LeBron James is set to become the first player in NBA history to play in 23 seasons.
Title says it all. Considering the fact that LBJ is not retiring, he's about to become the first ever to do that.
He is already tied at n°1 with Vince Carter, with 22 seasons. In 2020, Vinsanity became the first player to play in 22 seasons, passing Robert Parish.
'Bron is also 50 games away from passing Robert Parish for most games played in NBA history.
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23 seasons is perfect for him. Although if it was his last season we would probably know by now
He’s been played the NBA longer in his life, than he has not played in the NBA. We will never see another player like LeBron, who came in at 18 and had this sustained performance for 23+ seasons.
Truly impressive how he kept himself this efficient for so long. Tom Brady did the same thing in the NFL recently. I wonder if we will start to see more guys like that or we just got incredibly lucky to witness two generational talents in their respective sports.
23 years and still All NBA Team and top 10 player in the league is wild.
goat
Hope he goes for 25
Personally, I think he’s going for 25 seasons and then he’ll retire. He’s going to try to put that all time scoring record out of reach and then retire.
LeBron has barely missed any games in his career and yet Parish played 49 more games than him in one less season? That’s crazy
ETA: 76.7 average games played per season for Parish 71 average games played per season for LeBron. LeBron also played in ~~2~~ 1 strike shortened seasons, as well as 2 COVID shortened seasons, so that may explain it
Potentially breaking Robert Parish’s games played record is legitimately insane and doing while being a starter your whole career is also insane
First to have a 7th prime. He goes for 25 years to play with Bryce.
Not just that he’s still there, but he’s still one of the best players
That’s…REALLY impressive. And it’s not like he’s a living corpse out there.
Parish still has more games? Kind’ve wild when considering all of lebrons deep playoff runs and a long stretch of no serious injuries, Parish was an iron man
He’s at 292 total playoff games too. I don’t know if he’ll reach 300 🙁
That’s what I’m talking about.
That’s why he’s the goat.
The goat.
He’s got to go to 25 that would be insane and also basically un touchable
LeBron is gonna go for 25 seasons so we can say “quarter century”, when talking about his career
How many Hall of Fame careers do you think we could split his career in to? Do you guys think we could get three? Two, obviously.
I feel like he could make it to year 30 in the NBA
Bron will probably play 25 years then call it quits.
Whenever he finally does retire, life is going to feel weird.
Just appreciate greatness while his still playing
He’s going to go to 25 for sur.e
And he’s still an ultra elite player. Madness.
bro has been in the NBA every year since i’ve been alive. unreal
I don’t see how he can possibly not be the GOAT at this point. He’s about to have played in the most seasons and games and still be good enough to be the number one option on most teams. On top of being so dominant in his prime.
The final record.
And playing at an elite level in all of them.
I was a Lebron hater but I can’t help to not admire him.
I know MJ has more accolades, but it’s hard to not argue that LeBron is making the GOAT debate a 1A and 1B type scenario.
For someone who came into the league with a game built on athleticism, I can’t believe how well his game has aged.
I still remember specifically checking espn.com on his NBA debut night to check how he did. When I saw 25pt, 9 assists, 6 rebounds I remember thinking this dude may have a future in the sport
I’ve watched his entire career and I’ve gone from a tiny elementary school kid to entering my 30s and thinking about starting a family.
The debates will always be here but I choose to just appreciate now what we’ve witnessed for so many years. Truly a once in several lifetimes kind of player. League won’t be the same once he’s gone.
People that don’t have him in the top 2 are just haters at this point
Oh yay. We get a whole season of “Lebron is the oldest player to” do literally anything
This is crazy because the other players that have played this long were veteran leaders on the bench who looked like a shell of their former self.
LeBron’s definitely dropped off quite a bit and it’s always weird to see him take off for dunks and see his head below the rim now days. But it’s crazy the dropped off version is 2nd team All-NBA.
I’m in my 30’s and most of my life the same guy has been the face of the league. Greatness.
*I’d love for him to play 25 years, play in the 2028 Summer Olympics in LA, win gold and have that be his last game ever. He deserves to have an NBA and international farewell tour! I think that would be the most iconic send off…literally the world paying their respect to him as he goes out on top!*
The way this headline is worded….
This man also dropped a mf 38 pt playoff game at 40 just a few months ago.
PEDs, HGH. 💯. All the blind witnesses he’s fooled throughout the years as if he’s super human. Nahhh it ain’t natural
I didn’t realize Vince Carter was in the league that long. Pretty impressive, especially considering his game mostly replied on being an athletic freak.
If he decided to play until he physically can’t anymore, dude will still be able to contribute 10 min per game off the been at 48 in his 30th season. AND make a difference!
LeBron is another example where he can split his career into two halves and each would be worthy of HoF, Jerry Rice and Tom Brady are two in NFL