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By Joël Pütz | Sports journalist
More than six decades later, no one still seems capable of approaching Wilt Chamberlain’s 100 points in a game. Fun fact, the legendary pivot spent years telling everyone fake news about this meeting… except that he was firmly convinced that he was telling the truth.
This year again, the NBA has been spoiled in terms of crazy offensive performances. Between Luka Doncic and his 73 points, Joel Embiid with 70 units against the Spurs of Victor Wembanyama or even Karl-Anthony Towns who planted 62 points in a single meeting, the attackers of the league really had a field day while the game reached all-time highs in speed.
Paradoxically and while basketball has particularly moved towards the three-point shot in recent years, all these cards do not even come close to the greatest in this area. Kobe Bryant’s 81 points in 2006, when the NBA game was extremely slow, makes him seem like an extra-terrestrial in the 21st century. And what about obviously the 100 units in a single meeting by Wilt Chamberlain, in 1962…
Wilt’s 100-point game stopped before the final whistle?
What makes this game against the Knicks even more legendary is that it was interrupted with 46 seconds remaining when he scored his 100th point and the fans flooded the floor. As a result, many people still think today that the meeting ended without going to the end of 48 minutes… and the pivot himself has long believed in it, as Todd Caso recounted. of NBA Entertainment :
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Wilt sat in my office in 1990, and I played part of the radio broadcast of the 100-point game for him. He had been telling everyone for decades that this was the only game in NBA history that ever went to completion. He and I were sitting there in my studio, and he listened to the remaining 46 seconds of the match.
Once he was finished, he turned to me and said, “I don’t remember anything about that at all.” He was full of himself and this moment, which is understandable because it is the greatest achievement in the history of sport.
We can actually imagine that after such a madness, everything must have been jostling in The Stilt’s head to the point where he no longer remembered the details.
In fact, the ball used to reach 100 points had been given to the equipment manager of the Philadelphia Warriors, in order to give it later to Wilt. But the last 46 seconds of the match were indeed played while the inside was still on the field. Here is a myth around this meeting of resolved.
For nearly 30 years and until shortly before his death, Wilt Chamberlain was convinced that his 100-point game was also the only one in history not to go all the way. Which obviously doesn’t take anything away from his enormous performance.
2024-03-10 21:20:00
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