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Chamberlain coverage

THE FIRST 30 minutes of tonight's editions of "Daily News Live" on Comcast SportsNet will be a roundtable discussion on Wilt Chamberlain's legacy on the 50th anniversary of his 100-point game.

THE FIRST 30 minutes of tonight's editions of "Daily News Live" on Comcast SportsNet will be a roundtable discussion on Wilt Chamberlain's legacy on the 50th anniversary of his 100-point game.

Host Michael Barkann will lead the conversation with Chamberlain's former teammate, Al Attles; Sixers ambassador Sonny Hill; and Daily News columnist Stan Hochman. "Daily News Live" airs at 5 p.m.

The Wilt coverage continues on "SportsNite," including interviews with Bill Campbell, who called the game on radio, and Harvey Pollack, who was the Philadelphia Warriors' statistician and the man who wrote the "100" on the piece of paper that Wilt held in the iconic photo.

CSN will re-air Wilt Chamberlain's last television interview at 6:30 p.m. In "Wilt 100 at 50," host Neil Hartman also sits down with longtime sportscaster Al Meltzer to discuss the interview with Chamberlain just weeks before his death.

More Chamberlain coverage will be part of the game broadcast of the Sixers vs. Golden State Warriors.

NBATV also will debut an hourlong documentary "Wilt 100" narrated by Hall of Famer Bill Russell tonight at 7.

Among those interviewed are Hall of Famer Paul Arizin, Tom Meschery, and Joe Ruklick of the Warriors, and Knicks legend Richie Guerin.