LeBron calls Kareem's scoring record 'one of the greatest records in sports' | NBA | UNDISPUTED

three point lines and LeBron scored 6696 points so far this is we're just doing the regular season here from the three point line yeah so think about this. LeBron has scored 6,693 more three-point points than Kareem scored. It's almost as if in the era of Babe Ruth a home run if you hit a solo home run counts only one, but for Sosin McGuire it would be as if the solo home run counted two, two runs or two home runs. Well, it's not a level playing field because LeBron had a huge advantage with the three-point shot if you take that into account. that Kareem still has a lot more field goal attempts and he's going to play so many that he'll still have over 100 games, so if you take 100 games into account and LeBron James is shooting what he normally shoots, which is about 19 to 20 shots per game.

You see how many more field goal attempts Kareem has made besides LeBron. Okay, but if you were to rank them, I think baseball would still put basketball second when it comes to Pro in North American

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. put it second to baseball because what about the rushing title in football? No, no, no, now jump, not again, I don't even know what the number 18,000 is. Okay, but I don't know if 18,255 18,300 I don't I don't know, okay, but I think the debate just jump, here's the thing: if I can at the maximum, I can score five, if I can score four points on the back, if I get five on the three-point play and I do it. four, yeah, with one carry, Emma can go 80 yards, okay, oh, that's fair, okay, except they'll hit him and hit him again even though he was the best I've ever seen at avoiding contracts and That's how he laughs.

Yeah, yeah, and he's also a model of longevity, yeah, but I don't think I mean he played on me, he plays one when you're more than a year older than me, so he played 15. Yeah, jump, I don't know if someone is going to break. that

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because they don't run the ball, it's all a two-back system, a three-back system now, so the likelihood of you finding a way back, yeah, Derrick Henry is still over ten thousand yards away from this

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that you're not going to get it. that puck and he runs into and through the contact and it's too hard Adrian Peterson too hard he ran the collision you can't you can't last long you can't play long enough no human can last like that okay now back to The Mark of Kareem you say that you were aware of it.

I'm a columnist in Dallas and I'm covering the Mavericks because they're on the rise and the Mavericks Lakers were becoming a thing because they were fighting each other in the playoff games that were piling up. to Crescendo in 88. when they were in the conference finals and he made it to the seventh game here at the fabulous forum and he made it to the end when the magic wore off and he said, "I'm taking Roy Tarpley and you probably won't remember Roy." I don't remember it, but a lot of people probably don't remember it, but listen, he was a seven-foot-tall monster that could shoot and was a handful and Kareem was having a hard time with him because you could put the ball in earlier. right and he could go out and make shots and he was just tormenting Kareem and Magic said I got it right and he took him in the fourth quarter and took him out of the game and then Mark McGuire went south to get married, that's it.

It's a completely different story, but the point is that all this time this is 1984, April 5, 1984. I have to tell you from my heart that I am a huge

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fan and I am a sports columnist in Dallas. even aware that he surpassed Wilt because I wouldn't have known what Wilt's record was and it was more of a footnote to me than a hook to the sky. I saw it last night at the Laker, now here from the baseline, it's the most difficult. shot is like the best horse shot is to throw a hook shot without a backboard, you know, on the line, to me, the hardest shot in basketball is like a 10-foot jump shot on the baseline, because you, it's all touch and feel, because you don't have something there's no perspective there's no backboard there's no you're just shooting it on The Rim at the rim and he did it on Mark Eaton he did it before yeah okay that happened on the 5th April and then I'm covering the NBA Finals that year and it's Johnson's absolutely tragic Finals and he goes to game seven in Boston and Boston wins it, yeah, Magic had a terrible game before, as you remember, they lost in overtime, okay, and he missed two free throws in overtime and it was tragic Johnson, okay, and I think he corrected the mistake, yes, he came back okay, okay, he did very well, but the point is that I'm in the flow of this .

I'm writing every day about it and I never wrote a word about April. On the 5th of 1984, it passed over Wilt because I wasn't aware of it or not, I don't know and it wasn't a national story, they didn't chronicle it as such, man, they didn't celebrate it like they do like any major record. . record now they're going to stop the game they're going to celebrate their gift it wasn't it wasn't celebrated like it is I mean, I remember and as you pointed out for some reason they're playing Jazz at the Thomas and Max Center in Las Vegas, which in April is weird , yeah, I don't know, and it was so off the radar that it went over my radar completely, move on and then, but that's the thing, skip it and I'm okay, you know you have to have any record, uh, you have to have longevity, but skip, you still have to maintain a level of excellence, you still have to maintain a level of play because we've seen guys play very well for 10 years for 15 years and they say okay, it's inevitable. conclusion and then all of a sudden an injury starts to plague him or not, they're not going to be big name players for the next two or three years, but for LeBron to maintain this level, I didn't think I'd see someone break, especially jump when he broke the record like I said, you realize they won the championship jumping in 88.

Kareem was on that team Kareem was on that team, okay, so you're talking about it 85 86 87 88 played another four years, okay, I got it, got it Yeah, it just kept going like that, so now it blew up because the record was like 35, it was like 30,000 points, it jumped when it broke a little over 30,000 with a Wilt. Yes, he passed 8,000, yes, well, there was no countdown. To wilt, I couldn't remember it now, we have a countdown to Korea and I'm happy for LeBron because he deserves this, this recognition, this focus because it's 20 years in the making, yeah, but he still came up to me, right?

I didn't think about it until suddenly, I don't know, two months ago I started waiting for a second, oh yeah, oh yeah, well, it's like with steps, people had to count backwards when they were going to pass Reggie Miller and they knew all the games and then Reggie said that Reggie and Ray Allen were going right to the building, so, yeah, it's amazing, it's amazing what he's doing. I didn't think I'd see him in my life. I thought who is going to play long enough. Consistent enough, he puts the ball in the basket well enough to break this record.

Yes, the question is who can stay healthy for that long. I have to make more than 20, like 25, 26 points per game, yes, for someone who is going to break this LeBron record, he will need to play 26, 22-23 seasons and average like 28 points per game, that's what it will take to break his record, yes. and I want to see someone, the one thing I will never see in my life, nobody is going to play with the energy and enthusiasm that he is playing with in his 20th year, no, it is just difficult because he is playing like he is 28 years old or 22 . yeah right yeah that's the beauty of it for me is yeah and he's not, you know, it's not like he's not just waiting for the deer no, he jumps, he's not just waiting to break a record, no, here we go. .

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