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Tom Thibodeau pays tribute on Wilt Chamberlain Night for 76ers

PHILADELPHIA — It was Wilt Chamberlain Night at the Wells Fargo Center Wednesday, the 60th anniversary of his record-setting 100-point game against the Knicks in Hersey, Pennsylvania. And the first memory for Doc Rivers was that he believed he could have done it, too — in grade school.

"I had 82 in a grade school game," the 76ers coach said. "They took me out at the end of the third quarter. Could have got a hundred. We were up 132-8 and they thought we were running It up. I was [angry]."

Knicks coach Tom Thibodeau, who was an assistant coach under Rivers in Boston, joked, "Did Doc play in that game?