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The guy continues to impress: 28.9 ppg - 7.6 boards - 6.4 assists.

So we got what?? about 35ish games left this season, and Lebron is almost exactly 2000 points behind Kareem. It's like 2039, or something. Divided by 28, and you have 73 games. Divide by 25, and you have 82 games. Now there will be games off, and all that....but he's got a good chunk of this season remaining. So do people think he can do it? And if so....is it a bonus that it's a "Laker" that does it? I think it is.

2nd question: He's 600ish behind Malone. Does he do that this season? It will take 21 games at his current clip. It's looking good.

For the hustlers of the world.....might wanna buy tickets next season. It will be incredibly hard to predict injuries, and games off, and what his PPG will be.....but if you have a pair of tickets to the game that he passes Kareem.......$$$$. Just throwin it out there.

Only care about the W's here, not the stat padding

It will be a sad day for me. Kareem's record has stood for a long time and it will suck to see Bron do it in a Laker uniform.

Records get broken but Kareem's is interesting in that he took a supporting role to keep winning. Bron, isn't that player.

Landsberger wrote: Records get broken but Kareem's is interesting in that he took a supporting role to keep winning. Bron, isn't that player.

To be fair to Lebron...I think its presumptuous. Lebron hasn't had to take a back seat yet. He's still a top 5-6-7 player in the NBA. So who can say what he will do when that time comes?

Its already amazing that 4 of the top 5 and 7 of the top 10 have been Lakers and LeBron is in the top 10 for points, assists and steals.

Landsberger wrote:It will be a sad day for me. Kareem's record has stood for a long time and it will suck to see Bron do it in a Laker uniform.

Records get broken but Kareem's is interesting in that he took a supporting role to keep winning. Bron, isn't that player.

Kareem didn't take a supporting role.. Magic took the primary role.. I think Davis was on the path to take it over in the bubble and for a few weeks into 20-21 season but he got injured and hasn't been the same yet.

I don't get the mindset of those rooting against players of their own team they are fans of. I'm excited as hell to see lebron overtake the 1 spot sometime either next season or the one after.

Beethoven wrote:I don't get the mindset of those rooting against players of their own team they are fans of. I'm excited as hell to see lebron overtake the 1 spot sometime either next season or the one after.

Well some guys just don't like Lebron. Carmello and Russel are on the Lakers, and I can't stand them. I'd root against any record either of them were about to break. And while I am a fan of Lebron.....there's gonna be a little bit of sadness to see Cap lose his throne. I get it.

16 games left, and 136 points from 2nd all time.

Malone is an odd duck. I've seen, read stuff where he comes across as a really cool "country" kinda guy. He and Rodman were really good friends behind the scenes, and he always seemed to go with the flow, when it came to their battles on the court. And there were some epic ones. And on the other hand, I've read some stuff that made him out to be a real primadonna A-hole. I find that it's usually a bit of both, when it comes to people. Rarely are they always great, or horrible.

Sorry, long build up to the point that I am curious how Malone deals/accepts/interacts with all this. Will Lebron get a call, or a jumbo-tron message? Can anyone even find Malone to ask him? Admittedly I haven't checked...but I haven't heard a snippet about the guy in almost 20 years. I wonder if he's still yolked? He was quite a specimen back in his playing days.

Yeah LeBron gonna run away with the all time points scored record for sure.

Hope this worked ok, and hope I'm not breaking the rules linking this. Looks like Malone is still in good shape, at 58. Apparently he's teamed up with some Utah food bank, and will be having food drives at his car dealerships. Good for him, thats cool.

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I'm not sure why a media op to promote food drives at his dealerships digressed into Karl poppin his shirt open and flexin....but hey Karl, you do you.

Just a few more points to surpass Karl Malone. Maybe 2 or 3 games to do it. Cant wait. Then he has another about dozen games to get some traction on KAJ this season.

LeBron passed Karl Malone against the Wizards last night. He is also .2 of a point behind Embiid for the scoring title this season, with eleven games to go.

With eight games left, LeBron has a .2 point lead over Embiid for the scoring championship. He has to play three more games to qualify, for a total of 58. The crown is in sight.

euphorbus wrote:With eight games left, LeBron has a .2 point lead over Embiid for the scoring championship. He has to play three more games to qualify, for a total of 58. The crown is in sight.

Definitely telling that he stayed in the game last night. Didn't want that avg going down. Not alot to play for, if your the Lakers. They certainly don't seem to want to be in the play-in tourney. Can't blame them. They won't go anywhere, and they know it. Prob better if Spurs get passed us, and this nightmare can be done.

So why not get your points? Honestly, it's about the only thing worth watching from this team. I personally stopped watching about game 10 this season. And I will watch the occasional game (usually at a restaurant/bar) only to remember why I stopped watching. This team is a joke, and I look forward to trying to forget it ever happened.

I hope Lebron can be scoring leader, but somewhere else... like Cleveland. I'm so done with this LeGM experiment. It has run its course... become stale, boring, dry... and we can't even finish higher in the table than LAC without Kawhi and Paula? Goodness, does that need repeating to fully sink in? We're below the Dippers without Kawhi and Paula. We have no shot at anything with Lebron and Westbrook, so trade them ASAP and start a reload/rebuild. AD gets another go only because he's a top 5 talent in the league, not a top 5 player. But AD better believe that he'd be gone in a hot millisecond if the right deal presented itself... and start acting like he knew it too (i.e., start playing better... and start being a leader, not trying to act like one).

Needs about 1250 points....somewhere around there.

Assuming he plays 4 or 5 more games, he will have scored about 1800-1850 this season. And I suppose that would leave him with only 1150-ish left for next year. So yeah....Injury will be his only enemy. He would make it scoring 15 points a game.....if he played all 82.

My memory is starting to go on me (too many beers) about these little details, but Kobe had either just passed Jordan, or was really close, and I had posted a thing making my case for how Kobe was possibly going to pass Kareem. And not that long after, the Achilles happened. Kobe was 34 at the time, and still ballin' almost at peak. He scored 2100-something points that year (he got hurt with only like 5-6 games left), and at that time, he needed about 7500 points to catch Kareem.

It was not a forgone conclusion....7500 is still alot, but at the rate he had been going, it was a very real possibility. But we'll never know. That injury ended that.

So while Lebron is certainly looking more likely.....he's gotta stay on the court.


*edit* after looking, Kobe is about 1400 points past Jordan, but scored about 2000 after the injury. So I musta posted that when he was about 1000 points from Jordan (40 games at the rate he was going).

I'm pissed about the lakers right now so take what I saw with a grain of salt... But I'm really starting to think the whole reason LeBron came to LA was to pass Kareem in PnG... I think he thought he was going to pass him in both scoring and Rings but I feel like this works too...
So I think passing him is a fore-gone conclusion, but I really wish it wouldn't happen as a Laker...

Kilroy wrote:I'm pissed about the lakers right now so take what I saw with a grain of salt... But I'm really starting to think the whole reason LeBron came to LA was to pass Kareem in PnG... I think he thought he was going to pass him in both scoring and Rings but I feel like this works too...
So I think passing him is a fore-gone conclusion, but I really wish it wouldn't happen as a Laker...

Kareem played a game LeBron never will. He morphed what he did to match a style that wasn't centered around him. He nearly left LA in 82. Had he I wonder if this record would be a year or two out.

Anyway, he stayed and displayed just about the most selfless role a top 2-3 player ever in a sport ever has IMHO. Bron will get the record and it's more important to him that it is to Kareem in all likelihood anyway.

Here's a great highlight reel of him prior to his Laker days. Note the complete game. Most Laker fans know him as primarily shooting the skyhook most of the time.

Landsberger wrote:

Kilroy wrote:I'm pissed about the lakers right now so take what I saw with a grain of salt... But I'm really starting to think the whole reason LeBron came to LA was to pass Kareem in PnG... I think he thought he was going to pass him in both scoring and Rings but I feel like this works too...
So I think passing him is a fore-gone conclusion, but I really wish it wouldn't happen as a Laker...

Kareem played a game LeBron never will. He morphed what he did to match a style that wasn't centered around him. He nearly left LA in 82. Had he I wonder if this record would be a year or two out.

Anyway, he stayed and displayed just about the most selfless role a top 2-3 player ever in a sport ever has IMHO. Bron will get the record and it's more important to him that it is to Kareem in all likelihood anyway.

Here's a great highlight reel of him prior to his Laker days. Note the complete game. Most Laker fans know him as primarily shooting the skyhook most of the time.

Watch on YouTube

I mean, I don't know. He scored 25.8 points in the 77-78 season. Taking 19.4 shots.
Move down to the 81-82 season (when he nearly left) and I'm seing 23.9 points taking 17.1 shots. His shooting percentage certainly ticked up under Magic. I'm looking at 16.9 shots per game in the 85-86 season, at 38 years old.

I think he sacrificed being the focal point...as his rebounds and assists certainly went down in that period. But he was still getting his shots. And I'd say 9 trips to the finals in 13-14 years prob makes it all worthwhile.

Lebron has the ball. He's always gonna play a different game than a Center...especially a center in the 70's - 80's.