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Assuming good health on Oct. 18th’s Opening Night of the 2022-23 NBA season, LeBron James will become just the 10th player in league history to appear in 20 different seasons.

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Heading into his 20th NBA season, LeBron James is not just heading into unprecedented territory, he’s running laps in, around, and all over it. Placing the problematic nature of frontier colonialism aside, James’ latter years are starting to look like the Lewis and Clark of basketball longevity.

Two decades in, he’s not just a productive NBA player, he’s still one of the best in the whole league, and expected to remain the face of one of the league’s marquee franchises in their hopes to contend for an 18th league championship.