The only other players in NBA history who have had a game in which they recorded at least 25 points, 14 rebounds and five assists while shooting 100 percent from the floor are four-time NBA MVP Wilt Chamberlain and three-time NBA MVP Nikola Jokic.
Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors registers his fifth straight 50-point game with 58 against the New York Knicks and sets a season scoring record with 3,921 points. 1968 — Joe Frazier wins the vacant New York world heavyweight title with an 11th-round TKO of Buster Mathis at Madison Square Garden.
Joe Malone is held scoreless in the Montreal Canadiens’ 5-3 season-ending loss to the Toronto Arenas, but finishes the first NHL season with a League-high 44 goals in 22 games.
Over the weekend, fans celebrated the 63rd anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game. A game that some still don't believe ever happened.
Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija‘s triple-double during Sunday’s overtime loss at Cleveland placed him in rare company alongside former NBA greats Magic Johnson and Wilt Chamberlain. Avdija scored 30 points with 12 rebounds and 10 assists on 8-of-13 shooting to record his first triple-double during the team’s 133-129 overtime loss at Cleveland.
DeMarcus Cousins recently shared his top five greatest centers of all-time and notably left Wilt Chamberlain off the list.
Wilt Chamberlain’s historic 100-point game has been known as one of the biggest holy grails of basketball, as it remains the highest-scoring game of an individual player in NBA history.
Steph Curry, Wilt Chamberlain, John Stockton and Rasheed Wallace set some of the most unbreakable records the NBA has ever seen
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the NBA’s All-Time Leading scorer for 30 years and won six titles. Tim Duncan, the Big Fundamental, 19 years of almost nothing but 50-win seasons and five titles, great from start to finish.
On March 2, 1962, Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors against the New York Knicks. The game, played in Hershey, Pennsylvania, in front of about 4,000 fans, didn’t get the hoopla it probably deserved. In fact, it was not even mentioned in the Deseret News on March 3 or 4.