In his rookie NBA season, Wilt Chamberlain didn't just smash the league's then-regular-season points record of Bob Pettit with his total of 2,707... he did so 56 games into his career.
Chamberlain finished 1959-60 as the NBA MVP and Rookie of the Year, one of only two players to win both NBA MVP and ROY honors in the same season.ABC7 News Bay Area 24/7 streaming channelIt was arguably the most dominant debut season in American sports history. Late Saturday night, a Chamberlain uniform from that season broke another record: Most expensive game-worn vintage NBA item ever sold.
The uniform Chamberlain wore at every Philadelphia Warriors home game -- as well as some neutral contests and "even five playoff games, according to the included photo-matching analysis" -- sold with SCP Auctions for $1.792 million.Chamberlain, who played with the Harlem Globetrotters for $50,000 in 1958-59 after leaving the University of Kansas a year early, announced his arrival into the NBA in a way arguably no one has since.
The rest is history; such was Chamberlain's dominance that his 31,419 career points stood as the NBA record for 38 years before Kareem Abdul-Jabbarbroke it in 1984 -- which took another 19 years to be broken by'He's Mr. Warrior': What three all-time greats are saying about Steph Curry's latest feat The Chamberlain uniform was photo-matched and authenticated by the MeiGray Group, Resoluation Photomatching and Sports Investors Authentication ; an additional letter from Mears Authentication grades the Chamberlain uniform a perfect A10. Multiple authenticators verified that stains on the jersey are, in fact, Chamberlain's playing-days blood.
Per SCP Auctions, "the matching jersey and shorts set was originally procured director from Wilt Chamberlain decades ago by his close friend who would become a trusted collector in the hobby." The man isn't identified, but "a letter of provenance from this gentleman" was included in the auction lot.
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