LeBron James did this for 18 years and 1,297 games. Until Thursday.

Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James had scored 10 or more points in all 1,297 games he had played since Jan. 6, 2007. That streak ended on Thursday in Toronto.

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 prolonged it for another day Thursday, as well, on a night against the Raptors when the Lakers were shorthanded and he had made just four of his 17 shots, including none of his five 3-point attempts. James was sitting on eight points when he received a pass with three seconds left and the Lakers tied 120-120 with the Raptors.