It’s 2020 and the history of the NBA dates all the way back to 1946.
Some years are more eventful than others, obviously, but overall there are a lot of
great moments, sad moments.A lot of key years and dates to recognize.
So with all of that in mind, I decided to do something fun.
Hey guys.
Purple Prince here and today I want to introduce you to the NBA Timeline, where I’ll look
at each and every year in the NBA history, and tell you the key events that happened
that year.
This is obviously a lot of information to digest so stay with me, leave a like and subscribe
to the channel if you appreciate my work.
Thanks.
Since it’s the first video in this series, I don’t really have any pattern I can follow
yet,so I just put the years in a random number picker and it gave me year 1962 as the year
to start with.
Let’s go.
First, let’s get birthdays out of the way.
67 players who have played in the NBA were born in 1962.
3 of them are hall of famers - John Stockton, Clyde Drexler and Patrick Ewing.
All three of those men don’t need a separate introduction.
John Stockton is NBA’s all time assists leader, one of the best point guards and players
in NBA History.
Clyde Drexler, although always sitting in the shadow of Michael Jordan, was a great
player, a 1x NBA champion and a 10x NBA All-Star.
And Patrick Ewing is an 11x NBA All-Star.
Ok, lets get back to the timeline, and as a spoiler, there will be a lot of Philadelphia
and Wilt Chamberlain here:
January 5, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of Philadelphia began a streak
of 47 consecutive complete games, an NBA record.
It’s such an incredible record, because Wilt played every minute of those 47 games.
Not a second of rest.
Just imagine guys.
January 13, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scored 73 points to lead
Warriors to a win over the Chicago Packers.
Those 73 points was, at the time, the most points ever scored by an NBA player in a regulation
game, and it remains tied for the third highest total in NBA history.
January 16, 1962 Just 3 days later, Wilt Chamberlain scores
42 points, the most ever in an All-Star Game, and grabs 24 rebounds as he wins MVP honors
even though his East team lost to the West 150-130.
The West's Bob Pettit had an All-Star record 27 rebounds.
February 22, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain attempts an NBA record 34
free throws in a game against St. Louis.
This record is now held by Dwight Howard who had a couple of games where he attempted 39
free throws.
March 2, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores a 100 of his teams
169 points in a win against the New York Knicks, the most ever by an NBA player in a single
game.
Ah yes.
The legendary 100-point game.
Nobody has realistically came close to it, and it will be hard to do so.
Chamberlain shot 36-of-63 from the field and 28-of-32 from the free-throw line, along with
grabbing 25 rebounds.
March 13, 1962 The Boston Celtics beats the Syracuse Nationals
142-110, becoming the first team to win 60 games (60-20) in an NBA season.
March 14, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain completed his banner regular
season of setting records that still stands by averaging 50.4 points and 48.5 minutes
per game.
Just for the record, Wilt holds 4 highest point averages for a season and the next best
result which is not held by Wilt, belongs to Michael Jordan who averaged 37.1 points
during the 1986-87 season.
March 29, 1962 Elgin Baylor (45) and Jerry West (41) of the
Lakers became the first teammates to both score 40 or more points in a Playoff game
as the Lakers lost to Detroit in a Western Division Finals game.
April 14, 1962 Elgin Baylor of the Los Angeles Lakers scored
an NBA Finals record 61 points in Game 5 at Boston Garden as the Lakers defeated the Celtics
126-121.
Baylor's 22 field goals made set an NBA Finals record that was tied five years later by San
Francisco's Rick Barry.
April 18, 1962 The Boston Celtics beat the Los Angeles Lakers
110-107 in overtime in Game 7 of the NBA Finals, despite the 11th straight 30-plus point scoring
performance by Lakers forward Elgin Baylor, an NBA playoff record.
Bill Russell of Boston tied his own NBA Finals record by grabbing 40 rebounds in the game.
That was Bill Russells 5th NBA championship.
August 6, 1962 The Philadelphia franchise's name was changed
from the Nationals to the 76ers.
October 16, 1962 Dave DeBusschere, a future 8x NBA All-Star
and a 2x Champion, made his debut for the Detroit Pistons against Los Angeles during
a neutral site contest in New York.
The Lakers won 122-106.
DeBusschere scored 16 points.
October 20, 1962 John Havlicek, a future 13x NBA All-Star and
an 8x NBA champion, made his debut for the Boston Celtics at home against the New York
Knicks.
The Celtics won 149-116.
Havlicek finished the game with 6 points and 4 assists.
November 3, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain of the now San Francisco
Warriors scores 72 points in a game against the Los Angeles Lakers, the fourth-highest
point total in NBA history.
November 16, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores 73 points against
the New York Knicks, tied for the third-highest single-game point total in NBA history.
December 14, 1962 Wilt Chamberlain scores 63 points for the
Philadelphia Warriors and Elgin Baylor tallied 50 points for the Los Angeles Lakers, one
of only three times in NBA history that opposing players each scored at least 50 points in
the same game.
December 22, 1962 The NBA's 1,000,000th point was scored in
either the Detroit-Chicago, New York-Boston or Syracuse-San Francisco game.
I don’t know which game exactly, but that’s what NBA.com says.
So that was 1962 in the NBA, in a nutshell.
It was pretty much a Wilt Chamberlain year as you can see.
Even though he didn’t win the NBA Championship he just totally dominated the basketball scene
in 1962.
I hope you enjoyed the video guys.
Which year should be the next on the timeline?
What was the most important event of 1962 for you?
Please leave a like and a comment below.
Thanks for watching the video.
I’ll see you in the next one.
This was Purple Prince, and I’m out!