If you didn't already know, 20,000 points is the gold standard for 'greatness' and for the HOF and not too many people have done it. Some of the leaders 1. Kareem: 38,387 2. Malone: 36,928 3. Jordan: 32,292 4. Wilt: 31,419 5. Moses: 27,40915. Shaq: 24,674 Kobe: 16,866 Iverson: 19,115 LeBron: 6,307 It really makes you appreciate how great those players were to put up those numbers for that long. So, where do you think some of todays scorers stack up?
Kobe, Iverson, LeBron all will do it. T-Mac maybe if he gets healthy and maybe Pierce. Dirk? Maybe Ray Ray.
Obviously Kobe and Iverson will, and LeBron will be the youngest to hit 10,000 and then probably 20,000 too.
Pierce only has 1,500 less points than Allen and he's been in the league for two less seasons, why is he being neglected when Ray is mentioned?
Dirk has a really great chance to do it. Right now he has 13,257 points in his career. That is in 8 seasons. He still has a lot of seasons in him left. Right now he's 28. The last 2 seasons he's averaged about 26 points a game. I can see him averaging that for a few more seasons.Lets say he retires at the age of 35. He only needs to score 963 points each season to do that. That would be 11.7 points per game and if he played the maximum amount of games. in 7 seasons, he would have 574 regular season games. Now he probably wont play in all of them, but i bet he averages more than 11 points a game as well. He'll shatter the 20,000 point mark easily. He'll probably get past the 25,000 point mark and end up somewhere in between the 25,000 and 30,000 point mark.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (pjcolpitts @ May 12 2006, 03:55 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Dirk has a really great chance to do it. Right now he has 13,257 points in his career. That is in 8 seasons. He still has a lot of seasons in him left. Right now he's 28. The last 2 seasons he's averaged about 26 points a game. I can see him averaging that for a few more seasons.Lets say he retires at the age of 35. He only needs to score 963 points each season to do that. That would be 11.7 points per game and if he played the maximum amount of games. in 7 seasons, he would have 574 regular season games. Now he probably wont play in all of them, but i bet he averages more than 11 points a game as well. He'll shatter the 20,000 point mark easily. He'll probably get past the 25,000 point mark and end up somewhere in between the 25,000 and 30,000 point mark.</div>Pierce was drafted the same year and he has 1,000 more points. Why is everyone overlooking him? He's been one of the top 5 scorers in the league for most of his career, his PPG was 3rd in the league one season. His career average is 23.5 PPG, which is excellent and top 15 all-time, he's still only 28 and I don't think scoring 6,000 more points throughtout the remainder of his career will be difficult at all. He stands a better chance of reaching 20,000 right now then Ray Allen, so why doesn't he get any respect?
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JustBlaze @ May 12 2006, 05:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Pierce was drafted the same year and he has 1,000 more points. Why is everyone overlooking him? He's been one of the top 5 scorers in the league for most of his career, his PPG was 3rd in the league one season. His career average is 23.5 PPG, which is excellent and top 15 all-time, he's still only 28 and I don't think scoring 6,000 more points throughtout the remainder of his career will be difficult at all. He stands a better chance of reaching 20,000 right now then Ray Allen, so why doesn't he get any respect?</div>Its not that i'm overlooking him, I'm just vouching for Dirk Nowitzki. Dirk is overlooked just like Pierce is. The only ppl that support Dirk is Mavs fans and Celtic fans for Pierce.
Here is my list off the top of my head:IversonGarnettKobeLeBronPierceDirkWadeMeloAlso, Webber would have broken it if he hadn't missed all those games due to his knee injury...
If Dwight plays 17 seasons, and averages around 16 per year which is possible over his career and plays 74 games per year, he will surpass 20,000 points. He is so young that is is very possible for him to break 20,000 points. Chris Bosh also will get it easily in my opinion
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (ELiiiTE @ May 12 2006, 04:59 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>This is something Steve Nash can never achieve :yess:</div>I'm sure he thinks about it everyday as he polishes his two MVP trophies.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JustBlaze @ May 12 2006, 11:52 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Pierce was drafted the same year and he has 1,000 more points. Why is everyone overlooking him? He's been one of the top 5 scorers in the league for most of his career, his PPG was 3rd in the league one season. His career average is 23.5 PPG, which is excellent and top 15 all-time, he's still only 28 and I don't think scoring 6,000 more points throughtout the remainder of his career will be difficult at all. He stands a better chance of reaching 20,000 right now then Ray Allen, so why doesn't he get any respect?</div> He was just bringing up Dirk, he wasn't overlooking him, you Celtics fans have been going crazy over Paul Pierce lately.
Apparently we all don't, or he would have been mentioned before f*cking Ray Allen, whom he is far better than.
<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (JustBlaze @ May 12 2006, 07:54 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Apparently we all don't, or he would have been mentioned before f*cking Ray Allen, whom he is far better than.</div> Yeah but Ray Allen has threepoint shooting on his side. That was why I put him in there.
