{"id":479457,"date":"2024-03-02T22:44:09","date_gmt":"2024-03-03T02:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/?post_type=news&#038;p=479457"},"modified":"2024-03-02T22:44:09","modified_gmt":"2024-03-03T02:44:09","slug":"lebron-james-1st-to-reach-40000-career-points","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/news\/lebron-james-1st-to-reach-40000-career-points\/","title":{"rendered":"LeBron James 1st to reach 40,000 career points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James continues to extend his career like nobody else has done it before, becoming the 1<sup>st<\/sup> basketballer in the National Basketball Association to reach 40,000 career points today at Crypto.com Arena.<\/p>\n<p>LeBron came into the LA Lakers\u2019 match vs. the <a href=\"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/nba\/team\/denver-nuggets\/\">Denver Nuggets<\/a> needing 9 points to secure the phenomenal achievement. James did it with a driving layup at the 10:39 mark of the 2<sup>nd<\/sup> quarter.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LeBron James scores the bucket to become the first player in league history to score 40,000 career points ?<\/p>\n<p>DEN-LAL Live on ABC <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/I84Xd5hiWf\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/I84Xd5hiWf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1764111508768698680?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;No player has ever achieved it,&#8221; LeBron shared when asked about the point total in the past few days. &#8220;And for me to have the chance at this point and time in my career, I really appreciate it.<\/p>\n<p>Does it sit among the most important things that I achieved in my career? No. But does it mean something? Without a doubt. Yes. Why wouldn&#8217;t it? To have the chance to accomplish things in the NBA, with the greatest basketballers ever to play the game here, has been an aim, and to hit feats and have milestones throughout my career are all dreams that I would be happy to achieve at one point.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">LeBron James just became the first player in NBA history to surpass 40,000 career points.<\/p>\n<p>He was also the first to reach 10K assists and 10K rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>Nike\u2019s tribute: <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/UEVKtlmFnR\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/UEVKtlmFnR<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Front Office Sports (@FOS) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FOS\/status\/1764113904475480254?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>LeBron passed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar&#8217;s career scoring total of 38,387 points in the past campaign to overtake the heralded center&#8217;s perch as NBA\u2019s all-time scoring leader, a record Abdul-Jabbar held for almost 40 seasons.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">The Lakers video tribute to LeBron James that played after he was presented the game ball during a timeout after becoming the first player in league history to reach 40,000 points. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/DLZygRusAY\" target=\"_blank\">pic.twitter.com\/DLZygRusAY<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Dave McMenamin (@mcten) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/mcten\/status\/1764113072351011266?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">March 3, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LeBron James continues to extend his career like nobody else has done it before, becoming the 1st basketballer in the National Basketball Association [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4225,"featured_media":479458,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false},"tags":[16736,16972,16970,17837],"news_category":[16706,16715,14084],"gn_keywords":[17859,17644,17645,1067],"acf":{"announce":"He did it with the Lakers in the match against the reigning champions Nuggets.","video":["video"]},"rank_math_focus_keyword":"","rank_math_description":"","rank_math_title":"","rank_math_robots":"","rank_math_canonical_url":"","rank_math_facebook_title":"","rank_math_facebook_description":"","rank_math_facebook_image":"","rank_math_twitter_title":"","rank_math_twitter_description":"","rank_math_twitter_image":"","rank_math_snippet_shortcode":"","rank_math_primary_category":"","rankmath_seo":{"focus_keyword":"","description":"","title":"","canonical_url":"","robots":"","facebook":{"title":"","description":"","image":""},"twitter":{"title":"","description":"","image":""}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479457"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4225"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=479457"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479457\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":479461,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/479457\/revisions\/479461"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/479458"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=479457"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=479457"},{"taxonomy":"news_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news_category?post=479457"},{"taxonomy":"gn_keywords","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/7sport.net\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/gn_keywords?post=479457"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}