Saturday, April 28, 2012

WILT SCORED 100 POINTS 50 YEARS AGO

     WSJ - 2/28/12- With NBA basketball playoffs underway, it's only proper writer Gary Pomerantz recalled the historical basketball game played in Hershey Stadium on March 2, 1962. Wilt Chamberlain, on the Philadelphia Warriors team against the New York Knicks, scored 100 points, made 36 of 63 field goal attempts (without 3-point shots), and sank 28 of 32 free throws. At 7 foot 1 inch and 260 pounds, his stride coming down  the floor measured 8 feet.  Dolph Schayes of the Syracuse Nationals has said Chamberlain was "the most perfect instrument made by God to play  basketball".  A heart attack in 1999 killed Wilt at the age of 63.

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