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Keerthika Uthayakumar: The official NBA record for blocks in a playoff game is 10, done 3 times. @stathead.com has the unofficial number at 16, by Wilt in 1969. Wemby is the first player to have 11+ blocks in a playoff game since Wilt Chamberlain in 1973.
Keerthika Uthayakumar: The official NBA record for blocks in a playoff game is 10, done 3 times. @stathead.com has the unofficial number at 16, by Wilt in 1969. Victor Wembanyama is the first player to have 11+ blocks in a playoff game since Wilt Chamberlain in 1973.
?NBA Stat?: Most games in a single season by a Lakers player with 20+ PTS on 80%+ FG: 10 — Wilt Chamberlain (1973) 6 — Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (1983) 5 — Deandre Ayton (2026) (via RealSports) #NBA
Jim Miloch: Wilt Chamberlain now has the 2nd most blocks in an NBA season. We never had any official block totals for Wilt. And now we do, just for one season, his last season, his age 36 season.
Wilt Chamberlain now has the 2nd most blocks in an NBA season.
— Jim Miloch (@podoffame) April 3, 2026
We never had any official block totals for Wilt. And now we do, just for one season, his last season, his age 36 season. https://t.co/ukGlwmPT2h pic.twitter.com/fG4oyWdCgZ
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Michael Martin: Potentially even crazier stat Shai Gilgeous-Alexander is shooting 60% on 2s this year. That would rank as the 4th most efficient shooting season in Wilt Chamberlain’s career. And on top of that in Wilt’s 3 seasons he took 7.1, 14.2 and 9.3 shots a game vs SGA’s 15.2 2s a game.
Dan Woike: List of NBA players to score at least 600 points in a single month • Kareem Abdul-Jabbar • Rick Barry • Walt Bellamy • Elgin Baylor • Wilt Chamberlain • Luka Dončić • James Harden • Michael Jordan • Oscar Robertson • Jerry West
Benjamin Royer: Per Lakers: Luka Doncic becomes the third-youngest player in NBA history to hit 15K. 1. LeBron James — 25 years, 79 days 2. Kevin Durant — 26 years, 78 days 3. Luka Dončić — 27 years, 31 days 4. Kobe Bryant — 27 years, 136 days 5. Wilt Chamberlain — 27 years, 156 days
But voices of clarity and accurate contemporary accounts of Wilt Chamberlain's historic accomplishment do exist, including from Tom Meschery, a rookie forward on the 1961-62 Philadelphia Warriors. Meschery wrote about Wilt’s most famous game in his memoir. In a recent email inquiry, Meschery also responded to questions about circumstances surrounding the first, and only, triple-digit scoring effort in league history. A longtime colleague suggested I include the following item in my inquiry: In the wake of Adebayo’s 83-point game, I have heard people saying, the Warriors kept fouling the Knicks in Wilt’s 100-point game to get him the ball, too. The thing is, I don’t ever remember hearing or reading that anywhere. A few hours later, Meschery replied to my email. “Lots of conspiracy crap about Wilt’s game,” wrote Meschery, who turned 87 in October 2025. “Here’s what the story: The Knicks stunk; the Wizards stunk. No need to foul with a 24-second clock. Knicks kept fouling Wilt, and Wilt kept making free throws proving there is a God. “Wilt asked Coach (Frank) McGuire to take him out of the game midway (through the) fourth quarter. Coach had predicted Wilt would score 100 in his first public statement after being hired. So Coach told Wilt, ‘No.’ McGuire’s ego. Wilt, of course, didn’t argue.”
Durant had already eclipsed Wilt Chamberlain (31,419) and Dirk Nowitzki (31,560) this season before moving up again Saturday. Next up on the esteemed list is Kobe Bryant, who's fourth with 33,643 points. “It’s an honor for everybody to be a part of that,” coach Ime Udoka said. “And as KD has said in the past, I don’t think he cares much about it in the moment. He’s really focused on the season and what we’re trying to accomplish, but I don’t want to just make it an afterthought. Passing Michael Jordan is obviously a huge accomplishment and we celebrated that with him.”
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Keerthika Uthayakumar: Luka Doncic is averaging 39.4 points on the 2nd night of a back-to-back this season, on pace to be 4th-most in NBA history. Wilt - 50.1 points in 1961-62 Wilt - 41.7 points in 1962-63 James Harden - 40.9 points in 2018-19 Luka Doncic - 39.4 points this season
The praise poured in from Bam Adebayo’s peers and others afterward. But there was also outside criticism that the Heat manipulated the game to get Adebayo to 83 points on Tuesday, with the Heat intentionally missing a free throw and committing at least one intentional foul in the final minutes to get Adebayo extra possessions down the stretch of the game. “It’s bulls---. It’s all bulls---,” Riley said of the criticism. “It really is. Anybody who is negative on it, anybody who was cynical about it, anybody who talked about it the way they talked about it in a negative way, they’re trying to either get views, hits, or they’re podcasters and that’s their job. “There are critics today that are just so unjustified in what was going on with the tactics, and we were fouled, and they were fouled. The same thing happened with Wilt Chamberlain when he got 100 back in the day. But I don’t buy any of that. They took an iconic, absolute incredible performance, and they tried to dismiss it. And that’s not fair.”
It's obviously less than scientific to take this approach and make past point totals the ultimate standard for probability in this case ... but I found it somewhat stunning that nearly 100 players in today's NBA had posted a gaudier career night than Adebayo before Tuesday's South Beach proceedings. You can see for yourself by scrolling through the whole Keerthika-assembled list below. We stretched it to 107 players in the end to include the nine other active players who have scored 41 in a regular-season game to match Adebayo’s previous best. It’s a group that now includes Chicago’s Matas Buzelis, who was rumbling for 41 points of his own in an overtime win over Golden State on the same night that Bam somehow found a way to get us talking about Kobe, Wilt Chamberlain, tanking, ethical basketball and asterisks all at the same time.
Last night, Shai Gilgeous-Alexander scored 20+ points for the 127th consecutive regular season game. This is the longest streak in @NBA history, breaking Wilt Chamberlain’s record that had stood since 1963. Over his past 127 games, Gilgeous-Alexander scored 4,127 points. Chamberlain scored 6,193 points during his streak. The next longest such streak by an active player is 43 (Kawhi Leonard), and the longest active team streak is 70 (Pelicans).