{"id":339732,"date":"2025-12-12T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339732\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T05:06:10","slug":"demar-derozan-passes-vince-carter-for-23rd-on-nbas-all-time-scoring-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/339732\/","title":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan passes Vince Carter for 23rd on NBA&#8217;s all-time scoring list"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"sn-player-post-link\" data-player=\"5e86a9c3-b4d0-4fe1-a551-acd83e5d60eb\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/players\/demar-derozan\/5e86a9c3-b4d0-4fe1-a551-acd83e5d60eb\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">DeMar DeRozan<\/a> passed Vince Carter on the Toronto Raptors&#8217; all-time scoring list with a baseline fadeaway on April 16, 2016.<\/p>\n<p>Now, nearly a decade later, DeRozan has passed Carter once again, this time on the NBA&#8217;s all-time scoring list, leaping the fellow Raptors great into the 23rd spot.<\/p>\n<p>DeRozan, known for his exceptional mid-range game and hard-to-read pump fakes, reached 25,729 points on Thursday after nailing a pair of free throws in the second quarter against the Denver Nuggets.<\/p>\n<p>Stephen Curry (25,832), Kevin Garnett (26,071), and John Havlicek (26,395) are the only players standing between DeRozan and a spot amongst the top-20 scorers in NBA history. <\/p>\n<p>The 36-year-old wing is also a six-time all-star, three-time All-NBA selection and has won two gold medals with Team USA.<\/p>\n<p>DeRozan is also the Raptors&#8217; all-time scoring leader with 13,296. Carter is fourth at 9,420, with Kyle Lowry (10,540) and Chris Bosh (10,275) ranking second and third, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>The 17-year veteran has only just started to see his production decline this season, averaging 18.0 points, 3.1 rebounds and 3.5 assists with the <a class=\"sn-team-post-link\" data-team=\"sacramento-kings\" data-league=\"nba\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportsnet.ca\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/\" target=\"_self\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Sacramento Kings<\/a>. It is the first season DeRozan has averaged under 20 points since his fourth year in the league in 2012-13.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"DeMar DeRozan passed Vince Carter on the Toronto Raptors&#8217; all-time scoring list with a baseline fadeaway on April&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":339733,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[434],"tags":[49,48,459,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-339732","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nba","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nba","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339732","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=339732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/339732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/339733"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=339732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=339732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=339732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}