The Los Angeles Lakers player broke, on the night of Tuesday to Wednesday, during a match against Oklahoma City Thunder, the record for the number of points scored in the North American basketball league. He dethrones Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
by Clément Martel
When he first laid his sneakers – size 49.5 – on an NBA parquet, in 2003, LeBron James was barely 18 years old, left high school and saw The nickname” Elu “-” The Chosen One “-attached to his name. The kid of Akron (Ohio), a phenomenon of precocity, then carried on his shoulders the hopes of the North American basketball league, which was looking for an heir to the superstar Michael Jordan.
Twenty seasons later, the shoulders of the one who now responds to the nickname “King James”, the king, have developed, like his record. With the 36 points registered against Oklahoma City Thunder, the Los Angeles Lakers player exceeded, Tuesday, February 7, the bar of 38,387 points in career, dislodging Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of the Throne of Best Borer in the history of the NBA .
He lacked only 36 points to the Lakers winger on the morning of the match to erase a mark of which he spoke, at the end of January, as “one of the biggest records in sport in general, one of those which we think will never be beaten “.
Former Lakers player, Kareem Abdul -Jabbar, his now predecessor, had had the crown since April 5, 1984, when he had dethroned Wilt Chamberlain – before increasing the five seasons brand. Tuesday, in Los Angeles, in the Crypto.com Arena, formerly called Staples Center, LeBron James became the only record of the record by registering his 36 e point of the evening in the last seconds of the third quarter -time of the meeting against the Thunder.
Landed in the NBA with the spotlights on him as on any other player before him, LeBron James responded. Drafted in first position at the time – the selection by which the NBA clubs divide the best young players – by the Cleveland Cavaliers, the player born in Ohio quickly became the face of the NBA. “Thank goodness, I did not have social networks at the time, that’s all I can say,” confessed the player, in October 2022, about his arrival in the League, whose he won the Championship four times.
If he was still a high school girl’s coverage of the prestigious Sports Illustrated, and to an incessant ballet of cameras and cameras around him, LeBron James was, then, not subjected to the permanent surge Social networks – that French Victor Wembanyama, expected next year as the future big basketball star, must face. 2> the promise made in Cleveland
From his first match, in October 2003, LeBron James assumed his responsibilities. “He put on all the pressure in the world, when people wanted him to be the next Jordan. The guy has” the elected “tattooed on his back, and despite that, he goes beyond expectations, commented his old old this week Partner with riders, Kevin Love. Each time, in adversity, he found his way, aspiring to greatness. “
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