beat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in February to become the NBA’s all-time leading scorer, but, in terms of individual scoring records, LeBron James It’s not over yet. Yes, in the ideal world of proud stars who believe that everything begins and ends in the NBA regardless of the rest of the globe, not in life.
‘The King’ does not yet have the throne of greatest scorer in all of history considering all competitions, not just the American league. He belongs to an old acquaintance of the ACB, Oscar Schmidt (1958), with a total of 49,737 points between club and national team competitions. Apart from playing in Valladolid between 1993 and 1995, the Brazilian also played for several years in Italia at JuveCaserta between 1982 and 1990 and Pallacanestro Pavia between 1990 and 1993, developing the rest of his career in Brazil in Palmeiras, Sírio, América do Río, Corinthians Paulista, Bandeirantes and Flamengo. He never played in the NBA despite being drafted 131st in 1984 by the Nets.
Oscar Schmidt during his time at the Valladolid Forum
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However, LeBron is already hot on the heels of Oscar Schmidt. The Lakers star has scored a total of 47,734 points throughout his career adding playoffs – which do not count in the NBA record -, and his performances with Team USA. The ’23’ – the number that he will wear again this year – is only 2,003 points of the absolute scoring record.
If he maintains last year’s scoring figures in the regular season -30 goals per game-, ‘The King’ could surpass Schmidt this coming season. Needs 69 parties to achieve it with the current average, a number of games in which he has hardly played since the 2019-2020 season (67), participating in 55 in the last one due to injuries.
LeBrion is only 2,003 points away from overtaking Schmidt
Having a long playoffs as expected with the Lakers being very favorites for the ring could help ‘The King’, who in any case could play one more year. With the dream of playing with his son, LeBron already said after surpassing Abdul-Jabbar’s record that he would play for at least a couple more seasons, although we will have to see how everything develops after Bronny suffered cardiac arrest this year. summer. LeBron has a player option to continue for another year in exchange for 51 million.
The four-time champion has Schmidt’s record within reach, top scorer of the ACB in 1994in addition to having participated twice in the All Star that the Spanish league once had in 1993 and 1994.
LeBron, congratulated by Abdul-Jabbar on the day he broke his record
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Also top historical scorer of the World Cup and the Olympic Games, the forward -in the Hall of Fame of both James Naismith and the FIBA-, is considered one of the best players ever to have never played in the NBA. The Nets They were after him for several years but the Brazilian declined the option, prioritizing among other things the Brazilian team, since at that time the American league did not allow players to compete with their national teams. Representing Brazil was key for Oscar Schmidt to build a record about to fall into the hands of LeBron James, eager to be the absolute king of scoring.
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