Kareem Abdul Jabbar and LeBron James
LeBron James and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar stat score. James has been the headline after the Celtics matchup. However, he is also nearing the all-time scoring record of the legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
The Los Angeles Lakers and LeBron James went through plenty of controversial calls as they faced their 27th defeat of the season. In the match-up, Lebron posted a staggering 41-point show, coming closer than ever to the all-time scoring record of Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Kareem played 20 seasons in the NBA as a center and posted 38,387 points in his career.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar retired from the NBA in 1989 and for the next 33 years, no player in the NBA created a thread to his outrageous scoring. However, LeBron James has indeed knocked on the door and might be able to knock down the door to establish his legacy in the NBA.
LeBron is now only 117 points behind Kareem. He has played 154 games less than the 75-year-old Lakers’ legend. Basing the rate at which LeBron would close that chase as his scoring average. He averages 27.2 points per game and it would need another 5 games to create history.
The pace at which Lebron James is playing, scoring 41 against the Boston Celtics, in 5 games seems too much. He could be closing the record in the fifth game after Celtics which is against Golden State Warriors at the Chase Center. The NBA fans know how much he loves to post records at the Chase Center.
“As it gets closer and closer, I think I’ll start to feel it more and more,” LeBron James said,
“But I was asked earlier to really try to put myself in that moment, but I’ve gotten to this place by not really thinking about it. I’m just trying to be in the moment and play the game the right way.”
“We’ll see will it hit me. Just over the last couple years since we won the championship, a lot of accomplishments have happened in a losing effort so it’s been very difficult to kind of digest some of my own accomplishments because I don’t want to celebrate losses.”
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