Like Wilt Chamberlain and Kareem-Abdul Jabbar before him, Victor Wembanyama comes to the Garden as the NBA’s Next Big Thing.
The first game Wilt Chamberlain ever played at Madison Square Garden also happened to be the first game he ever played in the NBA. That was the evening of Oct. 24, 1959, in front of a feisty crowd of 15,527 fans at the Old Garden on 50th Street. He was the most-hyped basketball player to ever enter the league, and the league knew where he should make his debut.
Ten years and eight days later, on another Saturday night, this time inside the sparkling new Garden on top of Penn Station, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar had a similar coming-out party, but this one came with a whirl of emotions filling the 19,500 who packed the place. “I appreciated the cheers,” Alcindor said afterward, before turning glum. “But I missed too many shots down the stretch.”USA TODAY Sports via Reuters Con
. Unlike those other two — and so many of the other instant-impact players across the years, the Pistol Petes and the Jordans and the Hakeems and the Shaqs — there isn’t even a slight air of mystery about him.Chamberlain had risen to prominence in a time when college basketball had minimal TV coverage, and his Kansas Jayhawks never came any closer to the Garden then when he was in college than a game at St. Joseph’s, in his native Philadelphia, as a junior.
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