Wilt Chamberlain in 1962. Photo: Bettmann Archives/Getty Images

60 years ago today, Wilt Chamberlain scored an NBA-record 100 points in the Philadelphia Warriors' 169-147 win over the New York Knicks, breaking his own record (78 points) from three months earlier.

Playing all 48 minutes, Chamberlain also set NBA records for field goals attempted (63), field goals made (36), free throws made (28), most points in a quarter (31) and most points in a half (59).

Wilt averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds per game that season. That week, he averaged a whopping 70 points per game, exceeding 60 in all four of them.

The backdrop: The game was played at Hershey Sports Arena in Hershey, Pennsylvania, a town of fewer than 15,000 people. It wasn't televised, and the only recovered radio broadcast is of the fourth quarter.

"We get to Hershey about two or three o'clock in the afternoon. There were no hotels for us to stay in because we wouldn't do those kinds of things in those days. We went straight to the arena where we had to wait around for five or six hours before the game."
"In this arena they happened to have a shooting gallery, little penny arcade, so some of the guys went there and I started shooting rifles ... and I couldn't miss anything. So if there was ever a clue that I was gonna have a hot day, this was definitely the clue."
Wilt Chamberlain

The aftermath: In the locker room, Warriors stat guru Harvey Pollack scribbled "100" on a white sheet of paper, creating an iconic image. Then Chamberlain headed to Harlem to celebrate.

Al Attles, 85, and Tom Meschery, 83, are the only surviving members of the Warriors who played in the game. They recently listened to the radio broadcast together, Meschery for the first time.
"I remember thinking in the third quarter that something special was happening," he told NYT. Something special indeed." Axios