Youngest NBA Players To 12,000 Points
Who was the youngest player to reach 12,000 points?
LeBron James is the youngest player to reach 12,000 points, accomplishing it at the age of 24 years and 35 days old. He reached his 12,000th point on Feb 3, 2009.
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Which active player is on pace to next make the Top 50 list for "Youngest To 12,000 Points"?
Based on their career production, the active player most likely to next make the "Youngest to 12,000 Points" leaderboard is Anthony Edwards, who is currently 24 years and 273 days old with 10,854 PTS.
Note: All stats on this leaderboard are shown at the conclusion of the game, so when a player shows up on this leaderboard with more than 12,000 points, the value you are seeing is their total stats at the end of the game in which they crossed the 12,000 points threshold. This is necessary because many older NBA games only have the full-game boxscore stats, there is no play-by-play data.