Isaac
Years ago

LeBron now trails only Jordan in All-Time Playoff Scoring

Jordan 5987. Kareem 5762. Kobe 5640.

LeBron moved into second spot today - he was on 5738 and scored 39.

James reached the scoring mark in his 205th career playoff game. Abdul-Jabbar played in 237. But James has played in a playoff format with more games throughout his career, with the first round having expanded to a best-of-seven series in 2003, one season before he entered the league.

James, a 14-year veteran, is seventh in regular-season scoring with 28,787 points. Abdul-Jabbar, who played 18 seasons, is first in regular-season scoring with 38,387 points.

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The below is not bad for a guy rarely acclaimed as a sharpshooter.

James also became the fourth player in NBA playoff history with 300 made 3-pointers with his second triple of the night, which gave Cleveland a 49-35 lead with 7:29 remaining in the second quarter, joining Ray Allen (385), Reggie Miller (320) and Manu Ginobili (312).

James ranks third in playoff assists, trailing only Magic Johnson and John Stockton. He also ranks third in playoff steals, trailing Scottie Pippen and Jordan.

Surely inevitable that LeBron will get him. Needs 200ish and aside from injury, he has at least four playoff games left this season. Odds are, two or more this series and then at least four in the conference finals. Should get there before the Finals?

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Zodiac
Years ago

James, a 14-year veteran, is seventh in regular-season scoring with 28,787 points. Abdul-Jabbar, who played 18 seasons, is first in regular-season scoring with 38,387 points.

Tsk tsk ESPN, Kareem played 20 seasons from 1969-89.

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Anonymous
Years ago

*yawn* That's because LeBron didn't do four seasons of college. Plus MJ retired twice during his career. MJ still the GOAT.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Lebron is as good as MJ, not better but as good, still loved magic though.

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Anonymous
Years ago

True I just don't like these points stats comparisons when LeBron has +4 years on everyone due to no college.

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AC
Years ago

I always feel that any person who attempts to hoist LBJ above MJ based on stats obviously never had the opportunity to watch MJ during his day, if they did there would be no debate.

Love him or hate him, when LBJ retires we will all be thankful we had the chance to see him play during his prime and will reflect the same way we do about any other previous great and HOF, but I don't think there's a point in attempting to compare who is "better".

Always was and always will be MJ.

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Lovebroker
Years ago

I think it is crazy to summarily dismiss LBJ's achievement because no college.

I'm not going into who is the GOAT discussion as it is so up to personal perception, but to reach this milestone is very special. Not only do you have to be very good, you have to be actually on teams that constantly are in the playoffs, DEEP in the playoffs. And you have to be injury free....all these moons have to align.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Lovebroker if he did four years of college he would be 36 so that's where the question lies would he match MJ/Kareem if so. A fair point to make.

Of course MJ is the best and I don't think anyone is arguing against it, only young kids who didn't see him think otherwise (kobe lol).

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Isaac
Years ago

always will be MJ

That seems like an overly romantic notion to me. No issue with saying he's the current GOAT but precluding anyone in the decades to come from ever having the blend of physical size, speed and skills to surpass him seems a bit much.

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Anonymous
Years ago

I'm a fan of both of them. I think they're both specail athletes that we've been blessed to see play. But they are different players and played in different eras, so to compare them is difficult and a bit pointless, IMHO!

In any case, if you are going to list 'facts' to support your opinion/argument, it pays to get them right.

Didn't MJ leave college after his Junior year?

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Anonymous
Years ago

Well 3/4 years then.

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Curtley
Years ago

LBJ has won rings with Love/Irving and Bosh/Wade, Jordan only really had Pippen. Super teams didnt exist back then.

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koberulz
Years ago

Dennis Rodman was arguably the single most valuable player in NBA history, so he certainly had more than Pippen. He also didn't have to beat super teams, either.

Has anyone arguing that the eye test shows Jordan's clear superiority actually watched him play in the last ten years? And I don't mean his best games that are available on DVD and whatever other archival availability there is for the NBA, I mean his run-of-the-mill regular season nothing-interesting-happened games. The ones you forget about when you're making the comparison with LeBron.

Any time you argue for the eye test, you're essentially comparing what is probably something a little above Jordan's absolute peak, against LeBron's average. And that's if you don't have any subconscious bias causing you to weight LeBron's poorer perfomances more heavily than is reasonable.

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XY
Years ago

If LeBron somehow pulls the Cavs to another title this year against the incredibly stacked unbackable favourites the Warriors I really doubt we continue to have this conversation. I lived through both eras but would have to concede there are two E-GOATs (Equal GOATs).

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Anonymous
Years ago

MJ had you going :o way more than LBJ

Lived through both eras

KR is young and loves Kobe, he has argued in the past for Kobe > MJ

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Anonymous
Years ago

Yes MJ had crap games, at least he actually played them unlike surreal rester LeBron

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Anonymous
Years ago

Serial*

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Anonymous
Years ago

Everyone forgets LeBron has had the benefit of playing in the worst conference of all-time -- the 2000s/2010s eastern conference stinkfest.

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koberulz
Years ago

MJ had you going :o way more than LBJ

That's completely irrelevant.

KR is young and loves Kobe, he has argued in the past for Kobe > MJ

When?

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Years ago

Agree with koberulz. Not saying that LBJ is better or equal to Jordan (yet) but I don't think it's out of the question in future. LBJ has many years left in the tank, let's see it play out. Either way we are witnessing a great right now.

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Anonymous
Years ago

Yes you can speculate on the future but as of right now (5 May 2017) MJ > LBJ.

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LeBron now trails only Jordan in All-Time Playoff Scoring

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