39,000 points club, one table.
LeBron James transcend He reached 39,000 career points during the first quarter of Tuesday’s game against the Utah Jazz. The Los Angeles Lakers star enters the game with 38,995 points and needs just five points to reach his target.
The Kings broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s record of 38,387 points against the Oklahoma City Thunder in February last season.
It’s another accomplishment in a career that includes four championships, four NBA Finals MVPs, four league MVPs, 19 All-NBA selections, six All-Defensive selections and 19 All-Star selections. .
Perhaps most notably, he’s not even called a pure scorer, but still has more points than anyone in history. The 40,000-point club will be the next achievement, and even at age 38 and in his 21st season, he has unparalleled durability and ability to impact games, so there’s no reason to think he won’t achieve that goal.
This season, he averaged 26.4 points, 8.2 rebounds, 6.5 assists and 1.7 steals per game on Tuesday, and it looks like he is expected to be selected to the All-Star Game again and may even be selected to the All-NBA Team.
Accomplishments are one thing for a future Hall of Famer, but he’s certainly focused on just adding another one to his resume.
After all, James joins Michael Jordan, Abdul-Jabbar and others in discussions as the best players in the history of the game, and winning a fifth championship ring will only serve to his advantage when he eventually retires argument.
But the durability and longevity he continues to show also means he will outperform his peers and everyone who has played the game in many categories.
For example, categories such as the 39,000 points club.