Wilt Chamberlain and the Conspiracy Factory: We Unearthed the True Story of the 100-Point Game

Pablo Torre Finds Out

Pablo Torre, Le Batard & Friends

Sports

4.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 28 February 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

It is the greatest individual performance in basketball history: Sixty-three years ago this weekend, a larger-than-life superhero conjured the supernatural. Why do so many people — including a player on the court — now think it was fake news? Our quest for irrefutable proof (and poetry) unpacks boxes that you won't find in the Hall of Fame: The recordings from author Gary Pomerantz, who spoke to 56 people in attendance and on the court. The tapes, which we unearthed from a rare-book library, a basement closet and a vault in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Plus: the last Warrior left standing to check the facts — and shake a fist at the naysayers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	Welcome to Pablo Torre finds out. I am Pablo Torre. Today's episode is brought to you by Draft Kings.
0:05.7	Graph Kings, the crown is yours. And today we're going to find out what this sound is.
0:11.5	I used to hate the fact that there was no video of it, but as time goes on, I think it kind of adds to the mystique of the game.
0:18.9	Right after this ad.
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1:04.4	When you heard from us, Gary Pomerantz, that we wanted to do this topic because of what people had been saying on the Internet, were you excited?
1:17.9	My intuitive reaction was, here we go again.
1:22.0	My second reaction was something approximating an eye roll.
1:26.6	You know, it's a conspiratorial time.
1:31.1	Here is a bulletin from CBS News.
1:34.6	In Dallas, Texas, three shots were fired at President Kennedy's motorcade in downtown Dallas.
1:41.0	You go back to the 1960s, and there were still a lot of questions about the Kennedy assassination.
1:47.0	That's one small step for man.
1:53.0	One giant leap for manned death.
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