Last night, LeBron James passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for most points on the NBA all-time scoring list. James has become the seventh player to hold the title in the history of the league and this is how he did it. Read more:
Somehow, he became the most prolific scorer in NBA history anyway. It finally happened Tuesday night, the kid from Akron, Ohio, connecting on a stepback jumper to push his career total to 38,388 points and break the record that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar held for nearly 39 years.
“You’ve got to give him credit for just the way that he planned to last and to dominate,“ Abdul-Jabbar told TNT.— is the NBA’s scoring king, with 38,390 points and counting. “I just want to say, thank you to the Laker faithful. You guys are one of a kind,“ James said. “To be able to be in the presence of such a legend as great as Kareem, it’s very humbling. Please give a standing ovation to the Captain, please.”
At least 16 different players have, technically, been the all-time leading scorer in league history — most of those coming in the opening month of the league’s existence in 1946, when everybody was starting from zero and nine different players were atop the scoring list in the first 16 days. James could have had the scoring record long ago, if so inclined. But he always preferred passing. James is behind only John Stockton, Jason Kidd and Chris Paul on the all-time assists list. None of them were, or are, close to the scorer that James is. Of that group, Paul comes closest, ranking 38th in NBA history.“I hadn’t thought of it that way, but that is very true,” Silver told AP in advance of the record-setting night.
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