They Helped LeBron James Set the NBA Scoring Record—With Just One Pass

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They Helped LeBron James Set the NBA Scoring Record—With Just One Pass
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They threw one assist to LeBron James. They don’t remember it.

Matt Ryan doesn’t remember the moment he was inducted into one of professional basketball’s most exclusive clubs. It came on Nov. 2, 2022, in a matchup between the Los Angeles Lakers and New Orleans Pelicans that Ryan recalls plenty well for other reasons. He hit three 3-pointers that evening for the Lakers, each one beating the shot or game clock’s buzzer.

The last of them, a sideways-fallingBut Ryan’s entrée into statistical immortality came in the second quarter, when he flipped a pass to LeBron James, who canned a 17-foot jumper. There have been 145 game-tying, at-the-horn shots in the past 20 NBA seasons, according to Stats Perform.

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