PHILADELPHIA — It was Wilt Chamberlain Night at the Wells Fargo Center Wednesday, the 60th anniversary of his record-setting 100-point game against the Knicks in Hersey, Pennsylvania. And the first memory for Doc Rivers was that he believed he could have done it, too — in grade school.
"I had 82 in a grade school game," the 76ers coach said. "They took me out at the end of the third quarter. Could have got a hundred. We were up 132-8 and they thought we were running It up. I was [angry]."
Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, who was an assistant coach under Rivers in Boston, joked, "Did Doc play in that game?