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Luku 2: Ennätykset ja tilastot
10 testiä · 100 faktaa · päivitetty 24. lokakuuta 2026 · markdown
Numbers that tell stories: Wilt's 100 points, the great scoring nights, winning and losing runs, the longest careers, free throws, threes, triple-doubles, the scorers beyond the NBA, coaches' records and records that may never fall.
2.21Wilt's 100-Point Night
Hershey, March 1962: the shots, the free throws, the photograph and the season around it.
Testi 1Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point gameTee testi
The Warriors played some home games there, in a small arena.
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The Knicks' starting centre missed the game through illness.
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Thirty-six baskets made 72 of his points.
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It was one of the best free-throw nights of his career.
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Only a radio broadcast survives, and only in part.
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Someone wrote the number on a piece of paper in the dressing room.
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No one else has averaged even 40 over a full season.
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31, 28, 23 and 18.
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100, 81 and 70.
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169 points less Wilt's 100 leaves 69.
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2.22Scoring Explosions
Kobe's 81, Booker's 70, the 1978 scoring race and the highest-scoring games.
Testi 1the great scoring nightsTee testi
It is the second-highest total in NBA history.
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The Lakers beat Utah in his farewell.
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He scored them in Boston, and his Suns still lost.
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Gervin played later that day and finished ahead by a fraction of a point.
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Robinson's Spurs fed him the ball all game.
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Selvy did it for Furman against Newberry.
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He broke Wilt Chamberlain's old 76ers record of 68.
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1960, 1978, 2006 and 2017.
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73, 71 and 70.
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Detroit beat Denver 186-184.
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2.23Winning and Losing Streaks
The Lakers' 33, the Heat's 27, the Warriors' start and the longest runs of defeats.
Testi 1winning and losing runsTee testi
The run lasted from November to January.
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Kareem Abdul-Jabbar's Bucks were the reigning champions.
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No team had started a season so well.
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LeBron James's Heat went on to win the title.
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Notre Dame scored the last 12 points to win 71-70.
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They finished the playoffs 16-1.
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James had joined the Miami Heat that summer.
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33, 27 and 24 games.
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7 wins in a shortened season, 9 and 10.
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The Pistons lost 28 straight between October and December 2023.
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2.24Iron Men and Long Careers
The longest careers, the oldest and youngest players and the games played in a row.
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Boone never missed a game in thirteen seasons.
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He played from 1998-99 to 2019-20.
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His career ran from the 1990s to 2020.
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He was the Providence coach and put himself into a game two days before turning 46.
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He joined straight from high school in 1996 and retired in 2016.
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He won three titles in Miami.
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The Lakers centre came straight from high school.
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22, 20 and 19 seasons.
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45, 44 and 43.
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Green played 1,192 straight games for four teams.
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2.25Free-Throw Feats
Runs of makes, the best seasons and careers, and a world record of 5,221.
Testi 1free-throw recordsTee testi
He made them one after another without a miss.
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He missed only three all season for Toronto.
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The Minnesota guard broke Calvin Murphy's mark of 78.
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The Houston guard stood only about 1.75 m tall.
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Dantley did it for Utah against Houston.
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He finished at 90.4%.
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Opponents fouled him on purpose again and again.
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98.1%, 90.4% and 52.7%.
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1962, 1981, 1993 and 2009.
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He swung the ball up from between his knees with both hands.
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2.26Three-Point Milestones
From the first three in 1979 to the season of 402.
Testi 1three-point recordsTee testi
Long-range shooting soared, and the old distance came back in 1997.
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The record lasted ten years.
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He scored 52 points in only 27 minutes.
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He made all 13 of his shots in the quarter, nine of them threes.
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Miller was commentating at the game.
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Allen and Reggie Miller were both there.
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Kerr made 45.4% of his career threes.
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Miller held it in the 2000s, Allen from 2011 and Curry from 2021.
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1979, 1996, 2018 and 2021.
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Curry made 402 that season.
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2.27Triple-Double Stories
Oscar Robertson, Westbrook, Wilt's double triple-double and the four quadruple-doubles.
Testi 1triple-doubles and quadruple-doublesTee testi
He averaged 30.8 points, 12.5 rebounds and 11.4 assists.
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He later won a title in Milwaukee.
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He was named MVP that season.
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2016-17, 2017-18, 2018-19 and 2020-21.
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He dedicated it to the rapper Nipsey Hussle.
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His fourth category was ten steals.
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It was the record for years after he retired.
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1961-62, 2016-17 and 2020-21.
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1974, 1986, 1990 and 1994.
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He had 22 points, 25 rebounds and 21 assists for Philadelphia.
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2.28Scorers Beyond the NBA
Oscar Schmidt, Petrović, Maravich and the record nights of college basketball.
Testi 1great scorers outside the NBATee testi
He played at five Olympic Games for Brazil.
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NBA players could not then play in FIBA's competitions.
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Brazil won 120-115 after trailing by 14 at half-time.
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He did it for Cibona against Olimpija Ljubljana.
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Many of his long shots would have counted three today.
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He did it in only three varsity seasons.
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Grinnell's system had him shoot again and again.
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1967-70, 1980 and 1989-90.
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1980, 1984, 1988, 1992 and 1996.
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Clarence 'Bevo' Francis played for Rio Grande College.
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2.29Coaches by the Numbers
Wins records, long tenures, the youngest coach and Coach of the Year.
Testi 1coaches' recordsTee testi
Nelson had won 1,335 games.
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Wilkens passed Red Auerbach in 1995.
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Kansas in 1988 and Detroit in 2004.
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He coached them from 1988 to 2011.
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No coach has won it four times.
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He coached the Detroit Pistons while still playing for them.
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He coached Kentucky from 1930 to 1972.
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29, 23 and 16 seasons.
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1,202, 879 and 876.
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He coached Duke from 1980 to 2022.
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2.30Records That May Never Fall
Wilt's minutes, Skiles's assists, Kareem's MVPs and the most titles.
Testi 1records that may last for everTee testi
More than a full game, because of overtimes; he hardly ever came off.
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He was proud of it and played carefully when in trouble.
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He did it for Orlando against Denver.
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Blocks were counted for the first time that season.
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The Lakers beat Boston in that game.
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All ten came with Boston.
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Houston, the Lakers and San Antonio.
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1962, 1990 and 1993.
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10, 7 and 6.
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Larry Bird said afterwards that it was God disguised as Michael Jordan.
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Lähteet
Primary/official sources only, no Wikipedia citations: the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame, the NBA, FIBA, the EuroLeague, the NCAA, the WNBA, clubs' and universities' own histories, auction houses' published results and named reputable media.
- NBA History and NBA.com/Stats record pages (nba.com)75
- NBA History, 'Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game, March 2, 1962' (nba.com); Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)8
- NCAA men's basketball record book (ncaa.org)8
- Olympics.com, 'Oscar Schmidt' and Olympic basketball records (olympics.com); FIBA (fiba.basketball)4
- Guinness World Records (guinnessworldrecords.com)1
- Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame (hoophall.com)1
- Pan American Sports Organization (panamsports.org); FIBA (fiba.basketball)1
- FIBA, 'Drazen Petrovic' (fiba.basketball); Dražen Petrović Memorial Center (petrovic.hr)1
- University of Kentucky Athletics, 'Rupp Arena' (ukathletics.com)1