It happened. LeBron James has finally surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the new leader of the NBA’s career scoring record.
On Tuesday night, the Los Angeles Lakers star moved onto 38,388 points, ahead of everyone in the league’s history, much to the delight of the fans who had shelled out thousands of dollars to be in attendance.
But now that ‘The King’ holds that torch, which was held by another Laker for 38 years, where does he rank among some of America’s most successful athletes of the modern era?
A question impossible to answer, some might say.
But in a time when so many of the world’s best professional athletes are retiring after years of domination in their respective sports, intragenerational sports fans are now feeling nostalgic… trying to fill the void of what these greats have left us with.
Lakers star LeBron James this week became the all-time leading points scorer in NBA history
James celebrated the achievement with his sons Bronny (L) and Bryce (R) on Tuesday night
How does the face of the NBA measure up against seven-time Super Bowl champ Tom Brady?
James is often in the same conversation as Michael Jordan for who’s the GOAT of basketball
So, is it Tom Brady, who retired for a second time (and for ‘good’) from the highest ceiling of professional football?
Or maybe, Michael Jordan? The man that James has been long compared to.
Both have had such unique careers… and have reached new heights of basketball in their own respective ways that it’s hard to compare two of the game’s greatest shot callers.
What about Tiger Woods? Like Serena Williams on a tennis court, he’s won all that needed to be won and has pushed his sport to new dimensions in ways that were unimaginable not too long ago.
Here, DailyMail.com takes a look at how he stacks up compared to some of the other modern greats of American sport…
Money
It’s fair to say that most great American athletes have benefitted from the process of enriching themselves…
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