When Wilt Chamberlain's basketball career ended in 1973, he left the game with a handful of records that appeared impossible to break.
Chamberlain, who became the first player to score 30,000 regular-season career points, was far ahead of the field in a number of areas, including all-time points scored (31,419), most points in a season (4,029), and most points in a game (100). Chamberlain did most of that damage in Philly as a member of the Warriors — before they moved to San Francisco — and Sixers.
Most of his achievements stood the test of time, but the all-time scoring record, which was originally broken 16 years after Chamberlain set it by the Los Angeles Lakers' Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, was claimed by another Laker, LeBron James, on Tuesday night, as he scored 38 points in a 133-130 loss against the Oklahoma City Thunder to eclipse Abdul-Jabbar and reach 38,390 career points.
