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we have a lot more coverage of the state of the union at this hour. but right now major breaking news in the sports world. king james is the new blitz king of the nba. los angeles lakers super star, lebron james, has just become the league s all-time leading scorer. james scoring 36 points tonight so far, the game is still going on. what he has done is past fellow laker legend kareem abdul-jabbar. which abdul-jabbar head since 1984. and it is in tonight s game! cnn s omar jimenez is in the crypto.com arena. he is joining us by phone. omar, tell us what that moment was like? honestly, watching the aftermath of that moment right now is incredibly surreal,
a more proud moment. for the fans, for his family looking on. and the right side of him. and of course to the nba. now surpassing one milestone, and handing it off to the next generation. omar, how cool as a huge basketball fan, and former player yourself to be there to witness this incredible, incredible history. i want to go now to someone who knows lebron james and the nba, and pretty much all of sports very well. sportscaster, and cnn contributor bob costas. omar said over 30, 000, let s be exact. 30,387 points. that is the number that kareem abdul-jabbar said all those years ago. and that was what was just surpassed. i was just reading that we know that lebron james set out at a very young age to break all kinds of records in the nba. but this one? he said i never said i wanted to lead the league in scoring.
anybody here in the arena was on their feet waiting. baiting their breath for anticipation of the shot going in. one of the signature fadeaway shots in the left elbow. and he absolutely drained it. that performance, hands up in the air. his entire family, his close friends cheering them on. they are now on the court celebrating, and some of them look, i should say, very emotional at this moment. it s a moment that people thought would it be broken. 30 games, and thousand career points at the highest level of basketball over the course of an and b.a. career, that s been 20 years for lebron james and now he stands at center court as fans chant mvp. he plays a bunch of blood is essentially him collecting over his career, and it could not be
and as i watch the game not, at the game, but watching it. the last flurry that took him past the mark of kareem abdul-jabbar, had a little bit of everything. from the lebron james playbook. he hit back to back three pointers. then he took an alleyoop, and thanked one in. and the last basket that took him past kareem abdul-jabbar, was a classic fadeaway from the foul line. he s so versatile. so many aspects to the game. and he showed a little bit of everything today. in his 20th season of the league. we should now, this is obviously a huge milestone. he s already racked up so many. for nba championships, four-time mvp award, three all-time mvp award. two gold medals. it goes on and on. bob, you interviewed lebron james back in 2003. i want to play a little bit of that and talk on the other side. how does it feel to know that if you are not eventually a hall of fame caliber player, it s not good enough to be good