Is LeBron James Right: Can Kevin Durant Break NBA’s All-Time Scoring Record?

January 4th, 2016 by Dan Favale Leave a reply »

Barely 27 years old, with a shooting stroke for the ages, Kevin Durant's journey up the NBA's scoring ladder is far from over.

It is also without limits, according to LeBron James.

"His ability to score the ball is obviously up there with the greatest to ever play," James said on the prospect of Durant replacing Kareem Abdul-Jabbar as the Association's all-time leading point-piler, per ESPN.com's Dave McMenamin. "I know that's not in his memory bank right now, him trying to help the team get better and better, but long term he definitely can challenge that."

On Sunday, Dec. 27, not long after James' remarks, Durant earned his longtime-coming spot among the NBA's top 100 scorers of all time. He now sits at No. 98 on the list, with 16,281 career points, putting him more than 22,000 behind Abdul-Jabbar and his seemingly impossible record of 38,387.

Is it reasonable to expect, or to even hope, that Durant can erase this cosmically sized chasm before calling it quits?

 

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