Lakers News: Watch LeBron James Sink Big-Time Three In Bid To Unseat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar

He was 36 points away from the record at the top of the night.

LeBron James is a man on a mission tonight.

After being incredibly deferential to start the game, prioritizing passing over shooting, LBJ got his first bucket on a tentative triple against the visiting Oklahoma City Thunder tonight at Crypto.com Arena:

LEBRON THREE. 🔥

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The Chosen One is primed to have a big evening. With the made triple early in the game, he is merely 33 points away from surpassing the all-time NBA regular season scoring record set by former Los Angeles Lakers center Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, 38,387 points. 

Abdul-Jabbar, incidentally, is sitting courtside tonight, expecting to see James surpass the seemingly unsurpassable tally the six-time league MVP (and six-time champ) set upon retiring from the NBA in 1990, when James was all of five years old.

Whether or not James makes history tonight, he'll be making it this week, barring injury, at least.

So just how far can he get? How long can he keep playing 55 games a season, averaging 30 points per? The man is rewriting what NBA longevity looks like, one tomahawk slam at a time.

It certainly seems like 40K is incredibly achievable now. 

How much of this LeBron-A-Thon will be three-point tries, for a guy who's connecting on just 30.8% of his excessive seven triples per.