LeBron James breaks Kareem’s record for field goals

ByDavid Mitchell
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LeBron James has scored the most baskets in NBA history, reaching 15,838 in his career, surpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

DENVER — LeBron James it was already him top scorer in NBA history.

Now, the Los Angeles Lakers star too has scored the most baskets.

LeBron James hit a baseline spinning jumper over Denver Nuggets forward Zeke Nnaji with 12.3 seconds left in the first quarter on Thursday, his third field goal of the game and the number 15,838 of his careersurpassing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the leading scorer in NBA history.

James already replaced Abdul-Jabbar as the league’s all-time leading scorer on February 7, 2023 with a step-back jumper from the extended free throw line, giving him 38,388 career points.

Since then, he has surpassed that number of points above 43,000, which places him in second place, moving away from Abdul-Jabbar.

“I’m a big Bruce Springsteen fan,” Lakers coach JJ Redick said before the game. “I would say that his first albums motivate me a lot. He has youth and energy. ‘Nebraska’ is, in fact, my favorite album of all time, and that is very different from what he had done up to that point in his career. And then you can see his evolution as a singer-songwriter. And then he releases his greatest hits and you say, ‘Wow, this is great!’. And then he releases ‘The Rising,’ one of the most important albums of the 2000s. Like that that, in the end, you say: ‘Oh my God! The greatest hits of this guy are crazy!'” And LeBron’s greatest hits do not stop growing. Play, play and play. And the greatest hits are just… he has an impressive catalogue.

Earlier this season, James passed Michael Cooper for fifth place on the Lakers’ all-time assists list and joined Kobe Bryant as the only other Lakers player with 1,000 3-pointers.

The next big statistical milestone on the horizon for James is Robert Parish’s record of 1,611 games played.

James is second with 1,606 and could surpass Parish on March 16 against the Houston Rockets if he plays every game on the Lakers’ upcoming schedule until then.

David Mitchell
David Mitchell

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