Trading for Irving is a flashpoint moment for the franchise and its fans — the perfect union of the on- and off-court sagas which have surrounded Dallas for over a decade.
The Pelicans star has been out since early January with a hamstring injury.
Conventional wisdom considers, if Abdul-Jabbar's record could be broken, so too can James', but it will require a sustained level of scoring prowess that would be unfathomable if we hadn't seen it twice already.