LeBron James breaks NBA mark for games played in Lakers' win over Magic

Local News LeBron James breaks NBA mark for games played in Lakers' win over Magic March 21, 2026 / 11:03 PM EDT / AP Add CBS News on Google LeBron James broke the NBA record for games played in the Lakers' win over the Orlando Magic on Saturday, passing Robert Parish with 1,612 career games. He may be running out of records to chase soon, and has already has gotten plenty of them, including most points scored, most seasons played, most minutes played, most All-NBA selections, most All-Star selections, most field goals made, most field goals attempted, most playoff games, most playoff points, highest career earnings ... James has all those marks, and probably many more. And that list doesn't even include ones that James' Los Angeles Lakers teammate Austin Reaves adds to the tally — highly nuanced and perhaps made-up categories like most sneakers worn and most shoestrings used. "He says a new stat every day about me," James said. James took outright possession of yet another record Saturday night, when he started the Lakers' game in Orlando and officially played in the 1,612th regular-season game of his career — breaking a tie with Robert Parish for the most in NBA history. It's an obvious tribute to James' longevity. He is in his 23rd season, one more than Vince Carter's previous record. Entering Saturday, there are 79 players who have logged NBA minutes this season and weren't even born when James played his debut game in the league on Oct. 29, 2003. "It's not like I'm like writing things down and looking at the record book and saying: 'I'm going to get that, I'm going to get that, I'm going to get that.' It just kind of happened," James said. "It was not on the list of things that I wanted to accomplish." Everything he does now raises the bar. Every point he scores, every shot he takes, every game he plays just widens the gap a little bit more between him and everyone else on the stat lists. He has accomplished all the big to-dos on his wish list entering the leag...