When will LeBron James break Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time scoring record? This is one of the big questions of this 2022-23 regular season, a question that will become more and more insistent as the King gets closer to KAJ. We just pulled out the calculators here to get a better idea of the potential date, and know that it might fall on February 16, the eve of Michael Jordan’s birthday.
If there’s one basketball event that has the potential to blow up Twitter, it’s this one.
Oh fuck.
I did my calculations.Michael Jordan turns 60 on February 17.
LeBron is 575 points away from becoming the NBA’s all-time leading scorer.
If he averages 24 points over the next 24 games, he will break that record…
…on February 16 ????????????????????
— TrashTalk (@TrashTalk_fr) December 29, 2022
LeBron James who officially becomes the NBA’s all-time leading scorer on February 16, one day before Michael Jordan’s 60th birthday himself.
Just imagine. Naaaan we’re kidding. But imagine anyway.
“When LeBron James beats Kareem Abdul-Jabbar in scoring, I will have no more arguments in the GOAT debate for Michael” Dirk Nowitzki recently said. “If he breaks the all-time scoring record, he will be the best of all time” had swung Shaquille O’Neal a few months ago. It is specifically because of this kind of hot takes we think the planet might potentially explode if LeBron sets the new record just before Jordan turns 60.
We don’t teach you anything, The GOAT debate between MJ and LeBron James isn’t going to stop any time soon. If the King’s future record theoretically has nothing to do with Jojo, it will be one more argument that pro-LeBron can use to highlight their favorite King in heated discussions. Argument that the pro-Jordan will counter by saying that LBJ makes its stats in a vacuum within a completely slammed Lakers team.
In the end, it doesn’t matter which camp you are on, we only have one piece of advice to give you: tell your loved ones that you love them because the end of the world may be near…
