He was basketball's unstoppable force, the most awesome offensive force the game has ever seen. Asked to name the greatest players ever to play basketball, most fans. Wilt Chamberlain set the single-game scoring record in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a 169–147.
Wilton Norman 'Wilt' Chamberlain (August 21, 1936 – October 12, 1999) was an American basketball player. He played for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the. WILT CHAMBERLAIN / PHILADELPHIA WARRIORS 1996 Timeless Legends Kenner NBA Starting Lineup & Exclusive Los Angeles Lakers Collector Trading Card. Displayed figure.
Wilt Chamberlain was a Hall of Fame basketball player who was a member of multiple teams but is best known for his time with the Los Angeles Lakers. Wilt Chamberlain was the first NBA player to score more than 30,000 cumulative points over his career, and the first and only player to score 100 points in a single game. Biographie [ | le code] Jeunesse [ | le code] Wilton Norman Chamberlain est né le 21 août 1936 à Philadelphie, en Pennsylvanie. À sa naissance, Wilt pèse 3,95.
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Averaging 30 points and 23 boards for his career, Wilt Chamberlain is considered the most dominant ever. Wilt Chamberlain, professional basketball and volleyball player. PERSONAL DATA: Wilt Chamberlain Nicknames: 'Wilt the Stilt' and 'The Big Dipper' Born: 8/21/36. Wilt Chamberlain - Career stats, game logs, biographical info, awards, and achievements for the NBA and NCAA.
Wilt Chamberlain's 1. Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Wilt Chamberlain set the single- game scoring record in the National Basketball Association (NBA) by scoring 1. Philadelphia Warriors in a 1. New York Knicks on March 2, 1. Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania.
It is widely considered one of the greatest records in basketball. Chamberlain set five other league records that game including most free throws made, a notable achievement, as he was regarded as a poor free throw shooter. The teams broke the record for most combined points in a game (3. That season, Chamberlain averaged a record 5. NBA single- game scoring record (7. December with 7. 8 points. The third- year center had already set season scoring records in his first two seasons.
In the fourth quarter, the Knicks began fouling other players to keep the ball away from Chamberlain, and they also became deliberate on offense to reduce the number of possessions for Philadelphia. The Warriors countered by committing fouls of their own to get the ball back. The game was not televised, and no video footage of the game has been located; there are only audio recordings of the game's fourth quarter. The NBA was not yet a major sports league and struggled to compete against college basketball. The attendance at this game was around half of capacity, and there were no members of the New York press at the game.
Prologue[edit]Chamberlain was in his third season in the NBA, having set season scoring records in each of his first two seasons with 3. Frank Mc. Guire, the Warriors' new coach, started the season vowing to get the ball to Chamberlain "two- thirds of the time."[2]Sports Illustrated wrote that Mc.
Guire's "eventual effect may be to measurably change the character of professional basketball from the brawling, hustling, cigar- in- the- face and eye- on- the- till game it has been for decades to the major league sport which it longs and deserves to be."[3] He was determined to play Chamberlain every minute of every game; the 7- foot- 1- inch (2. In three earlier games that week, Chamberlain had scored 6.
He was closing in on 4,0. On December 8, 1. Los Angeles Lakers, he set a new NBA record by scoring 7.
Elgin Baylor. Legendary Laker broadcaster Chick Hearn often told the story that after the game, he asked Baylor if it bothered him that Chamberlain had an extra 1. According to Hearn, Baylor said he wasn't concerned because "someday that guy is going to score 1. Rival center Bill Russell predicted, "[Chamberlain] has the size, strength, and stamina to score one hundred some night."[7] In a high school game in 1.
Chamberlain had scored 9. The Philadelphia Inquirer wrote, "Chamberlain might have hit 1. George Mikan (#9. NBA before Chamberlain. Before Chamberlain, the most dominant big man in the NBA was 6- foot- 1. George Mikan. In November 1. Fort Wayne Pistons held the ball for minutes at a time without shooting to limit the impact of the Minneapolis Lakers' Mikan.
The Pistons attempted 1. NBA President Maurice Podoloff said, "In our game, with the number of stars we have, we of necessity run up big scores."[1. In the 1. 95. 0–5. The NBA introduced the 2.
By the 1. 96. 1–6. Chamberlain that season was one of 3.
NBA having started integration of blacks in 1. With their emergence, the NBA game was stylistically being played faster and above the rim. Many of the league's great players were black, and blacks believed they were limited by a league quota of four black players per team.[1. Critics suggested that basketball was becoming uninteresting with taller players dominating.[1.
Warriors teammate Joe Ruklick thought that "the attitude [among white players in the NBA] was, in my opinion, '[Chamberlain] is a freak who will come and go. There will never be a black guy doing this again.'"[1. Chamberlain, nicknamed Dipper, was revolutionizing the sport with his slam dunks, nicknamed the Dipper Dunk.[5][1. Traditionalists considered dunking poor sportsmanship, and their occurrence was rare. As the league's second tallest player,[note 1] Chamberlain began dunking more regularly.
He was still more of a finesse player, preferring fadeaway shots and finger rolls. He rarely dunked forcefully.
Teammate Paul Arizin believed Chamberlain did not want to be perceived as great merely from being tall.[1. There was little advance excitement about the pending Warriors- Knicks game that Friday. Only five games remained in the regular season, with the Warriors (4.
Boston Celtics—and the Knicks in last place.[2. Chamberlain had spent the night before the game in New York,[note 2] partying all night with a female companion before dropping her off at her home at 6: 0. A. M.[5][2. 1] With no sleep and suffering from a hangover, he boarded the train to Philadelphia at 8 AM, met several friends at the Philadelphia train station, and had a long lunch with them, thus almost missing the team bus to Hershey.[2.
The other players were similarly bored. Warriors player York Larese said: "The biggest thrill in my life was to see that.
There was nothing exciting about the Knicks playing the Warriors in Hershey. Chocolate was more exciting."[2. The game was played at Hershey Sports Arena, an old drafty gym originally built for ice hockey. The league occasionally played games in remote towns to attract new fans.
This was the Warriors' third "home" game of the season in Hershey, which was 8. Philadelphia.[2. 3][2. The Warriors' Tom Meschery called the arena "god- forsaken place .. The town of Hershey was built around a huge chocolate factory; everything there became permeated with the smell of chocolate.
It was practically impossible to stay indoors; people felt sick. I was just dreaming to leave the place as fast as I could."[2. On a cold, rainy Friday night, only 4,1. Philadelphia Eagles, the local American football team, play an exhibition basketball game against their colleagues from the Baltimore Colts before the NBA game started.[2. The arena's capacity was over 8,0. Warriors owner Eddie Gottlieb was infamous for exaggerating attendance numbers.[2.
Warriors home attendance had dropped from 7,0. Chamberlain's rookie season to less than 5,0. College basketball had started offering doubleheaders during the Great Depression to provide customers value for their money. Fans had grown accustomed to watching two games, so doubleheaders in the NBA became common.[2. The National Basketball Association was still struggling in its 1.
The league was hardly national with only one team west of St Louis. The NBA received low television ratings, and this game was not televised.[2. The National Broadcast Company (NBC) considered not renewing the league's television contract.[2. No members from the New York press were present as reporters were in Florida covering spring training for the New York Yankees and the expansion New York Mets.[2. With few in the media present, the Warriors' publicist was tasked this night with being the stringer for the Associated Press (AP), United Press International (UPI), and The Philadelphia Inquirer.[3. Only two photographers were at the game.[3. The Knicks were shorthanded with their starting center, Phil Jordon, out sick.[3.
Jordon's illness was officially reported as influenza but it was widely suspected he was simply hung over. Jordon in an early- season game had played Chamberlain even, scoring 3. Warriors center's 3. The Knicks instead started 6- foot- 1. Darrall Imhoff, a strong defensive player in college who led the California Golden Bears to the NCAA championship in 1. Summer Olympics.[3.
New York also had 6- foot- 9- inch (2. Cleveland Buckner, a better shooter than a defender who Chamberlain overpowered for an NBA record 2. Game report[edit]First three quarters[edit]According to Mc. Guire, the game did not start with any game plan to get Chamberlain 1. After a few minutes, the Warriors led 1. At the end of the first quarter, the Knicks trailed 4.
Chamberlain had already scored 2. Free throws were the weakest part of his game, making barely more than half in his first seasons.
He had started shooting free throws underhanded that season per Mc. Guire's suggestion.[4.
Chamberlain at that point was thinking more about a free throw shooting record than scoring a lot of points; [4. NBA record was 2.
Imhoff was soon benched because of foul trouble.[4. After one foul, he snapped at the referee, "Well, why don't you just give the guy a hundred now and we'll all go home!"[4. Neither referee had ever been a lead official, and Imhoff privately wished a stronger lead was working the game.[4. By halftime, the Warriors had lost some of their edge, but still led 7.
Chamberlain's point total stood at 4. The Warriors felt little excitement, as he had scored 6. I often came into the locker room with 3. Chamberlain later explained.[2. Warriors' Guy Rodgers at halftime said, "Let's get the ball to Dip. Let's see how many he can get."[4.
Mc. Guire agreed.[2. This simple tactic proved unstoppable.
Soon, he had surpassed the 5. Dave Zinkoff to fire up the previously sleepy crowd.
Chamberlain also kept his cool despite getting perpetually triple and quadruple- teamed by the Knicks, who did not shy away from hard fouls to distract the center. Mc. Guire was irate and demanded that the referees call more fouls, but Chamberlain could not be stopped.[4. He scored another 2. Warriors to a commanding 1.
His own total stood at 6. The Knicks' third center, Dave Budd, who alternated with the foul- troubled Imhoff at pivot, later stated that resistance was futile: "You couldn't play [Chamberlain] conventionally because he was so big. The only thing you could attempt to do was either front him, and in that case they'd try to lob it in to him, or beat him down the floor and set up where he wanted to get and force him out a couple of extra steps.
The guy weighed 3. Chamberlain now realized he could break his own 7. Breaking records[edit]Dave Zinkoff, the public address announcer, began announcing Chamberlain's point total after each of his baskets.[3.