Quick.
Without looking it up, tell me whom the Philadelphia Warriors were playing against 52 years ago when Wilt Chamberlain dropped an NBA-record 100 points.
If that's not enough of a challenge, go ahead and name at least two players on the opposing roster, and try to make one of them the man who started the game matched up against the Big Dipper.
It's tough, isn't it?
We've been trained to hear Wilt's name and immediately think about the triple-digit figure he posted in the scoring column on March 2, 1962, but we overlook the details—details that take away from the achievement, controversial as that may be.
The answers to the challenges, by the way, are as follows.
Wilt was playing against the New York Knicks, a team that entered the game with a 27-46 record and would go on to occupy the second-worst spot in the standings. Willie Naulls and Richie Guerin were the biggest names of that putrid bunch, but the man guarding Wilt was Darrall Imhoff.
If you completed both of those challenges in successful fashion, kudos to you. You're par ...
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