog, you walk along the lake and you get to stop by and take a photo of the Michael Jordan statue,” Reinsdorf said. “Chicago used to be known for Al Capone. Now when you tell people you’re from Chicago, they think of Michael Jordan.”
Thanks to the Jordan-era dynasty, which won six championships in eight seasons right as the NBA was exploding in global popularity under former commissioner David Stern, the Bulls have achieved a level of brand recognition only a select few American sports franchises enjoy around the world. The Bulls were the third-most popular team in Europe, in terms of Google searches, being the most searched in eight countries, according to a study collected by OHBets. The teams ahead of them include the Golden State Warriors, the defending NBA champions who have Stephen Curry — a player Kerr recently called the modern-day Jordan because of the crowds he attracts during road games — and the Milwaukee Bucks, the 2021 NBA champions led by Greek superstar and two-time MVP Giannis Antetokounmpo.
It’s why the Bulls have never changed their logo or had any serious discussions in the post-Jordan era about doing so, according to Reinsdorf. While their jerseys have been tweaked over the years and they’ve introduced alternate looks, their primary white and red jerseys are nearly identical to the ones introduced when Jerry Reinsdorf purchased the team for $16.2 million in 1985, Jordan’s second year in the league. The Bulls’ current starting lineup is still introduced to the sounds of “Sirius” by The Alan Parsons Project, the same song that became synonymous with Jordan and the Bulls’ success.
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Thanks in large part to the enduring strength of the brand built during the Jordan years, the Bulls are among the five most popular NBA teams on social media — the No. 2 following on Facebook, No. 4 on Instagram and No. 4 on Twitter. The other NBA teams that occupy the top five are all franchises that have won championships this millennium.
Sales of Bulls merchandise remain strong as well, though even that is built largely on nostalgia. Last season, when the Bulls were in first place in the Eastern Conference for much of the first half of the season, they ranked among the top 10 teams in sales, according to NBAStore.com data, despite not having a single active player rank in the top 15 in jersey sales.
When sports retailer Lids released their list in October of the most popular jerseys sold in the 2022 offseason, three old-school Bulls were on the list: Pippen at No. 2, Jordan at No. 5 and Rodman at No. 10.
“The advantage is their history — you don’t have to explain to people what it is,” Scott Kirkpatrick, a marketing partner and founder at the agency Chicago Sports & Entertainment, told ESPN. “To get people on board if the team is winning, nothing’s easy in this world, but at least it’s manageable because you’re starting with a strong history.
“You always like to build off success. You already have that awareness and credibility, so it’s a little bit easier — but, it’s about winning. Which is really, really hard.”
The Bulls trio of DeMar DeRozan, Zach LaVine and Nikola Vucevic has yet to result in significant success for the team. David Banks-USA TODAY Sports
IN THE 25 seasons since Jordan played his last game with the Bulls, Chicago has undergone many on-court transformations.
There were the “Baby Bulls” of Eddy Curry and Tyson Chandler, which transitioned to a team led by Ben Gordon and Luol Deng. Then came the Derrick Rose era, which was cut short by Rose’s injuries. A brief flirtation with “the three Alphas” of Jimmy Butler, Dwyane Wade and Rajon Rondo fizzled quickly and Butler was traded for LaVine, who is now part of a Big Three with DeRozan and Vucevic — though Vucevic is a free agent this summer, which could mean the end of that trio.
No matter the configuration, the one constant for Chicago in the post-Jordan era has been a lack of on-court success. The Bulls have not made it back to the Finals since Jordan retired and have only reached the conference finals once (2011), one of 10 teams in the NBA with fewer than two conference finals appearances since 1998-99. They haven’t won a playoff series since 2014-15, and their 5-12 record in playoff series in the past 24 seasons is the fourth-worst series record during that span.
And yet, decades since they were at the top of the NBA, without another transcendent star like Jordan, the Bulls have retained their popularity. They’ve led the NBA in home attendance 11 times since 2010 and ranked as the No. 1 road draw last season.
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“We’re really doubling down on the idea that you can build affinity for a team that doesn’t have to win six championships in eight years,” Dan Moriarty, the team’s vice president of marketing, told ESPN. “You can do things that connect with a fanbase and when the team isn’t winning championships, we have to do those things. We can’t just rely on on-court performance to be what’s driving fandom.”
With such a large fanbase, Moriarty sees the team as having a moral responsibility to show up for Bulls fans in whatever way possible.
The team helped one of their most devout French fans secure tickets for the game in Paris. It also launched its first BullsFest during the offseason, blocking off the streets around the United Center and turning the parking lot into a two-day festival with food trucks, a basketball tournament and a stage for live music performances. Already this season, the Bulls say they have hosted more children at youth events than they had the previous season.
And the Bulls have placed inclusion at the forefront of that mission. The team hosted their fifth annual Pride Night earlier this month at the United Center, and the team has been spotlighting several different Black-owned businesses in Chicago at home games for the past three years.
“The strength of our brand is based in the dynasty that the team built in the ’90s, but we talk a lot about how that can’t be the anchor we tie everything to,” Moriarty said. “As a brand, we stand for a lot of things in the ’90s that weren’t necessarily front of mind. One of the things we talk about a lot is the unifying force of our brand. Being inclusive and being innovative whilst honoring our heritage.”
Still, Michael Reinsdorf knows the one thing that will keep the Bulls brand strong for the next 25 years is winning.
“The way I look at it, I believe the Bulls are the first global sports brand, professional sports team in the world,” Reinsdorf says. “And that’s because of Michael Jordan and our success in the ’90s winning championships.
“The NBA does such a great job of promoting the team, especially the teams that do well, so if you win, you’re going to be known throughout the world.”
When LeBron James
passed Karl Malone
for second on the NBA’s career regular-season points list, he set his sights firmly on
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the NBA’s current all-time leading scorer.
Abdul-Jabbar has been atop the career points list since April 5, 1984 — eight months before James was
even born — when he broke the mark previously held by Wilt Chamberlain. Now James has that record
within reach, needing 316 points to surpass Abdul-Jabbar’s career total of 38,387.
At his career scoring average of 27.2 PPG, James would need 12 games to rack up that total, putting him
on track to break the record on Feb. 9 against the Milwaukee Bucks. James has missed 10 games
this season. If he continues to miss games at the same rate he has so far this season, the record-breaking game would come
Feb. 23 against the Golden State Warriors. Through 34
games this season, James is averaging 29.7 PPG, putting him ahead of his career pace.
We’ll have ongoing coverage of LeBron’s quest, including updated game-by-game projections and complete
stats, throughout the season.
JAMES VS. ABDUL-JABBAR
Despite James missing 10 games this season, he has already surpassed
Abdul-Jabbar’s point total during his entire 20th and final season. James has scored 1,010 points in 34
games in 2022-23; Abdul-Jabbar scored 748 for the 1988-89 season.
JAMES
ABDUL-JABBAR
YEAR-BY-YEAR POINT TOTALS
20TH YEAR COMPARISON
TYRONN LUE
LA Clippers coach
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James finished a season-high 48 points, the most he’s ever scored against Houston. He’s now scored at least 40 points against every team except the Clippers.
LAST 5 GAMES
LeBRON JAMES
On passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
Photo by Garrett Ellwood/NBAE via Getty Images
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This is the third meeting between the Lakers and Kings in the past month. James scored 31 and 37 in the previous two.
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