Golden Basketball Magazine
Memorable Basketball Games

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Fans and teammates congratulate Wilt after his 100th point.

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After the game, Wilt thanked his teammates for helping him.
  • It would have been impossible to score that many if they hadn't kept feeding me.
  • Pollack asked photographer Vathis if he had gotten some shots. Yes, was the reply, but nothing that really shows what Wilt did. So Harvey tore off a sheet of paper, scrawled "100" on it, and gave it to Wilt who held it in front of him for one of the most famous photographs in basketball history.
  • Attles, known more for his defensive ability than for offensive prowess, made 8-of-8 from the field that night and 1-for-1 from the foul line. He kidded Wilt, Big Fella, I'll have a mental block for the rest of my life. I don't miss a shot, and nobody even talks to me.
  • The other G, Guy Rodgers, had 20 assists. There wasn't an easier way in the world to get assists tonight. All I had to do was give the ball to the Dipper.
  • In the other locker room, Knicks coach Eddie Donovan didn't appreciate what Chamberlain had done. The game became a farce. They would foul us, and we would foul them.
Since the Warriors' next game was the following Sunday in New York, Wilt received permission to ride back to the Big Apple with several members of the Knicks.
  • Wilt dozed on and off in the passenger seat throughout the three-hour trip.
  • While awake, he heard the driver, his good friend Willie Naulls, and the two Knicks in the back seat talking about the game. Can you believe that SOB scored a hundred points against us? They'd talk about all the tactics they used to try to keep him from scoring. Then they'd repeat, A hundred points!
  • When they dropped him off at his apartment near Central Park, Wilt told them, You guys are sure nice to this SOB. Letting me score a hundred points, then giving me a ride all the way back to my apartment. Thanks, fellows.
  • Imhoff bragged that he "held" Wilt to 58 points in the Sunday game.
  • Chamberlain finished the season with a 50.4 ppg average - another record that still stands. But Wilt said, It doesn't mean a thing if we don't win the title.
  • The '62 Warriors defeated Syracuse in the best-of-five first round series before bowing to the Celtics in seven games in the Eastern finals.

A final note: Not only has no one scored 100 points in a game, no two players on the same team have ever scored 100 points between them. (No, not even when Kobe Bryant canned 81 in 2006. His highest teammate had 13.)

When Wilt died of a heart attack at age 63 in 1999, the Paul Vathis photo of him holding the "100" sheet stood on the church dais at Chamberlain's memorial service.
References: Wilt: Larger Than Life, the Definitive Wilt Chamberlain Biography, Robert Cherry (2004)
Wilt Chamberlain: A View from Above, Wilt Chamberlain (1992)