Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James could surpass Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Tuesday night in a home game against the Oklahoma City Thunder to become the NBA's ...

Abdul-Jabbar scored 38,387 points in 1,560 games over 20 seasons. James has scored 38,352 points in 1,409 games over 20 seasons. Kareem was set to attend Tuesday night's game.

Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is expected to attend Tuesday night's game between the Los Angeles Lakers and Oklahoma City Thunder, with LeBron James trailing...

LeBron earned it and I hope he carries it even longer than I did." I'm excited and relieved to pass it along to the next worthy recipient. LeBron earned it, and I hope he carries it even longer than I did."

LeBron James is about to break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's NBA scoring record. Some of Kareem's numbers during six years with the Milwaukee Bucks are staggering.

15, 2015, topping Golden State, 108-95, [to snap the Warriors 28-win start to the year](https://www.jsonline.com/story/sports/nba/bucks/2019/12/12/bucks-ended-golden-state-warriors-winning-streak-dec-12-2015/4409056002/). 9, 1972, 120-104](https://www.si.com/nba/bucks/old-school/how-kareem-abdul-jabbar-and-the-bucks-ended-the-longest-winning-streak-in-american-history). He missed his other 17 attempts, all coming in the final 10 years of his career once the 3-point line was established in the NBA in the 1979-80 season. It's a sore subject in Milwaukee sports history, but the trade was a good one. Antetokounmpo will presumably play his 700th career game against the Lakers and will be on his way to passing Bridgeman this year. [[email protected]](mailto:[email protected]). Brandon Jennings has a Bucks rookie record with 55 points in 2009. That's still the top mark in Bucks history (Giannis is approaching 5,700). If Giannis averaged 30 points per game, he'd still need 117 games (basically a season and a half) to get halfway. 5 of that year) to collect another 45 40-point games in the years after Abdul-Jabbar retired, nearly 45 seasons later. That's a full half of the 50-point games in franchise history; since Abdul-Jabbar left, six have been authored by Antetokounmpo, one by Brandon Jennings, one by Khris Middleton and two by Michael Redd. Bear in mind, that's with fewer potential games than in current seasons, averaging 30 points per game over 57 contests.

LeBron James and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar don't have a good relationship, that's a known fact, in fact, it's more accurate to say they don't have a relationship.

[Lebron James' strange desire: I wish I could walk into Starbucks and have my name on the cup like normal people](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/los-angeles-lakers/2023/02/07/63e2aa38ca4741e8628b464a.html) [LeBron James](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/lebron-james.html) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar don't have a good relationship, that's a known fact, in fact, it's more accurate to say they don't have a relationship. It was ESPN's Dave McMenamin who first confirmed the presence of Abdul-Jabbar, who won five of his six NBA championships as Los Angeles' tall man. Therefore, Kareem's presence was a question mark in the first real chance that the scepter was handed out. The man born with the name Ferdinand Lewis Alcindor Jr. received a standing ovation when his presence was seen on the court and at all times he looked with a tense face as he watched on the Lakers' home screen the points that remained for his mark to be surpassed. That doesn't mean that when the [Los Angeles Lakers](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/los-angeles-lakers.html) and the [Oklahoma City Thunder](https://www.marca.com/en/basketball/nba/oklahoma-city-thunder.html) are facing off this Tuesday at Crypto.com Arena the presence of the inventor of the Sky-Hook is not important to the "King".

The last time a new name appeared atop the NBA's all-time points rankings was in April 1984. LeBron James was born later that year.

The points record is a testament to an athlete's scoring ability, but also to their stamina and long-term durability. Over that span, he's gone to the NBA Finals Add Dirk Nowitzki and Wilt Chamberlain, and you have the only seven NBA players to score more than 30,000 points. He's slated to be a captain in that game, which will tip off Feb. James addressed the crowd and was emotional about what he'd just done. Abdul-Jabbar was in attendance to witness the accomplishment, along with countless other celebrities.

James, the Los Angeles Lakers star, scored the record-breaking 38388th point that had eluded generations of superstars.

Philadelphia’s Harden (33 years old) and the Lakers’ Russell Westbrook (34) are next and thousands of points behind Durant. As players like Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and James Harden made the 3-pointer a core part of the game over the past decade, James sharpened that tool, too. Few have embodied the term the way he has. He has dealt with injuries in recent years with the Lakers, but he has carried on in between absences like he had something to prove. Instead, he became skilled enough at every facet of the game to remain relevant, and dominant, for 20 years. When the moment came, Abdul-Jabbar, in a black jacket bearing his jersey number, 33, came onto the court with N.B.A. Then he raised them up and looked up into the stands at the thousands of people who had come to see him make history. That was the end of James’s rookie year. He broke the record on a fadeaway 2-point shot in the final seconds of the third quarter of Tuesday night’s game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. But the 38-year-old James, in his 20th season, is still pouring in points as one of the best players in the N.B.A. He had tears in his eyes. LOS ANGELES — Lakers forward LeBron James is the leading scorer in N.B.A.

The GOAT conversation becomes less of a debate with each step King James takes.

Even when Jordan reigned as the GOAT, there were other old heads saying, and writing, and debating, and insisting, that it was Kareem who was the true Greatest Of All Time. Now LeBron has done the same, to all of them. The debate will surely rage on, especially this week, but the deed is done. There is so much to say about Jordan in defense of his position as the game's GOAT. The record will last in a way other nuances of greatness won't. He has been too astounding for too long, with too much dominance, in a way that makes his greatness so similar to Jordan's but with a longevity Mike cannot match. The GOAT game is a zero-sum proposition. But history has a way of forgetting as much as happening, and LeBron's mark Tuesday will not just etch him in greatness. The weight of it all seemed heavy and beautiful and inevitable. [Lakers](https://www.cbssports.com/nba/teams/LAL/los-angeles-lakers/) jersey now, the purple and gold perfectly suited for the meaning of the thing. The media was at a NBA Finals level, overflowing. He had the four rings, and the four regular season Most Valuable Player awards, and the four [NBA](/nba/) Finals MVPs.

On hand in Los Angeles to witness the occasion was NBA legend Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who had held the title for 39 years since dethroning then-champ Wilt Chamberlain in 1984. Abdul-Jabbar, himself a former Los Angeles Laker, walked onto the court to present ...

"It's as if I won a billion dollars in a lottery and 39 years later someone won two billion dollars. "It means someone has pushed the boundaries of what we thought was possible to a whole new level," he wrote. It's as if I won a billion dollars in a lottery and 39 years later someone won two billion dollars. "I retired from the NBA 34 years ago." Grateful that I won and happy that the next person also won," he wrote in a post published on The only time I ever think of the record is when someone brings it up," he wrote.