The Lakers star did it with a stepback jump shot.
With a stepback jump shot with 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter of the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, James pushed his career total to 38,388 points and broke the record that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar held for nearly four decades.
And now, King James -- a moniker he's had since high school, when he was just a kid from Akron, Ohio -- is the NBA's scoring king. by signing up you agree to our terms of service "I just want to say, thank you to the Laker faithful. You guys are one of a kind," James said."To be able to be in the presence of such a legend as great as Kareem, it's very humbling. Please give a standing ovation to the Captain, please."
At least 16 different players have, technically, been the all-time leading scorer in league history -- most of those coming in the opening month of the league's existence in 1946, when everybody was starting from zero and nine different players were atop the scoring list in the first 16 days. "Nobody will ever, ever touch it," said Cleveland forward Kevin Love, a teammate of James on the 2016 title team."The scoring record now will never be eclipsed. I don't care. It will never, ever be touched. It will never happen again."
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