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Originally Posted by tk13
I think it's a tremendous accomplishment and LeBron may very well pass Kareem, but it's also really weird that people act like Jordan didn't give up 4-5 seasons of his career. If you were being completely conservative, you would still add between 8,000-10,000 career points to Jordan's total. Even with that it took LeBron over 100 more games to reach this total.
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LeBron reached this point total in 23287 shots, 1250 less shots than it took Jordan. In addition to being better at every single other aspect of basketball, he was also the more efficient scorer to boot.
Also, why would anybody give credit to Jordan for going to play baseball in his relative basketball prime? Can you imagine the reaction if LeBron did something so ridiculous in the middle of his career?