game and field goal percentage, he remains the only NBA player in league history to lead the league in a major statistical category in every eligible season of his career. In addition, his field goal percentage of .727 was an NBA single-season record until the 2019–20 season, when Mitchell Robinson was approximately 1.5% more accurate while attempting 245 fewer field goals than Chamberlain. It was also the final season for Hal Greer, Gus Johnson, Tom Sanders, and Kevin Loughery who would later become the head coach for the New York Nets of the American Basketball Association. At the end of three quarters of their game at the Boston Gardens on October 20, 1972, the Boston Celtics led the Buffalo Braves 103–60. The Braves then recorded an incredible turnaround, scoring 58 points in the last quarter to lose the game by just 8 points, 126–118. The 58 points scored by the Braves is still the NBA record for the most points scored by one team in any quarter of any game. Season recap Setting the scene This season began in the wake of the remarkable victory of the Los Angeles Lakers, who ended an agonizing decade of runner-up finishes with their first NBA title on the West Coast. It was also the first Laker title since George Mikan over fifteen years previous. The '71–'72 title had come after a tremendous Western Conference Finals with Milwaukee and their superstar center, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, the former title-winning Lew Alcindor. A Laker and Bucks rematch in the playoffs figured to decide the next championship just as it had the last two. The East, clearly the dominant half of the league for so long, looked to be the weaker half again at the start of this season as they had the last two years. Eastern Conference It was the East that provided the season's top record. The Boston Celtics won 68 of 82 NBA games, one of the greatest records in history, two more than Milwaukee two years before, and just one less than Los Angeles the previous year. The new Celtics were a year older, with young star Dave Cowens at center and Jo Jo White as point guard. Cowens was the team's anchor at center, third in the league in both rebounds and minutes played while scoring 20.5 points per game. A physical, active defender as well, Cowens made NBA observers marvel at his