LeBron James turns 35 on Monday, and he's going to have to play a few more seasons if he has any plans on passing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's all-time NBA record for points scored.
He admits he's thought about it.
"I would be lying if I said I don't see it," James told Tim Reynolds of the Associated Press. "Obviously I'm not trying to say, 'OK, well if I play this amount of time, if I average this' ... I'm not doing that because I've never done that with my career. I've always just kind of let it happen. Whatever happens, happens. But I see it. I do see it."
Going into Sunday night's game against the Dallas Mavericks, James has 33,334 career regular-season points - 5,053 behind Abdul-Jabbar. James has averaged about 1,900 points in each of the last four seasons; if he kept that pace, he'd become the league's all-time leading scorer during the 2022-23 season.
James also sits just 309 points behind Kobe Bryant for third all time. He's on pace to surpass him in late January while averaging 25.5 points per game.
James was named AP male athlete of the decade on Sunday.
