Thanks to the 26 points scored in the 117-115 defeat against the Golden State Warriors, the Lakers player overtook Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for total points scored.
Third quarter of tonight’s game against the Golden State Warriors, with Steph Curry and associates leading 75-71. Anthony Davis has the ball in the tip, serves LeBron James in guard position and whose marking does not mean Andrew Wiggins and Jonathan Kuminga. The number 6, without hesitation, let go of a triple that enters and has a historical value. Legendary, indeed, because it is the triple that is worth the overtaking Kareem Abdul Jabbar for total points scored in NBA history between regular season and Playoffs. The NBA has existed since June 6, 1946 and for a few hours no one has had more points to his credit than LeBron Raymone James.
With 26 points scored in a game on which however, his mistakes are irretrievably affected by the free throws with 2.4 seconds left (three attempts that if scored would have brought the score in a draw, the first wrong and the third intentionally wrong in an attempt to score then rebound), the native of Akron has hoisted himself at altitude 44.157 points8 more than Jabbar with 180 fewer games played, and in a ranking that completes the podium to Karl Malone, at 41,689, followed by Kobe Bryant and Michael Jordan.
The real overtaking of Kareem, however, is still to be done though: limiting the discussion to the regular season only – for the all-American practice of giving greater value to the latter since everyone plays it unlike the Playoffs – as for every historical record of the league, James is about 1400 points away from becoming the all-time record-man. Numbers that, traveling at the current figures (29.1 points per game, second only to the pair Kevin Durant-Joel Embiid with 29.3) would allow him to overcome the NBA legend in 65 games, between this season and the first half of the next. Flying lower, just 20 points per race in the next 95 would be enough to be disputed to secure the lead.
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Meanwhile, the Lakers are in a deep crisis
Figures absolutely within the reach of a player who halfway through yet another broken recordsince his Lakers continue to lose and live a moment of profound technical crisis that will likely lead to drastic choices both as regards the bench, and for the same roster created in the summer, with Russell Westbrook already on the grill in the last hours of market (all the exchanges are wrecked due to the reluctance of the yellow-purple to enter the first choice 2027 in the negotiation) and an enigma to be solved as soon as possible in order not to fail the minimum objective of playing at least the play-in tournament by guaranteeing access through this to the post-season, an objective that cannot be waived if the team boasts the couple LeBron James-Anthony Davis.
The ninth place with a reassuring margin on the eleventh of the Pelicans to date at least keeps the hopes of extending the season high, but to hypothesize that the structural problems of this team can be solved without revolutions and with the only possible additions from the buyout market (the players cut from the various deductibles) is pure utopia. This group would need a miracle that not even the best scorer ever – moreover an accomplice in the wicked construction of this roster – can perform. All that remains is to enjoy these records with a half smile, in the knowledge that such a player will never come back.
