On March 2, 1962, an unbreakable basketball record was set.

I’m a Wilt Chamberlain fan. I have been since the late 1950s.

Chamberlain grew up in Philadelphia. (I grew up in Philadelphia suburbs.) He went to Overbrook High School and then decided to go to the University of Kansas.

He dropped out of college after two seasons, and because in those days you could not enter the National Basketball Association (NBA) until after your senior class had graduated, he played 1 1/2 years with the Harlem Globetrotters.

In the summer of 1960, while I was attending Pine Forest (a summer camp), Wilt came for a visit. (He had been a kitchen boy at the camp.) He put on a brief exhibition and signed autographs. I was 14. I had the presence of mind to ask Wilt for his autograph on a postcard.

The postcard I sent home that day read: Dear Mom and Dad, I played ball with Wilt the Stilt today. Here’s his autograph. Please save this postcard. Love, Jeff

My mother, rest her soul, saved the postcard for 25 years. I found it with all the other postcards and letters she had saved as I was going through her personal artifacts after she passed away.

I don’t know the value of an authentic 1960 Wilt Chamberlain autograph, but I do know that if someone offered me $100,000, I would pass. Some things have no price in spite of the clichés you may have heard.

You can argue the fact that Wilt was the best basketball player of all time.

Wilt Chamberlain’s records are still on the books. He was the only NBA player to score 4,000 points in a season. He set NBA single-game records for most points (100), most consecutive field goals (18) and most rebounds (55). His most mind-boggling stat was the 50.4 points per game he averaged during the 1961-62 season. He also averaged 48.5 minutes of play per game that same year (that’s every minute of every game, plus overtime).

When Wilt retired:

• He was the all-time leader in career points with 31,419. (Later passed by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone and Michael Jordan.)

• He held the record for most rebounds with 23,924. (Will never be passed.)

• He led the NBA in scoring for seven years in a row. Most games with 50-plus points: 118. Highest rookie scoring average: 37.6 per game. Highest field goal percentage in a season: .727.

THE RECORD: On March 2, 1962, while playing against the New York Knicks in Hershey, Pa., in front of about 4,500 people, Wilt scored 100 points. It’s a record that is celebrating its 50th birthday, and a record that will most likely never be broken.

The reason I’m writing this piece is that Wilt Chamberlain did not just set records; he set standards. His athletic prowess was so great that he changed the rules of the game.

Wilt was so massive and such a great rebounder that they widened the foul lanes to prevent him from complete basketball domination. He was a game changer AND a rule changer.

What are you able to change about your career or process?

What level are you playing at? Top, middle or below average?

What records are you setting that will last 50 years?

What contributions have you made?

Please don’t consider this article to be just a tribute to the late, great Wilt Chamberlain. Rather, it’s a commentary on setting standards, breaking records and the ability to have so much skill that the rules are changed to level the playing field.

What standards have you set?