Ok so i know this would probably be old to everyone but i really think his 100 point game is very overrated. I mean it is impressive that he scored 100 points period but i think people overlook the fact that this was WAYYY back in the day when the Nba had very litte talent and thus the only reason Wilt Chamberlain was such a dominant scorer is cuz of the lack of competition back then. In todays game Wilt would never score 100 points....even in his prime because they have much more people his size who can dminate as well such as Shaq, Dwight Howard, Brad Miller etc. I think Kobes 81 points is the single best scoring performance cuz he actually did it in a day where the competition was fierce and the NBA has many great athletes where as Wilt just had to stand under the basket(with no 3 second rule) and jus touch the ball to score without much effort. This is an opinion question tho so state yur oipinions
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The 3 second rule originated in the mid-1930s,so of course it was in effect in 1962, when Wilt scored 100. When did you think that rule started? The rule has been around longer than the NBA has.
Brad Miller????? LOL!!!! Yeah, he'd have Wilt shaking in his sneakers. Wilt went against Russell 14x a year (142 games vs Russell in 10 years).... you think he'd lose any sleep over Brad Miller???? Wilt played against more HOF centers than any player in history except for Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. The centers in the NBA are an absolute joke now. Wilt would score 100 any time he felt like it. His vertical was over 60 inches when he was younger, until a knee injury hit him in 1969. He'd go to the 15th floor and drop Dwight Howard off at 13. (Wilt was an NCAA champion high jumper, as well as a champion shot-putter, while at Kansas). The guy was a world class athlete, in any era.
You call Toronto "fierce competition"???? (Kobe's 81)
The Knicks center who was on Wilt that night was 6'11", Wilt, at 7'1" was only two inches tall than his opponent. Ever see Jordan drop 100 on a 6'4" guy? Never even got to 70 in a game.
Also, the NBA in the 60s didn't consist of a bunch of high school players and one-and-done college players who don't have the foggiest idea of how to play basketball.
Wilt averaged OVER 48 mn/game that season (1962), and he only sat out EIGHT MINUTES of the entire season! (ejected with 8 min to go in one game). Because of overtimes, he averaged 48.5 min/game that year. He also averaged 46 min/game over his entire career.
Of the top 9 spots in most minutes played during an NBA season, Wilt owns 7 of the 9 (including the top 5). That's one of his more little known records.
You might like this story though, if you haven't already seen it:
I've posted this link before, but here's the story of a guy who, in 1962 as a college student in Pennsylvania, gave away tickets to the game in which Wilt scored 100, because a professor of his had scheduled an exam for the day after the game (which was played at night).
Forty four years later, the guy's a successful businessman, living in Los Angeles, and is a season-ticket holder with the Lakers... he gives away his tickets for a Lakers/Raptors game and...well, you probably guessed the ending... Kobe goes out and scores 81!
The poor guy gave away tickets to the two highest individual scoring games in NBA history, forty four years and 3,000 miles apart!
Obviously, if this guy ever offers you tickets to a game, you'd best take him up on it!!
Wilt Chamberlain was the greatest athlete to ever play in the NBA... he was stronger than Shaq (Wilt was still bench pressing 465 when he was 59 years old....Shaq could only do 450 in his prime, not that 450 is anything to sneeze at, but Wilt was stronger) . Wilt's endurance was superior to anyone who ever played in the NBA... today, a guy's an ironman if he plays 40 minutes in one game... averaging only 40 min/game over a season would have been a total embarrassment (not to mention a career low, by far) for Wilt.
I think the point is that he still scored a 100 points and that record will never be broken and to be able to do that is still an amazing feat because no one doing that time did it.
you brought up a good point about competition, The Raptors back then was one of the weakest team in the NBA and you make me laugh when you said the competition was the most fiercest when Kobe scored that many points. Well the Raptors was definitely not one of the most fiercest team in the NBA. The competition in the NBA was the most fiercest in the 80s and first part of the 90s.
I am not taking away from Kobe 81 points because he stands alone with this feat but it was against a weak defensive team and if you rmember David Thompson he scored 73 points in a game and shot the ball 10 less time thatn Kobe so if he would have taken 10 more shots then he would have scored 80 plus points also.
im getting sick of all this love for kobe. kobe is an awesome player but come on hes not god.im sick of people diminishing other people's accomplishments to make kobe look like Jesus. whatever happen how it happen doesnt matter the fact is that it happend end of story. Wilt scored 100 Kobe scored 81 Wilt scored more live with it. and i think he also grabbed somwhere round 20 boards or so during his 100 pts game
But what if Wilt Chamberlain played the Warriors? Couldn't he get 100 against them? Yes. And Kobe got to play the Raptors, at the time were H-O-R-R-I-B-L-E.
righteous and kobes team was dwn 20 and tryna make da playoffs whereas wilt team was already n da playoffs playing a team without its starting center and with a record like the kings have