LeBron James was the youngest player on the floor when he made his NBA debut 20 years ago. He’s now the oldest player in the league.
The Kid from Akron — what James still calls himself — isn’t a kid anymore, and the 38-year-old enters this season as the NBA’s most senior player. He was only No. 3 on that list last season, behind Udonis Haslem and Andre Iguodala .
Abdul-Jabbar averaged 23.4 points in the 1985-86 season. That’s the record for scoring average by the oldest player in the league in a season. Abdul-Jabbar turned 39 that year. Both of those instances came in the 2002-03 season. Karl Malone averaged 20.6 points as a 39-year-old, and Michael Jordan averaged exactly 20.0 points in the season where he turned 40.Nobody has ever averaged more than 7.4 points in their 21st NBA season; Vince Carter did that in 2018-19, the same season where Dirk Nowitzki averaged 7.3.
Parish was the most recent player with that distinction; he was an All-Star in 1991 at the age of 37. Most players — 26 of the previous 42 — held that crown for just one year. Among them: Paul Silas, who was James’ first NBA coach when the then-18-year-old entered the league with Cleveland.
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