The historic LeBron James brand with which he fights to be considered the best basketball player in history

Old are the rags, says the popular saying, e Lebron James He confirms it every time he goes out on the field. With whatever shirt it is, against any rival, anywhere and on any occasion. He doesn’t seem to care about the context. Always shine. She is a living basketball legend.

​At 38, the 2.06-meter American giant shut out with 35 points against Philadelphia, and while they didn’t help his team avoid a 113-112 loss, They earned him the overcoming of the barrier of 38 thousand points! in the NBA. Yes, there are no typos in the number. It’s real.

The Lakers star was just eleven points away from reaching that impressive figure and wasted no time in his game against the 76ers. He did it in the first quarter. Before that initial period ended, he wowed the crowd at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles with a mid-range front double. He gave them what they came for. The result remained as an anecdote.

He finished this Sunday’s game with 38,024 points, which strengthens him in second place for leading scorers in NBA historyonly behind the 38,387 of another legend, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. At this rate, averaging 29 points per game this season, it seems like a matter of time before he tops it.

Just as in tennis we talk about the Grand Slam race between Rafael Nadal and Novak Djokovic to define the best in history, something similar happens in basketball around this record, which LeBron himself defines as “The most wanted”.

“Knowing that I’m about to break the record that people said could never be broken is spectacular to me.”he told the Lakers’ Media Day before the season began.

“Whenever my name is mentioned among the greats, like Wilt Chamberlain, Michael Jordan, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar or others, it’s super overwhelming.”He added.

Last season he became the leading scorer in NBA history when points scored in the regular season are added to points scored in playoff games, but the official record does not factor in playoff points.

The day it entered the Top 3

As if it were a wink of fate, the day that LeBron James also climbed the historic podium in the NBA against Philadelphia. It happened on January 25, 2020.

He needed 18 points to pass, no more and no less, Kobe Bryant and scored 29 to continue climbing among the legends. It was known he was going to make it through that day, so Kobe went to the stadium to celebrate with his friend and whoever was his teammate on the US Olympic champion team in Beijing 2008 and London 2012.

The images of that day portray the meeting, amid complicit laughter, of two sport icons when they cross each other on the sideline. However, in that case fate would play a bad joke on them. They didn’t know it, but they would never see each other again. Nobody knew. That was the last public appearance of the nickname Black Mamba.

The next day he died in the well-known plane crash which also killed one of his daughters, Gianna. As he promised that day in an emotional Instagram post, LeBron continues Kobe’s legacy. 38,000 and above.