Watch - a presidential celebration and a $92,000 ticket on a historic night for LeBron James in the NBA

LeBron James broke the NBA record for points during the Los Angeles Lakers vs Oklahoma City Thunder match.

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James surpassed the previous record registered in the name of Kareem Abdul-Jabbar of 38,387 points, when he scored two points 10.9 seconds before the end of the third quarter.


The match stopped for more than 10 minutes to greet James, with Adam Silver, the tournament commissioner, and Abdul-Jabbar taking to the court to honor him. The Lakers showed a short video of James, starting with "LeBron James, the best basketball player in high school history."





James said, "I thank the Lakers fans and everyone from my mother to my wife to my children. I feel very proud to have surpassed Karim, and I ask everyone here to pay tribute to the captain (Abdul-Jabbar's nickname)."

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And Abdul-Jabbar handed a ball to James, in reference to transferring the record to him. The Lakers also displayed several letters greeting James, including his wife and Lakers legend Magic Johnson.

James finished the first half by scoring 20 points, and told his two sons before the start of the third quarter that he would score 12 points to break the record.



Before the match, James put a stethoscope over his ears that said "38388", which was the number he needed to overtake Abdul-Jabbar's number.
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Bets were up ahead of the game on how James would break the record from three-pointers to free throws to two points with his usual "skyhook", Abdul-Jabbar's usual way of scoring.
After the end of the third quarter, the Lakers showed a video of US President Joe Biden greeting James.



And the Lakers announced that all fans in the stadium would get the James Achievement shirt, with the opening of its sale on the club’s website for a period of 38 hours.

The highest price for a match ticket last week was $92,000, before it dropped slightly as all eyes turned to the Milwaukee Bucks match in Los Angeles on Thursday.

But in the end, James decided everything in the last seconds of the third quarter.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar Is Greater Than Any Basketball Record

The following year, Abdul-Jabbar avoided the Summer Olympics in protest of American bias. “America is not my homeland,” he said in a television interview. "I just live here."

These days, Harry Edwards, professor emeritus of sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, has led a new wave of black athletes in protests against American racism. Abdul-Jabbar was a vital part of that push. He also converted to Islam to embrace his black African heritage, and changed his name from Lou Alcindour to Karim (Karim) Abd (Abdullah) Jabbar (Strong).

"You have to understand the context," Edwards told me recently. We still argue about whether black lives matter. Well, back then, black lives didn't matter at all. Back then, when I said "America," it was code for "white people." How can they sympathize with a black athlete who says that I am a Muslim and believe in God and this is what I owe him? They didn't, and they informed him."

Edwards added, “What Karim did was considered a betrayal of the American ideal. He risked his life.”

Black athletes still face backlash for standing up to racism, but their voices are stronger, and their influence is even stronger now because of Black legends like Ali, Robinson, Russell, and Abdul-Jabbar.

I saw their mark when James wore an Eric Garner "I Can't Breathe" T-shirt, Trayvon Martin's hoodie, or when he joined Jacob Blake's NBA hiatus. When right-wing pundits attack James and his peers for protesting, remember that Abdul-Jabbar was in the hot seat, too.


The message here isn't "I've been there, done that, and I don't need to hear it anymore." No, that's not all at all.

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