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- NBA record.
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- After attending the
- University of Kansas, Wilt
- played a year with the
- Harlem Globetrotters. His NBA career be-
- gan with the Philadelphia Warriors, in 1959.
- During the 1961-62 season, Wilt averaged
- a record 50.4 points a game. He finished
- the year with 4,029 points, making him the
- only player ever to score more than 4,000
- points in a season. He also led the league
- in rebounding that year, with an average of
- 25.7 per game.
-
- Wilt was definitely known for his offense,
- but at the time, there was another player
- just as famous for defense: Bill
- Russell of the Boston Celtics. Bill
-