<div class="quote_poster">Quote:</div><div class="quote_post">"Here's the big fourth quarter and everybody's thinking, 'How many is Wilt going to get?' He's got 69 going in. Here's the pass to him. [The crowd roars.] He's got another one!" Those words from Philadelphia Warriors broadcaster Bill Campbell at the start of perhaps the most remarkable quarter in NBA history - and all the words that followed in the next 20 minutes or so - were presumed lost for more than a quarter-century. And, if not for a water pipe, a starry night, and several fraternity parties, they might have been. On March 2, 1962, the night of Wilt Chamberlain's memorable 100-point performance, Jim Trelease, a 20-year-old English major at the University of Massachusetts, taped the radio broadcast of the fourth quarter on a reel-to-reel recorder in his dormitory room. Assuming thousands of fans had done likewise during that historic Warriors-New York Knicks game, Trelease soon forgot about the recording. A quarter-century later, he learned that his was believed to be the only existing electronic record of Chamberlain's historic final period. That recording of Campbell's play-by-play on WCAU radio has helped author Gary Pomerantz accumulate valuable details from that historic Friday night at the Hershey Arena in Hershey, Pa., for his new book, Wilt, 1962. "It was absolutely invaluable," Pomerantz said. Trelease, now a 63-year-old education consultant in Springfield, Mass., conceded that his recording was something of a miracle. "All the stars," he said, "were aligned just right."</div> Source
Wilt Chamberlain. Great post Shape. Wilt's 100 point night was an astounding accomplishment. Chamberlain revolutionized the game of basketball. He broughty more atention to the game and changed the rules of the game. Because of Wilt the lane was made more wide and the goaltending rules were put into place. It's really a shame that this game wasn't televised. Many people heard about the game when it appeared in the newspaper the next morining. I would have loved to been alive when Wilt dropped 100. Chamberlain's record will never be broken. He was a great person and a great player. It's really sad that he had to die when he did. Wilton Norman Chamberlain was the greatest basketball player to ever walk the Earth.
AA13 said it all. The man is a legend and what he did that night will never be broken, NEVER. It changed the game and has set so many things that has the game the way it is now. All because of one man. Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain. His famous picture with the sign that says 100, his quote, "Everybody pulls for David, nobody roots for Goliath." are just some of the things that we basketball fans will remember for generations.
