Wilt Chamberlain

Your Wilt Chamberlain 100-point game open thread

March 2, 2012 by Chris Bernucca

Even if you only tangentially follow the NBA, you probably know that today is the 50th anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in a game. On March 2, 1962, playing for the Philadelphia Warriors, Chamberlain scored 100 points in a 169-147 victory over the New York Knicks before slightly more than 4,000 fans in Hershey, Pa. Many consider it the greatest single-event achievement in sports history. Others diminish its impact, saying Chamberlain was a behemoth who should have been as dominant

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Hubbard: History uplifting for Knicks; time is not

January 30, 2012 by Jan Hubbard

In fairness to the basketball expertise possessed by Jim Dolan, trading for a superstar usually works out great for the receiving team. The cliché in the NBA is, in fact, never trade away a superstar because you can’t get value. The danger in analyzing trades that are not even a year old and involve key players in their 20s, however, is that change can occur unexpectedly. That was the case in 1971 when the Baltimore Bullets sent sensational guard Earl Monroe to

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Howard sets FT record; Horford, Melo hurt

January 13, 2012 by Chris Bernucca

// Thursday was a painful day in the NBA. Painful for the fans, who had slim pickings from the five-game slate of snoozers and blowouts. Painful for a handful of teams who lost key players to injury. And painful for the purists, who watched Dwight Howard historically distort the sport. Repeatedly sent to the line through intentional fouling, Howard broke Wilt Chamberlain’s 50-year-old record for free throws in a game, attempting 39 and sinking 21 as the Orlando Magic edged the Golden

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