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To: EveningStar
That season was amazing, statistically. To me, the most impressive stat is that he averaged 48.5 minutes per game--he basically played all game, every game, including overtime.

And in his entire career, he never fouled out.

18 posted on 03/02/2017 11:56:43 AM PST by kalt
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To: kalt

Ouch, you read my mind.


21 posted on 03/02/2017 12:13:12 PM PST by Theoria (I should never have surrendered. I should have fought until I was the last man alive)
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To: kalt; Theoria

In the 1961-62 season, during which Chamberlain averaged 50.4 points a game for the Philadelphia Warriors and scored 100 points in a game against the Knicks, Chamberlain played every minute of every matchup on the 80-game regular-season schedule — except on the night of Jan. 3, 1962.

With 8 minutes 33 seconds remaining in the Warriors’ game against the Lakers in Los Angeles, [Earl] Strom gave Chamberlain a technical foul for complaining about a call. Chamberlain then “made reference to Earl Strom’s old mother,” according to [Norm] Drucker’s report to the league, as cited in Gary M. Pomerantz’s book “Wilt, 1962” (2005).

When Chamberlain “yelled at Strom that he must be gambling on the game,” according to Drucker’s report, he slapped Chamberlain with a second technical, causing an automatic ejection. Drucker tacked on a third technical after “additional sequences of profane words” from Chamberlain.

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26 posted on 03/02/2017 2:51:38 PM PST by EveningStar
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