It’s easy to lose track of the NBA record book. In most cases, we’re dealing with enormous four- and five-digit numbers, and unlike a sport like baseball, where raw numbers tend to dominate, basketball statistics largely deal in averages. I can’t tell you how many points Michael Jordan scored in his career off the top of my head … but I can tell you he averaged around 30 points per game.
So to make the process a bit easier, let’s dive into the NBA record book ahead of the new year. Who is going to make history in 2023? One player stands out, but there are plenty of milestones to be reached in the near future.
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The LeBron category
In case you’ve been living under a rock, LeBron James is very, very close to breaking the NBA’s all-time scoring record. As of this writing, he is 629 points behind Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s all-time record of 38,387. At his current rate of 27.8 points per game, he is 23 games away from making history. Barring injuries, that would allow him to break the record on Feb. 9 against the Milwaukee Bucks.
That’s the biggest record LeBron is going to break this season, but he’s going to climb the ladder in several other key areas. James currently ranks sixth in NBA history with 10,211 assists. By the end of the season, he will likely be ranked fourth, passing Mark Jackson (10,334) and Steve Nash (10,335). He also ranks 10th in…
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