Today, the Lakers lost to the Wizards 119-127. In this game, Lakers forward LeBron James played 36 minutes and had 38 points, 10 rebounds and 6 assists on 16-of-29 shooting. James thus overtook Carl Malone to rise to second place on the all-time scoring list.
At present, only historical leading scorer Karim Abdul-Jabbar is ahead of James with 38,387 points. At the age of 42, Abdul-Jabbar scored his last career point , 38,387 points , in his 20th season.
James is just 1,440 points away from equaling Abdul-Abdul-Jabbar. This will cost him:
Averaging 20 points per game and requiring 72 games;
Averaging 25 points per game and requiring 58 games;
Averaging 30 points per game, it takes 48 games.
If he maintains an average of 25 points per game, James will need to play another 122 games to reach 40,000 points.
In addition, if James plays the same number of games as Abdul-Jabbar, he only needs to average 7.3 points per game to surpass Jabbar in the 1560th game of his career.