Tyrese Haliburton: “Wilt Chamberlain 100… I ain’t know if I believed it… but after what I watched yesterday… Wilt had 100”
“Ain’t no white people from the Jim Crow era lying about Wilt scoring 100”
Exactly. And besides that, the box score is crazy. Wilt took 63 shots to get there, plus 32 free throws, and played all 48 minutes. It’s pretty easy to imagine them just feeding him the rock to see how many he could get. And there’s a buncha salty white dudes that played against him calling it a mickey mouse 100. The craziest thing to me isn’t Wilt getting that many points, it’s him averaging 48.5 minutes per game for 80 games. That’s more minutes than there are in non overtime games. He played every second of all 80 of them games. That’s the most unbreakable record in basketball.
All but the last 6 minutes of a game he was ejected from. I’ve always thought it was the most unbelievable stat in all of sports. Like, what even comes close?
Cy Young 749 complete games
Inconceivable in the modern game. I think the closest active is like 20 or 30
26 from Verlander
So many of those old school baseball records won’t even come close to being touched. Robin Roberts once pitched 330 innings in ONE season in 1952……..good for 495th on the list of most ever innings pitched in a single season.
Innings pitched hasn’t been over 300 since 1980. The record is 680. Insane.
A lot of it is Baseball advancing due to the analytics and player health taken into account as well as schedule increases over the years.
Player health, I hear you. But I have to think guys elbows are worse off now due to spin rate and velocity. Interesting conversation to have with old heads or baseball die hards.
Yeah if you threw a 95+ mph fastball for 300 innings your arm would legit fall off
The 680 innings were before overhand pitching. The switch to overhand made those records unbreakable.
there’s just such a huge difference between lobbing it in there at probably about 70 and what guys are doing now. Back in the day you actually had to throw the ball where the batter asked for it, it wasn’t about spin and velo and deception, just throw the ball and let somebody field it because the noodle armed clown batting isn’t hitting that thing over the fence.
Glenn Hall was a goalie that played 502 consecutive games between he Red Wings/Blackhawks… next closest is 257
I’d assume the most consecutive games a goalie would possibly now a days would be 28. And that’s only if all 4 playoff series went 7 games. No way that’s happening during the regular season
There is also Mario’s Lemieuxs 5 goal game scoring even-strength, power-play, shorthanded, penalty shot, and empty-net in a single game. That one to me is my favorite from the NHL.
What?!
Game is different now. The bullpen is a thing, and good relief pitchers help win championships too. Similar to how NFL running backs split the load more now. It doesn’t make sense to wear down your most important players.
I mean I get that but goddamn. 749 complete games? wtf
Old-timey pitchers had their ligaments reinforced with lead
Don’t be rediculous. It’s cigarettes
I’m not rediculous, I’m blueiculous
Was much different back then.
People estimate he threw high 80s to low 90s compared to most high end guys routinely throwing close to 100 these days.
Not to mention the pitch variety. Most recounts of it say he mostly had two pitches. A fastball and a curveball and eventually added a changeup, and probably didn’t torque the absolute shit out of the curveball.
Now we’ve got guys throwing 90+ MPH sliders that turn UCL’s into a ticking time bomb.
Not to say it’s not impressive, just makes sense why it seems so impossible. Theres no way anyone then or now could do it with the type of stress being put on arms with a modern day pitching arsenal.
Even from the early days of Verlander it’s different. He routinely paced himself in his early career so he could throw 100+ in the 7-8-9 innings. The analytic age has been changing all sports very quickly.
Also guys are throwing way harder nowadays, which puts more strain on the arm. Based on video Young was throwing low to mid 90’s fastballs, where today that’s breaking pitch speeds. Half the league throws 99+ it feels like.
A modern fastball starting pitcher trying to get even half of their starts through 9 innings would result in many elbow components scattered on the mound.
That was “The Dead Ball Era” where home runs were a much bigger feat than they are today (truly why Babe Ruth is still considered the GOAT). Even more as the ball became harder to hit far as it got dirtier with use, so pitchers didn’t need to treat every batter as if it was their last of the night. They aimed for manageable grounders and pop fly hits to get batters out instead of needing to get a strike out for fear of a home run. There was no relief pitcher specialist and getting pulled was reserved for bad performance or injury/emergency.
Additionally, Cy varied his pitch delivery to use overhand, sidearm, and submarine to reduce repetitive stress on his body.
The stuff Satchel Paige did was just as wacky. He would sometimes pitch both complete games in a day - night doubleheader and the last game of his career was for Kansas City at 59 years old.
Old Hoss Radbourn had 60 wins in 1884 with 678 innings pitched.
In 2011 Verlander led the league with 24 wins and 251 innings pitched
Jim Brown, never a lost yard from scrimmage for a career.
Wilt once beat Jim Brown in a foot race during a party! Brown demanded a do over and Wilt beat him again.
wilt was the baddest and iwasnt even alive
Lucky for Wilt. You would have been the baddest.
Not tru lol
That’s not true at all.
https://www.pro-football-reference.com/boxscores/196311100pit.htm
He got tackled for a safety this game. There are other instances but this was an easy one to use as evident.
But it’s still believable given the era. Wilts mpg record would be as if cy averaged 9.1 innings per start
explain in basketball terms
Bradman 99.94 batting average comes to mind. Different but equally as untouchable
Not sure if it’s as impressive, but Brett Favre starting 321 games in a row is like the one streak in the NFL that is unbreakable IMO. 18 years in a row, every game.
Almost as impressive as how much money he’s stolen from poor people in Mississippi
Somewhat related, if you go by just regular season start streaks for QB’s, Brady’s longest streak is 11th all time at 112 games played. The players directly behind him are Brady and then Brady again for 12th and 13th longest streaks all time at 111 and 110 games started consecutively
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_most_consecutive_starts_by_an_NFL_quarterback
One of those starts was when his dad died, well into his career, and he then basically had the best night of his career. That’s a stat nobody should break.
Larry Fitzgerald had more tackles in his career than dropped passes.. as the number one (and only most years) target on his team for most of those years. Unbeatable.
In soccer Lewandowski’s 5 goals in 9 minutes
Rogério Ceni’s 131 goals as a Goalkeeper
Brady never took a single snap where his team was eliminated from the playoffs.
The craziest shit is that he went 28⁄32. For a dude that shot FTs worse than Shaq that was harder than anything else he ever did
That was the year he did it underhanded, right?
Wilt changed free throw forms a dozen times in his career probably. He later went back to underhanded free throws in random playoff games you can find on YouTube from the late 60s and 70s
It’s just crazy variance
He has quite a few of those unbreakable records. When it comes to scoring, there is wilt and everybody else’s NBA record.
I think he was what Wemby is today for us during his era. A 7 foot alien. Mind you he was also champ of track and field. A fucking 7 footer is the champion. Regardless of what era you’re from, that’s just ridiculous.
I for one am someone who enjoys every era’s dominant players. Everyone is the reason why the league is getting better in skills throughout the years. Everyone is both the victim of their time and the monster of their time.
He is like Wemby but stronger. Probably less fancier on the basketball skills but imagine a Shaq-like strength but with Wembys’ agility.
Throw in a genuinely impressive BBIQ as well. When he added passing to his offensive repertoire under the tutelage of Hannum, he became a terror for defences.
He would run through a team, attracting 2 defenders minimum with his gravity and then hand off a perfect pass to a teammate for a guaranteed make. And if the defence tried to anticipate the pass from Wilt, he powers past whoever’s guarding him and makes the shot himself. This style of play was what led the 76ers to a ring.
And then in his later years he pretty much emulated Russell’s playstyle to help the Lakers win the ring in 72.
I know history doesn’t look favourably upon him for his lack of success against the Celtics dynasty, but Wilt was truly a 1-of-1 type deal.
Wilt doesn’t get enough credit for being one of the few to challenge those Celts teams either.
Too few people mention there were years with 9 HoF’ers on the Celts roster during their 11 rings era.
Wilt entered the league in 59-60, the Celts were the reigning Champs. They kept winning all the NBA titles, eight in a row, until a Wilt-led Sixers in 66-67 defeated them in the semifinals. Wilt and that team were the ONLY team to deny the Celtics from making it to the Finals in their infamous 11 rings period.
Also while Wilt played the Celts were taken to seven games eight times, four of those were against Wilt.
But this context is always left out of Wilt discussions.
Wow. I have never heard this. Yes this is the most insane stat I have ever heard. Big people are supposed to get injured after so many minutes.. knees/weight/yadayada..
Then this big dude goes on to play bouncy ass volleyball?? WTF was he made of?! I saw him shake Shaqs hand as a senior citizen in an exposed chest purple blouse and establish old man dominance instantly.
The average NBA player wasn’t nearly as athletic as today’s college players but meanwhile Wilt was more athletic than pretty much any NBA player we’ve ever seen. Him at 80% could still score over his tired opponents or their fresh backups. That’s why he was one of the few player shooting over 50% back then despite ridiculously inefficient high pace and crowded paints
I also heard that genuinely teams were still trying to get him to come back to the NBA in his mid to late 40s. Despite the competition he couldn’t choose , it sounds like he was actually really good. It was a whole new era and they seemed to still actually want him and believe he could do something meaningful.. I never saw him play, but I believe he was actually the force that one is led to believe he was.
I mean, if Shaq never became injury prone and slowed down because of it he might’ve always had a career.. like Bron-ish. Maybe he was actually that good and he never did actually get injured so he could’ve actually kept playing for real. Yeah people always act like just because the average athlete is better today. Doesn’t mean that there wasn’t truly elite people back then, that will light people up today with a little time to adapt.
The craziest thing about the 100 Point game for me is that it isn’t even Wilt’s most impressive, outlandish stat from a game, and maybe not even top 5.
And by anecdotes from the players on his team, they were specifically looking to get him 100 points in that game. One teammate even said “We wanted to see if we can get him to 100 by halftime.” It was an entire gameplan by the players before the game started which makes it that much more believable if it was a specific goal that every teammate was on board with.
good ass point 😭
This is the strongest reason lmao. People keep asking “where’s the film” simply did not understand that not a single white person in that building in the 19 fucking 50s had any reason to tell people and share the story of a black man absolutely trouncing in the game of basketball.
My stepdad was there and he didn’t film or take pictures
Did he also work for Nintendo?
In my opinion, the strongest argument is the sheer number of people who would have to be involved in the conspiracy. It would require literally hundreds of individuals, most of whom would have no real reason to lie. That’s why most conspiracies tend to fall apart.
Similar strong argument as the strongest evidence that the US landed on the moon: Russia said we did lol
A collective and co-ordinated lie to protect a black athlete who wasn’t very well-liked by the sports media to begin with.
Cause he probably had 150 seeing this shit last night
😭 this is a wild way to put it, but it checks out
Lmaoo
What a premise for a joke… it wrote itself.
As someone who was slightly skeptical about Wilt’s 100 point game. I’m now convinced he did in fact had 100
I’m sorry but how were you slightly skeptical it’s just willful ignorance. There’s a radio broadcast saved of the game, box scores from that night, and 4000 eyewitnesses none of which claimed it didn’t happen.
I hate this new anti information trend that people like to follow. People act like being an idiot is actually enlightening
“Yea but I’m not a follower”
Congrats but you’re still a idiot
It’s the same argument about people who didn’t believe the moon landing during the height of the cold war. The USSR would’ve been all over the us for lying about the shet. They stole each other’s weaponry and secret every chance they get.
Honestly, 100 points might be one of Wilt’s easier records to believe. 55 rebounds in a game or averaging 48.5 minutes per game seem far harder to fathom.
In some Converse All Stars too.
After an orgy the night before
More like the morning of.
More like during a timeout
Definitely at half time
D) All the above
More like during a pick & roll
how the pick & roll got its name
Why not both
One guy and 15 women is a reverse gangbang not an orgy
I don’t really care to check but I’m fairly certain gamgbang is gender neutral.
You need to do more homework.
Ok I’m on it
It’s not
Against Bill Russell no less.
That was a Celtics game?
No, it was against the Knicks
48.5 simply isn’t happening. Maybe someone gets really good at rebounding and he gets 56 in double ot or something but 48.5 is impossible
Fun fact, the Rockets currently lead the league in total rebounds, and they average 48.2 per game as a team
Ummm…yeah.
It only takes one insane outlier performance though. Bam’s career average is 16.1 PPG (18.9 this season before this week). I don’t think anyone ever expected him to get 83. Someone could have an out of body experience and grab 56 boards in one game.
48.5 MPG is just not possible over the course of a season with how the game is today. Can’t even get most dudes to play every game
If anyone was going to do it I feel like it would’ve been josh hart coached by thibs 😆
Could be related to the league shooting a lot more threes nowadays.
Yeah the game back then was in the lane, and with Wilt in the middle there probably was a lot more missed around the rim for easy rebounds.
There were a lot more misses. A lot more shots.
Something north of 65 rebounds per team per game.
But the pace today is unlike anything we’ve ever seen!
Actually it was possible as there were many overtime games that year.
Like in a 7 game span he played 10 overtimes
Sorry I meant that nobody is breaking that record because they simply don’t play entire matches now I didn’t mean that his record is fake
Oh my bad.
I read that wrong
Nah, I thought the same as you. That shit was confusing. The original comment was talking about how believable the records were, so I thought this comment was talking about the same.
48.5 MINUTES PER GAME
With how efficient teams are at shooting the ball now, no chance 56 rebounds happens unless someone gets every single defensive rebound.
Wilts rebounding. Stocktons all time assists and Hakeem’s all time blocks seem untouchable.
48.5 mins wasn’t that outlandish because of the slower explosive pace in the old times. It’s similar to how pitchers can easily pitch complete games in those era
wasn’t the pace of the game at its highest ever in the 1960s? or did you mean pace in a different way
I think they meant less movement and cuts as opposed to guys sprinting around screens these days
I am talking about the stress of sudden explosiveness to the muscles and bones.
The pace was higher for sure but the game wasn’t about power but strength and straight line speed/cardio.
Even though the pace was very high the movement in the current era is happening more on average especially going change of speed
Yeah, lateral movement & change of direction is far tougher on your muscles or joints than running beep test style straight up and down the court the way play finishing bigs often would back then.
It’s crazy because a standard nba game goes 48minutes. So he played into overtime so much that season it pushed him over- has nothing to do with pace
Tbf he only had to play just under 3 overtime’s to reach 48,5 if he played every minute of the season
From what I remember he did miss part of a game after being ejected, so he had a handful of OTs to make up for it
Yup. He missed 9 minutes of play that season… which is incomprehensible in today’s game.
Yeah, idk why it’s so hard for people to believe he scored 100 in a season where he averaged 50 a game. That season he had 2 other games with 70+ and 12 other games with 60+.
That’s like a dude averaging 20 ppg and people going “nah, I don’t believe he dropped 40 because there’s no video.”
The strained belief stems from the upper bound of what can happen in 48 minutes, and what % of a team’s points can come from one player. Your 20⁄40 example is mathematically identical, but to not recognize the incredulous aspect as the numbers get higher is a disservice to the stats.
It’s kinda funny, the standard deviation (or whatever it would be called in this situation) for a players single-game upper scoring limit always seems to be right around double their season scoring average. (For 20-30 point scorers, guys that average like 6 points can obviously have games that are like 4x)
No it makes sense, the rebound thing, I mean these guys are shooting a million times inside the paint, and if you are as dominant as Wilt, you are gonna have a lot of rebounds, that’s why you got all those high rebound games. And Wilt as a stat guy, he must have been doing Drummond stuff. Then the 48.5 thing, if you see how the game is played even in Jordan’s era let alone Wilt, you see how much easier it is to play all 82 with a lot of minutes, now you try that, you are gonna get a season ending injury
It’s also why you see estimates of Wilt and Russell both having over ten blocks a game
If Bam’s contribution to the game is to verify that Wilt did get 100, then I guess it was worth the game of hoops.
Watching the 2nd half was so fun actually. The Heat leaned into it and tried to get Bam as many points as possible and the Wizards were doing everything to stop him. I’m glad Bam dropped 83.
Watching the highlights started to feel like a meme the further along it got. Just:
Dunk. Free throw, free throw, free throw, free throw. Fader. Free throw, free throw, free throw, free throw, free throw, free throw. Three ball. Free throw, free throw, free throw, free throw, free throw.
They kept cutting the free throws super short but it still was just ridiculous.
The crazy part was that a lot of those fouls were pretty hard fouls. Not even like Mickey mouse baiting or anything
And i wonder if Bam would have slowed down anyway in the fourth running up and down in a normal game. That he did free throws definitely helped him conserve some energy.
Bro got quadrouple teamed
I don’t remember seeing Luka or Wemby quad teammed even
And Bam wasn’t even at 20 ppg before this game
The evolution of the commentary was so funny.
Boy Bam is having a really good quarter, he’s going to tie his most points in a quarter - the heat’s most points in a quarter - in a half - his most points in a game - heat most points in a game - The second most points in a game!?!
Now that Kobe doesn’t have 2nd place, we can stop pretending like 2nd place is the real record.
“Rebound Luckenbill
Back to Ruklick
Into Chamberlain
HE MADE IT HE MADE IT!!!
FANS ARE ALL OVER THE FLOOR
100 POINTS FOR WILT CHAMBERLAIN”
It’s fun listening to the radio call when it happened. Link
Also means the game was ended before regulation. Wilt could have scored 101.
he wouldn’t. 100 is a fucking cool number. 102? not that much.
This could be an unspoken rule. If a player reaches 100 points total in any given the game it’s an automatic victory. 🤣 The Chamberlain Rule.
ireland wins but wilt catches the snitch
krum can’t win with these cats
JK Rowling was ahead of the times after all
They should! It’s the best way to prevent tanking too!
Oh your that team that almost lost to Curry when he scored 90 points 3 days ago. They’ll be playing the heat tonight after Bam’s record was broken 3 days ago
iirc there’s dispute(?) whether the game finished. I recall someone, probably a player, said the game continued but that Wilt apparently just stood at half court for the remainder
Stood at center court, impregnating 17 women and 1 man.
It’s true, wilt could’ve scored 102 but decided to end it at 100 because it sounds cooler
The guy who averaged 50 couldn’t get 100???? Why are we still doing this?
Jim Lynam said it best: “He averaged 50 Points a game! 50! One year he averaged 28 Rebounds a game. Averaged! When they let the big fella out of his cage, it was flappin’ time, jack!”
There are people who think the Earth is flat, do i need to say more?
one of them even has the greatest handle in basketball history!
People think it’s a conspiracy that they didn’t air every NBA game on TV in the fucking 1960s, like what are we doing here
It’s really really weird that it just randomly started becoming a thing a couple years ago. No one used to think anything about it outside a cool NBA factoid. Now we’re in the conspiracy era where everything is fake.
I don’t think he’s being super serious.
He probably is. A lot of people think the 100 point game wasn’t real.
Forget Bam, just watching footage of the NBA in the 1950s and early ’60s and comparing it to Wilt’s footage is proof that he probably did score 100 points in a game.
Just look through all the nba finals from the 50s and 60s. One player, usually on both teams, would shoot like 30 to 40 shots from the field and then wilt or russell would have 30 rebounds.
1962 finals game 7. Elgin baylor 13-40, 15-21 ft, 22reb. West 14-30. Sam jones 12-31. Bill Russell 8-18, 14-17 ft, 40 rebounds. Lakers 35% fg. Celtics 33% fg. Elgin averaged 33 fga for the series.
1867 finals game 3. Rick barry 22-48 55pts. Nate thurmokd 25reb. Wilt 26reb. Rick barry shot over 37 5 times and over 40 3x. Only game where he shot only 28 was a blowout where he sat
1960 Game 1. 133 fga for celtics with 24 ft. Warriors had a 140 fga with 34 ft in the 1967 finals game 1. The warriors fucking lost this game?! The sixers shot only 116 this game!
Some of these games have 80+ rebounds. 10 times with one 96 reb game. 70+ was just the usual.
Lakers Jerry west and elgin baylor and celtics sam jones, heinsohn, cousy, and havlicek were fucking chuckers. Looking at all those laker celtic series and the loser of each game is pretty much 1:1 the duo that shot more poorly
This is how these mother fuckers generated points. Shoot a fg then have their big rebound it for a layup.
I heard Rick Barry skipped the Civil War draft to play in the NBA btw
He did it because he knew he wouldnt be able to shoot as much in the war as he could in the nba
I don’t blame him. You get shot something’s gettin’ chopped off!
1867 finals?
NBA ain’t that old!!
13⁄40 is nasty work by Elgin
In fairness to him, with no 3-pt line, you’re basically incentivized to shoot as close to the basket as possible, but you’ve got arguably the greatest defensive player of all time waiting for you there.
Exactly, but seeing Bam do this in todays game shows you that Wilt definitely did that back then, especially since he was regularly averaging like 50 some seasons lol
He also had 2 other 70+ point games that season and like 30+ games with 60+ points across his career.
100 points is still an insane amount, but compared to what he normally did it’s not like it was even a particularly crazy outlier for him. Wilts career is basically defined by insane stats.
Not even. Just look at the box scores. Dude averaged 50 ppg that year…really isn’t that inconceivable that he doubled his average one night.
I mean, he averaged 50. Again, he AVERAGED fifty. Fifty was not a good game for him, that was a normal game for him. If 50 is a normal game, it’s not crazy to imagine him going for 100 if he plays the game of his life.
I agree with him, man. Watching it happen live with your own two eyes is a different experience than just hearing about it. Yeah. Wilt had 100.
My sneak diss god
he really thought Wilt’s 100 is like the moon landing
Moon landing was easier. Buzz didn’t have to take his one giant leap in Chucks.
Best reaction to this whole thing. Haliburton single handedly keeping NBA’s aura alive.
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Pacers fans: STOP THE COUNT!!
The players will never agree to less games.
You just want to ruin the 80 year long records?
All these pts rebounds and every counting stat will never be broken, i would hate this
What is with you mfers just think people be lyin for no good reason
Thinking that Wilt didn’t score 100 is like an IQ test. 4000+ eyewitnesses, including opposing players and stat keepers. Nobody at the game or playing in the game has even once claimed it didn’t happen, no one disputes it….
The only piece of evidence that it didn’t happen is the fact that it wasn’t recorded. In 1962.
Do I even have to explain how moronic that is? COVID era really brain rotted this whole ass generation man. Y’all really needed to be in school because not everything is a conspiracy lmao.
It’s been questioned way before covid. I had this debate in school back in 2015. There’s all types of footage of wilt playing but not this game? All those People in the stands and no one had a camera? I think he did it but I understand why someone would skeptical. especially when every wilt story sounds insane
What is the age cutoff where yall just start outright dismissing things you weren’t around for or can’t pull up on TikTok? Why would he not believe an actual occurrence?
Because people made up a ton of shit about Wilt. Like that he could run a 49s 400m-dash, high jump 7 feet, slept with 20,000 women, and dunked a ball so hard that when it hit the ground it broke a dude’s toe. His 100-point game happened without camera evidence in an era with potentially questionable stat-tracking before basic stats like blocks were even counted.
Sure, but how would you even fake this? The guy who guarded him said Wilt probably had 100 points.
Sure, but those are things with only a couple of people per myth claim who said they saw that stuff, there was a whole arena who watched Wilts 100 point game. And sure stat keepers could be wonky, but that’s much more for rebounds and assists, where a scored point is much more specific, and much harder to sneak in.
I’ve seen people on this subreddit argue that he really bench pressed 600 lol
I heard when he did pushups he pushed the earth down
Bam scoring 83 a week after both JxmmyHighroller and Thinking Basketball made a video on how it’s practically impossible to score 100 points in a game. (They were right)
Thinking basketball didn’t make a video about that
I always thought it was interesting that Wilt was so great that the word “unbelievable” isn’t an exaggeration lol. People literally do not believe the stuff he did. Same with Bill Russell, lots of people have to believe that the average player height was like 5’5 when he played because they legit cannot comprehend someone winning 11 rings
I had no idea so many young people didn’t believe the fact that Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single game.
Guess they wouldn’t believe he avg 50 points for a season either?
Sigh education is starting to wane….
Or maybe people aren’t so quick to believe what’s told to them. There’s technically no evidence since modern NBA heavily relies on footage for stats thanks to technology. Wilt’s infamous stats sound more like an urban myth than an actual basketball player.
There comes a point when being too skeptical makes you really stupid.
Being skeptical of everything always isn’t a nuanced or intelligent position. It’s just taking the exact opposite of “always trust authority” – both are very comforting, ultimately stupid positions where you turn off your brain and default to an ideology that will wind up with you being wrong overwhelmingly more often than if you try to use your brain to distinguish between two different situations. No two things are exactly equal, regardless of how much intellectual comfort so many people get from pretending they are to simplify their decision making.
Treating “4000 eye witnesses at this game, with every opposing player agreeing it happened” with the same level of disbelief as “My parents told me the tooth fairy is real” just makes you dumb if you’re above the age of 5.
This is like Tyler Herro saying he doesn’t believe we went to the moon
Curry thinks that too. Kyrie said dinosaurs and planets weren’t real. I bet a lot of NBA players think things like this.
Chamberlain’s 100 point game being fake is a fun conspiracy theory for a few reasons…
happened in a half-empty arena in Hershey, PA with no press in attendance
forget video, there aren’t even pictures, which is why the most famous video/audio artifact is just him holding a piece of paper saying “100”
happened at a time the league needed publicity
it’s way off the statistical distribution. On this list, there’s 92 games with 60+, which drops to 38 with 63+, then 19 with 68+, then 8 with 73+, so the number of games with at least X points roughly exponentially, which means that in theory, back of the envelope calc, it should take 1300 years for a 100 point game.
… but ultimately, there’s a copy of the 4th quarter radio broadcast (found decades later) and some guy did a documentary interviewing dozens of eyewitnesses and everything.
Those 8 games of 73+ pts… Wilt has 4 of them… 100, 77, 74, 73.
Wilt has 3 70 pt games and averaged 50 that year. Him having a 100 pt game happened. Not sure why that even gets questioned. There’s even a radio broadcast of the 4th qtr that was just found. Was it all in the flow of the game? Prob not. Wilt wanted his numbers and his teammates would oblige
Although with the way people don’t believe facts that are in front of them, it’s not surprising these days. People in the future will watch LeBron highlights and claim that it was AI at this rate
Reposting an old comment, but Wilts 100 point game looses a bit of its luster once you start digging into the details, and from the context i assume Halliburton doesn’t know much about the game. it would probably be a LOT less celebrated if there was footage of it (esp the 4th quarter)
• it was one of the last games of the season and they were a top seed playing the worst team in the league. as one of wilt’s teammates put it “There was nothing exciting about the Knicks playing the Warriors in Hershey. Chocolate was more exciting”
• the majority of the crowd (4000, which was only half the capacity) were there to see players from the Philadelphia Eagles play an exhibition basketball game against the the Baltimore Colts before the NBA game started (and a lot probably left after lol)
• the opposing center (who was actually one of wilts worst matchups) was out (DNP, Hungover/White women), and the backup center was benched after the 1st quarter with foul trouble. so they were playing a 3rd string rookie non-defensive C on wilt most of the game (who would go on to play only 68 career games)
• in the 4th (with the warriors aleady up 20+), the warriors players refused to shoot at all or do anything other than pass to wilt
• the knicks responded by starting to intentionally foul every play to keep the ball away from wilt
• the warriors responded to that with their own intentional fouling on every play to prevent the knicks from running clock, and so they could get the ball back to wilt as soon as possible. complete farce by both teams
• Warriors commited 25 personal fouls, and the Knicks 32. just disgusting lol
• wilt was a terrible, career 50% FT shooter, but went 28⁄32 in this game (88%) and had similarly gone 27⁄38 (71%) in 2 other games played in the Hershey gym earlier that year (81% overall for all 3). This was due to the rims at this run down old arena being aged, flimsy, and forgiving. balls would rattle off typical firm, nba arena rims, whereas balls near the rim in Hershey were apt to get a good roll and fall in
• 200 people stormed the floor after wilt scored 100, with 46 seconds left to play, and a fan stole the ball. this resulted in a 9 minute delay until they could get the floor clear to finish the game
• Wilt just stood in the half court circle and refused to touch the ball for the final 46 seconds, bc according to him “100 points is cooler than 102 points (which is kind of true tbh)
• Wilt went home with the Knicks players because he wanted to go party in new york after, fuck philly lmao
Wilt probably had 150 seeing last night ..
Wonder how Bam will get us to believe in the moon landing next
Just another case of this generation’s, “Because I didn’t see it, it probably didn’t happen.” The hubris, smdh.
Welcome to reality Tyrese, we’ve been waiting for you.
OK, but why is he doing the Bin Laden pose?
They don’t call him Haliban for nothing
When a caliber of Bam can get 83, Wilt definitely had a 100.
Wilt was born in 1936. Silent Generation. Had to wear Chuck Taylor’s to hoop. Probably dealt with racism but probably not as badly as Bill Russell in Boston. Had to use trains for travel and sleep in dirty motels. Less advanced medical science. Less advanced training and nutrition. And I would still take a prime Wilt’s body over anybody in history including Wemby. 7’1. Strong. Jumped high. Ran in marathons. GOAT athlete to ever play in the NBA.
These Gen Z. I still can’t believe people don’t believe the 100 game is real.
It’s not because there aren’t any non AI highlights on TikTok that it didn’t happen. Smh
Kobe would say “why arent all you motherfuckers scoring 80 against the wiz??”
All those words, 12 words… all those words, twelve, all those, words? TwElve? Teeewelve? All? Words? Twelve? Words. Words. Word. Word!
Well stated.
He right
Why does anyone not believe it? There’s mountains of evidence that it happened.
“mountains” is doing a lot of heavy lifting, especially considering the circumstances, but definitely enough that it shouldn’t be doubted