January 4, 2001
In Washington, DC playing for his new team, The Washington Wizards, against his “real team”, the Chicago Bulls, Michael Jordan brought his career points total up to and beyond 30,000. Jordan was the fourth player to have reached that plateau, and at the time,he was the youngest. (On December 5, Kobe Bryant scored his 30,000th point and replaced Jordan as the youngest player to have scored 30,000 points.)
Jordan, bothered by a sinus infection, scored only 4 points in the second half and was way off the mark as the Bulls rallied several times in the fourth quarter…
Jordan, who scored 51 and 45 in his two previous games, made 9 of 24 shots, 11 of 13 free throws and had seven rebounds and three assists in 38 minutes. He also become the fourth player in NBA history to score 30,000 points, but the victory achieved a personal goal greater than his individual stats. Pittsburgh Post Gazette/AP. Read more
The NBA’s 30,000 point club is now comprised of five players.
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1. Kareem Abdul Jabbar 38387
2. Karl Malone 36,928
3. Michael Jordan 32,292
4. Wilt Chamberlain 31,419
5. Kobe Bryant 30,423 (as of January 1, 2013)