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Wilton Norman “Wilt” Chamberlain Wiki Biography

• Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an expert b-ball player, born into the world on 21 August 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania USA, to Olivia Johnson and William Chamberlain. 
• He is considered as perhaps the best part of NBA history. 
• He died in October 1999. 
• So how rich was Wilt Chamberlain? 
• He possessed a 1,000,000 dollar lavish house in Bel-Air, a Ferrari, a Bentley, and a Le Mans-style vehicle called Searcher One esteemed at $750,000. 
• Chamberlain had obtained his fortune during his long vocation as an expert b-ball player just as through his later organizations. 
• Chamberlain went to Overbrook High School where he turned into a fruitful player for the school ball group the Overbrook Panthers. 
• He genuinely ruled different players with his stature being 6’11” at that point. 
• Chamberlain decided to go to the University of Kansas in 1955, where he turned into the individual from the Kansas Jayhawks group. 
• In 1965 Chamberlain was exchanged to the Philadelphia 76ers. 
• He drove the group to success against the Celtics in division finals and afterward score an NBA Championship prevail upon the San Francisco Warriors. 
• He turned into the solitary NBA focus who completed the season being the help chief. 
• In 1968 Chamberlain was exchanged to the Los Angeles Lakers. 
• He drove the group to the second of two NBA title triumphs, against the New York Knicks and acquired $1.5 million while with the Lakers, which extraordinarily expanded his fortune. 
• Chamberlain resigned in 1973 with astounding vocation measurements. 
• Aside from his 100-point game, he is the solitary player to average over 50 focuses per game in a season, and normal in any event 30 focuses and 20 bounce back per game in a season, which he completed multiple times; likewise similar to normal covers his entire profession. 
• The exact year he delivered his book “Shrivel: Just Like Any Other 7-Foot Black Millionaire Who Lives Next Door” and before long got associated with business and amusement, stocks and land just as in broodmares investigations. 
• In one of his books, he expressed that he had laid down with more than 20, 000 ladies during his life. 
• In 1999 Chamberlain passed on of cardiovascular breakdown being matured 63. 
• He was named one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. 

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Wilton Norman “Wilt” Chamberlain Trademarks

1. A Gentle Giant

Wilton Norman “Wilt” Chamberlain Quotes

• Nobody roots for Goliath.

Wilton Norman “Wilt” Chamberlain Important Facts

• Pictured on two USA non-denominated commemorative postage stamps, issued 5 December 2014. On one stamp he is wearing a Philadelphia Warriors uniform; on the other, a Los Angeles Lakers uniform. The price on the day of issue for each stamp was 49¢.
• Was reportedly very modest about scoring one-hundred points in a single game and didn’t think much of it.
• The only player to score more than 4000 points in a season (The only other to score more than 3000 is Michael Jordan), is the all-time rebounding leader (and holds the record for rebounds in a season), was the only non-point guard to lead the league in assists, once averaged 50 points together with 25 rebounds per game and has the all-time high in minutes per game, at 45.8.
• Held 72 records at one time.
• No recordings were made of his famous 100 point game.
• Was an accomplished beach volleyball player.
• Had a keen interest in films and shared in this past-time with the likes of ‘Hugh Hefner (I)’. He had attended several film festivals to enjoy the limelight of his celebrity. Most notably in 1976, The Festival of Festivals in Toronto, Canada -now known today as the Toronto International Film Festival. He was also a partner in the production company Hundred Point Films, to do his biographic picture.
• Only player in NBA history to lead the league in scoring average and rebounding average in the same season, which he accomplished five times. Four of the five seasons were his first four NBA seasons.
• The father of the 7-foot-1 Wilt was only 5-foot-7.
• Is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc.
• He was a high jump champion and track and field star in college at Kansas University.
• At his athletic peak, he was said to have been measured with a vertical jump of 48-50 inches.
• While in college at Kansas, he was recorded as having a 550-pound bench press.
• Biography in: “American National Biography”. Supplement 1, pp. 106-109. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002.
• In his historic 100-point game which took place in Hershey, PA, he set records for most field goals (36) and made free throws (28) in a game.
• Never fouled out of a game in his NBA career (1045 regular season; 160 post-season).
• Golden State Warriors franchise all-time leading scorer (17,783).
• Wilt and Bill Russell became friends when they became superstars in the late 1950s, but the relationship ended for a long time when Russell wrongly assumed Wilt had ducked out of Game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals. In reality, Wilt had left for medical treatment when his knee was slammed into, and Lakers coach Butch van Breda Kolff told Wilt they didn’t need him to go back into the game (which Los Angeles lost by 2 points). The two men mended fences in 1994 and were close friends from then until Wilt died in 1999.
• Ranks second all-time in scoring with 31,419 points (30.1 ppg) and rebounding 23,924 rebounds (22.9 RPG). *
• NBA 35th Anniversary All-Time Team (1980) and 50th Anniversary All-Time Team (1996).
• Thirteen-time NBA All-Star (1960-1969, 1971-1973).
• NBA All-Star Game MVP (1960), after scoring 23 points with 25 rebounds.
• NBA Finals MVP (1972).
• NBA All-Defensive First Team (1972, 1973).
• All-NBA Second Team (1963, 1965, 1972).
• All-NBA First Team (1960-1962, 1964-1968).
• NBA Most Valuable Player (1960, 1966, 1967, 1968).
• NBA Rookie of the Year (1960).
• Played with the Harlem Globetrotters (1958-1959), the NBA Philadelphia Warriors (1959-1962), the NBA San Francisco Warriors (1963-1964), the NBA Philadelphia 76ers (1964-1968), and the NBA Los Angeles Lakers (1968-1973).
• All-Big Seven (1957, 1958).
• NCAA Tournament MVP (1957).
• The Sporting News First Team All-America (1958).
• Unanimous First Team All-America (1957, 1958).
• University of Kansas (1955-1958).
• Head coach of the ABA San Diego Conquistadors (1973-1974).
• Enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979.
• When he died in October 1999, his long-time basketball rival, Celtics superstar Bill Russell, declared at Wilt’s memorial service: “As far as I’m concerned, he and I will be friends through eternity.”
• Spent one year with the Harlem Globetrotters, for a salary of $65,000
• Graduate of Overbrook High School in native Philadelphia, and the University of Kansas.
• Chamberlain never married or had any children.
• When pressed by sportswriters about “the number” of his romantic encounters, in his 1990 book, “A View From Above,” Chamberlain claimed to have slept with better than 20,000 women during his career. (His life was based on the numbers!). What is overlooked is his other comments… “I would rather have had one woman that I truly loved, than 20,000 that I didn’t.” His claim was designed to sell copies of his book, but Chamberlain very quickly came to regret it.
• The only player to ever score 100 points in a pro game (1962), only by shooting only two-point shots because three-pointers didn’t exist in basketball at the time.
• Disliked the nickname ‘Wilt the Stilt.’ Preferred Dippy or Dip, among friends.

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