By Mike Finger | San Antonio Express-News (SAEN), 2026-03-12 16:26:39
迈阿密热火队中锋巴姆·阿德巴约 (Bam Adebayo) 在周二（2026年3月10日）对阵华盛顿奇才队的比赛中狂砍83分，创下NBA历史上第二高得分。赛后他与队友一同庆祝。(AP图片/Rebecca Blackwell)
在周二晚上的那几分钟里，巴姆·阿德巴约 (Bam Adebayo) 正处于赶超威尔特·张伯伦 (Wilt Chamberlain) 的节奏上。
他现在依然如此。
从某种程度上说，这场NBA历史第二高得分表演的演变过程，已经远远领先于第一名了。当年人们花了至少十年时间才开始试图给威尔特·张伯伦在宾夕法尼亚州赫尔希镇狂砍100分的壮举打上“星号”。而64年后的今天，在阿德巴约于迈阿密轰下83分的那个夜晚，还没等他投进最后一记罚球，质疑者们就已经找上门来了。
如果历史可以作为参考的话，那么要不了多久，“阿德巴约实际上根本没有超越科比·布莱恩特 (Kobe Bryant)”这种说法就会流行起来。
在当今时代，这就是一个里程碑既定的生命周期：从壮举，到闹剧，再到“虚构”。
一位名叫汤姆·梅切里 (Tom Meschery) 的人可以证实这一点。早在1962年，他还是费城勇士 (Philadelphia Warriors) 的一名新秀，作为一个西海岸长大的孩子，他发现自己足够幸运，能与张伯伦共用一个更衣室并同台竞技。
在那个3月的夜晚，勇士队在赫尔希镇一个主要用于冰球比赛的小体育馆里击败了纽约尼克斯 (New York Knicks)，梅切里在那场比赛中出场了40分钟。那场比赛没有电视转播，但那个年代几乎所有的NBA比赛都没有转播。
尽管如此，报社记者还是在现场记录了细节，还有一位播音员在电台里解说了第四节，这段录音被保存了下来。无论是尼克斯队的成员还是当晚在场的观众，没有人质疑张伯伦达到了百分大关。
但随着时间的推移，反对的声音出现了，主要来自那些用现代流行语来说可以被称为“黑粉”的人。在加里·波美兰茨 (Gary Pomerantz) 为那本关于100分纪录的专著进行采访时，当晚负责防守张伯伦大部分时间的球员称那是一场“闹剧”。
当时的尼克斯中锋达拉尔·因霍夫 (Darrall Imhoff) 暗示张伯伦受益于裁判的偏袒，并表示那场大胜结束的方式——勇士队为了增加回合数而故意犯规，并不放过任何机会喂球给张伯伦——并不是“一场名副其实的伟大表演”。
如果你在周二晚上打开任何社交媒体应用，你可能会实时看到人们对阿德巴约砍下83分（比他此前的职业生涯最高分翻了一倍还多）产生类似的反应。
但总会有个“星号”，不是吗？正如雅虎体育的汤姆·哈伯斯特罗 (Tom Haberstroh)本周所指出的，人们很容易找到理由去贬低NBA历史上每一个史诗般的得分之夜。要么是因为科比在对阵多伦多猛龙 (Toronto Raptors) 的那场大胜的最后时刻还在不断走上罚球线；要么是因为大卫·罗宾逊 (David Robinson) 在1994年马刺队的赛季收官战对阵洛杉矶快船 (Los Angeles Clippers) 时疯狂砍下71分，表现出极其明显的争夺得分王意图。
只要你想，任何事情都可以变成一场闹剧。而很自然的下一步就是说服自己：那是虚构的。
正如张伯伦在勇士队的队友梅切里去年在播客节目《帕布罗·托雷发现了》(Pablo Torre Finds Out)中解释的那样，他非常清楚那些声称他最珍贵的记忆之一只是臆造出来的阴谋论。毕竟，他的女儿是一名八年级的老师。
“她带的一些孩子认为威尔特的100分之战是假新闻，仅仅因为没有比赛录像，”梅切里告诉帕布罗·托雷 (Pablo Torre)。
ORG XMIT: S0343964752_WIRE FILE —— 这是一张1959年的照片，展示了哈林环球旅行者时期的威尔特·张伯伦。2000年12月5日，周二晚，卡尔·马龙仅需8分即可超越威尔特·张伯伦，升至NBA历史得分榜第二位。(AP图片/Harlem Globetrotters) 0221xSPORTS
这或许还不是目前关于1962年最令人担忧的误解——那一年恰好也是麻疹疫苗问世前的最后一年。不幸的是，一些当时不在场的人并不愿意相信那些在场的人所说的话。
这个问题并不仅仅存在于篮球界。同样也存在于医疗保健，或者其他任何领域。
那么，想象有一天连视频证据都不足以说服大众接受任何事实，这难道很疯狂吗？64年前，张伯伦的纪录被接受为事实，是因为它登上了美国的每一份报纸。那么还要多久，阿德巴约周二对阵奇才砍下83分的集锦就会被认为是人工智能生成的？
我在开玩笑。
但也并不全是。
“我们整个社会，”梅切里对托雷说，“人们可以随心所欲地说任何话……却没有人相信事实核查。没有人相信诚实。我们正处于一个非常混乱的时代。人们会相信各种阴谋论的东西。”
所以，当阿德巴约周三早上醒来，看到自己的壮举被当作一场闹剧对待时？
他在通往“虚构”的道路上进展顺利，毕竟，他还是有机会赶上张伯伦的。
由生成式人工智能翻译，译文内容可能不准确或不完整，以原文为准。
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From feat to farce to ‘fiction,’ how Bam Adebayo follows Wilt’s lead
El pívot del Heat de Miami Bam Adebayo celebra con sus compañeros tras anotar 83 puntos, la segunda mayor cantidad en la historia de la NBA, ante los Wizards de Washington el martes 10 de marzo del 2026. (AP Foto/Rebecca Blackwell)
For a few minutes on Tuesday night, Bam Adebayo was on pace to catch Wilt Chamberlain.
He still is.
In a way, the evolution of the second-best scoring performance in NBA history already is well ahead of the first. It took at least a decade for folks to start trying to slap an asterisk on Chamberlain’s 100-point eruption in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Sixty-four years later, on the night he scored 83 points in Miami, the skeptics came for Adebayo before he even swished his final free throw.
And if history serves as any guide? It won’t be long until it becomes popular to suggest Adebayo really didn’t pass Kobe Bryant at all.
Nowadays, that’s the established lifespan of a milestone: From feat, to farce, to “fiction.”
A man named Tom Meschery can confirm this. Back in 1962, he was a rookie for the Philadelphia Warriors, a West Coast kid who found himself lucky enough to share a locker room and the court with Chamberlain.
Meschery played 40 minutes on the March night the Warriors beat the New York Knicks in Hershey, in a small arena used primarily for hockey. The game wasn’t televised, but almost no NBA games were in those days.
Still, newspaper reporters were there, documenting the details on deadline, and so was an announcer whose radio call of the fourth quarter was preserved on tape. No member of the Knicks nor anyone in attendance that night disputes that Chamberlain reached the century mark.
But over time came the blowback, primarily from the types of people who in the parlance of our time might be known as “haters.” In an interview for a book about the 100-point record written by Gary Pomerantz, the man who had to guard Chamberlain for much of that night called it “a farce.”
Darrall Imhoff, the Knicks center, suggested that Chamberlain benefited from friendly officiating, and said the way the blowout ended — with the Warriors fouling on purpose to create more possessions and feeding Chamberlain at every opportunity — was not “a legitimate great performance.”
If you opened any social media app on Tuesday night, you probably saw similar reactions to Adebayo’s 83-point outburst, which more than doubled his previous career high, in real time.
But there’s always an asterisk, isn’t there? As Tom Haberstroh of Yahoo! Sports noted this week, it’s easy to find a reason to downplay every epic scoring night in NBA history, whether it’s because Bryant kept going to the foul line in the closing minutes of a rout against the Raptors, or because David Robinson was blatantly trying to win a scoring title when he scored 71 points against the Clippers in the Spurs’ season finale in 1994.
Anything can be a farce if you want it to be. And the natural next step is convincing yourself it’s fiction.
As Meschery, Chamberlain’s Warriors teammate, explained on the podcast “Pablo Torre Finds Out” last year, he’s well aware of the conspiracies alleging that one of his most treasured memories is a figment of his imagination. After all, his daughter is an eighth-grade teacher.
“And some of her kids think Wilt’s 100-point game was fake news, just because there was no video of it,” Meschery told Torre.
ORG XMIT: S0343964752_WIRE FILE – This is a 1959 photo showing Harlem Globetrotters WIlt Chamberlain. Needing only eight points, Karl Malone is poised to pass Wilt Chamberlain on Tuesday night Dec. 5, 2000 for second place on the NBA’s career scoring list. (AP Photo/Harlem Globetrotters) 0221xSPORTS
This is not, perhaps, the most worrisome current misconception about 1962, which also happened to be the last year before the introduction of the measles vaccine. Unfortunately, some people who weren’t around then aren’t willing to take the word of those who were.
That issue isn’t unique to basketball. Or healthcare. Or anything else, for that matter.
So is it that crazy to imagine a time when not even video evidence will be enough to convince the masses of anything? Sixty-four years ago, Chamberlain’s record was accepted as fact because it was in every newspaper in America. How soon will it be before highlights of Adebayo’s 83 points against the Wizards on Tuesday will be presumed to have been generated by artificial intelligence?
I’m joking.
But only sort of.
“We have a whole society,” Meschery told Torre, “where people can say anything they want … and nobody believes the fact checks. Nobody believes in honesty. We’re in a very troubled time. They’ll believe all sorts of conspiracy stuff.”
And so when Adebayo woke up Wednesday morning and saw his feat being treated as a farce?
Well on his way to “fiction,” he still had a chance to catch Chamberlain after all.
By Mike Finger, via San Antonio Express-News