Life is a circle.
LeBron James on Thursday in Sacramento turned the NBA’s all-time chief in regular-season minutes, conducting that feat on the identical venue the place he made his NBA debut on Oct. 29, 2003.
By logging his tenth minute within the Lakers’ 113-100 win over the Kings, James surpassed Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s longstanding file with 57,447 minutes. He would play one other 24 minutes to achieve 57,471 in his 1,517th sport.
Abdul-Jabbar — who handed Elvin Hayes’ mark of fifty,000 minutes on Feb. 14, 1986 — held the file for practically 39 years.
Earlier than James, Abdul-Jabbar and Hayes, the all-time minutes leader crown was held by Wilt Chamberlain (47,859), Invoice Russell (40,726), Bob Pettit (30,690), Bob Cousy (30,131), Mel Hutchins (12,023), Andy Phillip (4,037) and Paul Arizin (2,939).
As such, James turns into the tenth participant to carry the crown for total-minutes performed. And with a whopping lead over different energetic gamers, it seems his file will stand for years, maybe many years.
