The greatest game of basketball anyone has ever played was in Hershey, Pennsylvania.

March 2nd 1962.

Old rainy night. Just over 4,000 people in the stands.

Philadelphia Warriors versus the New York Knicks.

The star of the Warriors was a man named Wilk Chamberlain. Note that you've heard of him.

Seven foot one, 275 pounds. For sheer physical presence, there has probably never been anyone

like Wilk.

There are lots of seven footers who play basketball who are basically on the court purely because

of their seven feet tall. They're clumsy and unganely. Chamberlain was not like that.

He was as big as an oak tree and as graceful as a ballet dancer.

That season, 1961 to 1962, he ended up averaging more than 50 points a game.

That record will never be broken.

So March 2nd, Wilk was hung over. He'd been out all night with a woman he picked up at

a bar.

That's classic Wilk too. He would later claim to have slept with 20,000 women in his life.

And when he said that, lots of people did the math and said there was no way that was

possible given the fact that there were only 24 hours in a day and Wilk only lived to the

age of 63.

But even the skeptics were like, well, maybe it's 10,000 or 8,000. It was an argument over

whether it was an unbelievably high number or merely an incredibly high number.

The big man over the warriors and the big man of the league has 92 points.

My name is Malcolm Gladwell. You're listening to Revisionist History, where every week we

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