Dwyane Wade breezed past both Dale Ellis and Reggie Theus in Saturday night's win against Philadelphia, and now ranks 49th on the NBA's all-time scoring list.

He won't be in the 40's for long, either.

The next 15 players on the list are all retired, so they're stuck. The next active player he's chasing? That's one of Monday's opponents, Carmelo Anthony, who ranks 33rd.

Wade has played 11 of the Heat's 12 games this season, and scored 205 points. His only missed game was to attend to his son Zion in the hospital. But with Wade's own health history, let's assume that, best-case scenario, he plays 90 percent of the remaining games, or 63 of 70. That would give him 74 games in all. At his current scoring rate of 18.6 per game, that's 1,376 points for the season.

That's 1,171 from this point forward.

That would get him to 20,188 by the end of the season.

That means he would pass Gail Goodrich, Eddie Johnson, Bob Lanier, Terry Cummings, Walter Davis, Clifford Robinson, Bernard King, John Stockton, Antawn Jamison and Tom Chambers.

That would put him 39th, and within reach of passing Mitch Richmond, George Gervin, David Robinson, Bob Pettit and Walt Bellamy next season, right up against where Anthony is now.

By then, Anthony will be gone, somewhere in the late 20s, beyond the likes of Hal Green, Gary Payton, Larry Bird and Clyde Drexler.

Still, this is elevated company, with Wade already 9th among active players -- behind Kobe Bryant, Dirk Nowitzki, Tim Duncan, Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce, LeBron James, Vince Carter and Anthony.