No player comes close to matching LeBron’s production and efficiency this deep into their career.
Take a look at this list of players that have averaged 10 points or more in their 19th season or later. The fact that’s he’s in contention for his second scoring title this late into his career is simply unheard of. In his 19th season, this is LeBron’s highest scoring average in over a decade and he is on pace for his 18th straight season of averaging at least 25 points – no other player has more than 11 such seasons. While LeBron doesn’t have Jordan’s 10 scoring titles or the incredible scoring peaks of players like Wilt (50.4 ppg in 1961-62), Jordan (37.1 ppg in 1986-87), Kobe (35.4 ppg in 2005-06) or James Harden (36.1 ppg in 2018-19), no player has ever matched the level of consistent excellence and longevity that we have seen from LeBron.Īfter his second 50-plus point game in under a week on Friday and a 31-point game on Sunday, LeBron is currently second in the NBA in scoring (29.7 ppg), behind Joel Embiid (29.8 ppg). At the same time, when it comes to the scoring aspect of his game, LeBron is one of the best of all time. LeBron is much more than a scorer and impacts all aspects of the game as his playmaking and rebounding numbers suggest and the eye test proves on a nightly basis. This 30K-10K-10K feat proves both of those statements to be correct.
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I’m a guy that always got happy and excited in seeing my team be successful.”Ĭontrast that with his comments from a recent episode of his Showtime series The Shop, “When they talk about the best scorers of all time, they never mention my name.” James then added, “it pisses me off.” When you talk about scorers, you have a lot of great scorers in our league of all time, guys that shot a lot of shots, volume shooters that score the ball at a high clip. Put me on the court and I’ll find ways to be successful. I can put the ball in the hoop, but I’m a playmaker,” he said. When he passed Jordan as the NBA’s top playoff scorer of all time, he was adamant that he did not want to be referred to as a “scorer.”
Throughout his career, LeBron has had a contentious relationship with the “scorer” label. Even if we drop the scoring threshold to 10,000 points, there is still not another player in NBA history to reach the career triple-quintuple (10K-10K-10K). It’s not just that no player has ever accumulated 30,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists in their career – since only seven players have ever reached 30,000 points. > Related: Milestone baskets in LeBron James’ career 35,000 points: 3 players (Kareem, Malone, LeBron).30,000 points: 7 players (LeBron, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki, Wilt Chamberlain).Not only has LeBron scaled each rung of this scoring ladder, he was also the youngest player to reach each of these marks. LeBron James is 1 of 3 players ever to reach 35,000 career points.īelow is a look at the number of players that have hit the major scoring milestones in NBA history. LeBron not only established the 10K-10K-10K club, he entered the club with an extra 20,000 points to spare. LeBron’s 10,000th career assist came on a cross-court pass to Carmelo Anthony for an open 3-pointer as two of the game’s top 10 scorers of all-time connected for this historic achievement.
10,000 assists.ĭo we call it the career triple-double? How about the triple-quintuple? Yes, that last term sounds ridiculous, but so is the feat that LeBron just achieved after dishing out his second assist of the night during the second quarter of the Lakers-Suns game on Sunday in Phoenix. There is not a name for what LeBron James just accomplished - simply because it had never been done before.ģ0,000 points. * earnings may include deduction of original cashed earned due to shortened seasonĭrafted by Cleveland (CLE): Round 1 (#1 overall)Ī look at the reported fines & suspensions for LeBron James, and the financial implications.LeBron James is the first player in NBA history to accumulate at least 10,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists.Įditor’s Note: This article has been updated since its original publication to include the result and updated stats following the Lakers’ win against Washington on Friday and the Lakers’ loss to Phoenix on Sunday, during which LeBron recorded his 10,000th career assist. Contract: 2 yr(s) / $97,133,373Ī look at the calculated cash earnings for LeBron James, including any upcoming years. LeBron James signed a 2 year / $97,133,373 contract with the Los Angeles Lakers, including $97,133,373 guaranteed, and an annual average salary of $48,566,687.
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