“My motivation,” LeBron James once told Sports Illustrated, “is this ghost I’m chasing. The ghost played in Chicago.” Wednesday night, he caught him. With 32,311 career points, LeBron James now sits in fourth place on the NBA's all-time scoring list. Michael Jordan is fifth.
The problem was that the milestone came in the middle of this disastrous Lakers season. L.A. lost to the Nuggets Wednesday, and the Lakers were down 18 points in the first half when LeBron bullied his way past Nikola Jokic and finished through a Torrey Craig blocking foul.