Let the Jordan comparisons begin…again. Hate him all you want, but you have to admit…the guy is good.
Wednesday night LeBron James will most likely break another big record. Check out what it is after the jump…
According to the Associated Press:
LeBron James was the youngest player in NBA history to win rookie of the year, to record a triple-double, to score 1,000 points, to score 10,000 points, to win MVP honors at an All-Star Game …
You get the idea.
His latest youngest-to-do-it milestone could come as early as Wednesday. He needs 18 points to become the 38th NBA player to score 20,000 in his career. If it happens Wednesday when the Miami Heat visit the Golden State Warriors, James will be more than a year younger than anyone else to reach the mark.
”You look at how many players have come through this league, the history of the game,” James said. ”That 20K mark is very limited. How many guys have done that? It’s very, very limited.
”It’ll be big-time. I’m not going to shy away from that. I’m not a big stats guy as far as individual, but that’ll be pretty cool.”
James’ teammates say he could have reached 20,000 even faster.
”If LeBron was a different kind of player, he’d have a lot more points by now,” Heat guard Dwyane Wade said. ”He’s so unselfish. We give him the ball enough to score more. He just won’t do it. We’ve had the discussion. We’ve sat down at dinner and we both said, `Sometimes, I wish I had it in me.’ We talk about it, we joke about it, but when the game comes he’s unselfish.”
Considering James has scored at least 18 points in 74 of his last 75 games, including playoffs, the milestone would seem likely to be met against the Warriors. It’s the next-to-last game of a struggle-filled road swing for the Heat. Miami is 1-3 so far on the trip, yet still remain a half-game ahead of the New York Knicks for first place in the Eastern Conference standings.
Maybe a little celebrating is exactly what the Heat need right now.
If James scores the historic 20,000th point on Wednesday, he will have done so at the age of 28 years, 17 days. According to STATS LLC, the youngest to date to score 20,000 points was Kobe Bryant, who got there when he was 29 years, 122 days old.
And only Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain (29 years, 134 days) and Michael Jordan (29 years, 326 days) reached the milestone before turning 30.
