James is youngest to score 25000 pts

James needed 21 points entering Monday night’s game to reach the scoring milestone.

So far, Love has flourished, averaging 18.5 points, 10.8 rebounds and 3.5 assists per game while producing 0.271 win shares per 48 minutes, a career-high if he can maintain it for the entire season and higher than any of the three previous years he was selected as an all star. For me, winning basketball games and then reaching milestones individually will be a pretty cool thing, but obviously, it will be a team aspect of it that comes first. “I think he’s feeling better”, Blatt said, “and I think it shows in his play.”… It’s a cool thing.

James finished the game with 22 points, 11 assists, 9 rebounds, 4 steals and 2 blocks as Cavaliers registered their third consecutive win and improved their season record to 3-1.

The two-time champion is playing this season with a bad back that has plagued him since the preseason but is still performing very well.

James scored the milestone basket on a dunk with 8:07 left in the fourth quarter. He became the sixth active player with 25,000 points and the 20th overall, joining Dallas’ Dirk Nowitzki, San Antonio’s Tim Duncan, Minnesota’s Kevin Garnett, Los Angeles’ Kobe Bryant and Paul Pierce of the Clippers.

LeBron James on Monday became the youngest player in National Basketball Association history to register 25,000 points, eclipsing the previously-set record by Kobe Bryant.

During the next timeout, when the milestone was put on the scoreboard, the fans gave James, 30, a warm standing ovation that he acknowledged with a long wave. It took James 915 games to reach the mark, while Wilt Chamberlain (691), Michael Jordan (782), and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (889) all reached the milestone sooner. There really is not even that much of a strategy to it other than make him take as tough of a shot as possible.

I know that most of the stats are leaning towards the Sixers covering the spread against the Cavs at home, but there’s just no way I can put any money on them and feel good about it yet.

He said the mark was a tribute, more than anything else, to this: “I’ve been able to stay healthy, relative, in my career”.

James, whom Sixers coach Brett Brown called “a locomotive, a runaway train”, is a four-time league MVP generally regarded as the NBA’s best player.

Kevin Love, Mo Williams, and Matthew Dellavedova only have kind words for James, who returned to Cleveland in 2014-15, after four years with the Miami Heat. “I had no idea that I’m that close”.

“Nineteen guys?” James said.

NY – Tim Duncan recorded the 831st double-double of his career leading San Antonio Spurs over NY.

It was the first loss for Oklahoma City, which won its first three games while the Rockets dropped all three of theirs.