There is irony in the fact that no video is known of Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game for the Philadelphia Warriors on March 2, 1962.
No one can see it now.
No one has seen anything like it, either. And probably never will.
Wednesday marks the 60th anniversary of the greatest scoring effort in NBA history — 36 field goals, 28 free throws, 100 points for Chamberlain — in the Warriors’ 169-147 victory over the New York Knicks in a game played before about 4,000 people at Hershey. , Pennsylvania. It might be the closest thing the NBA has to a single-game record that will never be broken.
Chamberlain, for the record, disagreed with that sentiment.
“I think it can be broken,” he said in 1987, around the 25th anniversary of the historic night.
Not yet. Not even close.
Kobe Bryant scored 81 points for the Los Angeles Lakers one night against Toronto, the closest anyone has come to Chamberlain’s mark. David Thompson scored 73, Elgin Baylor and David Robinson each scored 71, and Devin Booker had a 70-point game.