The real Superman: Wilt Chamberlain
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The greatest basketball player of all time; nor Jordan, neither Shaquille O'neal. And the best sportsman of the 20th century: Wilt Chamberlain.
Chamberlain was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History (1996), ranked #2 in SLAM Magazine's Top 75 NBA Players of all time (2003) and #13 in the ESPN list "Top North American athletes of the century" and voted second best center of all time by ESPN.
In my eyes he is the best in everything.
Essential and amazing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_career_achievements_by_Wilt_Chamberlain
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Today's players are measured in their court shoes, which adds an extra inch or even more.
The players weight was also taken when they came in as a rookie, and never adjusted upward.
Besides basketball, he also won state championships in hurdles and high jump, and even beat the captain of the tennis team in an informal game.
Kareem won quite easily, showing what an advantage indeed it is to be an agile 7-footer in the game of basketball.
You are free to speculate away regarding what that might mean when matching up great players as the "greatest ever".
There are numerous video records of a young and healthy Kareem going against the aging Wilt, and Wilt more than holding his own.
As a local high-schooler, I was in the 10th row AT game 7 of the NBA finals in 1969, the last game that Wilt and Russell ever played against each other, with the balloons in the rafters of the Fabulous Forum in Los Angeles.
I still get a painful knot in my stomach whenever they show a replay of Don Nelson's shot bouncing high off the heel of the rim.............. and going in.
Do you have the last minutes of the 4th quarter, with the ABA slightly ahead and threatening to close it out?
Twice in a row, the seemingly superhuman [and never before seen by mass audience] Dr. J is rejected by Wilt, allowing the NBA to squeak it out.
Did you watch my video?:
/watch?v=nWQsMDE1GKQ&feature=c hannel_page
I think it's the best highlight of Wilt and my best video ever made.
Kareem is/was 11 years younger than Wilt, yet even in his [comparatively] old age, Wilt always did very well against a phenomenal young player who dominated everybody else.
Just a few months before that fateful game 7 in Los Angeles, I also attended the last home game that Lew Alcindor ever played for UCLA.
What a great time for basketball fans!
"Mikan became so dominant that the NBA had to change its rules of play in order to reduce his influence such as widening the lane from six to twelve feet ("The Mikan Rule"). He also played a role in the introduction of the shot clock, and in the NCAA his dominating play around the basket led to the outlawing of defensive goaltending."
I take it you've never heard of George Mikan, then?
Um, have you actually compared the number of free throw attempts Jordan and Chamberlain had? Wilt had four straight years where he had more than 1,000. Michael never had that many in a season. Wilt's total is also around 2,000 more than Jordan, too.