1962, Chamberlain lived in new york. According to the insider's memory, Chamberlain took the train from Manhattan to Philadelphia that afternoon, and then took the Warrior bus to Hershey Stadium (another version said that he dated his girlfriend the day before the game, and then drove his white Cadillac 170 miles to Hershey). Before the game, he played video games with several other people for a while. At that time, the highest score on the game machine was 1800, and rickman, the owner of the Knicks, made a bet with Chamberlain that he could not erase this record. As a result, Lao Zhang, who has always been conceited, had high morale and gave him a beating. Finally, when he walked out of the video game room to the dressing room, the highest record on the video game machine was written down as 2 100. Afterwards, someone joked that it was rickman's instigation that made his team an embarrassing foil to this legend.
1962 NBA is still in trouble, and the game is often not held in the city where the team is located. Hershey Gymnasium is located in Hershey Town, about 100 mile away from Philadelphia, with a total of 7,200 seats, and the box office is bleak. Only 4 124 spectators (another version is 4 162 spectators) attended the game. There are no reporters from new york to cover the game, because they have to pay attention to the spring training of baseball. Besides, the game itself is meaningless. At that time, it was impossible for the Warriors to catch up with the Celtics, and the Knicks had lost the hope of the playoffs. The only suspense is how many points Chamberlain can score, because his goal at that time was to become the first player to score 4000 points in a single season!
The game has already started. In the first quarter, Chamberlain scored 23 points. In the second quarter, Chamberlain added 18 points. But even so, at halftime, people did not expect that the game would be hopeless. Because the score of 4 1 at half-time was not amazing for Chamberlain. In his rookie season, Chamberlain scored 58 points twice, and more than three months ago, he scored 78 points against the Lakers (after three overtime). In the previous three games, Chamberlain scored 67, 65 and 6 1 point respectively.
The real horror began in the third quarter. People didn't see any signs of fatigue in Chamberlain, and stark raving mad died. The Knicks sent three men to keep an eye on Chamberlain, always using the "chopping and hitting tactics", but only Chamberlain's attack intensified in exchange. By the end of the third quarter, Chamberlain had scored 69 points. After the beginning of the fourth quarter, Chamberlain successfully scored five points in a row, breaking the scoring record of 73 points in the regular time of 48 points, and then breaking his previous scoring record of 78 points after three overtime. At this time, the arena began to stir up. Encouraged by the live commentator, all the fans began to count Chamberlain's scores. "74! 76! ……82! 84! ……90! ..... "-Every time Chamberlain shoots into the basket, the fans will shout Chamberlain's instantaneous score in unison, and his voice will resound through the arena.
In the last few minutes, Knicks players didn't want to be nailed to the shame column and began to find ways to curb Zhang's score. They even fouled other Warriors and stopped them from passing the ball to Chamberlain. However, even this did not work. When the fans shouted "98", it was exactly 98 seconds before the end of the game. When the Warriors attacked, their teammates passed the ball to Chamberlain in the paint. Chamberlain shot and the ball bounced off the basket. He quickly jumped up and grabbed the frontcourt rebound, but still missed it, but teammate Lakenbill grabbed the rebound again and quickly distributed the ball to Luke. At this time, there is less than one minute before the end of the game. Chamberlain stepped into the basket and Luke calmly passed the ball in. After Chamberlain got the ball, the overlord got up and dunked-100! Just as the ball was dunked into the basket, the stadium "riot" began. Excited fans poured into the stadium and the game was forced to stop. A local boy 14 years old ran into the field to shake hands with Chamberlain, and then ran away with the game ball. Because there was no TV broadcast at that time, when the game was interrupted, Pollack, the scorer, quickly picked up the phone and excitedly announced to the media: "100!" Chamberlain scored 100! " After more than ten minutes of riots, the game went through the field in the last 46 seconds. In the end, the Warriors won with 169: 147. Chamberlain made 36 of 63 shots and 28 of 32 free throws. After the game, Chamberlain only explained: "I finally got 100. God, now I don't have to run around like a fool. "
The fly in the ointment is the basket of the stadium in this game! Hershey's gym basket is much softer than usual. The ball thrown in other courts may bounce off the basket, and the ball can easily slide in here, which is one reason why Chamberlain can get 32 free throws and 28 free throws from the free throw line. The Warriors shot 55% in this game. "That basket is like a sewer, everything can go in!" Al Attles was a teammate of Chamberlain and later became a coach and manager, he said.
Chamberlain left countless scoring records in his life. In the NBA single-game personal scoring record, the first four items were all created by Chamberlain, which were 65438+ 100 on March 2, 0962, and 65438+78 on March 2, 09621961February 8, 962. Throughout his career, Chamberlain scored more than 50 points in a single game with 1 18 games.
This is Chamberlain. He always tries to prove that he can do better. When he was a sophomore in Kansas, in a practice before a game, he basically shot from the half-court distance and hit many shots. He won't do this in the competition, just want to prove that he can do it. He even played as a defender on the Harlem basketball team for a year-just to prove that he can do it!
In addition, Chamberlain averaged 55 rebounds per game.