Lebron James becomes the first to score 50,000 connected points during the regular NBA and Playoffs season

Lebron James is well on the way to rewriting every previous definition of longevity in basketball, and a 40-year-old star now won numbers that NBA has never seen before.

James became the first player who scored 50,000 connected points in the regular season and after the season on Tuesday evening, exceeding the 3-point sign at the starting of the first quarter of Los Angeles Lakers win 136-115 over the latest Orlean.

James finished with 34 points against pelicans after he overturned one other milestone in his unprecedented profession.

“I mean that these are many points,” James said later, rubbing his beard in amazement. “Of course, the first thing that comes to mind is where I come from. Raising the game when I was a small child and loved this sport, and hoping that one day I would be able to play at the highest level. I was able to do it and really enjoy my career. It’s definitely an honor. It’s nice to see it. “

James is already the best scorer in the history of NBA in each the regular and Play -off season. Keeping the spectacular level of the game in the half of the record 22 season, it moves away from other great games: Lakers Great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who played 20 seasons, is already a detachment of 44,149 connected points.

James obtained his milestone 3-point assistant to Luka Doncica, a curiosity that’s satisfied with each stars. Doncic arrival last month Seismic trade from Dallas Mavericks He enlivened each James and the Lakers, who seem like a contest for a championship with the seven winning series and 17 wins in the last 20 matches.

“It’s amazing, watching how he does it at this age,” said Doncic, who had 30 points, 15 assists and eight rebounds against New Orleans. “It’s just unbelievable, these 50,000 points. I can’t even explain how crazy it is. He can get to 70,000 You never know. “

Lakers recognized the milestone of the next time, and the public announcer Lawrence Tanter said: “Lord and gentlemen, we all witnessed history.” James awarded the ovation standing with just a few waves from the bench.

James is related to Vince Carter for many of the seasons played in the history of NBA. But while almost every other NBA player, who lasted until late Nineteen Thirties, ended with a fraction of peak powers, James shows no signs of falling at the age of 40.

He was called the player of the Western NBA conference a month earlier on Tuesday after he scored a median of 29.3 points, 10.5 rebounds, 6.9 assists and 1.2 thefts in February, playing over 35 minutes for a match for the Lakers who went 9-2 to reach second place in the West.

After the victory over the Pelicans, the Lakers improved to 11-2 from the purchase of Doncic.

James played in 1548 matches in the regular season, following Robert Parish (1611) and Abdul-Jabbar (1560). If he stays healthy and decides to return to the record season 23, he’ll probably surpass the parish of the next winter.

James also played in 287 matches after the season, the most in NBA history. He became a frontrunner in his profession in the league on May 25, 2017, when he exceeded 5987 Michael Jordan while playing in the finals of the Cleveland Cavaliers Eastern Conference in Boston.

James became then The best shooter in the history of the regular season On February 7, 2023, when he reached the Abdul-Jabbar 38 387 points record during the Lakers match from Oklahoma City.

James’s fertile scoring is basically due to his metronomic consistency. Thanks to his performance against Pelicans, he scored not less than 10 points in 1278 consecutive matches from January 6, 2007 – by far the longest such series in the history of NBA.

The James of the month’s award for February was his forty first, expanding his own league record. He can be the oldest player who won the award, exceeding 37-year-old Karl Malone in November 2000.