Wilt Chamberlain - The Big Dipper

Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936--October 12, 1999), nicknamed Wilt the Stilt and The Big Dipper, was an American professional National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers; and also played for the Harlem Globetrotters. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain, who weighed 250 lb as a rookie before bulking up to 275 lb and eventually over 300 lb with the Lakers, played the center position and is one of the greatest and most dominant players in the history of the NBA.

Chamberlain holds numerous official NBA all-time records, setting records in many scoring, rebounding and durability categories. Among others, he is the only player in NBA history to average more than 50 points in a season (let alone 40) or score 100 points in a single NBA game. He also won seven scoring, nine field goal percentage, and eleven rebounding titles, and once even led the league in assists. Although suffering a long string of professional losses, Chamberlain had a successful career, winning two NBA titles, earning four regular-season Most Valuable Player awards, one NBA Finals MVP award, and being selected to 13 All-Star Game games and ten All-NBA First and Second teams. Chamberlain was subsequently enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978, elected into the NBA's 35th Anniversary Team of 1980, and chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History of 1996.

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[bordertown]

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Wilt was a track and field star and did a high jump of 6 feet 6 inches in college. It might not be impossible. There's a lot of Wilt that was never recorded on film. We do know that around his athletic peak he could definitely get at least 40 inches without running.

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Is it true that Wilt had a vertical of 50 inches? It doesn't seem right because I've never seen his head go above the rim. Also I've read that he could bench over 500 pounds, that doesn't seem accurate either because he isn't massively huge and his arms were very long which would make it even harder to bench.

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Wali Jones on Sixers website ............. "Wilt is the greatest to ever put on sneaks."

[BNS224]

@bordertown Although I do think that if Wilt had played w/ the mentality of the 66-67 season earlier he may of had a little more success. That season he realized that he could dominate a game w/o having to score 40-50 pts. He could control the game scoring 20-30 pts, grabbing 20-30 rebs, and concentrating most of his effort on controlling the paint on D.

[BNS224]

@bordertown Totally agree. To start Wilt's 76ers were not as good as Russell's C's. In 68 ECF vs BOS, PHI lost 2 starters and their 6th man. In 69 finals, Wilt was playing on a bad knee which he blew out in 70. In 70 Finals, when W Frazier dominated, J West was playing injured. In 71 playoffs, both Baylor and West were DNP. Unfortunately, Wilt gets all the blame. Put MJ on those 60's 76ers they get beat even worse than w/ Wilt.