LeBron James caught the basketball at the top of the 3-point arc Thursday in Toronto with an opportunity to extend a streak that began Jan. 6, 2007.

Quite literally, he passed it up — and it won the Los Angeles Lakers a game while ending his streak.

James had scored 10 or more points in all 1,297 regular-season games he had played since that night in 2007, during his fourth NBA season, and the streak had lasted for 6,907 days — 18 years — all the way into this, his record-setting 23rd season.

The streak had survived close calls before, as recently as Monday, when James stayed in a blowout loss long enough to finish with 13 points. And he scored just 11 in his season debut Nov. 18, after a three-week absence because of sciatica.

James, the NBA's all-time leading scorer, might have prolo

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