SIXTY YEARS AGO, Wilt Chamberlain posted what is widely regarded to be the greatest individual performance in NBA history, scoring 100 points for the Philadelphia Warriors in a win over the New York Knicks. On March 2, 1962, Chamberlain made 36 of his 63 shot attempts and 28 of his 32 free throws -- an unlikely success rate for the career 51% free throw shooter -- to put up a record that has withstood the test of time.
And only 4,124 fans witnessed it.
Neutral site games were common in the early days of the NBA, as an attempt to expand the league's audience, so the game was not played in Philadelphia or New York, but instead at the Hershey Sports Arena (now Hersheypark Stadium) in Hershey, Pennsylvania.