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Simply the best. The basket monster changes its name, but the trail is the same. It took 39 years for a new Scoring King. From one giant to another. From biker goggles by kareem to Lincoln’s beard LeBron. The look has changed, but not the team (Lakers), nor the political-social commitment. He was Jabbar, now he’s James. The former at age 37 in ’84 had cleared the record of 31,419 by Chamberlain. Hook-sky, assist by Magic Johnson and go you are legend. Eight months later in Akron, Ohio, LeBron was born to a sixteen-year-old girl, Gloria James, who the other night, at home in Los Angeles against the Oklahoma City Thunder, surpassed Kareem Abul Jabbar’s 38,387 points, who retired in ’89 after 20 NBA seasons, 10 finals, 6 titles. Are you interested in how? With a vintage shot: in suspension, shoulders to the basket. “He’s crazy, it’s weird, but I did it.” Play the numbers: 38 years of age, 38 points in the evening, an old record of 39 seasons, 38,390 points in all.

LeBron and Kareem together on the hardwood to celebrate

The two giants embraced on the pitch, with the game interrupted for 10 minutes of celebration. The best scorer ever is now him: “King James”. He proclaimed himself king without wasting time. Very fast, very precocious, from school straight to the NBA: debut at 18, millionaire contracts, even before having won anything. He was “The Chosen 1”, the Chosen One, he had it tattooed on his back. That big kid from Akron that ended up on the cover of Sports Illustrated in 2002 he was already in the spotlight in high school. He ate fast food, kicked Jay-Z, but he was the only guy who Michael Jordan he invited to his secret workouts in Chicago. “The Air” had the heir. Three seasons later James had a court of 12: his publicist, his personal stylist, his cook. Everything about him, except the results. In the national team he suffered Kobe Bryant. Growing up with America’s eyes on you wasn’t easy. A colossus in every sense: more and more muscles and flab, those of Sports Illustrated they brought a scale to weigh him. He refused to get on it. His body was none of their business, a myth isn’t measured by pounds. He took beatings, said unhappy phrases, left Clevelandthe working-class city that had raised him for seven seasons, for the glamorous sun of You love me. The talent was there, but it wasn’t yet unstoppable. Then, like in a Hollywood movie, the script fell into place: from the self-centeredness that leads to defeat to the awareness of talent that leads to success. “I want my damn respect.” Right: in 20 years 10 NBA finals, 4 titles with three different teams. Power, speed, technique. No (false) modesty. If Jordan called himself the best in the world, James spoke of himself as the best in history.

LeBron and the reasons to continue

Jabbar stopped at 42, James has a left foot that needs to be treated before every fight. The Highlanders break down, but they don’t stop. Pat Riley who had them both in the team (2 titles with James in Miami) says: “You have to have a reason”. You must have a reason to continue. “They are two different eras: Jabbar had a team that drove him, if the Lakers recover Davis, LeBron can win another title this season”. Jabbar played 1,560 games to set the record, in the first 773 the 3-pointer did not exist, the first he did in ’87. James has scored (he’s the only one) at least 40 points on all 30 NBA teams. Difficult to make comparisons: Magic didn’t score like him, Jordan didn’t pass like him. Jabbar played center, LeBron started at power forward. Coach Valerio Bianchini explains “he has extraordinary physical weapons, a refined technique, he makes a show. He has deconstructed the roles because, as he says Dan Peterson the champions are now private companies, everyone has their own showroom, teamwork no longer exists. In the role of coaches we find former players, there are phenomena instead of the collective, so the NBA regains possession of American individualism, the speed of the game counts, not rationality, not the context, we are back to cowboys and Indians.

LeBron, his social commitment and the children he dreams of playing with

However, LeBron has the merit of having also distinguished himself in the political and social fields, he makes himself heard in society, if his health allows him he will be able to move forward and move other boundaries”. For Matteo Zuretti, chief of International Relations and Marketing Nbpa, the American union of the players: “No one has the extraordinary impact of LeBron on the people, he is very sensitive to social unrest, he has a people who listen to his voice. And like all great artists he is now in his own extrasport galaxy, the difference was that Jabbar was alone while he has a system of planets”. And billionaire business. LeBron who married Savannah, his high school sweetheart, has two children and a daughter. The eldest, Bronny, 18, already sponsored, isn’t doing badly at basketball and next year will be eligible for the draft while the second son, Bryce, 15, is almost as tall as his father, wears goggles, and he too crushes, not surprisingly the usual Sports Illustrated has already made the cover of the three. “The Chosen Sons”. Because LeBron is aiming for another record: playing with his boys. Dynasty James. The chosen ones.