NBA: LeBron James’ crazy season

Although on the collective level, the Lakers’ season is far from living up to expectations, from an individual point of view, LeBron James is on track to enter a little more into NBA history since he risks stacking the records. Of course, the record for the number of points held by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar will soon fall, but that’s not all since thanks to the All-Star Game, the King also broke two huge records.

Starting the season, LeBron James probably had other ambitions than trying to grab a place in Play-In, which even seems difficult to reach. And for good reason, although they have raised the bar after a disastrous start to the season, the Lakers only point to 13th place in the Western Conference with a negative record of 23 wins for 26 losses. But paradoxically, this could also be a legendary season for LeBron James On personal plans.

The three crazy records that LeBron James will break

And for good reason, the selection of All-Star Game just fell, and LeBron James took the opportunity to break two legendary records. Selected for the 19th time in his career, the King thus equals Kareem Abdul-Jabbar which also had 19 stars. He will team up with title Stephen Curry (9th selection), Luka Doncic (4th selection), Zion Williamson (2nd selection) and Nikola Jokic (5th selection). Next season, the native of Akron should therefore become alone at the head of this ranking. On the other hand, LeBron James has indeed become the player who has arrived most often in the first place of the votes. For the 10th time in his career, the number 23 of Lakers therefore came out on top in the votes and broke the record he held until then with Michael Jordanwhich testifies to the immense popularity of the King who is about to enter a little more in the history of the NBA. In effect, LeBron James is only 178 points away from the historic record for points scored in NBA of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38.387).

‘I never thought I could catch Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’

Present at a press conference, LeBron James admitted that he would never have thought of reaching this record one day: ” I never thought I could catch Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, it was never something that crossed my mind. […] As it gets closer, I think I’ll start to think about it more and more. But I’ve already been asked, I haven’t really tried to project myself into this moment. I got to this point not thinking about it, only thinking about the moment, just trying to play the right way. Even if against the Clippers (loss of the Lakers 115-133), I tried to shoot, I always try to be at the distribution too, to make sure that they were in the right rhythm. That’s how I’ve always played, all through my career. According to the projections with his current points average, LeBron James could become the all-time leading scorer within 7 matches.