100: The story behind one of the NBA's most historic games
He did it 50 years ago this week. On March 2, 1962, at the Hershey Sports Arena before 4,124 fans, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks. In the years that have elapsed, it has become an indelible moment in sports history, one that is steeped in social significance ...
Lakers star Kobe Bryant has come the closest, scoring 81 against the Raptors 6 years ago.
But far from the attention Kobe's stellar performance received - Pomerantz says it was available immediately on DVD - Wilt's 100-point game occurred in relative obscurity. No TV cameras were on hand, and there was only one still photographer, who happened to be at the game with his son. Bill Campbell's radio coverage of the fourth quarter remains, as does a statistics sheet, but by and large, the game exists in the memories of the men who were there. With each passing year, it has loomed ever larger in our collective imagination ...
Chamberlain and some obscure 60's boxer
