breaking a tie with Robert Parish<\/a> for the most in NBA history.<\/p>\nIt’s an obvious tribute to James’ longevity. He is in his 23rd season, one more than Vince Carter’s previous record. Entering Saturday, there are 79 players who have logged NBA minutes this season and weren’t even born when James played his debut game in the league on Oct. 29, 2003.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt\u2019s not like I\u2019m like writing things down and looking at the record book and saying: \u2018I\u2019m going to get that, I\u2019m going to get that, I\u2019m going to get that.\u2019 It just kind of happened,” James said. \u201cIt was not on the list of things that I wanted to accomplish.\u201d<\/p>\n
Everything he does now raises the bar. Every point he scores, every shot he takes, every game he plays just widens the gap a little bit more between him and everyone else on the stat lists. He has accomplished all the big to-dos on his wish list entering the league \u2014 four NBA titles took care of that \u2014 but the accolades that have come his way in recent years are ones he savors as well.<\/p>\n
\u201cI wanted to be the best player in this league at some point,” James said. \u201cI wanted to be one of the greatest, if not the greatest, to ever play this game. I wanted to be an NBA champion. I wanted to possibly win rookie of the year, make All-Star appearances, win a gold medal, win some MVPs, those were some of my goals. But some of the stuff that\u2019s just been happening over the course of the last few years has been super-duper cool.\u201d<\/p>\n
The records James has<\/p>\n
A breakdown of some of the NBA records that James owns at this point:<\/p>\n
\u2014 Points. James entered Saturday with 43,229 points. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is second on the list with 38,387.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Minutes played: James\u2019 total entering Saturday was 60,676. Abdul-Jabbar played 57,446 and only seven players have reached 50,000 in their careers.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Field goals: James (15,884 entering Saturday) recently passed Abdul-Jabbar (15,837). Karl Malone is the only other player with more than 13,000 makes.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Field-goal attempts: At 31,350 entering Saturday, James is just over 3,000 shots ahead of Abdul-Jabbar. He is not getting caught there anytime soon.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Consecutive double-digit games: James’ streak of 1,297 consecutive regular-season games with at least 10 points ended earlier this season. Michael Jordan (866) had the second-longest such streak, and James is not getting caught here for at least a decade. Kevin Durant had the longest active streak entering Saturday at 316 games; he’d have to play until at least 2038 to catch James’ streak.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Most award selections: The 22 All-Star selections and 21 All-NBA picks … forget it, they’re not getting caught unless Victor Wembanyama plays from now until around 2048 or so.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Double-digit games: James has scored 10 or more points in 99.44% of his regular-season games entering Saturday, a staggering 1,602 times out of the first 1,611 appearances. He’s not getting caught there, either. (He also is the leader in 20- and 30-point games \u2014 and is tied with Allen Iverson for sixth most on the 40-point-game list.)<\/p>\n
\u2014 Playoff scoring: James has 8,289 playoff points while nobody else has even reached 6,000. As is the case with the regular-season scoring number, it’s almost inconceivable to think about him getting passed on this list.<\/p>\n
\u2014 On-court earnings: He’s up to around $580 million through this season, and that doesn’t take into account his massive on-court empire. (But with the way salaries are rising, it’s almost certain that James’ on-court earnings number will get passed and probably within the next decade.)<\/p>\n
Where can James still move up?<\/p>\n
No. 1 on these all-time lists might be hard to get, but James can move up a few notches in a couple of categories (assuming he returns to play next season).<\/p>\n
\u2014 Assists: James is fourth on the all-time list and almost certainly isn\u2019t going to catch record holder John Stockton (15,806), but he could catch Jason Kidd (12,091) early next season and Chris Paul (12,552) by the end of next season.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Steals: Stockton\u2019s record (3,265) is out of reach, and Paul\u2019s No. 2 spot (2,728) and Kidd\u2019s No. 3 spot (2,684) likely are as well. But James \u2014 currently sixth on the list \u2014 would have a chance at catching No. 5 Gary Payton (2,445) and No. 4 Michael Jordan (2,514) next season.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Made 3-pointers: James is currently sixth and odds are that\u2019s where he\u2019ll be whenever he retires, unless he plays multiple seasons after this. Stephen Curry, James Harden, Ray Allen, Klay Thompson and Damian Lillard are the five names ahead of James on the 3s list; of those, Allen is the only one who is retired and he\u2019s more than 300 ahead of James.<\/p>\n
\u2014 Triple-Doubles: Russell Westbrook (209), Nikola Jokic (191) and Oscar Robertson (181) aren\u2019t within reach. But James (currently fifth with 124) could pass Magic Johnson (currently fourth with 138). And this is a category where James sure seems like he\u2019ll be passed in a few years; his current Lakers co-star Luka Doncic already has 90 triple-doubles.<\/p>\n
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