Austin Reaves Doesn’t Believe Wilt Chamberlain Scored 100 Points In A Game

Austin Reaves thinks Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game isn’t real.

It was over 60 years ago on March 2, 1962, that set the single-game scoring record in the NBA by scoring 100 points against the New York Knicks, but Austin Reaves doesn’t believe he did it. Reaves recently appeared on where he and co-host Mason Nutt stated they don’t think Chamberlain scored 100.

Mason Nutt: “Do you think Wilt actually scored 100?

Austin Reaves: “No.”

Mason Nutt: “Dude that’s my NBA conspiracy… I 100% do not believe that he scored 100.”

Austin Reaves: “Yep, I don’t either.”

Mason Nutt: “So I think Kobe’s (Bryant) 81,”

Austin Reaves: “Is the most ever!”

This has been somewhat of a growing trend on social media. It would appear more and more people believe Chamberlain never actually did it and that the NBA just made it up. As for why there is so much skepticism, the most commonly brought up reason is that there is no footage of that game.

Back then, the NBA was nowhere near as popular as it is today, so a lot of games weren’t televised. A marquee clash might have been shown on television, but the game in which Chamberlain set the record was anything but that. His Philadelphia Warriors were taking on a lowly Knicks team, that had a 27-45 record coming into that contest, so there was no reason to put the game on television.

As a result of that, the only visual evidence we have from that night is a picture of Chamberlain holding a piece of paper with the number 100 written on it. That’s clearly not enough proof for some that it actually happened and the belief is that the NBA made it up just to create some buzz and draw more fans.

Another reason that gets brought up, is that we don’t have the full recording of the game’s radio broadcast. Only the audio is available, but you can hear play-by-play announcer Bill Campbell speaking about Chamberlain hitting the 100-point mark in it.