Since ancient times, no player in the NBA league has scored more than 40,000 points in his career, and the historical scoring king Abdul-Jabbar is still more than 1,000 points away from the milestone of 40,000 points.
In theory, Abdul-Abdul-Jabbar has the hope of becoming the first Mr. Forty Thousand, but he also played 20 seasons, playing until he was 41 years old to score so many points, and in his final season he scored less than 800 points in total, so even if he plays one or two more seasons, it is unlikely to reach the 40,000 points milestone.
After Jabbar, Jordan was very promising to get more than 40,000 points, for Jordan who averaged more than 30 points per game in his career and averaged 20+ at the age of 40, it was indeed very likely to do it, but Jordan did not play for 20 seasons like Jabbar, playing until the age of 40, but retired twice in the middle, which led to Jordan only reaching the milestone of 30,000 points and missing the 40,000 points milestone.
Although Jordan did not achieve this feat, the good news is that James now has a good chance to do it, and James is also the most likely and probably the only player who can score 40,000 points. James has reached the 36,000-point milestone this season, and the 37-year-old has also been in very good offensive form over the past period of time, scoring 30+ in 11 of 13 games and averaging more than 29 points per game this season.
With James in form this season, reaching the 37,000-point milestone, surpassing Carl Malone is quite possible. In this way, James will replace Abdul-Jabbar as the all-time scoring champion in the future, not reaching the 40,000-point milestone, and the hope is getting bigger and bigger.
Now and for a long time to come, the only player who can become Mr. Forty Thousand points is James, and in terms of three-pointers, the only player who can hit 4,000 three-pointers is probably Curry.
This season, Curry has surpassed Ray Allen and become the first player in history to hit more than 3,000 three-pointers. With Curry's three-point ability, hitting more than 4,000 three-pointers is a high probability event, if you hit 300 per season, Curry can do it for almost 3 seasons, and even if you hit 250 three-pointers per season, Curry only needs 4 seasons.
So, Curry's hope of reaching 4,000 three-pointers is still great, and with the exception of Curry, it is not clear that any player is likely to hit 4,000 three-pointers. Of course, there are still players who can hit 3,000 three-pointers, such as Harden, Lillard and Thompson.