If Bryant continues to score at his career average of 25.5 points per game, he will catch Jordan early in the 2013-14 season.
In the Los Angeles Lakers’ 103-98 victory over the Sacramento Kings Saturday March 30th, Kobe Bryant‘s pull-up jumper in the second quarter gave him 31,421 points for his career, edging past Chamberlain’s 31,419 and moving Kobe into the fourth place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. Bryant finished the game with 19 points, a career-high tying 14 assists and nine rebounds.
At age 34, Bryant now trails only Michael Jordan (32,292) by less than 900 points, Karl Malone (36,928) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (38,387) on the league’s list of top scorers.
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