Posted on 03/02/2017 10:06:50 AM PST by EveningStar
Ouch, you read my mind.
Well that gives you some idea too, of the small crowds which attended NBA games in those days.
Is it just a coincidence that Philadelphia’s Athletics and Warriors ended up in Oakland?
It was common at one time for the Philly NBA team to play home games at various venues around Pennsylvania.
When I was a kid the 76ers scheduled about six dates a year at the Civic Arena in Pittsburgh.
“He went to the volley ball court and put his name on the list of people waiting to play, just like everybody else.”
That is SO COOL. A guy that could OWN THE BEACH instead played by the rules and waited his turn.
VERY IMPRESSIVE MAN. Very sad that he died so (relatively) young (at 63).
SourceIn 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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