Offensive Game
The most prolific scorer in NBA history by points per game. Averaged 50.4 points in a single season, scored 100 points in one game. Dominant from every area of the floor with unstoppable low-post footwork.
Career Journey
Wilt Chamberlain is a center whose presence anchors the frontcourt defensively and provides rebounding and finishing near the rim with the Golden State Warriors. His career is anchored by 100-point game — Scored 100 points in a single game against the New York Knicks — a record that has stood for over 60 years..
Career highlights include: 4x NBA MVP — Won 4 MVP awards (1960, 1966, 1967, 1968).; 100-Point Game — Scored 100 points in a single game against the New York Knicks — a record that has stood for over 60 years.; 50.4 PPG Season Average — Averaged 50.4 points per game in the 1961-62 season — the highest single-season scoring average ever..
Wilt Chamberlain attended Kansas.
Offensive Game
The most prolific scorer in NBA history by points per game. Averaged 50.4 points in a single season, scored 100 points in one game. Dominant from every area of the floor with unstoppable low-post footwork.
Defensive Game
11x rebounding champion and one of the greatest defensive presences in history. His shot-blocking — not tracked statistically in his era — is estimated by historians to have been the best of any player.
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March 2, 1962: 100 points in a single game — still the record. Why the Warriors retired Wilt Chamberlain's #13 for the most statistically dominant career basketball has ever seen, titles or not.
Golden State Warriors
Golden State Warriors
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Philadelphia Warriors
1959-1962
San Francisco Warriors
1962-1965
Philadelphia 76ers
1965-1968
Los Angeles Lakers
1968-1973
Featured Achievements
100-Point Game
100 points#1 All-Time
Scored 100 points in a single game against the New York Knicks — a record that has stood for over 60 years.
1961-62
50.4 PPG Season Average
50.4 ppg#1 All-Time
Averaged 50.4 points per game in the 1961-62 season — the highest single-season scoring average ever.
1961-62
All-Time Rebounds Leader
23,924 rebounds#1 All-Time
Holds the all-time record for total rebounds with 23,924.
4x NBA MVP
4xWon 4 MVP awards (1960, 1966, 1967, 1968).
2x NBA Champion
2 ringsIntangibles
Brilliant basketball mind who could transform his game entirely by choice — from scorer to passer to defensive anchor — as the situation required. His strategic reinvention late in career is one of the sport's great intellectual feats.
Personal Life & Family
Status
Never married
Parents & Siblings
Off the Court
Donations to youth basketball programs across the country
Support for Kansas University athletic programs
Did You Know?
Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single NBA game on March 2, 1962 — a record that has stood for over 60 years and is widely considered the most unbreakable individual game record in major American sports.
He averaged 50.4 points per game for the entire 1961-62 season — a statistical achievement so far beyond anything before or since that even many dedicated basketball historians struggle to contextualize it.
Chamberlain never fouled out of a single NBA game in his entire professional career — remarkable given that opposing teams' primary defensive strategy was often to foul him to disrupt his dominance.
He was so dominant in college that the NCAA introduced new rules specifically to limit his advantage — including widening the lane and prohibiting offensive players from guiding their own free throws — rules unofficially known as 'the Wilt rules.'
Career Honors
4x NBA MVP (1960, 1966, 1967, 1968)
2x NBA Champion (1967, 1972)
NBA Finals MVP (1972)
7x NBA scoring champion
11x NBA rebounding champion
NBA assists leader (1968)
13x NBA All-Star
NBA 50th Anniversary All-Time Team
Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (1978)
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13x NBA All-Star
13xNBA 75th Anniversary Team
Top 757 Consecutive Scoring Titles
7x consecutiveCommunity engagement in Philadelphia throughout his life
