{"id":700688,"date":"2026-04-06T02:57:04","date_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:57:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700688\/"},"modified":"2026-04-06T02:57:04","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T02:57:04","slug":"demar-derozan-climbs-higher-in-nba-scoring-history","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/700688\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan climbs higher in NBA scoring history"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Kings star surpassed Oscar Robertson to claim the 16th place in the NBA&#8217;s all-time scoring list.<\/p>\n<p>After <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/news-244268-demar-derozan-passes-hawks-legend-earns-new-nba-scoring-feat.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">surpassing Dominique Wilkins earlier this week<\/a>, DeMar DeRozan has taken another major step in the NBA&#8217;s all-time scoring list.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday against the Los Angeles Clippers, DeRozan officially moved into the league&#8217;s No. 16 place in most career points ever.<\/p>\n<p>He surpassed the legendary Oscar Robertson with a mid-range shot over Derrick Jones Jr. during the 7:41 mark of the first quarter.<\/p>\n<p>  <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/a\/status\/2040966810309394840\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">  <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Up next for DeRozan is Hakeem Olajuwon, as the Houston Rockets legend scored a career 26,946 points.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">Appearing in 76 games, DeRozan is averaging 18.6 points in nearly 50 percent shooting with 4.2 assists and 3.0 rebounds.<\/p>\n<p>                                                    <a href=\"https:\/\/basketnews.com\/plus?utm_source=basketnews_com&amp;utm_medium=bn_plus&amp;utm_id=UA-259273-31&amp;utm_campaign=banners_free_content_for_not_members_bottom_2\" class=\"banners_paid_content_info_block_white banners-paid-content-info-block-white\" data-google-interstitial=\"false\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><\/p>\n<p>                                                <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"bn-plus-img img-fluid\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/bn-plus.png\" alt=\"\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                                            Subscribe to BN+ and get access to exclusive content.<\/p>\n<p>                                                            <\/a><\/p>\n<p>                                If you like our content, please <a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/preferences\/source?q=basketnews.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">click here<\/a> and add us as your preferred source. It helps us a lot, and we are committed to delivering you the very latest basketball news.<\/p>\n<p>                                            <script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Kings star surpassed Oscar Robertson to claim the 16th place in the NBA&#8217;s all-time scoring list. After&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":700689,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3792],"tags":[7,4056,6,986,477,4055],"class_list":{"0":"post-700688","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-sacramento-kings","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-kings","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sacramento","12":"tag-sacramento-kings","13":"tag-sacramentokings"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116355525216510317","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700688","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=700688"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/700688\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/700689"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=700688"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=700688"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=700688"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}