LeBron James became this Saturday the leading scorer of the history of the NBA if the points obtained in the regular season are added to those of the playoff games.
The official NBA record takes into account only regular season games and there the king is still Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387 points) ahead of Karl Malone (36,928 points) and LeBron James (36,500 points before the start of today’s session).
However, the difference between Abdul-Jabbar and LeBron was much smaller if you added the regular season points with the points earned in the title eliminators.
Thus, Abdul-Jabbar had 44,149 points in that classification and LeBron 44,131 before playing today against the Golden State Warriors.
With only 19 points to achieve to break the record, The predictable thing was that the star of the Lakers would get it on his visit to the Golden State Warriors court and at halftime he already had 18 points.
At the restart, LeBron outpointed Abdul-Jabbar with a triple in the absence of 7.06 by the end of the third quarter.
With 37 years and 19 seasons behind him, “King James” He continues to amaze in the NBA with an exceptional level of play and this season he is averaging 29.1 points, 7.7 rebounds and 6.5 assists per game.
Instead, his Lakers are being one of the great disappointments of the season and, before starting Saturday’s games, they were ninth in the Western Conference with 26 wins and 30 losses.
