
35,000 points: 3 players (Kareem, Malone, LeBron).30,000 points: 7 players (LeBron, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki, Wilt Chamberlain).Not only has LeBron scaled each rung of this scoring ladder, he was also the youngest player to reach each of these marks.

LeBron James is 1 of 3 players ever to reach 35,000 career points.īelow is a look at the number of players that have hit the major scoring milestones in NBA history. LeBron not only established the 10K-10K-10K club, he entered the club with an extra 20,000 points to spare. LeBron’s 10,000th career assist came on a cross-court pass to Carmelo Anthony for an open 3-pointer as two of the game’s top 10 scorers of all-time connected for this historic achievement.

10,000 assists.ĭo we call it the career triple-double? How about the triple-quintuple? Yes, that last term sounds ridiculous, but so is the feat that LeBron just achieved after dishing out his second assist of the night during the second quarter of the Lakers-Suns game on Sunday in Phoenix. There is not a name for what LeBron James just accomplished - simply because it had never been done before.ģ0,000 points. LeBron James is the first player in NBA history to accumulate at least 10,000 points, 10,000 rebounds and 10,000 assists.Įditor’s Note: This article has been updated since its original publication to include the result and updated stats following the Lakers’ win against Washington on Friday and the Lakers’ loss to Phoenix on Sunday, during which LeBron recorded his 10,000th career assist.
