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LeBron James needs 3,021 points to break Kareem Abdul-all-time Jabbar’s scoring record entering the 2021–22 NBA season. James is now in third place on the list, and if he stays healthy, he should overtake No. 2 Karl Malone (who is 1,562 points behind him) before the end of the season. LeBron would overtake Kareem somewhere around 2022–23 if he had two injury-free seasons, even reaching his average of 25 points per game in 2020–21.
There are a lot of people pulling for him to break the record, but one of James’ most ardent supporters may surprise you.
The NBA’s lifetime scoring record has evolved throughout time.
After the 1951–52 season, Joe Fulks, a Hall of Famer from the Philadelphia Warriors’ early days in the NBA and its precursor, the Basketball Association of America, established the record for career scoring with 7,021 points. When George Mikan died the next year, Fulks was still working.
Mikan retired with 9,766 points following the 1953–54 season, and during a short appearance in 1955–56, he surpassed the 10,000-point milestone. Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals set the record of 10,156 in the 1957–58 season. Next came Bob Pettit of the St. Louis Hawks, who passed Schayes in 1963–64 and went on to become the first player in NBA history to reach 20,000 points the following season with 20,880 points.
In 1965–66, Wilt Chamberlain was just in his sixth NBA season when he blew past Pettit. Wilt ended his NBA career in 1973 with 31,419 points, a record that lasted for more than a decade.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar overtook Chamberlain in April 1984, and when he retired in 1989, he had 38,387 points. Some viewed Malone as a danger to overtake Abdul-Jabbar, but he was derailed by a serious knee injury in his last NBA season in 2003–04, with fewer than 1,500 points remaining. Now, LeBron James is ready to challenge the peak, which has been unchallenged for more than three decades.
LeBron James, according to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, should take the record.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (L) wants LeBron James to shatter his all-time scoring record in the NBA. | Getty Images/Icon Sportswire | Getty Images/Harry How
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stated he fully supports LeBron James in a one-on-one conversation with Substack writer Marc Stein. He compared it to breaking the previously unbreakable four-minute mile barrier:
“I’m looking forward to seeing it happen. I consider records to be human achievements rather than personal successes. If one individual can do something that has never been done before, then we all have a chance. It is a source of inspiration and optimism.
“In 1954, Roger Bannister became the first person to run the mile in under four minutes. Not only have 1,400 runners improved on that time since then, but the current record is 17 seconds faster. When a record is broken, we all triumph, and if LeBron breaks mine, I’ll be there to cheer him on.”
The players who have held the record are a select group. If James makes it there, he’ll be just the sixth person to do it.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar has a long list of achievements that might fill a book.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is the all-time best scorer in NBA history, and he also holds many records in the league. He’s made more field goals and taken more shots than anybody else, which makes sense (15,837 and 28,307, respectively). No one has played more minutes than Abdul-Jabbar, who has 57,446. (or was whistled for more fouls, 4,657).
He is the career leader in Win Shares with 273.4, according to advanced statistics (James is third behind Chamberlain with 242.0).
Despite the fact that the first four seasons aren’t included, Abdul-Jabbar ranks third all-time in blocked shots with 3,189, and his eighth-place ranking in Value Over Replacement Player (85.72) is also misleading. That number doesn’t go back any further than the 1973–74 season. Given that three of those four seasons contain his best Win Shares totals, it’s easy to see Abdul-Jabbar catching up to all-time leader James’ total of 137.28.
Kareem Abdul-six Jabbar’s Most Valuable Player honors, which he earned over a 10-season period, are perhaps his safest record. With four, LeBron James is the active leader. But he’ll be 37 this season, and no one older than 35 has won the title since Malone in 1998–99.
Basketball Reference provided the statistics.
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