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10 MARCH 1961 · THE MILESTONE HAPPENED HERE ANYWAY
The night: One of the landmark scoring nights in basketball history happened in Fort Wayne four years after Fort Wayne lost its team. The Fort Wayne Pistons had left for Detroit in 1957, but on 10 March 1961 the Detroit club staged a home game in its old building, the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, against the Philadelphia Warriors — and that night Wilt Chamberlain became the first player in NBA history to score 3,000 points in a single season. The milestone belongs to Chamberlain and to the Warriors' record; the place fact belongs to Fort Wayne: it was reached in the memorial arena on Parnell Avenue, in a game played there by the team the building had lost, before the crowd that used to be its own.
Sources: the Famous Locations section of this history (the Coliseum entry) — the 10 March 1961 Detroit–Philadelphia game at the Coliseum and Chamberlain's 3,000-point milestone; the Sports section for the Pistons' Fort Wayne years, 1937–1957 (as the Zollner Pistons from 1937; NBA from 1949) and the 1957 move to Detroit.