One day after LeBron James became the first player in NBA history to reach 50,000 combined points in the regular season and postseason, one of his contemporaries hit a major milestone of his own. On Wednesday, Giannis Antetokounmpo of the Milwaukee Bucks reached the 20,000-point plateau in his team’s 137–107 victory over the Dallas Mavericks, becoming the sixth-youngest player to reach the marker.
Antetokounmpo, who turned 30 in December, finished the game with 32 points in just 25 minutes, knocking down 13 of 20 shots from the field and going a perfect 6 for 6 from the free-throw line. It was the 47th time across 49 games this season that the two-time MVP made at least half of his shots from the field, and it was the first time all season that Antetokounmpo went perfect from the charity stripe.
