Portland Trail Blazers forward Deni Avdija‘s triple-double during Sunday’s overtime loss at Cleveland placed him in rare company alongside former NBA greats Magic Johnson and Wilt Chamberlain. Avdija scored 30 points with 12 rebounds and 10 assists on 8-of-13 shooting to record his first triple-double during the team’s 133-129 overtime loss at Cleveland.
Stephen Curry reached the 25,000-point milestone on Saturday night in true Curry fashion—on a three-pointer.
Stephen Curry scored at least 45 points on Feb. 27 for the third time, joining Wilt Chamberlain and Elgin Baylor as the only NBA players with three 45-point games on the same date.
The 44 goals remains an NHL record that stands until 1944-45, when Maurice Richard scores 50 goals in 50 games. 1921 — Kentucky beats Georgia 20-19 in the Southern Intercollegiate men’s basketball championship game in Atlanta.
Wilt Chamberlain of the Philadelphia Warriors registers his fifth straight 50-point game with 58 against the New York Knicks and sets a season scoring record with 3,921 points. 1968 — Joe Frazier wins the vacant New York world heavyweight title with an 11th-round TKO of Buster Mathis at Madison Square Garden.
Boston Celtics star Jayson Tatum has entered rare NBA history that only LeBron James and Wilt Chamberlain are in.
The Boston Celtics aren’t exactly the league-crushing machine that they were a year ago, but they are still cruising through the regular season and are right on pace for a high seed in the Eastern Conference playoffs.
From Wilt Chamberlain's scoring to A.C. Green's consistency, here are the top five legendary NBA records that may never be broken.
Joe Malone is held scoreless in the Montreal Canadiens’ 5-3 season-ending loss to the Toronto Arenas, but finishes the first NHL season with a League-high 44 goals in 22 games.
CONGRATS, GIANNIS! The only players to score 20,000 career points at a younger age than the 30-year-old Antetokounmpo were LeBron James, Kevin Durant, Kobe Bryant, Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan.
The NBA has existed since 1949, and in its 76-year history, no player has accomplished what Denver Nuggets star center Nikola Jokic did on Friday night. Not Wilt Chamberlain, LeBron James, Michael Jordan,
In addition to the first 30-20-20 game in NBA history, Jokic's 22 assists are the most all-time by a center in a single game, breaking a single-game record set by Wilt Chamberlain in 1968. Jokic has flirted with Chamberlain's 21-assist showing before,