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NBA Lore: Steph Curry, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain, and Kobe
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Steph Curry gets the Tesla Model S comparison: not universally called the greatest of all time, but the most influential, because his mastery of 3-point shooting permanently rewired how every team in the NBA plays. The contrast with Jordan is sharp — Jordan barely shot threes and is now considered out of step with the modern game, much as dominant pre-iPhone handsets look quaint today. Jordan himself maps cleanly onto Steve Jobs: psychotically driven, famously difficult, teammates hated him at the time and revere him now that the championships are won. Kobe gets positioned as a 90–96%-Steve-Jobs clone, and the group debates whether Sam Altman or Elon Musk fits the analogy (no consensus reached). Wilt Chamberlain's mythological 100-point game — no video, conspiracy theories about fudged scoring, most of the top-50 single-game records belonging to one man from the 1960s — gets the 'first computer to hit 1 GHz with an export ban' parallel. Bam Adebayo's 83-point game this season, aided by roughly 30 made free throws, is the closest anyone has gotten.
Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single 1960s game — with no video evidence, against the Knicks, with conspiracy theories about fudged scorekeeping. Most of the top-50 single-game scoring records are his. This year Bam Adebayo got to 83, the closest anyone has come.
Wilt Chamberlain scored 100 points in a single NBA game in the 1960s — a record that has never been seriously threatened until Bam Adebayo's 83-point game this year.
This year a player named Bam Adebayo scored 83 points in a single game — the second-highest single-game total in NBA history — including roughly 30 made free throws.
Wilt Chamberlain once averaged over 50 points per game for an entire season — a feat considered statistically impossible in the modern NBA.
