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Chamberlain publicly embraced the 100-point game in his final years. On a radio show commemorating the game's 31st anniversary in 1993, he said, "As time goes by, I feel more a part of that 100-point game." [97] He explained that growing up on the streets, he would have been derisively labelled a gunner, a glory-hound, for attempting 63 shots ...
Set a then-record for a rookie; third game of career; scored 41 points; the first quadruple double-double in NBA history. Bill Russell * Boston Celtics: March 29, 1960: St. Louis Hawks: NBA Finals record (tie) Bill Russell * Boston Celtics: February 12, 1961: Philadelphia Warriors: Bill Russell * Boston Celtics: April 18, 1962: Los Angeles Lakers
Bill Russell won 11 championships with the Boston Celtics, an NBA record. The following is a list of National Basketball Association (NBA) players who won the most championships. The NBA is a major professional basketball league in North America. It was founded in 1946 as the Basketball Association of America (BAA). [1]
Boston Celtics legend Bill Russell, who towered over pro basketball throughout the turbulent 1960s and stood tall against the era’s virulent racism, died Sunday Bill Russell, 11-time NBA ...
In Game 3, Russell had 21 points, 38 rebounds, and 6 assists. [64] [102] In the 1963–64 NBA season, the Celtics posted a league-best 58–22 record in the regular season. Russell scored 15.0 points per game and grabbed a career-high 24.7 rebounds per game, leading the NBA in rebounds for the first time since Chamberlain entered the league. [1]
Bill Russell was a late bloomer. Before the college basketball accolades and a pair of national championships, before the 11 NBA titles and five MVPs, before he became the most fearsome defensive ...
100: The Bill Russell Scale *The NBA did not name a Finals MVP, the honor later named for Russell, until the 1968-69 season, when Jerry West won the award in a losing effort (to a retiring Russell).
The game was not recorded on video, and only a radio broadcast of the fourth quarter remains. One writer notes the lack of video of the 100-point game "only added to its mystique". [77] For years, former NBA Commissioner David Stern's office phone would play announcer Bill Campbell's call of the 100-point basket to callers on hold: "He made it ...