Bigger milestone_ LeBron James' 40k points or Caitlin Clark setting all-time record_ _ PTI

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Pardon The Interruption's Tony Kornheiser and Michael Wilbon discuss the significance of LeBron James becoming the first player to ever achieve 40,000 career NBA points and Caitlin Clark setting the new all-time men's and women's NCAA Division 1 scoring record in her final collegiate game at Iowa.
We have two basketball milestones this weekend as you know Tony LeBron became the first NBA player to reach 40,000 points
Tom did LeBron or did Clark achieve this weekend's most
Significant amount I am going to quibble honestly with the word significant. Yeah, these numbers are very impressive and they're awesome
I'm not certain that they are significant
LeBron J. 40,000 is a number. He already had the most points
40,000 is just a number and do you want me Mike?
Do you want me to sit here and talk about the fact that Kareem played four years of college basketball?
And if he could have at the time going directly into the NBA from high school
He was physically ready to do that. How many points he would have had?
Kaitlyn Clark's great. I watched I've been watching all year. She's wonderful
It's a perilous road we go down when we compare women to men in sports
Pete Maravich averaged over
40 points a game in his three varsity seasons at LSU and that was without a three-point shot
The only way that I would compare them is in their styles and Kaitlyn Clark
Passes first like Maravich did her assists are
They're great considering they need her to score so much she leads the country in points and assists come on who does that so that
That's my hot take on both those numbers, Tony. We agree completely
Kaitlyn Clark's greatness doesn't need to be tied to somebody else
This stop comparing Pete Maravich and Kaitlyn Clark. The only comparison I told you on your podcast this morning was Pete Maravich's
Greatness did not convey to the professional level at the same rate
I hope the Kaitlyn Clark's does but we don't know yet
You got to wait and see the pros are the pros and colleges college her greatness
Does not need to be compared to anybody else
You want to compare by the way?
The mark that matters when she passed Lynette Woodard when finally people stopped saying in see a record this lazy
garbage people were doing for weeks on end and
The same thing with LeBron the points don't matter LeBron passed Kareem a year and a month ago
Enough with the point. Yeah, so every time we're gonna have to gonna stop a game cuz he gets to
45,000
50 52 stop
This is the tyranny of numbers that we are stuck with most important because people's obsession with analytics
The most important thing about LeBron James is that at 39 years old he's scoring 25 points
He has eight assists and seven rebounds a game at 39 years old. He's still a great
basketball player
Some made-up milestone LeBron I greater than that
