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LeBron James Breaks Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s NBA Scoring Record


While he accumulated points quickly — he was the youngest player to reach 5,000, 10,000, 20,000 and 30,000 points — James also changed his play in response to aging and the changing NBA.

During the first half of his career, James wowed observers with a steady diet of intense pitches and mid-range jumps, while elevating his teammates with his high-ball runs. Convenient pass all over the field. As players like Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson, and James Harden made pointer 3 a core part of the game over the past decade, James has honed that tool, too.

And even though he doesn’t do it as often as he has done in his career, James is still able to hit the basket with the speed and power of an Amtrak with a reckless engineer.

Like Abdul-Jabbar, James’s tenacious pursuit of a goal-scoring record is down to luck and another elite skill: persistence, especially early in his career. In his first eight seasons, James missed just 29 of the season’s 656 regular games. He has faced injuries in recent years with the Lakers, but he carried on between absences as if he had something to prove.

He has long been the heartbeat of a league revolving around superstars. Very few people have expressed the term his way. James has won four championships for three teams — Cleveland, Miami Heat and Lakers — and he overtook Jordan in 2017 to become the top scorer in knockout history.

When he overtook Bryant for 3rd on the list of career goalscorers in January 2020, Bryant wrote on Twitter, “Continue to move the game forward @KingJames. Very respectful of my brother.

As for who can catch James, no one is going to do it anytime soon. The closest active player is Kevin Durant of the Nets, a 34-year-old striker 10,000 points behind. Philadelphia’s Harden (33) and Lakers’ Russell Westbrook (34) are next and are thousands of points behind Durant.

But no one thought that Abdul-Jabbar’s record would also be broken. James, as always, makes things seem easier than they really are.

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