Ricky Easterling (189-G-1983, college: Bridgewater) is a 39 year old 189cm guard that has played 17 professional seasons and 15 for Sunkings Saarlouis (Germany-Regionalliga). He has earned the nickname Mr Regionalliga as he has played 350 + games for Saarlouis. He also played a season for BG Karlsruhe and TSG Reutlingen and Bergheim. He began his with Bridgewater State College. He averaged 20 plus points in a season 13 times and 30 plus points 3 times. He spoke to germanhoops.com about Lebron James becoming the NBA all-time leading scorer.

Lebron James has beaten Kareem Abdul Jabbar’s NBA all-time scoring record. Did you stay up to watch history?

I tried to stay up but I ended up falling asleep. So I caught the highlights in the morning.

How does one put this record into perspective best? It stood almost 40 years? *

The record being held for so long shows you without saying how difficult something like this is to accomplish. So whether you like Lebron or not you have to give him his respect and credit for accomplishing something of this magnitude! He has that from me for sure.

He scored 36 points in 26 minutes. Was it another normal day at the office?

Just another day in the office. He has games like this all time. The only difference between this game and the others is that he broke the record on this day.

How much is that ball going to be worth? *

I have no idea but I’m sure it will be worth big money.

Russell Westbrook made the pass. Do you think that in 20 years the pass could be remembered more than his triple doubles?

Not at all! This pass was a basic entry pass not a slick pass for an assist. So I don’t think anyone will even care about that.

His record breaking basket was a step back over Kenrich Williams. Is that the kind of shot you expected knowing the kind of player he is? Or would you have expected a dunk for the spectacular finish?

Lebron is getting older so he is taking more jump shots. So I’m not surprised he scored a basket like this, but if you asked me before the moment what shot I thought would be the record breaking shot. I would have never guessed a step back or something like this.

There obviously is a lot of respect for Kareem, by the basketball world, but what would have happened on social media if Lebron had gotten the record with a sky hook shot?

That would have went viral and been all over Social media and would have also been the hot topic of the week on every sports channel on TV

Kareem is such a gentleman. You didn’t grow up with him, but what does his legacy mean to younger guys? Can they even understand what that guy did?

If you have any connection to basketball and don’t know how much Kareem means to the game you should be banned from the game completely. And if you are one of those people that don’t know about him I suggest you do your research and find out!

Lebron will have more than 40,000 points when it’s all over. Back in 1984 people said it would never be broken? Will this record be broken?

I can’t see it being broken but all records are meant to be broken. So it will happen at some point. Not sure if it will happen in my lifetime though

If Luka Doncic continues to play to 40 stays fit and becomes a physical specimen like Lebron, could he dethrone him?

He could because his talent is good enough to accomplish something like this. but all that is a big if! He is obviously not taking care of his body like Lebron does. Luka comes to training camp out of shape and for me that shows signs of weakness. And weak ones don’t accomplish milestones like this in their career. So if he gets more serious about his health and body then I can see him passing Lebron one day.

Does this record finally give Lebron the GOAT status over Michael Jordan? *

No! not yet in my opinion. And this is a biggggg lebron fan talking here.

What is your favorite Lebron moment that you witnessed live or on TV?

Cavs Vs GSW Game 7 2016 NBA finals.

Thanks Ricky for the chat.

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