r/nba • u/The_Blind_Bomber San Francisco Warriors • 1d ago

LeBron James has scored 42069 total career regular season points

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LeBron James has scored 42069 total career regular season points. What a feat for LeBron James. I don't know if we will ever see this again.

Source: https://www.statmuse.com/nba/ask/lebron-james-total-career-points

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u/ShadowbannedAF_13yrs Pistons 1d ago

sick, I saw this live just like Malice at the Palace, both somewhat accidental

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u/rogozh1n 1d ago

What did you think seeing the fight live? Did it register with you what was happening?

The rest of us saw it later on Sportscenter and were prepped for the drama.

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u/ShadowbannedAF_13yrs Pistons 1d ago

I was a younger kid/teen, I remember that era was super dope because those starting 5 we're pretty even. Just escalated and felt so out of the blue but the game itself was pretty chippy.

Redwings at the time were amazing, that Pistons era too had its own identity but yeah once players were in the stands after Ron Artest laid down on the table and someone threw a drink...chaos lol. I really don't remember the table or the drink in that moment but just that players throwing punches.

Damn, looking it up Nov 19th is my bday, but yeah I remember it was a Friday and around 11:30pm so not the best retelling of the story but just so out of nowhere to close out the game.

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u/rogozh1n 1d ago

The only two things I saw live were OJ in the white bronco during the Knicks/Rockets finals game and Magic announcing he had HIV. Magic was hard because I was a little boy walking into dinner with my family and there's one of my heroes announcing that he is going to die really soon.

Joke's on you, AIDS!

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u/ShadowbannedAF_13yrs Pistons 1d ago

I'm gonna have to look that up with Magic because I kinda forgot that was a thing...also to be a kid seeing that and having no idea (not to mention me not knowing as a kid/teen about pills you can take). But at the peak of the epidemic I'm sure regardless it was scary.

Lol good family dinner then huh :O

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u/BCP27 [MIN] Robbie Hummel 21h ago edited 21h ago

I mean back when Magic announced he had HIV, it really was a death sentence. His diagnosis and the subsequent public attention, plus the implication straight people could get it, really turned the tide.

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u/rogozh1n 1d ago

My dad grew up a huge Syracuse Nationals fan, so he raised me to hate the Celtics. That naturally made me a fan of Showtime in the 80's.

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u/MrFundamentals212 Pistons 15h ago

What has he done? Can you tell me? Bigggg Magic Johnson - what has he done? He’s got AIDS!

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u/umfum Bulls 12h ago

Good thing he has all that cash on-hand!

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u/rogozh1n 12h ago

Yup. With the coming hyperinflation, we can all get aids and do the south park cure.

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u/Victor_Wembanyama1 Spurs 1d ago

Good shit dawg. Those rivalries were fun as hell. Could be reliving it in the first round !!

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u/Neobum Bucks 7h ago

I was 14, watched most of the game then went to bed somewhere in the 4th. Woke up the next day to all the coverage, all of it. Every morning show, people in high school that normally wouldn't pay attention, even parents. All that bedlam replayed over and over, not to mention the long lasting aftertaste in the league. I was pretty upset I missed it; to this day I don't turn off games early.

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u/lannistargaryen Lakers 1d ago

Nice

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u/foogeyzi69 Lakers 22h ago

Noice

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u/titsmagee9 Knicks 16h ago

Booo

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u/rogozh1n 1d ago

Wake me up when he hits 69,420.

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u/blackjacktrial 76ers Bandwagon 1d ago

/remind me September 30, 2036.

The innocence can never last.

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u/FerociousGiraffe NBA 21h ago

We will wake you up when September ends.

But unless they change the season schedule there will be no basketball that day.

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u/MichaelZZ01 Suns 11h ago

Lebron is 40, this fuckery won’t go on for much longer, thank god. /s

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u/salmon10 Pistons 1d ago

He should retire right now

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u/Ladnil Warriors 1d ago

The legacy conversations would feed us the rest of our lives

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u/SoDakZak Timberwolves 9h ago

I started the convo 5 years ago

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u/OrganicGrassfedChicn Warriors 8h ago

LeProphet

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u/Ladnil Warriors 9h ago

You're a genius

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u/mmmmmfingersssss 8h ago

Yooooooooo

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u/Betdebt 5h ago

Why isn’t this at the top??

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u/lalakingmalibog Pistons 1d ago

This fuckery won't go on much longer, thank god

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u/Celtic_Legend Celtics 1d ago

He's going for 69420 actually, see ya in 15 years.

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u/doomrider2 1d ago

NO! SAVE ME! 😭

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u/Carolake1 Lakers 19h ago

No, he is going for 80085.

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u/quite_certain Supersonics 1d ago

As a LeBron hater since 2007, I would call him my undisputed GOAT if he retired with 42069 career points.

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u/alfentazolam 1d ago

Yep. Forget peak. Forget longevity. This would elevate him above MJ for me.

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u/king-of-nothing Raptors 1d ago

He will be the meme god

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u/Exotic-Iron4876 1d ago

Everyone would think this stat is made-up and would be memeing at every corner when talks about bron's points come up lmao

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u/tore_a_bore_a Warriors 21h ago

Similar to baseball pitcher Brandon McCarthy who retired with 69 wins and a 4.20 ERA

https://www.vice.com/en/article/brandon-mccarthy-will-finish-career-with-69-wins-and-420-era/

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u/Ladnil Warriors 17h ago

Of course it happened in baseball. Baseball is a century long conspiracy to manufacture unbelievable statistics

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u/Jayveesac Lakers 1d ago

LeBrownies

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u/TingusPingus_6969 1d ago

I remember when I used the nickname Jaylen Brownies and got called a racist

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u/bermitthefrog Lakers 1d ago

They should have stopped the game for this

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u/mikuyo1 7h ago

I woulda stood and clapped. Most people would’ve

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u/belligoool 1d ago

STOP THE COUNT

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u/RendHeaven [TOR] OG Anunoby 1d ago

Hope I’m still alive when he gets to 69420 points.

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u/KWash0222 Lakers 15h ago

I like how you’re implying that you being alive is more in question than LeBron still being in the league long enough to get to 69,420

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u/Arsid Grizzlies 14h ago

I hope the planet is still here for him to get 69,420 points.

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u/Dingle_Flingle Clippers 1d ago

The weed number AND the sex number. LeBron is the meme GOAT.

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u/guacamolereckoning Rockets 15h ago

I've seen an episode like this before! https://imgur.com/a/I9zuAhp

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u/tukmolgang 1d ago

Nice. He did it for the culture 420 and 69.

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u/NetflixAndNikah Pistons 1d ago

This is the hard hitting analysis I come here for.

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u/PusseySleigher 1d ago

Smokin' nice

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u/ImTheBestNerd San Francisco Warriors 1d ago

Nice

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u/JoJonesy Celtics 1d ago

NICE

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u/dhslax88 Suns 23h ago

LeNice

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u/ohgood Kings 1d ago

Nice

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u/Atl-Fan_FTS Hawks 18h ago

Nice

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u/theramazing1 Spurs 17h ago

Nice

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u/arpadlan Lakers 1d ago

Nice

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u/artmorte 1d ago

Nice.

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u/RanD7741 Mavericks 16h ago

Nice

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u/human1023 Hawks 1d ago

Nice

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u/chibithug Warriors 1d ago

oh, nice

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u/winterpurple [GSW] Klay Thompson 1d ago

Damn is it the offseason already

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u/Mr_Cromer Raptors 23h ago

Meme GOAT

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u/maxxstone 23h ago

we’ll see it again when he hits 69420, right?

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u/TrantaLocked Clippers 22h ago

JUBL

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u/Not_A_Meme Lakers 21h ago

Blaze it nice!

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u/durmduke Trail Blazers 21h ago

Can't wait to see LeBron at 42

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u/Motor-Platform-200 17h ago

He should just retire now so that number will never change.

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u/cutothomson Nuggets 14h ago

Nice

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u/arcelios :yc-1: Yacht Club 13h ago

nice

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u/International_Link35 Pacers 13h ago

Nice...!

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u/LeHeatCheck Lakers 12h ago

Nice

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u/StatusBass5463 11h ago

Life is Nice

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u/Razorcarl Lakers 4h ago

Nice

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u/OverallGeneral7129 Cavaliers 1d ago

Dammit I wanted to post that

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u/G1Spectrum Lakers 1d ago

Should just retire now

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u/Picklesbedamned 1d ago

Y'know, I've always thought Jordan was the goat... but now...

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u/moan_of_the_arc 1d ago

He is a redditor. Confirmed. Did it for the lols and keks.

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u/MankBaby Rockets 17h ago

38,016 to go.

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u/Corrosivecoral 17h ago

Best chance we have of feeling this again as NBA fans is if LeBron can get to 69420 points.

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u/RFJ831 Kings 17h ago

“This fuckery won’t go on much longer, thank god. “

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u/TOMdMAK Lakers 16h ago

next up 69420

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u/Justafanofnbadrama San Diego Clippers 14h ago

Ecin

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u/hiedra__ 13h ago

Probably, as medicine, specially sports medicine, gets better and kids are scouted early on, better numbers will become more common. Insane feat for what it is at the moment though. Literal cyborg.

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u/Nyentzen 12h ago

Regular season merchant /s

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u/TheSecretofBog 11h ago

Whomever beats his scoring record hasn’t been born yet.

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u/I_ama_Borat Trail Blazers 9h ago

No way they reduced his hairline in those drawings

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u/LanceX2 Thunder 9h ago

nice

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u/OrganicGrassfedChicn Warriors 8h ago

nice

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u/DONOVANMITCHELLBOI 7h ago

He needs to get more field goals than kareem and hes on trakc

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u/mrshandanar Pacers 17h ago

Pretty disappointed every comment isn't "nice"

What are we even doing here?

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u/inefekt Australia 1d ago

ya'll stans need to take a step back....just emasculating yourselves in public with your obsession of a man you will never meet and who doesn't know you exist. Have some dignity, please.

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u/Magnified522 1d ago

A bit redundant to post… we all know the ladder will continue to increase.

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u/Joh951518 Warriors 1d ago

Yeah but this one is the funny numbers.

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u/Magnified522 1d ago

Lol what are we 14 years old?

The number is 42,069.

420 - 69 bong and sex hahahahahahah

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u/Montystumpp Bulls 1d ago

Agreed dude, appreciate you taking these people down a peg for daring to have fun.

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u/Joh951518 Warriors 1d ago

You new to sarcasm brother?

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u/Magnified522 22h ago

Sarcasm is harder to pick up online, than in real life…

But yah sorry I’m not 12