Long forgotten and deservedly so, a virtually meaningless and dislocated basketball game just happened to be the one in which Wilt Chamberlain's career NBA scoring record fell to Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
On April 5, 1984, the Los Angeles Lakers were hosting the Utah Jazz in Las Vegas for unexamined reasons, and that's where Kareem put in a workmanlike shift for a team that had long since clinched a playoff berth, scoring 22 points to become the league's all-time best at what the cliche slingers love to call "scoring the basketball."
Eight months and 25 days later, LeBron James was born into the kind of grinding Akron poverty where aspirations were as scarce as just about everything else.
