Welcome to our Lakers Season Preview Series! For the next several weeks, we’ll be writing columns every weekday, breaking down the biggest questions we have about every player the Lakers added this offseason. Today, we look at LeBron James.

Basketball is a numbers game. We try to contextualize the sport and use advanced statistics to gain a better understanding of what has happened, but in the end, the team that scores more points wins.

When looking at sheer numbers, LeBron James stands alone.

Let’s start with 23. It’s the jersey number he has worn for most of his career, an homage to Michael Jordan and an indicator of the impossible standards he’s had to live up to. The number 23 also now indicates the season he’s about to enter.

No other player in the 80-season history of the NBA has

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