It 100% did according to spectators. His own team was missing FTs intentionally and passing it to him immediately to chase the 100. The other team was trying to run out the time and quadruple teaming him just like the Wizards did to bam

Listen to any oral history of that game. You’re correct

we should also keep in mind that Kobe is one of the biggest chuckers of all time

No video of it exists, but we’ve seen enough Wilt footage to generally know what it would have looked like. A lot of force-feeding the post against overmatched opponents. A lot of free throws. And even some stealing of his own teammates shot attempts. (sorry, couldn’t find a YouTube version)

Also it’s funny that people say that Bam’s game is invalid because the Wizards suck and are tanking. Almost every super-high-scoring game comes against a team that sucks on D: Shaq’s 61 vs the Clippers on his birthday, Klay’s 37 in one quarter vs. SAC, David Robinson’s 71 vs. the Clippers, Kobe’s 81 against TOR, etc.

It’s literally confirmed that the last few mins of Wilt’s 100 point game was basically his team just feeding him the ball and the other team fouling. It was just like the Bam game

inb4 the horde of haters

Congrats Bam!!

Wilt has 63 attempts on 57% shooting. The most impressive thing about that game is that he made 28 out of 32 free throws.

The Knicks were without their starting center Phil Jordon so Wilt was defended by 6-10 PF Darrall Imhoff .

That game was a much bigger joke than Bam’s 83.

https://www.basketball-reference.com/boxscores/196203020NYK.html

Kobe stans are insufferable

I think the best one of these performances I’ve seen was Luka’s 73. Went ²⁵⁄₃₃, ¹⁵⁄₁₆ from the line. Only won by 5.

Wilt made most of his field goals, Bam missed more than half of his. Wilt was a bad free throw shooter, so hacking him was a legit way of slowing him down, but he made almost all of his free throws.

As if Kobe didn’t do it against a Raptors team with a .329 win percentage with the 29th ranked D. Go watch the game, the LA booth is literally shit talking how bad the Raptors D is in the first quarter.

Up against a 33yo Jalen Rose who didn’t even want to be in Canada and sure as shit wasn’t playing D. How anyone can pretend Bam’s is tarnished and Kobe’s is legit is laughable.

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Nah - Wilt’s would’ve looked a lot more like Robinson’s 72:

Only 1 3pter (¹⁄₂), ²⁵⁄₃₉ on 2’s and ¹⁸⁄₂₅ FTA - from clips I’ve seen, mostly scored by just feeding him in the post.

Wilt’s 100 was obviously with no 3pt line, ³⁶⁄₆₃ 2’s and ²⁸⁄₃₂ FT.

Bam went ⁷⁄₂₂ from 3 and only ¹³⁄₂₁ on 3’s, and had ³⁶⁄₄₃ from the line.

If you want to know how Wilt scored 100 points, watch this one: https://youtu.be/Saq2irtiWO8?si=auz4YfX5n6LNYbA_ . And actually the post by OP is right… Wilt’s 100 points is as same as how Bam done it

It looked worse.

Thus Kobe’s was more impressive than both

Even though it wasn’t televised, there were quite a few witnesses.

Yes, it was a mockery of a basketball game as well, just like Bam’s. Bam’s was worse because of the FTs and Wilt didn’t have 3s, but they are very comparable games.

Laker fans mad about free throws, now you know how it’s feels.

FREE THROW MERCHANT-PRINCE 

Yeah probably. So the lesson here is for Heat fans to just ignore the commentary and in the future no one will give a fuck when talking about it.

Wilt used to literally goal tend his own teammates and score the bucket himself

Wizards are intentionally trying to lose tho. Does that factor at all in the score?

Probably. Wilt did it in 1962 when the talent level in the league was much lower. He was insanely dominant relative to the rest of the players at that time. He put up stats that may never be repeated

You put Angel Reese’s little brother on the court in 1962 and he is probably retiring as an “NBA Top 50 All Timer”

everyone holds the 100 point game up as sacred

No, lots of people still call it a sham…some don’t even believe it happened, which is pretty dumb tbh. But the discourse at the time (if you do a simple google search) tells you that the reaction was very similar to Bam’s with even the NY coach coming out after the game and complaining about how ludicrous the game became in his search for 100 points.

Are you under some impression that the lakers weren’t force feeding the ball to Kobe?

There was no 3 point line

Maybe it did, maybe it didn’t. Both sides can only assume, given nobody commenting on the matter watched the game.

Yup, which makes Kobe’s 81 still the most impressive of the three. And I’m a fucking Celtics fan

32 FTA and no 3pt line.

Yeah but Wilt was a star. Bam doing it is just kind of meh. He’s one of 2-3 names in the top 20 points for a game that is just like … Well people will see it 20 years from now and think “who TF is that guy?”

Kobe fans are actually awarding style points.

Probably as Kobe was just jacking up jumpers like he always did.

wasn’t wilt also like 2 feet taller than everybody else

And people think I’m crazy because I say Kobe’s 81 — and to a lesser extent the 63 in 2.5 quarters he hung on the Mavs — is the most impressive scoring feat in NBA history.

Yeah we know, that’s why Kobe’s is more impressive lol

No three point line but he was whipping on people who were one step away from being factory workers.