LeBron James pulverizes Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record

LeBron James continues to expand his legacy in the NBA. The Los Angeles Lakers star has reached a new historic record by becoming the player with the most baskets scored in the history of the league.

The milestone came this Thursday during the game against the Denver Nuggets. With 12.3 seconds remaining in the first quarter, James scored a jump shot from the baseline against the defense of Zeke Nnaji. It was his third basket of the game and the 15,838th of his career, thus surpassing the record held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

The forward had already surpassed Abdul-Jabbar as the NBA's all-time leading scorer on February 7, 2023, when he exceeded the legendary center's 38,387 points with a fading jump shot from the free-throw line extension. Since then, James has continued to expand his record and now surpasses 43,000 points in his career.

Before the game, the Lakers coach, JJ Redick, compared James' longevity and evolution with Bruce Springsteen's musical career. The coach explained that, just as the singer has built a career full of great hits over the years, the Akron native continues to add new chapters to a historic catalog within the NBA.

In addition to this new record, James has also achieved other important milestones this season. During the season, he surpassed Michael Cooper to rank fifth on the Lakers' all-time assists list and joined Kobe Bryant as the only players in the franchise to have scored at least 1,000 three-pointers.

LeBron's Grand Record Yet to Come

The veteran forward's next statistical goal is related to durability. James is very close to breaking the record for most games played in the NBA, currently held by Robert Parish with 1,611 games.

The Lakers' player now holds the second position in that ranking with 1,606 games and could surpass the record on March 16 against the Houston Rockets, provided he plays in all the team's games leading up to that date.

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