The greatest sports achievement ever? Wilt scored 100 points in a game 60 year ago

Wilt Chamberlain

… will probably never be broken
When contemporary basketball fans think of the greatest basketball player in history, they invariably talk about Michael Jordan or Lebron James. 
Perhaps Kobe Bryant enters the mix. 
However, the awesome big men of yesteryear have records that may not be broken. Kareen Abdul-Jabbar scored 38,387 points in his career, yet fans today do not mention him as one of the greatest. 
The record that will likely never be surpassed occurred 60 years ago this month in Hershey, Pa. On that night, Wilt Chamberlain, the 7-2 inch center of the Philadelphia Warriors, scored 100 points in a game against the New York Knicks.
100 points?
Only one person has ever come close to that since, and he missed by 19 points. 
That was Kobe Bryant.
The current players on the Philadelphia 76ers recalled that night in a game earlier this week,
Chamberlain, a product of Overbrook High School [in Philadelphia], was later traded by the Warriors, who had moved to San Francisco in 1962, to the Sixers on Jan. 15, 1965. It’s quite a coincidence that a Philadelphia team is playing the Knicks, when the Sixers (37-23) entertained New York (25-36) on Wednesday, the night of the anniversary.
Arguably the NBA’s greatest player, Chamberlain led the Sixers to the 1967 NBA title. The late Hall of Famer was a four-time MVP, seven-time scoring champion, 10-time All-NBA selection, 13-time All-Star, 11-time rebounding champion, and two-time All-Defensive selection.
Yet, his most memorable accomplishment came 60 years ago  in a game played before 4,124 people in Hershey. Chamberlain made 36-of-63 field goals and 28-of-32 foul shots. He scored 31 points in the fourth quarter and 59 points in the second half.
Keith Pompey, “60 years later, Chamberlain’s 100-point game still leaving coaches and players awestruck,” Philadelphia Inquirer, March 1, 2022
In addition to that performance, Wilt the Stilt scored 78 points in a game, 73 points twice, and 72 points once. 
So, when people are talking about the greatest players ever, they should think about Wilt the Stilt and Kareem as being better than either Jordan or James. 

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