Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game
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What is the significance of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game?
Welcome to Pablo Torre Finds Out. I am Pablo Torre. Today's episode is brought to you by DraftKings. DraftKings, the crown is yours. And today we're going to find out what this sound is.
I used to hate the fact that there was no video of it, but as time goes on, I think it kind of adds to the mystique of the game. Right after this ad.
You're listening to DraftKings Network. When you heard from us, Gary Pomerantz, that we wanted to do this topic because of what people had been saying on the Internet, were you excited?
My intuitive reaction was, here we go again. My second reaction was something approximating an eye roll. You know, it's a conspiratorial time.
Here is a bulletin from CBS News. In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.
You go back to the 1960s, and there were still a lot of questions about the Kennedy assassination.
That's one small step for man, one giant leap for mankind.
Did Neil Armstrong really touch the moon, or was he in a studio somewhere in... In the United States. So it was that kind of a time. And now, you know, we're unfortunately a bit of a historically illiterate country. If there's no video, then it didn't happen. Well, we know the pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock, but there's no video of that. We know about Lincoln at Gettysburg. There's no video of that.
Do we, though? Are we sure?
Are we sure about that? We're pretty sure Lincoln was at Gettysburg, yeah. And so, you know, for sports fans, you've got to lock in on how different the NBA was then and how different sports media was then. When Kobe scores 81, 15 minutes later online, you can buy a DVD of his performance. So that's what we're used to. That's the immediacy of today with technology. It wasn't so then.
Do you remember the first time you heard somebody casting aspersions on the subject that you have literally written the book about?
Yeah. I mean, there was always questions of how could he have done this? How could anybody score 100 points? Kobe's 81 is second best, and that's not even close. There's something, too, about the number 100, the symbolism of 100. It's a century. It's a perfect score on a test. If Wilton scored 102 or 97, we wouldn't embrace it. or question it even, as we do. And so I decided all these decades later, I got to find out what happened here. This is one of the most famous and famously unknown stories in sports history. The deeper I went, it became, you know, like Alice in Wonderland, curiouser and curiouser.
So the anniversary of one of the most iconic performances in the history of sports is approaching on Sunday. But what most distinguishes Wilt Chamberlain's single game scoring record is that right now, for each of his points on March 2nd, 1962, there appears to be just as many questions. 60 plus years later,
If I'm understanding correctly, on the Pat McAfee show, we are now questioning the veracity of Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game. We're questioning whether this is, whether or not this actually happened. No, we're not. Pac-Man is not, but I did not know that there was no documented footage of this until just now. So as soon as that happens, boom, my brain goes, whoa. The people always say they don't know if it's true or if it's false. Did Wilt actually score 100 points? Like, even the scores table people, like, did they all die? Yeah, like, that's why I'm curious who was on the Knicks. Is anyone still? You just, that was the only thing that could, like, sell me on it. Like, there was people like, yeah, I was actually at that game.
People know what happened 10 billion years ago. They know how the earth was created. They know what the Egyptians were talking about, what they were saying, even though that is like... Even though that it's six languages removed from what we're talking about right now. And nobody knows outside of a sheet of paper with crayon on it that says 100.
And on and on it goes across Reddit and TikTok and YouTube to the point where we here at Pablo Torre Finds Out got a voicemail about this topic at our detective agency hotline, 513-85-Pablo.
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