**Year 21 Averages (PTS/REB/AST)**
Robert Parish: 4/2/1
Kevin Willis: 2/2/0
Kevin Garnett: 3/4/2
Vince Carter: 7/3/1
Dirk Nowitzki: 7/3/1
[Source](http://twitter.com/WITNESSKJ)
The COMBINED stats for these 5 players: 23/14/5
I think that there is a good chance LBJ will beat their combined stats, what do you think?
Also, Air Canada was the only one playing a 22nd season? There is a chance that he will not be alone with that stat after next year.
Overall – incredible longevity, hope I don’t Jinx it.
Do you guys think there is any current player who will play in his 21st season?
by readball
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Kevin Durant will likely reach it, especially given he doesnāt have any kids or a wife and just loves to play.
But with the league adding more games and the rules against resting, it might make things more difficult for younger players
more points, fewer rebounds, more assists than all of them you listed COMBINED
Hea gonna avg his guaranteed 25
Ima go with 27.5/7.7/8.0
Not even close to the boards, but incredible achievement.
Are these stats normalized for steroid use?
What ages were everyone else in their 21st season?
Putting their stats up like that it really does hammer home how incredible and unlikely LeBron’s longevity has held up. No one on this list averaged even 10 points, LeBron’s going to averaged at least 20. He’s gone like 1000+ regular season games without dipping below 10 points and I doubt that streak ends anytime soon.
None of these players could claim to still be a Top 10/Top 15 player entering their 21st season in the NBA. LeBron will be again this season. That shows you LeBronās exceptional longevity.
With the way modern science is advancing, I would bet that there is at least one other current nba player that will play 21 seasons, yes
25-7-8
Lakers have more scorers and better players now so he isnt gonna carry the load as much and not gonna play as much compared to last year
Does anyone else believe that the longer Lebron goes on the more obvious it is that he is taking PEDs?
Peds work
Can you make a separate comment for careers compared by the age of 38/39?
22 PPG, 6 RPG, 5 APG
In Kareem’s age 39 season, he averaged 17/7/3 and 21/7 in the finals.
23/14/5 sounds like too much of a workload for LeBron at this point of his career (not that he can’t do it, more like he shouldn’t try for it and break down his body more). Also you’d think the Lakers will have a better regular than years past, meaning more rest and less minutes for LeBron. I’d say something like 18-6-6 is probably closer to what LeBron will average this coming year (bump that point average to like 24 if any of the other top laker scorers go down)
Obviously better than that list.
The more fair comparison though is age, not season number. Lebron skipped college so his season count is way higher, but the load on his body is not really any different than the kids who did play in school.
Age 38-39 you’d have Parish at a 14/9, Kareem at a 23/6/4, and Dirk at a 14/7. Probably a couple others I’m not thinking of as well.
Lebron is still realistically about to put up the best ever season at this age, but at least make the comp fair.
I believe we should be comparing age for league year, not tear in league. Compared to these peers, LBJ is likely on avg. 3-4 years younger.
22/5/5
LeBron will be 39.
Others at age 39:
* Malone: 21/8/5 in 81 games
* Stockton: 13/3/8 in 82 games
* Kareem: 18/7/3 in 78 games
* Parish: 13/10/1 in 79 games
* Reggie: 15/2/2 in 66 games
* Jordan: 20/6/4 in 82 games
Heāll easily beat the combined stats except for rebounds
Hot take Iām going to say he falls off a little but still dusts these old guys. My guess is 22/6/4.
defensively worse than Garnett and maybe Parish, but we only talking about offensive numbers as usual (this is a sassy comment, relax everybody lol)
Those guys all looked like old head skeletons dressed in a jersey and shorts – Creaky bones and all. Lebron is something else man.
VC probably looked the most athletic but he coasted for a while on some of those teams. As a Raps fan, Iām well aware of his ability to coastā¦
Lebron probably wont average many boards this year. I think this is the year he can focus on being a facilitator/off-ball scorer. Especially now that the Lakers wont have to fight tooth and nail for every win
Also interesting to look at players in their age 39 season.
Karl āpedoā Malon averaged 20.6, Mike averaged 20, Kareem 17.5, Reggie 15, Stockton 13.4. A bunch of other guys averaged 7+ points.
Of them all, Reggie and Malone were the only āwinningā players with significant contribution. Tim Duncan was playing winning ball but averaged 8-7-3, same with manu the next season with 7-2-3.
Iād guess Lebron averages around 25 and plays winning basketball.
His longevity becomes godly if he produces for one more season, only three guys have averaged double digits in their age 40 season: Kareem at 14.6, Parish at 11.7, Stockton at 10.8. Stockton and Kareem were still playing winning ball.
These weren’t just average players either. As you would expect for any player sticking around for 21 seasons, but these are some of the all time best players on this list. That we’re talking LeBron realistically surpasses the combined stats of all these players in two categories is absolutely insane.
Run from it, dread it, LBJ averages 27/7/7 still
Likely 22/5/5 as a floor
I say he averages 27 8 7
I think heāll be about average, like 5/2/1