LeBron James, at 38, has become the best scorer in NBA history – Ansa
It takes a breath to pronounce them all: thirty-eight thousand three hundred and ninety. These are the points scored in his career, a sequence as long as the journey that led yesterday’s homeless child to rise today at 38 years old, playing on the throne of all-time scorers in the history of NBA basketball. Numbers don’t say it all (especially in a team sport like basketball), but they give an idea of the undisputed ruler of an era. Ladies and gentleman, he is LeBron James, who certainly needs no introduction. “King” then he already was, they have always called him “The king”. But now he has stolen the scepter of the best scorer ever from someone like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (who, it should be remembered, for half of his career was unable to use the 3-point shot introduced in 1979). Just him, the legendary inventor of the sky hook, in the front row of the magical night in Los Angeles to applaud and congratulate the current Lakers champion.
An exciting handover for a record that had stood for almost 39 years: from April 5, 1984, just eight months before Mrs. Gloria gave birth to LeBron in Akron (Ohio). A very hard childhood because her little father never knew him. Her mother, just sixteen, carried on her pregnancy alone after being abandoned by her partner. An all uphill road without even a house where to go to sleep. His mother often begged the occasional hospitality of friends to save him from the streets and the underworld. LeBron has never forgotten it: «I have no idea how he managed to always keep me happy, to buy me shoes, to let me find food on the table every day, to keep the house warm on winter nights… She is my inspiration.”
However, there is a decisive place for its growth, as he has often repeated: the Catholic St.Vincent-St.Mary High School in Akron. Here he not only showcased his basketball talent, but he met Savannah, his wife, with whom he had three children. And he was the first to pay homage to them at the end of a game in which the whole world was waiting for the record basket, which arrived at the end of the third quarter of the match between the Lakers and Thunder. He arms in the sky to thank and show the way to those who think that life has already cut them off. It is the mission of his foundation with which he helps the disadvantaged children of his land. And now head to the last dream: playing with his son Bronny, something that is worth more than the symbolic bar of 40 thousand. Because as the best coaches say, a good player never counts his points and LeBron knows it: «I’ve never made a goal of the record – he repeated at the end of the game – I just tried to be long-lived, with the aim of being the better every night”
