The NBA’s Most Famous Game Has No Video
Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in 1962. The game wasn’t televised, leaving behind a radio recording, a few photographs and one of basketball’s most famous images.
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Everyone knows the picture: Wilt Chamberlain sitting in a locker room, holding a piece of paper with “100” written across it.
What nobody can watch is the game that produced it.
On March 2, 1962, Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169–147. But there were no television cameras at Hershey Sports Arena in Pennsylvania, where only 4,124 people watched the game. No known film or video of the performance has surfaced. (Library of Congress) (Golden State Warriors, 2022)
What nobody can watch is the game that produced it.
On March 2, 1962, Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points as the Philadelphia Warriors beat the New York Knicks 169–147. But there were no television cameras at Hershey Sports Arena in Pennsylvania, where only 4,124 people watched the game. No known film or video of the performance has surfaced. (Library of Congress) (Golden State Warriors, 2022)
