{"id":330899,"date":"2025-12-07T19:31:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:31:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330899\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:31:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:31:07","slug":"james-harden-reacts-to-passing-carmelo-anthony-moving-into-top-10-on-nba-scoring-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/330899\/","title":{"rendered":"James Harden reacts to passing Carmelo Anthony, moving into top 10 on NBA scoring list"},"content":{"rendered":"

James Harden reacts to passing Carmelo Anthony, moving into top 10 on NBA scoring list<\/a> originally appeared on The Sporting News<\/a>. Add The Sporting News as a Preferred Source by clicking here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Los Angeles Clippers<\/a> star guard James Harden made some major NBA history against the Minnesota Timberwolves<\/a> on Saturday night.<\/p>\n

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With his point production against Minnesota, Harden passed Hall-of-Famer Carmelo Anthony to move into the top 10<\/a> on the NBA\u2019s all-time scoring list. Anthony scored 28,289 points over the course of his illustrious career. Harden has now scored 28,303 points and counting.<\/p>\n

Now, these are the only players who have scored more points than Harden in the NBA: LeBron James, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Kobe Bryant, Michael Jordan, Dirk Nowitzki, Wilt Chamberlain, Kevin Durant and Shaquille O\u2019Neal. All legends.<\/p>\n

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After the game against Minnesota, Harden reflected on the accomplishment<\/a>, and all of the work it took for him to achieve it.<\/p>\n

“Blessing. A testament to the work I’ve put in,” Harden said. “It’s an honor, especially with somebody like Melo, who’s done so much greatness for this league.”<\/p>\n

Prior to officially cracking the top 10, Harden marveled at the names he would be mentioned alongside.<\/p>\n

“You look at that list, it’s like there’s no way,” Harden said. “There’s no way I got an opportunity to be a part of this list. It’s just literally like a dream come true. The work that I literally put in is coming to fruition. There’s so many things that this game has done for me, and I’m sure for all those guys as well.<\/p>\n

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“And those names are still being talked about post basketball.”<\/p>\n

Durant, Harden’s former teammate in both Brooklyn and Oklahoma City, recently became just the eighth player<\/a> in league history to hit the 31,000-point plateau. Harden could potentially become the next player to join that exclusive club if he continues to play for a couple more years.<\/p>\n

Before that though, Harden is poised to pass Shaq on the all-time scoring list. O’Neal scored\u00a028,596 career points, so Harden now needs just 294 points to pass him. That should happen later this season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"James Harden reacts to passing Carmelo Anthony, moving into top 10 on NBA scoring list originally appeared on…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":330900,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[10427,49,48,17873,56301,1525,6695,35474,2327,1527,3004,14102,459,9585,23702,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-330899","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-brooklyn","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-carmelo-anthony","12":"tag-dirk-nowitzki","13":"tag-james-harden","14":"tag-kevin-durant","15":"tag-kobe-bryant","16":"tag-lebron-james","17":"tag-los-angeles-clippers","18":"tag-michael-jordan","19":"tag-minnesota-timberwolves","20":"tag-nba","21":"tag-oklahoma-city","22":"tag-shaquille-oneal","23":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330899","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=330899"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/330899\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/330900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=330899"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=330899"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=330899"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}