He may not get to number 1 but I can definitely see him getting to number 3 on the list when he is finished. Even if falls off and turns into a 17 ppg player and players another 7 years that's another 10000 points right there. And I still don't see that fall off happening for at least another 2 years.
LeBron Is The Youngest Player To Reach 26,000 Points
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He comin for Kareem spot brehs.
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Trece
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Who cares? Its just Bron 
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Yo! Ho! Ho!
you keep hating, he keep breaking records
SwagKingKong
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He Will be the youngest to reach every total amount of points hes on. This isnt news
ManBearPig
half man half bearpig
Damn Pierce just reached 26 this season.. The big 3 era really killed his scoring.
Lol I would complain and not congradulate
Pierce would take the ring over a few extra points
His PPG is declining for the 2nd straight year, and with Irving and Love around him...on top of his increasing age, you have to think Lebron will be less of a focal point in the coming years.
I'm not saying he'll drop down to 10 points per game, but it's very conceivable that he gets a lot closer to 20, and maybe a shade under that.
It's very hard to play basketball at 250 pounds for 20 years and NOT have some kind of regression.
Lebron is currently 10th in the league among active players in Minutes Played.
And he's 31.
1. Kevin Garnett (39 years old)
2. Kobe Bryant (37)
3. Tim Duncan (39)
4. Dirk Nowitzki (37)
5. Paul Pierce (38)
6. Vince Carter (39)
7. Joe Johnson (34)
8. Andre Miller (39)
9. Jason Terry (38)
10. Lebron James (31)
How many of those players averaged 20+ PPG in a season from age 32+ ??
Vince Carter did it once.
Dirk Nowitzki did it 3 times.
Kobe Bryant did it 4 times.
That's 8 seasons out of a combined 61 seasons.
Dirk has been blessed with relatively good health.
And Kobe is a high volume shooter (more than Lebron, anyway) and he wound up getting injured. So there's that.
Obviously Lebron has the talent to be every bit as steady as Dirk was. Or as elite was Kobe was.
But I'd bet against it.
If you take Dirk's age 32-36 seasons (5 years), he totaled 7,008 points -- about 1400 points per year.
If you assume that kind of production for Lebron for his next 5 years, that gives him somewhere in the neighborhood of 33,000 points (probably closer to 33,700-ish given what he'll finish with after this season). That would place him 3rd, just ahead of Kobe...but still around 3,000 points behind Malone...and Lebron would be 37 years old with something like 48,000 career minutes played. And that's barring major injury.
You think that's gonna happen?
are we getting hit by an asteroid or something
No more drafts from HS impossible for someone younger than him to break them
LeBron will become underrated overtime as Wilt did because of the criticisms and the unfulfilled success. It's already happening. Dude was just the most efficient player of all time while in Miami. Gonna be fun to see how history treats him.
Originalgangsta317
Banned
Damn Pierce just reached 26 this season.. The big 3 era really killed his scoring.
Man get the fukk outta here,Pierce wasn't gonna come close to breaking no scoring records
SwagKingKong
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A couple of things:
- I expect LeBron to maintain a higher ppg average than Nowitzki throughout those years, yes. I don't see LeBron going for 17 in a game in just two seasons. His per 36 minute scoring average right now is basically exactly the same as it was in Miami.
- I expect him to play more minutes and more games than Nowitzki during that period of time (the five years u mentioned)
- Nowitzki is also putting together ANOTHER one of those seasons right now, which I fully expect LeBron to do, to.
Basically, I do expect LeBron to put up more than 7k in the five years after this season. I'm not really going out on a limb. Even Kobe with all of his injuries managed close to 7k points during that five year stretch of his career and thats with two seasons cut short of injuries (35, 6 games..).
