Cleveland Cavaliers player watch: LeBron James’ milestones to look for in 2016-17

10,000th Field Goal

LeBron is a beast in general, but he’s always been able to get buckets. After all his time in the NBA, he has 9,687 field goals and a career average of 9.8 per game. If he can get that number over his career average of 75 games, LeBron can end up with 10,430 field goals. He would be well past the milestone for his 10,000th and would become the 14th player in NBA history to hit that mark. There goes that bad man.

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1,400th Three Pointer

While LeBron is criticized for his outside shot, or lack thereof, he still has an upcoming milestone in threes. He has made 1,343 so far in his career and averages 1.4 per game. At that rate over 75 games, LeBron would get over 100 threes, putting him well past the 1,400th mark. He averaged slightly less last year at 1.1, but even with his lower 2015-16 average, LeBron would hit his 1,400th three.

9,000th Two Pointer

In addition, LeBron potentially has an upcoming milestone in two pointers. He’s made 8,344 twos, through jump shots and (more often) layups and dunks, and averages 8.5 per game. If he can get that number over 75 games, LeBron can hit over 600 two pointers this year. That puts him just shy of his 9,000th, so we’re hoping he can hit a few extra and get that milestone.

LeBron ranks first on the franchise list in each of these categories, so any more buckets he gets will only keep him at number one.