Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, LeBron James, Wilt Chamberlain and Dirk Nowitzki. These are the seven players who have eclipsed 30,000 points in the NBA and 31,000 in professional basketball. Dallas Mavericks own, Dirk Nowitzki is the seventh name on the list currently, but that could be changing soon.
The first five players on the list won’t be caught by Dirk. LeBron is creating plenty of distance each game and Jordan is currently 1,100 points ahead of Dirk, which would mean he’d have to turn the clock back to 2011-12 in order to score those 1,100 by the end of the season.