Though NBA.com’s latest Rookie Ladder has San Antonio Spurs guard Stephon Castle favored to win the 2024 Rookie of the Year award, Memphis Grizzlies wing Jaylen Wells has made quite a strong case for himself.
Wilt Chamberlain’s historic 100-point game has been known as one of the biggest holy grails of basketball, as it remains the highest-scoring game of an individual player in NBA history.
Kessler is the third player to go 10-for-10 from the floor in an NBA game this season, joining the Cleveland Cavaliers’ Jarrett Allen and the Chicago Bulls’ Mata Buzelis. Allen was 10-for-10 in a 135-116 victory over the Washington Wizards on Oct. 26, and Buzelis went 10-for-10 in a 133-124 victory over the Miami Heat on Feb. 4.
In the Spurs' 130-128 win over the Grizzlies on Saturday, Castle led San Antonio with 24 points and seven assists and got tangled up with Edey, manhandling the 7-4 center. In his four games against Memphis this season, Castle is averaging 22.8 points and five assists, playing some of his very best basketball.
A classic Wilt Chamberlain interview from the early 1980s, he gives us his thoughts on players breaking his records, like the career scoring mark.
Complex’s Alex Caparell on Chamberlain: “Who else is going to average 50.4 PPG for a season like Wilt did in the 1961-62 season? Anybody else going to averaged 22.9 RPG during their career ...