someone told me that he did, is that physicly possible?
2006-06-26 05:01:38 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Sports ➔ Basketball
it was 50.4 points per game, in 1962.
4,029 pts in 80 games. (Jordan's highest scoring season was 3,041 points, almost 1,000 points behind). Wilt was 'held' to under 30 points only twice that year, both games, he scored in the twenties...
He also averaged 48.5 minutes per game that year. He sat out only 8 minutes during the entire season, but played many more minutes of overtime.
Think Ilgauskas will ever match that?
The top single season scoring averages:
1 / Wilt Chamberlain /50.36 / 1962
2 / Wilt Chamberlain / 44.83 / 1963
3 / Wilt Chamberlain / 38.39 /1961
4 / Wilt Chamberlain /37.60 /1960
5 / Michael Jordan / 37.09 / 1987
6 / Wilt Chamberlain / 36.85 / 1964
Elgin Baylor averaged 38 ppg in 1962, but was limited to 48 games that year due (mostly) to military service.
Jordan's so called 'scoring' feats are totally dwarfed by Chamberlain. Wilt retired 33 years ago and he STILL has more 60 point games than everyone else in the history of the NBA combined. (Wilt had 32, Jordan had only 4). There have been about 57 or 58 sixty point games.
Wilt also scored 50 pts in a game 122 times. Jordan did it 37 times.
Wilt, of course, had 6 seventy point games, including his 100 point game...a single triple... Jordan's career high was 69 (in overtime...MJ's career non-overtime high was only 64).
Wilt was also the only player ever to get more than 20 pts, 20 rebounds and 20 assists in the same game... a double-triple double.
Wilt had 7 straight 50 point games, 14 straight 40 point games, 65 straight 30 point games and 126 straight 20 point games.
I could go on, but...
kevin e - (see comment below) ... you couldn't be more wrong. There have been plenty of 'under 6 ft' players over the last 20 years, there were none when Wilt played. Nate Archibald, a Hall of Fame guard, was nicknamed 'Tiny'... Archibald was 6'1"....Tiny was also the only player ever to lead the NBA in scoring and assists in the same year.
You have some tall centers now, but height doesn't mean anything. Ilgauskas is 7'3". He SUCKS... Yao, at 7'4" ain't much either...
Shaq is the ONLY NBA center playing today how who is a sure-fire Hall of Famer. The only other center today who might make the Hall is Alonzo Mourning, but he's a bit of a long shot. Ben Wallace has NO shot at the Hall of Fame, and he's 2nd team all NBA this year.
There are a ton of seven foot centers around now, but NONE of them are going to the Hall of Fame, except Shaq... because NONE of them can play basketball...
The Knicks center, against whom Wilt scored most of his points, was 6'11", just 2 inches shorter than Wilt's 7'1". Plus, Wilt was always double and triple teamed from his first game in high school until the day he retired.
Did Jordan, or Lebron James, ever score 100 points when the person guarding them was 2 inches shorter? How about D-Wade? What's HIS career high?
Funny how you discount Wilt's stats because you (incorrectly) assume that he played against a bunch of short guys... yet you probably believe that Jordan was the greatest, just because he could score points against a bunch of high school kids...
Wilt retired in 1973. The first center to make the Hall of Fame whom Wilt DIDN'T play against was Bill Walton, who was elected to the HOF in 1993, TWENTY years later...Walt Bellamy, another 6'11" short guy, was elected that same year...he was almost an exact contemporary of Wilt's.
In between, you had a string of Hall of Fame centers such as Bill Russell, Jerry Lucas, Willis Reed, Nate Thurmond, Wes Unseld, Elvin Hayes, Dave Cowens, Bob Lanier...
Other centers to make the HOF (after Walton) whom Wilt played against were Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (another one of those short guys) and Bob McAdoo...
Plus, with fewer teams then, Wilt had to go against Russell 8-10 times/year... (He played against Russell 142 times in their 10 year rivalry, including playoffs). Fourteen times/year.
If he wasn't playing against Russell, he had to deal with Nate Thurmond, Willis Reed, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Walt Bellamy...and so on... and again, not just twice a year, either...
Wilt not only averaged 50 ppg that year, but he had more 50 pt games that season than anyone else has ever had in a career...
2006-06-26 15:48:15 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yes he did during the 1961-1962 season while playing for Philadelphia.
I found a list of all of his career stats if you would enjoy looking.
2006-06-26 05:25:05 · answer #2 · answered by Tom K 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
1961-2 season.
2006-06-26 05:05:21 · answer #3 · answered by TheOnlyBeldin 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
He did yes. One of the many reasons he is the greatest player of all-time.
2006-06-26 05:04:07 · answer #4 · answered by Big Z 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
yeah i cant argue wilt was good, but he played against alot smaller competition, nowadays if your not at least 6'9" your concidered short
2006-06-27 20:26:20 · answer #5 · answered by kevin e 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
if he managed 2 make da 100pts in dat game it could b possible but i doubt it.
2006-06-26 16:10:28 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
nope...he cheated
2006-06-27 03:02:15 · answer #7 · answered by fleshimp7 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
no
2006-06-26 07:02:21 · answer #8 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋