They did so after Wilt established the rebounding record against Bill Russell. The only way to set such a record is to miss a lot of shots. Wilt shot.357, missed 33 shots, and lost the game. He was put in the “PTSD Protocol” Bill Russell went out for a good steak meal.
How did Wilt Chamberlain achieve 100 points in a single game with no footage? I don’t believe it’s possible without seeing it; does anyone have proof? Has anyone else come close to accomplishing the same? There’s footage. It was on the radio. The game was stopped with time on the clock as supporters in Hershey, Pennsylvania, invaded the court. Did you imagine that every NBA game was broadcast on television in the 1960s?
They most definitely were not. In the 1960s, the NBA was not the same as it is today, let alone national television, which relied only on terrestrial signals (i.e., antennae). Professional basketball was a distant third in popularity, trailing only big league baseball and professional football. There was no “around the clock” sports coverage from the NBA. Far from it; at most, 5% of NBA games have ever been broadcast on television, and only in the finals.
So, on an ordinary night versus the Knicks away from home in Philadelphia in Hershey, PA, there would have been no reason to bring a television crew to a regular season game that wasn’t even held in the main arena. Even if they did, who would see it? Who is it? Nobody. So, yes, there is documentation of the game because it was still carried on the radio, media crews were present, and someone was on hand for this famous photograph.
