3 NBA players who are likely to reach 20,000 career points in the 2021-22 season

#2 LaMarcus Aldridge (19,951 points)

LaMarcus Alrdridge has played in the NBA for 15 seasons

One of the best power forwards in the NBA in his time with the Portland Trail Blazers, LaMarcus Aldridge has lost much of his former glory. At his peak, Aldridge was a complete offensive player. He possessed all the skills needed for a center to dominate the restricted area to score or gather rebounds.

While facing post-up defenders, the former Spurs player was capable of overpowering the opponents with his sheer size and strength for easy buckets. Meanwhile, he also had a mean fadeaway which he utilized while scoring from mid-range.

His current career points stand at 19,951 points. Having averaged 13.5 points per game in the 2020-21 NBA regular season, it will take Aldridge only a few games to reach the 20,000 points scored landmark. He will thus become one of the less than 1% of players in the league's history to have scored 20,000 points in their career.

#1 Chris Paul (19,978 points)

Chris Paul is one of the best playmakers in the NBA

Chris Paul is not only one of the best playmakers in the history of the league, but is, without any arguments, one of the greatest small players in the history of the NBA. The genius and versatility of the one and only Point God remains unmatched. He is an offensive wizard.

One of the ways in which CP3 dominates the offense is his pick and roll. He pushes the opponents to commit to the defensive rotation while picking out open players or feeding the ball to his forwards, thus creating easy scoring sprees.

As a scorer, he is not a beast like Kyrie Irving or Stephen Curry but is definitely a capable scorer. In fact, he is the king of mid-range. In the 2020-21 season, Paul scored 197 of his 382 attempts from mid-range. That's a success rate of 51.6%. In addition. CP3 was also lethal from the non-restricted paint area with a conversion rate of 56.5% field goals made.

With regards to his potential of reaching 20,000 career points in the 2021-22 NBA regular season, it will be a walk in the park for the Point God. For one, he only needs to score 22 points to achieve the feat, and secondly, he is capable of easily averaging over 15 points per game in the upcoming season.