Kobe Bryant surpassed legendary Celtics great John Havlicek for eleventh-place on the NBA all-time scoring list after netting 23 in the Lakers loss to the Bulls on Friday night. He also stands to catch several other players in the coming months and could move as high as sixth before the 2010-11 season comes to a close.

Bryant is no stranger to scoring milestones, of course. Not only is he currently 11th in NBA history in scoring average (25.3) but he was the youngest player ever to reach 20,000 points (29 years, 122 days) and 25,000 points (31 years, 151 days), passing Wilt Chamberlain both times in the process.

Below are the top fifteen scorers in NBA history after Kobe hit his milestone (per Basketball-Reference.com):

RANK   NAME POINTS     

1 KAREEM ABDUL-JABBAR            38387

2 KARL MALONE 36928

3 MICHAEL JORDAN

32292

4 WILT CHAMBERLAIN 31419

5 SHAQUILLE O’NEAL 28434

6 MOSES MALONE 27409

7 ELVIN HAYES 27313

8 HAKEEM OLAJUWON 26946

9 OSCAR ROBERTSON 26710

10 DOMINIQUE WILKINS 26668

11 KOBE BRYANT 26398

12 JOHN HAVLICEK 26395

13 ALEX ENGLISH 25613

14 REGGIE MILLER 25279

15 JERRY WEST 25192

Kobe is also climbing higher each game in a plethora of other all-time statistics as well. Check out the table below:

CATEGORY RANK   AMOUNT

FREE THROWS MADE 9 6701

FIELD GOALS MADE 16 9182

TURNOVERS 16 3051

3PT FIELD GOALS 21 1333

STEALS 24 1583

MINUTES 31 38132

ASSISTS 53 4872

GAMES 76 1044

Kobe is entering the top fifty in all of these important regular-season categories and isn’t showing a ton of signs that he is slowing down, as evidenced by The Sporting News naming him the best player in the NBA today and his current 26.4 points for the division-leading Lakers this season.

The turnover-rank isn’t fantastic but hey, even the GOAT Michael Jordan turned it over 2,924 times in his career.

His playoff statistics are also entering rare waters. Check out the table below:

CATEGORY          RANK    AMOUNT    

POINTS 4 5052

MINUTES 5 7811

STEALS 9 278

ASSISTS 11 955

REBOUNDS 37 1037

Bryant may be entering the stretch-run of his career but he’s not done yet and before he’s through top thirty ranks in all of the above are not out of the question.