Lakers superstar and future NBA Hall of Famer Lebron James has done it.
He sits alone as the NBA's top scorer of all-time, passing fellow Laker great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar for the honor.
James has been compared to another great, Michael Jordan, for pretty much his entire career, and the debate over which of them is the league's greatest player will rage on for decades.
People are now even comparing the photo of the shot James used to pass Kareem to the iconic photo of Jordan's shot to win.
At least one commenter on Twitter noticed that the crowd in the Jordan shot uniformly stood with rapt attention focused on Jordan.
The crowd in the Lebron James photo also stood uniformly... to make sure the view finder on their phones got the right picture for their social media.
Then Vs. Now
Neither Jordan nor James could control how the fans react to their iconic moments, but the photo does crystalize the generational nature of the debate about the two athletes.
If you were born in the 70's or 80's Michael Jordan probably defined NBA basketball for you. By the time the film "Space Jam" came out in 1996, "His Airness" was almost universally seen as the Greatest of All Time.
But then Lebron James burst onto the scene with SI dubbing him "The Chosen One" in 2002 while he was still a teenager in high school.
Since then Lebron has been scrutinized by a mostly older generation that has him competing against the memory of one of the game's most beloved figures.
While James has his share of defenders, the social media era of sports dictates that he also has an outsized number of haters.
But what you can't hate on his Lebron's longevity and ability to play at a high level well into his late 30's. This is the trait has allowed James to pass Kareem as greatest offensive player of all time and the trait that will provide the most ammo for his side of the GOAT debate.
