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NBA1961-62 Regular Season

WarriorsVERSUSKnicks

1961-62 Regular Season · Mar 2, 1962

Philadelphia and New York played a regular-season game in Hershey that became the setting for basketball's most famous scoring chase.

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Game lineups

Starting fives

Verified starters

Home starting five
San Francisco Warriors
StarterAAAlvin Attles
StarterECEd Conlin
StarterGRGuy Rodgers
StarterJRJoe Ruklick

Before the game

Spoiler-free context

Wilt Chamberlain was already averaging more than 50 points, but the neutral-site game in Hershey was lightly attended and carried no special billing. The Knicks were also missing starting center Phil Jordon, creating the conditions for an experiment in basketball's outer limit.

  • No NBA player had scored more than 78 points in a game.
  • Chamberlain entered averaging more than 50 points per game, already the most extreme scoring season the league had seen.

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Epic Score

94.6

Fan Rating

★ 4.78

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Starter
PAPaul Arizin
Away starting five
New York Knicks
StarterABAl Butler
StarterCBCleveland Buckner
StarterDIDarrall Imhoff
StarterDBDave Budd
StarterDBDonnie Butcher

The five starters come from each team’s saved NBA box-score order. Exact positions are omitted because this archive does not reliably provide them.