{"id":332119,"date":"2025-12-07T05:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332119\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T05:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T05:23:07","slug":"james-harden-rises-into-all-time-top-10-for-career-points","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/332119\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden rises into all-time top-10 for career points"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>With his 21st point Saturday against the Timberwolves (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nba.com\/game\/lac-vs-min-0022500355\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">LIVE, League Pass<\/a>), James Harden has officially staked his position as one of the NBA\u2019s top-10 all-time scorers.<\/p>\n<p>Passing Carmelo Anthony for 10th place on the career points leaderboard, Harden fittingly reached the milestone by hitting a pair of free throws, giving him 28,290 total points. He now trails Shaquille O\u2019Neal by just 307 points for No. 9.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">JAMES HARDEN HAS MOVED INTO THE TOP 10 SCORERS OF ALL-TIME \ud83d\udea8 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/6GdUodN1HA\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/6GdUodN1HA<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 NBA (@NBA) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA\/status\/1997499567596511451?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Harden was 20 points behind Anthony\u2019s 28,289 career points entering the game. Harden hit a pair of free throws in the third quarter to move ahead of the Hall of Famer.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cBlessing. A testament to the work I\u2019ve put in,\u201d Harden said. \u201cIt\u2019s an honor, especially with somebody like Melo who\u2019s done so much greatness for this league.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Harden finished with 34 points on 10-for-18 shooting, but missed a tying 3-point attempt at the buzzer as the Clippers lost 109-106 after leading by 18 in the first half.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year veteran is averaging 26.5 points this season, his highest average since he led the league with 34.3 per game for the Houston Rockets in the 2019-20 season.<\/p>\n<p>Next on the list ahead of Harden is Shaquille O\u2019Neal, who scored 28,596 points during his Hall of Fame career.<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">10TH ALL-TIME IN\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/NBA?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@NBA<\/a> HISTORY \u2013 Congrats, James Harden \ud83d\udc4f<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/CoorsLight?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@CoorsLight<\/a> | <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/ClipperNation?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">#ClipperNation<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/26mIDqKdHW\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/26mIDqKdHW<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 LA Clippers (@LAClippers) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/LAClippers\/status\/1997498582732341644?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">December 7, 2025<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Information from The Associated Press was used in this report.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"With his 21st point Saturday against the Timberwolves (LIVE, League Pass), James Harden has officially staked his position&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":332120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[574],"tags":[64,63,726,185722,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-332119","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-basketball","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-basketball","11":"tag-james-harden-points","12":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=332119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/332119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/332120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=332119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=332119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=332119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}