Old but still good

Experiences are very important and every team needs players who are able to lead the team in critical moments. There are several elderly players who are able to compete. Here is list of oldest players who score 20+ points in single game this season:

Player	Age	Pos	PTS
Shaquille O'Neal	37-242	C	21
Grant Hill	37-027	F	23
Steve Nash	35-269	G	30
Marcus Camby	35-220	C	23
Rasheed Wallace	35-047	F	20

These 5 players are really very respected players and are playing very good. Steve Nash has started this season with shooting percentage above 50% from the field and behind the arc with average 19 ppg. He is one of the best shooter in the league.


O'Neal changed the team and is playing lower minute than in Phoenix (25mpg). Grant Hill looks better this season and Camby has 2+bpg. This group should join Jason Kidd and Michael Finley later.

There are 17 players who are 35 who are currently playing. The oldest is Lindsey Hunter who is 39 and plays for Bulls. Twenty points and more scored 112 players from 372 players till now.

Kobe reached 24,000 points

Kobe Bryant scored 41 points while becoming the youngest player to reach 24,000. Bryant carried the Lakers while reaching his latest scoring milestone 38 days before Wilt Chamberlain did. Kobe needed 954 games for this milestone. He has chance to reach this record also for 25,000 milestone (Wilt Chamberlain &0000000000000031.00000031 years, &0000000000000186.000000186 days), if he score them before Feb 25, 2010.

Lakers guard Kobe Bryant is becoming the youngest player to score 24,000 career points. Youngest to 24,000 Points:

Player	Years-Days
Kobe Bryant	31-75
Wilt Chamberlain	31-113
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar	32-331
Oscar Robertson	33-13
Michael Jordan	33-30

Kobe even overtook Grizzlies guard Allen Iverson for 16th place on the NBA's career scoring list. There are only 10 players in the NBA history who have 24,000 points, 5,000 rebound and 4,000 assists (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Wilt Chamberlain, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Oscar Robertson, Julius Erving, Jerry West, John Havlicek and Alex English).

Bryant scored exactly 41 points for the third time in four games, giving him 99 career 40-point games. Kobe is third all-time behind No. 2 Michael Jordan's 173 40-point games and runaway leader Wilt Chamberlain's 271 (No. 4 Elgin Baylor 88, No. 5 Allen Iverson 79).