We might all think that after LeBron James was the NBA’s all-time leading scorer last season, LeBron James still has a bit more to go, but the reality is that he still has a trick up his sleeve to keep surprising us.
At the end of the 2022/23 season, LeBron James scored 38,652 career points in the NBA, which is 265 points higher than Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, who set his record on April 23, 1989 and broke it on February 8, 2023. King became the all-time leading scorer against the Oklahoma City Thunder.
James’ next goal is to hit the 40,000 round figure, but can he reach it? The reality is that the brand is quite feasible. The King James is 1,348 away from that number, and if you take into account the number of goals scored by LeBron over the past five years, everything looks in his favor.
In 2018/19 (his first with the Lakers) he scored 1,550 points, in 2019/20 he added 1,698 points, in 2020/21 (abbreviated COVID-19) he reached 1,126, in 2021/22 he registered 1,645 , and last it reached 1590.
In all his years in Los Angeles (except for the pandemic), he has exceeded the limit of 1400 points, so it is possible that in 2023-2024 he will reach 40,000.
LeBron James has averaged 56 games in each of the past five seasons, and with his 27.4 point average, James is expected to score 40,000 points in his 49th game this season.