That something special was Wilt Chamberlain, Philadelphia’s dominant center, scoring 100 points in a 169-147 win over the Knicks in Hershey, Pa., where Attles reveled in his role of shuffling ...

Wilt’s season average in 1961-62 (50.4 points per game) is 36 percent better than the next best player not named Wilt Chamberlain (Michael Jordan’s 37.1 in 1986-87).

Wilt Chamberlain did indeed log the NBA’s only single-triple 50 years ago Friday, the colossus of a center scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors long before a player’s exploits ...

With one 100-point game and four 70-point games during the 1961-62 season, Chamberlain put together one of the most historic years in not only NBA history, but sports history as a whole.

FILE - In this March 2, 1962 file photo, Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors holds a sign reading "100" in the dressing room in Hershey, Pa., after he scored 100 points, as the Warriors ...

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Wilt thought he scored his last basket on a dunk.Darrall Imhoff, who was guarding him, as much as the term can be used, says it was a finger roll.Al Attles says that when Wilt scored that last ...

5. The only thing more absurd than Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game was his stat line for the entire 1961-62 season. Seriously, just take a moment and think about this: 50.4 points and 25.7 ...

Without looking it up, tell me who the Philadelphia Warriors were playing against 52 years ago when Wilt Chamberlain dropped an NBA-record 100 points. If that's not enough of a challenge, go ahead ...

On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain put together arguably the greatest performance in NBA history, scoring 100 points in the Philadelphia Warriors’ 169–147 win over the New York Knicks. The ...

"[Chamberlain] has the size, strength, and stamina to score one hundred some night," the 11-time NBA champion once said in ...