LeBron finished a memorable night with 31,425 career points, and fell just short of his 75th triple-double during his most impressive performance since joining the Lakers.

If you're one of the greatest of all time, you take no more than a couple of seconds to lament your mistakes before you make good on them and come up clutch.

A guy who can't shoot and whines about his role on the bench is a massive liability, especially since his cap hit in Houston is only $2.4 million.

James just missed a triple-double, but his newest teammate got most of the cheers from the LA crowd.

'They're the best team in the Eastern Conference so far and they just came out and hit us right in the mouth.'

There is a mountain of evidence suggesting James is both a bad teammate and coach killer.

'Johnson's cutting appraisal elevated an already acute awareness within the Lakers coaching staff that there are intense and immediate pressures on Walton to deliver the franchise a winner in short order.'

A 15-2 Mavericks run as the clock wound down made things close.

'We talk about patience, but we can't have a recurrence of the same thing over and over.'

With Bryant watching, James had his first triple-double as a Laker.