As LeBron James chases down Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's record for the most points scored in the regular season, he has already accomplished a scoring milestone that Abdul-Jabbar never did -- scoring 50 points in a game with the Los Angeles Lakers.
Abdul-Jabbar, who finished his career with 38,387 points in the regular season, scored at least 50 points 10 different times, but all of them came during his first six seasons in the league when he was with the Milwaukee Bucks. James, on the other hand, has scored 50 or more 14 times in the regular season -- nine with the Cleveland Cavaliers, twice with the Miami Heat, and three times since joining the Lakers in the 2018-19 season.