LeBron James Becomes Youngest to Reach 30,000 Career Points

LeBron James became the seventh, and the youngest player to score 30,000 NBA career points when he reached the milestone on Tuesday, 23 January.

The Cleveland Cavaliers star hit an 18-foot jump shot with 1.1 seconds left in the first quarter to give him 30,001 points, eight of them on the night against the San Antonio Spurs.

He joins a club that includes just one other active player, Dirk Nowitzki (30,837 points).

Also ahead of James on the scoring list are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387), Karl Malone (36,928), Kobe Bryant (33,643), Michael Jordan (32,292) and Wilt Chamberlain (31,419).

James, 33 years, 24 days old, topped the mark held by Bryant, who scored his 30,000th point when he was 34 years and 104 days old.

James became the fourth fastest to the milestone in terms of number of games played (1,107), trailing Chamberlain (941), Jordan (960) and Abdul-Jabbar (1,101).

The basket to lift #LeBronJames into a club of ONE, becoming the first player to 30,000 points, 7,000 rebounds, and 7,000 assists!#ThisIsWhyWePlay #PhantomCam pic.twitter.com/xT7GvJplHV

— NBA (@NBA) January 24, 2018

Congrats @KingJames. Welcome to the club!!!

— Dirk Nowitzki (@swish41) January 24, 2018

From #Akron to #30k @KingJames well done my brotha

— Kobe Bryant (@kobebryant) January 24, 2018

James wished himself a preemptive congratulations earlier Tuesday on Instagram, several hours before the game started.

Wanna be one of the first to Congratulate you on this accomplishment/achievement tonight that you’ll reach! Only a handful has reach/seen it too and while I know it’s never been a goal of yours from the beginning try(please try) to take a moment for yourself on how you’ve done it! The House you’re about to be apart of has only 6 seats in it(as of now) but 1 more will be added and you should be very proud and honored to be invited inside. There’s so many people to thank who has help this even become possible(so thank them all) and when u finally get your moment(alone) to yourself smile, look up to the higher skies and say THANK YOU! So with that said, Congrats again Young King 🤴🏾! 1 Love! #striveforgreatness🚀 #thekidfromakron👑

A post shared by LeBron James (@kingjames) on Jan 23, 2018 at 7:29am PST

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