The way the Bucks’ roster is comprised, they may need him to score 56 a game.

“If LeBron retires immediately” lmaoooo

Alternatively, let’s say he averages exactly 30 points for the rest of his career and plays all 82 games each season along with LeBron retiring right now, it would take Giannis an additional 8.5 seasons to pass LeBron.

r/theydidthemath

In before Giannis “accidentally” breaks both of Lebron’s knees the next time they play.

Nobody is ever breaking Lebron’s all time scoring record. TBH, that’s maybe one of the better arguments to say that Lebron is the absolute GOAT over MJ. There’s nothing MJ did that I literally can’t imagine another player ever doing, but I just don’t think it’s possible for anyone to beat some of Lebron’s records.

It’s hard to exceed your goals. Aim high.

But what about playoffs? /s

he obviously didn’t do a math major 😂

Perfect example lof they get paid to play basketball, not a mathematician.

Even until now, compared to LeBron he’s played over 100 fewer games in his first 12 years and is over 6k points behind LBJs pace. I think there has to be a misunderstanding, language barrier or Giannis just did the math in his head entirely wrong lol. Like I fully believe that he wants to be the ATSL and he def has a chance, but the 4-5 year window just doesn’t make sense and Giannis isn’t dumb.

Edit: Imo Brons record is about as unbreakable as an NBA record can be. Next to his All-NBA streak, Player of the Month (seriously look that shit up) record, and playoff points. What I was trying to say is that I don’t think it’s outlandish for Giannis in particular to at least try to chase it and strive to be at that level by the end of his career. That part of his statement wasn’t silly to me. The 5 years however are just straight up impossible.

Like 90% of threads like these are just people being willfully obtuse and refusing to give any amount of benefit of the doubt on what people meant. He specifically mentions the list and never says anything about the record or LeBron

You’re not wrong but posting accurate context wouldn’t get OP all that sweet, sweet manufactured engagement karma

Yeah, he pretty clearly means that his name will be among those he listed, not above everybody. KD is at 8th all time, and could move to 5th this season (almost guaranteed to pass Wilt and Dirk for 6th, barring major time missed). Giannis is at 42nd, and is closer to Durant than Durant is to Lebron.

It’s not even the language it’s just OPs dumb ass misquote

Pretty sure i heard him say “towards the top of the scoring list”, not “to the top”

It’s not even a second language thing it’s just OP straight up intentionally misinterpreting what he’s saying for clicks 

Clearly meant to say “how I’m IN the top 10 or 15” yeah

Edit: watching it back I think he even says it

The question was about Giannis reaching 21,000 points last night - the sixth youngest to do so behind Bron, Wilt, Kobe, KD, and Jordan

Yeah. It’s not clickbaity but he just left out the word “in.” Or “on”

Edit:

In Greek you combine the preposition with the word “the” as one word. To say “on the” list vs “the list” is just putting an “S” sound before “the” Like “sti lista” vs “ti lista” is “on the list” vs “the list”

Easy mistranslation. Native English speaking NBA players leave out more worse than this.

It’s not that spicy of a take. It’s optimistic and possible.

Edit 2:

As u/brinkwatertoad pointed out, he actually might say “in” quietly.

I think the reporter was referring to how fast he got to a milestone in scoring or something like that.

i can’t believe i had to scroll this far down to see this lol

i dont think he’s saying he’ll pass lebron but that he’ll be at somewhere at the top of the scoring list

I also think that. English isn’t his first language y’all

Maybe he just knows something we don’t

He probably means 30 k

Listen man idc about your fancy math projects alright? Giannis is a DOER not a thinker like you and your pea brain. Giannis DOES. Nerd.

And that’s assuming LeBron retires today

It sounded like he meant among the top names and how high he could go not the literal 1 place which is how the question phrased it aswell but this sub is allergic to context.

Comprehension saves lives

Man I’m dying!! Lol

He’s already 48th so obviously didnt mean top 50. Nobody talks about a top 15 or top 20. Top 10 is the normal cut off for these kind of lists when posted on social media or shown on TV. He’s 10600 behind Shaq, and will catch him in 5 years at his current pace, but Harden and Curry will also, so he’ll need to surpass Erving & Wilt which will take 5-6 years, or if he goes deep in the playoffs maybe 5.

Misquote, not language barrier

That doesn’t even include the 10k Lebron will score over that time frame…

Most comprehensive basketball career ever from HS to College to Pros 

That’s because the question was about being youngest to 21k points. Kareem and Malone are not on that list

You went straight to the comments instead of watching the actual clip lmao

luka has already missed more games than lebron did in like his first 10 seasons

lebron was an iron man and people always seem to forget he was a pretty ludicrous PPG for his entire long ass career

it’s not just a career length, it’s also an insanely high PPG for that career length, and the fact it was only AFTER like the age of 35 he started having injuries like normal players lol

It’s being broken literally every game.

I don’t think Lebron will admit it, but he wants to put that record into orbit where nobody can ever touch it.