This is the third consecutive game with at least 30 points while shooting 60% or better from the field for Jayson Tatum. Kevin McHale was the last Celtic to accomplish that feat, in March 1987
Jaylen Brown added 24 points for the Celtics, who sit in third in the Eastern Conference behind the first-place Milwaukee Bucks and the Toronto Raptors.
James scored 29 points and put the Lakers ahead on a fallaway jumper with 30 seconds to play, and Los Angeles split its season series with Boston in a 114-112 victory.