The youngest individual to score 5,000 points in an NBA career is LeBron James (b. 30 December 1984, USA), aged 21 years 22 days. While playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers (USA) James scored 51 points against the Utah Jazz (USA) in Salt Lake City, Utah (USA) on 21 January 2006, surpassing the mark previously held by Kobe Bryant (b. 23 August 1978), who was 22 years 116 days when he scored his 5,000th point playing for the Los Angeles Lakers (USA) in 2000.
The youngest individual to score 25,000 points in an NBA career is Kobe Bryant ((b. 23 August 1978, USA) who was 31 years and 151 days old at the time he reached the mark. He achieved this whilst playing for the Los Angeles Lakers, on 21 January 2010. Kobe Bryant scored a free throw to reach the 25,000 points milestone. He achieved this record in 35 fewer days than Wilt Chamberlain (USA). He is the 15th player with most points in the history of the
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At 25 years 79 days, LeBron James (b. 30 December 1984, USA) is the youngest player in NBA history to score 15,000 career points. James reached the mark while playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers (USA) against the Chicago Bulls (USA) on 19 March 2010.
The youngest individual to score 15,000 points in an NBA career is LeBron James (b. 30 December 1984, USA), aged 25 years 79 days while playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers (USA) against the Chicago Bulls (USA) on 19 March 2010. James smashed the previous record held by Kobe Bryant, reaching the milestone 2 years and 57 days before Bryant. It also took James only 540 career games to reach the mark, compared to 657 for Bryant. James broke the record with a free throw in
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The youngest individual to score 10,000 points in an NBA career is Lebron James (b. 30 December 1984, USA), aged 23 years and 59 days. While playing for the Cleveland Cavaliers (USA), Lebron James scored 26 points against the Boston Celtics (USA), in Boston, Massachussets, USA, on 27 February 2007, surpassing the mark previously held by Kobe Bryant (b. 23 August 1978), who was 24 years 193 days old when he scored his 10,000th point playing for the Los Angeles Lakers (USA) in 2003. It
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Young Afghan women with babies have produced the youngest group of drug addicts, which is increasing rapidly and giving rise to the youngest drug addicted population in the world. The mothers often become addicted to heroin and opium, products of Afghanistan’s poppy crop, because their husbands smoke heroin, and most of the children become addicted to drugs because their mothers blow heroin smoke at them to calm them. Narcotics are also used for children to relieve pain, hence children as young as two have been
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The youngest female golfer to score a hole-in-one is Soona Lee-Tolley (USA), aged 5 years 103 days at the par 3 7th at Manhattan Woods Golf Club, West Nyack, New York, USA, on 1 July 2007. The hole is a 125 yards long. Soona’s older brothers are succesful young golf players as well.
The youngest scorer of a treble at women’s senior level is Amy Wilding (b. 22 August 1987) aged 15 years 220 days when she scored three for Camberley Town Ladies against CTC Ladies in Croydon, Surrey, UK, on 30 March 2003. During the Russell Cup an FA open age match, Wilding netted on 14, 41 and 79 minutes.
On January 24, 2000, a renegade ethnic group from Myanmar, known as ‘God’s Army’, led by two 12-year old twins said to possess ‘mystical powers’, Luther and Johnny Htoo, took 700 people hostage for 24-hours at a hospital in Ratchaburi, Thailand. The hostage-takers demanded doctors treat wounded colleagues at their mountain base. All hostages were later freed during a military operation carried out by Thai commandos on the morning of January 25, 2000. It later transpired that three of 10 guerrillas killed in the rescue
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‘Miguelito’ AKA Miguel A. Valenzuela Morales (b. 5 January 1999) was aged 9 years 313 days when he was nominated and won a Latin Grammy Award for the Best Latin Album for Children entitled ‘El Heredero’ on 13 November 2008. “El Heredero” was produced by Sangre Nueva Music and WD Recods, Miguelito was also nominated for one Latin Grammy Award when he was 8 years old.