{"id":402810,"date":"2023-02-08T00:01:23","date_gmt":"2023-02-08T05:01:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/ca\/?post_type=news&#038;p=402810"},"modified":"2023-02-08T06:23:05","modified_gmt":"2023-02-08T11:23:05","slug":"lebron-james-becomes-nbas-all-time-leading-scorer","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-becomes-nbas-all-time-leading-scorer\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James becomes NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">On April 5, 1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passed Wilt Chamberlain to become the NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer.<\/span><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Kareem just handed LeBron James the game ball\u2026<\/p>\n<p>Chills\u2026 \ud83d\udc51 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/e17NYpRMHf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/e17NYpRMHf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Tavio Thrower \ud83c\udfc0 (@TavioThrowerNBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TavioThrowerNBA\/status\/1623185922400620547?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"css-901oao css-16my406 r-poiln3 r-bcqeeo r-qvutc0\">Nearly 39 years later, the Los Angeles Lakers star LeBron James passed Abdul-Jabbar, scoring his 38, 388th point in the fourth quarter of the game against Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Former record-holder Abdul-Jabbar was also\u00a0sitting courtside, as he said he would until James broke the record, adding to the doubtless sense of occasion.<\/p>\n<p>The game was stopped and Jabbar joined NBA Commissioner Adam Silver on the court.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI want to say thank you to the Laker faithful,\u201d James said. \u201cI love you guys. You are one of a kind. To be able to be in the presence of such a legend as great as Kareem it means so much to me. It\u2019s humbling. Please give a standing ovation to the captain.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo my beautiful wife, my daughter, my two boys, my friends, my boys, my family, my mother, everyone who has ever been a part of this running with me these last 20 years.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>James concluded his speech by dropping an F-bomb.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\u201cFUCK MAN THANK YOU GUYS\u201d &#8211; LEBRON JAMES <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/rD3jXL7A8x\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/rD3jXL7A8x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Lakers Lead (@LakersLead) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LakersLead\/status\/1623186213677965313?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Basketball hero James had eight points in the first quarter then was at 20 points at half-time, needing 16 in the second half to make history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">Abdul-Jabbar scored his 38,387 points across 1,560 games in 20 seasons. James is also in his 20th season, but has scored his points in 151 fewer games.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_39n3n\">That puts James&#8217;s average points per game of 27.2 significantly higher than Abdul-Jabbar&#8217;s 24.6.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"500\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">HISTORY.<\/p>\n<p>With this bucket, LeBron James moves past Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to become the NBA\u2019s all-time leading scorer! <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/N6V5RxPe6r\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/N6V5RxPe6r<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; NBA on TNT (@NBAonTNT) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBAonTNT\/status\/1623184801284104192?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">February 8, 2023<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On April 5, 1984 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar passed Wilt Chamberlain to become the NBA&#8217;s all-time leading scorer. 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