Luka Doncic posing a month ago with the famous white sheet with the number 73 painted on him, when he managed to get into the historical scoring ranking with those 73 points against the Atlanta Hawks. LeBron James, early this Sunday morning, posing with the blank page on which that 40,000 was read and the date, after becoming the first player in NBA history to exceed 40,000 points. But, Why do they boast about the record with something as simple as a blank sheet of paper? You have to go back exactly 62 years. To understand.
He March 2, 1962, the then Philadelphia Warriors faced the New York Knicks. That game, which was played on a neutral court (in Pennsylvania), a priori had nothing special. However, he ended up making history in the NBA. That was the crash in which Wilt Chamberlain ended up scoring 100 points in 48 minutes of play, to give the Warriors the victory 169-147. A figure that he reached 46 seconds from the end of the game after an assist from Joe Rucklick, turning that play into something historic.
For the first time, an NBA player had managed to score 100 points in a game. And no, to date, that record has never been broken. But what made it even more special? The way to celebrate it. Harvey Pollack, then Warriors communications director and in charge of keeping the statistics of the meeting, He chose to have Wilt Chamberlain appear in the photo with something that showed the magical number. So cHe picked up a sheet of paper and scribbled the figure of three issues that went down in history.
The photo, like the milestone it reflected, is part of the history of the NBA, but also the beginning of a tradition that, to this day, still persists. Forks that posing with the white scribbled sheet of paper was so iconicthat there has been no NBA record that has been held without the famous folio and the figure painted on it.
Therefore, despite all the technology and advances that exist today, Any milestone achieved by a player will be celebrated in the same way Chamberlain did. 62 years ago now. Tradition is tradition.
2024-03-03 15:21:23
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