{"id":533725,"date":"2026-01-13T11:16:27","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:16:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/533725\/"},"modified":"2026-01-13T11:16:27","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T11:16:27","slug":"harden-passes-shaq-for-9th-place-on-nbas-all-time-scoring-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/533725\/","title":{"rendered":"Harden passes Shaq for 9th place on NBA’s all-time scoring list"},"content":{"rendered":"

LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 James Harden has passed Shaquille O\u2019Neal for ninth place on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring list.<\/p>\n

The Los Angeles Clippers guard made a 3-pointer early in the third quarter<\/a> on Monday night against the Charlotte Hornets, pushing his career total to 28,598 points in his 1,187th regular season game. O\u2019Neal had 28,596 points in 1,207 games over 19 years.<\/p>\n

\u201cShaquille O\u2019Neal, somebody that I literally grew up watching here in L.A.,\u201d Harden said. \u201cHim and Kobe (Bryant) doing their thing, winning multiple championships, the most dominant big man in the history of the game. It\u2019s a true honor, it\u2019s a testament to the work that I put in.\u201d<\/p>\n

Harden, who began the night 14 points behind O\u2019Neal, finished with 32 points and 10 assists in the Clippers\u2019 117-109 win<\/a> against the Hornets. He had 13 points in the first half \u2014 including 11 in the first quarter \u2014 and scored 11 in the third and eight in the fourth to increase his scoring total to 28, 614.<\/p>\n

Harden entered the night averaging 25.6 points per game, his highest average since the 2019-20 season (34.3 points per game) when he won the last of three straight league scoring titles.<\/p>\n

Harden, who began the game with 28,582 career points in his 17th season, faces a steep climb to the next spot. Wilt Chamberlain is eighth with 31,419 points, in just 1,045 games over 14 years. LeBron James is the all-time leader with 42,601 points entering his game with the Los Angeles Lakers on Monday. Following him are Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki and Kevin Durant. <\/p>\n

Harden recently moved up to 12th on the all-time assists list. The 11-time All-Star also ranks second all-time in 3-pointers made, behind Stephen Curry. <\/p>\n

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AP NBA: https:\/\/apnews.com\/hub\/NBA<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"LOS ANGELES (AP) \u2014 James Harden has passed Shaquille O\u2019Neal for ninth place on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":533726,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[7,160,473,1105,560,615,10131,938,185,61753,135,935,6,446,1302,66,573],"class_list":["post-533725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-basketball","tag-california","tag-charlotte-hornets","tag-dirk-nowitzki","tag-james-harden","tag-kareem-abdul-jabbar","tag-karl-malone","tag-kevin-durant","tag-lebron-james","tag-local-news-for-apple","tag-los-angeles-clippers","tag-michael-jordan","tag-nba","tag-nba-basketball","tag-shaquille-oneal","tag-sports","tag-stephen-curry"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115887510874947994","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=533725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/533725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/533726"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=533725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=533725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=533725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}