Stephen Curry added another milestone to his legendary curriculum vitae on Thursday evening and was the first player in NBA history to make 4,000 career 3 points. The Golden State Warrior's superstar hit the sign against the Sacramento Kings in the Chase Center and continued to strengthen his status as one of the greatest shooters of all time.
Curry was in his own league since he became the all -time leader on December 14, 2021 and Ray Allen's shadows. La Clipper's Guard James Harden is the closest active player with 3,127, and everyone is now third on the list.
That made us think: What are some other sports documents that could be unbreakable? Whether it is the development of the game or just the sheer size of those who set them, some markings feel unaffected. Here is a short list of records that you will probably never see broken – at least not in our lives.
LeBron James: 50,000 combined points (active)
James was the first player in the NBA history to be 50,000 points in the regular season and after the season on March 4.
James, who turned 40 in December, is now with 50,086 career points – regular season and playoffs. In comparison, Kevin Durant-and the next height is active player fast 15,000 behind James' Mark. Durant is only four years younger than James and gives him an almost impossible mountain to compensate for this deficit.
Emmitt Smith: 18,355 Rushing Yards
Active leader: Derrick Henry (11.423)
Smith broke Chicago Bears Legend Walter Payton's Rushing record of 16,726 Yards in 2002. Of course, Smith was not yet finished. He played for 2 seasons and performed with 18,355 Rushing Yards.
This is a milestone that is probably never broken. On the one hand, it is Emmitt Smith about which we are talking about. The man was basically hurried to 1000 yard's seasons such as clockwork forever. But the NFL has also changed quite a bit since then. The crimes do not focus on running the return as before and playing as long as Smith did as a ball bearer seems impossible.
Jerry Rice: 22,895 heter
Active leader: Deandre Hopkins (12.965)
Rice had an incredible one 14 Seasons with 1,000 or more reception rooms, including three with more than 1,500. A large part of it was his incredible durability; He only played less than 16 games two of his 21 years. Rice was also lucky enough to switch from a quarterback from the Hall of Fame (Joe Montana) to another (Steve Young). But let us be real: Rice was more or less apparent for two decades. It is also explained why nobody will ever pursue his reception touchdown record: he has 197 and the next highest recipient, Randy Moss, scores 41 fewer points.
Active leader: Sidney Crosby (1,051)
The old saying about “The Great One” is that he still led the NHL overall points for templates if he never scored a single goal in his career. To give them a feeling of how difficult it would be for someone to do this, he would have to do it Average 98 Assists per year over a 20-year career just to approach this total number. Since … Wayne Gretzky, 1990-91, nobody had 98 or more templates in a single season. In total, it was only done three times by one player named Wayne Gretzky (twice by Mario Lemieux and once by Bobby Orr).
Cy Young: 749 complete games
Active leader: Justin Belander (26)
Unless there is a dramatic Change in the way teams approach pitching – something at the level “All pitchers are now literally robots” – it is by no means how someone is approaching Young's complete game mark. All MLB pitchers together had 36 complete games in 2022; Young had 36 or more complete games alone in 11 different seasons. While we are there, it seems extremely unlikely that the 511 victory of Young or 315 will be approached shortly nearby.
Wilt Chamberlain: 50.4 ppg in a single season (1961-62)
Active leader: James Harden (36.1 ppg in 2018-19)
Kobe Bryant was what we could call a productive goal scorer, right? In his 2006/07 campaign he had 10 50-point games. In 1961-62 Wilt had 45 50-point games, 15 60-point games and three games of over 70 points-oh, and one in which he scored 100 points. If the NBA does not introduce a 4-point shot, this does not happen. And even then …
Active leader: Boston Celtics (1)
Do you know how difficult it is to win only one title in the NBA? The Shaquille O'Neal/Kobe Bryantlos Angeles Lakers made three in a row. Thestepen Curry/Klay Thompson/Draymond Greenwarriors did it almost four times in a row, apart from LeBron James & Co. defeated them in 2016. James, Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh made back-to-back titles. That was some incredible Teams … but in the modern NBA, almost every team is difficult to exceed to achieve the playoff time. The Celtics had the advantage of an all -time player in Bill Russell, a coach in Red Auerbach, an apparently endless series of other players who were considered legends, and an NBA that had less than 10 teams.
Simone Biles: 30 World Gymnasics Gold Medals
Active leader: Simone Biles
In order to give you a feeling for how far Biles is from your competition, the next master gymnast has nine in terms of the gold medals, Svetlana Khorkina. No other active women's gymnast even has two – probably because they had the great misfortune to take part with Biles at the same time.
Cal Ripken Jr.: 2.632 played successive games
Active leader: Matt Olson (492)
This is in turn in one of these plates in which the game is more than anything else now played. Ripken was certainly unusually durable. But nowadays he would probably have been encouraged to take a few days off from time to time, just to make sure that he was well rested.
Uconn Huskies Women's Basketball: 111-game winning shop
Active leader: Florida Gulf Coast Eagles (20)
The next higher series on this list (90) is also kept by the Uconn Huskies. So if we see them broken again, it will probably happen from Storrs, Connecticut. Realistically speaking, Geno Auriemma's troops were so historically so dominant that it is difficult to see a new version of them again on such an absurd, unbeaten series.
Active leader: Starling Marte (354)
The baseball author Bill James once said that if you divided Rickey Henderson into two parts, you would have two Hall of Famers. If you share it in four parts, you still have a man with more stolen bases than the current active leader. People still make big stolen base campaigns. Jose Reyes Stahl 78 only in 2007. But Henderson's sheer consistency and durability make this record unreachable. In other words, someone who steals 78 bases a year would have to maintain this brand for more than 18 seasons to break Henderson's record.
Michael Phelps: 28 Olympic medals
Active leader: Katie Lecky (14)
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