The game of the century.
Wilt Chamberlain, perhaps the most dominating pro athlete in the history of all sports, scored 100 points in one NBA game March 29, 1962. Kobe had 81 a few years back, but that's still not even close. The Philadelphia Warriors may have been playing a poor Knick team, but still...
Sadly, the game was not televised, so we have only the audio, but no matter. It's sort of like, "The Giants win the pennant," and "Oh, the band is out on the field!", for me. Wilt was truly a superman!
Things to look (hear) for:
Wilt scored 31 in the final quarter
Wilt made 27 of his first 28 free throws, then went into a slump and made only 1 of his last four. That's still good enough for an amazing 28/32! Quite an accomplishment for a poor free throw shooter!
Speaking of which, the Warriors shot 43 of 52 from the line, and only three players (Chamberlain, Guy Rogers and Joe Ruklick) actually missed free throws. The rest of the Philadelphia players went 5-5 from the line.
Al Attles has a perfect game: 8 for 8 from the field and 1 for 1 from the line. Another forgotten footnote from this game!
Wilt attempted 63 shots and made 36 of them. The Philadelphia Warriors actually made 63 of their shots from the field. They attempted 115.
Amazingly enough, the New York Knicks actually attempted more shots (118) then the Warriors did. But they made only 57.
Wilt had a better night at the line then Richie Guerin (13-17) and Willie Naulls (13-17) of the Kicks combined!
Wilt missed at his first two attempts at 100.
The Knicks score is given incorrectly no less then three times!
The attendance was just 4, 124!
References
http://www.nba.com/sixers/news/wilt_boxscore.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDkZskmQVs
Wilt Chamberlain, perhaps the most dominating pro athlete in the history of all sports, scored 100 points in one NBA game March 29, 1962. Kobe had 81 a few years back, but that's still not even close. The Philadelphia Warriors may have been playing a poor Knick team, but still...
Sadly, the game was not televised, so we have only the audio, but no matter. It's sort of like, "The Giants win the pennant," and "Oh, the band is out on the field!", for me. Wilt was truly a superman!
Things to look (hear) for:
Wilt scored 31 in the final quarter
Wilt made 27 of his first 28 free throws, then went into a slump and made only 1 of his last four. That's still good enough for an amazing 28/32! Quite an accomplishment for a poor free throw shooter!
Speaking of which, the Warriors shot 43 of 52 from the line, and only three players (Chamberlain, Guy Rogers and Joe Ruklick) actually missed free throws. The rest of the Philadelphia players went 5-5 from the line.
Al Attles has a perfect game: 8 for 8 from the field and 1 for 1 from the line. Another forgotten footnote from this game!
Wilt attempted 63 shots and made 36 of them. The Philadelphia Warriors actually made 63 of their shots from the field. They attempted 115.
Amazingly enough, the New York Knicks actually attempted more shots (118) then the Warriors did. But they made only 57.
Wilt had a better night at the line then Richie Guerin (13-17) and Willie Naulls (13-17) of the Kicks combined!
Wilt missed at his first two attempts at 100.
The Knicks score is given incorrectly no less then three times!
The attendance was just 4, 124!
References
http://www.nba.com/sixers/news/wilt_boxscore.html
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=anDkZskmQVs
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