On February 13, Beijing time, the NBA regular season, the Los Angeles Lakers challenged the Golden State Warriors away. James surpassed Abdul-Jabbar in one fell swoop to become the all-time total scorer in the NBA regular season + playoffs!
Prior to this game, James scored a total of 36,500 points in the NBA regular season, ranking third in history, behind Carl Malone with 36,928 points and Abdul-Jabbar with 38,387 points. Fourth place was Kobe Bryant with 33,643 points; fifth place was Jordan with 32,292 points.
In the playoffs, Zhan Huang has scored a total of 7631 points so far, ranking first in history! Jordan ranked second with 5,987 points; Jabbar was third with 5,762 points; and Bryant was fourth with 5,640 points.
So, in the regular season and playoffs combined, Abdul-Jabbar's total score is 44,149 points, the first in history; James is 44,131 points, second in history, and only 18 points less than Jabbar! "Postman" Malone's total score is 41689 points, Kobe Bryant 39283 points, Jordan 38279 points, ranking third to fifth.
That is to say, in today's game with the Warriors, James only needs to score another 19 points to surpass the "sky hook"! After the opening, he made a foul on Cuminga, hit all 2 free throws, made a good start, and then there was a fire dunk, scoring 8 points in the first quarter.
In the second quarter, LeBron was strong under the basket again, threw in three points, and broke through the layup, and the first two quarters had already scored 18 points, equalizing Abdul-Abdul-Jabbar! In the third quarter, the historic moment finally arrived: James shot 3 points to get the 21st point of the game, with a total score of 44152 points, officially surpassing Abdul-Jabbar!
Zhan Huang made history again! The honors of the total scoring champion and the playoff scoring champion already belong to him, and only the regular season scoring champion remains.
LeBron is 400 points away from second-placed Malone and has a chance to finish this season; He is nearly 2,000 points from Abdul-Jabbar, but with his outstanding stats of 29.1 points per game this season, it is only a matter of time before he takes the first place.