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Throughout his twenty-year career, Lebron James has had many accomplishments that will go down in history but the one he just achieved might just be the most prominent and one of the most unbreakable records in any sport.

On Tuesday, February 7, 2023, Lebron James broke the NBA total points scoring record beating the previous holder Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in a game against the Oklahoma City Thunder. 

With 18.6 seconds left in the third quarter of the game, Lebron James receives a pass from Russell Westbrook on the right elbow of the free throw line. Lebron takes the ball jabs, takes three dribbles, steps back off of one foot creating just enough space to get the shot up and he swishes it in. The shot was the 38,388th point of Lebron’s all-time great career. With 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter, the game is paused in order to congratulate Lebron for being the new record holder. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar came out on the court to congratulate Lebron and the whole arena gave a standing ovation. Sophomore Kaden Womack was watching the game and witnessed the moment happen “He (Lebron James) broke it, they paused the game and everything. It was really cool to witness history happen.”

It took Lebron James twenty years, 1,410 games played, 53,741 minutes, and 14,053 field goals made to break this record. With Lebron now breaking this record no one is even close to him that has a chance to break it. Gabriel Okelloh does not imagine the record being broken “I don’t think there will be a player who breaks Lebron’s record in the next one-hundred-plus years.” 

The only player in the NBA that has even the slightest of chances to get close to the record is Luka Dončić with 8,531 total points in his four-year career so far. Luka is only 23 years old and currently averaging 33.4 points per game and is a current MVP candidate. Even if Dončić scored the same exact 8,531 points for another four straight years he would still be nearly five thousand points behind the record and with Lebron still active it will only be harder to achieve. 

All in all Lebron James has achieved things that one could only dream of. He is the greatest scorer in the history of Basketball and the stats show it. He’s a four-time NBA champion, four-time MVP, four-time finals MVP, and so many more accolades that make him one of the top two best Basketball players of all time, possibly being the greatest ever with only Michael Jordan competing. “Jordans still better and will always be better than Lebron no matter what else happens,” says Brady Schuler. With Lebron still playing at the high level he is the goat debate will get closer and closer and people’s opinions will start to change on who the greatest ever is.