Abdul-Jabbar rose from his seat and clapped.
James outstretched his arms, threw both hands in the air, then smiled. With a stepback jump shot with 10.9 seconds left in the third quarter in the Los Angeles Lakers' game against the Oklahoma City Thunder on Tuesday night, James pushed his career total to 38,388 points and broke the record that Kareem Abdul-Jabbar held for nearly four decades. LeBron James is the NBA's new career scoring leader.
