Who remembers Steph Curry passing Wilt to become all time leading scorer for the Warriors? It only took Curry something like 13 years with a lot of 3's. To pass Wilts 5 years. I don't care what era Wilt dominates in any era.
@@brettrobinson2901 he used to be awesome at free throws, but then the NBA outlawed dunking from the free throw line during free throws. That brought Wilt's FT% waaayyyy down.
@@brettrobinson2901 but when needed he his percentage was better. Besides when you score as much as Wilt on and off the court some aspects will be lacking a little lol.
We can argue who is the all time best all day long, but can we agree that Wilt set the standard? Give those who blazed the trail the respect they deserve.
Jordan is the greater then wilt because Jordan has more skill n a bigger impact on the game… greatness is measured in many ways. As a full body of work there no player in history that impact the games as Jordan did.
When you consider what Wilt did in track and field, volleyball, and the fact that he never got too fat for his legs to hold him up, he is a greater athlete than shaq. He was stronger. He jumped higher. he ran faster. he was still competitive in professional sports when he was almost 50. It's really no contest .
From my understanding off of various videos I ve watched about Wilt he had NBA teams trying to get him to sign when he was around 50. In his 40's he shut Magic down during a pick up game at the UCLA practice courts. Just sad that Wilt and Bill's era gets so disrespected now.
Yes. He was still getting phone calls from teams at 50 to come out of retirement. Shaq was scared of Wilt when he was alive. Shaq has only been scared of 2 people in his life. His daddy, and Wilt Chamberlain.
This guy didn't take any time off. Played all game every game. No scheduled days off or not playing because he had a boo boo like today's players. He beat Jim Brown in a foot race, had a 48 inch verticle, could bench 600 lbs, ran the 440 in 49 seconds, track and field star, drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs, played professional volleyball in his 40s, holds 70 NBA records many of which will never be broken. One of a kind freak athlete. No one like him.
He didn't take any time off and played all games. Now on top of that, off-court he scored 20,000 lifetime record sleeping with women. Mere mortal or Zeus?
When I was a kid, Bird and Magic we're #1. Got to highschool, Jordan was #1. I remember asking my dad if he also thought Jordan was the best of all time, he said no. "Then who was?" I asked. He said "Wilt the Stilt. He was unstoppable and could lead the league in either scoring, rebounds, or assists whenever he wanted"
@@senseichess8688 no way.i I wish westphal and pistol Pete played with Bird when they were in the 70s.bird couldn't dribble as good as them.plus bird was a forward.
Just the fact he averaged 48 mins a game is ridiculous! Basketball evolved from a playground game to a battle of warriors! Defenses, offenses, statistics and NBA rules changed because of Wilt Chamberlain. Anyone who watches basketball owes Wilt EVERYTHING!!!
Great homage to Wilt. He left us too soon and he's greatly missed but his presence is always felt whenever there's talk about the greatest basketball players or athletes who ever lived.
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on the average height of a center back then was 6 ft 10 without shoes the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes so take that into consideration wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time while still having an 82 game schedule with about 80% of the teams having a hof center this means wilt played a hof center just about every night C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons) (up to 14 times in the regular season) C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 5 times in the regular season) C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs- C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season) (Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons) (Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons) (Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons) (please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9) ALL STARS AND OTHERS: Dennis Awtrey: 7'0" Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2" Nate Bowmen: 7,0" Mel Counts: 7'1" Walter Dukes: 7'1" Jim Eakins: 6'11" Ray Felix: 6'11" Hank Finkel: 7'0" Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights) Reggie Harding: 7'0" Jim McDaniels: 7'0" Otto Moore: 6'11" Dave Newmark: 7'0" Rich Niemann: 7'0" Billy Paultz: 6'11" Craig Raymond: 6'11" Elmore Smith: 7'0" Chuck Share: 7,0 " Ronald Taylor: 7'1" Walt Wesley: 7,0" TOM PAYNE 7'4 " GREG FILLMORE 7'1 CRAIG SPITZER 7'0 LARUE MARTIN 6'11 VIC BARTOLOME 7'1 GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11 WILLIAM SMITH 7'1 (the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes) you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like: 70s fan Wilt chamberlain archive
Wilt was basketball's Zeus, clearly the real GOAT. Still holding 72 NBA records 50 yrs after his retirement. He had all of Duncan's moves before Duncan with greater agility and strength. So yeah, prime Wilt could dominate in any era of basketball. Not to mention avg. 30 pts 28 rebs life-time against Russell. And Bill Russell would outclass a lot of centers and powerforwards in the 75th team.
72 records that are "shown" this doesn't even include the fact the NBA never kept track of or aknowledged blocks and steals as a stat but in his last 2-3 or 4 yearss a highly respected NBA statistician kept track of his blocks he averaged 8.8 blocks per game and half of that was after a massive knee surgery. he was seen blocking 26 shots against the pistons once, a televised game that is recorded and people saw on christmas one year he blocked 23. wilt would easily have every single blocking record known toman with maybe the remeaining few going to russell. . now add in the records for double doubles, triple doubles, quadruople doulbe s and quinitiple doubles to that
@@Johnadams20760 Said statistician (Harvey Pollack, I believe) also recorded 11 steals for Wilt in one of those games. I'm not sure that's Wilt's highest steal count, but that game is where he registered a quintuple-double for Wilt.
Wilt was so strong that Arnold had to ask him to stop coming to his gym because everyone would stop working out to watch. He used to bench 650 before games because that’s all the weights they had in the facility. Russell famously said, that Wilt had to hold back for fear of hurting his opponents. There has never been a player that compared to him. High jumper, hurdler, and in his late 40’s he was acknowledged as the greatest volleyball player in the world. Lebron is a physical phenomenon, but there are no words for Wilt except super human.
People could argue that training and skills weren’t as good back then, but his sheer athleticism and finesse would translate to any era and he would still dominate.
I always say look at the racehorse Secretariat from 1973, he still holds the record for fastest time in all three triple crown races. I think Wilt was that type of athlete.
@@nhardman Watch him score. He wasn't just athletic. He had a natural talent with the ball. He had a touch that Shaq, Dwight Howard, and Duncan never had.
That's the one point that basketball aficionados seem to breezily overlook every time they get into a heated debate about the GOAT. People forget that competitors/rivals, and the authorities who dictated the rules of engagement on the court were, absolutely terrified of Wilt. There simply was no other player who had this kind of effect on all concerned. Wilt was/is the GOAT.
That's easy when your a foot taller than everyone else you played against... Shaq was more Dominant.. We're talking about a 7'1 330 pound man that had the agility of a cat..Wilt was not stopping Shaq
@@AnthonyScarpa-er3sq haha if shaq was a cat then wilt was a cat on steroids. he could run faster, jump higher, had more stamina, was a better defender, stronger.. shaq never faced anyone that he couldn't physically dominate and wilt is probably the only player in history that was his physical superior. wilt would toy with him. and he holds 70+ NBA records to this day, who was more dominant is not even a question, shaq himself puts wilt over him.
The argument that Wilt was a foot taller than anyone he played against just doesn’t hold water. There were far fewer teams in the NBA and every team had a TRUE center that was 6’9-6’11. And at least 7 of them are in the HOF. Look it up!
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on the average height of a center back then was 6 ft 10 without shoes the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes so take that into consideration wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time while still having an 82 game schedule with about 80% of the teams having a hof center this means wilt played a hof center just about every night C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons) (up to 14 times in the regular season) C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 5 times in the regular season) C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs- C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season) (Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons) (Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons) (Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons) (please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9) ALL STARS AND OTHERS: Dennis Awtrey: 7'0" Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2" Nate Bowmen: 7,0" Mel Counts: 7'1" Walter Dukes: 7'1" Jim Eakins: 6'11" Ray Felix: 6'11" Hank Finkel: 7'0" Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights) Reggie Harding: 7'0" Jim McDaniels: 7'0" Otto Moore: 6'11" Dave Newmark: 7'0" Rich Niemann: 7'0" Billy Paultz: 6'11" Craig Raymond: 6'11" Elmore Smith: 7'0" Chuck Share: 7,0 " Ronald Taylor: 7'1" Walt Wesley: 7,0" TOM PAYNE 7'4 " GREG FILLMORE 7'1 CRAIG SPITZER 7'0 LARUE MARTIN 6'11 VIC BARTOLOME 7'1 GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11 WILLIAM SMITH 7'1 (the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes) you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like: 70s fan Wilt chamberlain archive
@@pioplu4803 THANX SPIT FACTS LEBRON AND AD BEAT ROCKETS TALLEST PLAYER WAS CENTER PJ TUCKER, WESTBROOK PLAYED PF HARDEN SF. ERIC GORDON WAS 6'2 PG. CAPELA WAS SENT TO HAWKS. SO ROCKETS LINEUP WAS UNDER 6'6.
Artis Gilmore was the second strongest player behind Wilt.robert parish played against both Shaq and Gilmore and he said Gilmore was stronger.even Domique Wilkins thought that Gilmore was the strongest player he's ever seen
@@marcconnelly5652 u have to remember Robert and other centers was hating on Shaq during those times it could be toss up who is the second strongest center between Shaq or Gilmore
Somewhere in UA-cam land there’s a video about a young MVP Magic Johnson organizing a pickup game with an old Wilt. Magic’s team had 4 other future hall of famers. Against them was an old Wilt and unimpressive players. After the first half, Wilt told Magic’s super team they’d never make another layup. Old Wilt lived up to his word and kept young MVP Magic with his future hall of famers from making a single layup. After seeing this all questions about who is the GOAT were settled in my mind.
Jerry Brown telling that story Wilt and 4 college kids against Magic and the starting lineup of Lakers champ team. 13-0. 50 yr old Wilt BLOCKED EVERY SHOT !
@@TheMasterAtNothing only similarly was neither could hit a foul shot. Shaq was not in wilts league. Orlando shaq was his peak and still no where near as good or as dominant as wilts final year
@@MrBez007 Thank you. I don’t know where Shaq gets this idea that he could f-k with Wilt. He ain’t nowhere as good as he thinks and that’s why Barkley clowned him for it. He think just because he got four rings, on teams that had two of the 3 best shooting guards in history, that he can hold a torch to Wilt?? The same Wilt that averaged 48 minutes in one season?? Come on man
I remember seeing a highlight of wilt blocking it literally twice in a row ON THE SAME PLAY. Kareem looked shaken, like he had no idea what to do if someone could stop that shot.
Wilt was larger than life and bigger than basketball. They had to constrain him by rules to allow for competition. Nobody was as dominant. He still holds an astonishing number of records.
@@ronnieturner3110 I actually think that Wilt was born to play basketball. He would have exceeded expectations in any era. I believe he never really was shaped by the best coach. Nobody had as much raw talent before or since.
Which of course is a joke. He faced better talent on a nightly basis, in part because there were only a third of the teams in the league then. As a result he faced Russell, Thurmond, Beatty, Bellamy and later Reed and Unseld 12 times each, annually.
Wilt was the most dominant player of all time. I saw him in Philly play in HS, with the Globe Trotters, the Warriors and the 76ers. I met him a number of times throughout and after his career. He was a true gentleman and a super athlete. I saw him play volleyball and he was unbelievably overpowering on offense and defense. He was truly one of a kind.
@@michaelcorenzwit8118 That just proves how inflated his stats are. Put him in todays league playing 45 minutes and your team won't win a single game. Back then you just fed the ball to the big man and won.
@@stephen8797 not inflated. that makes it even MORE impressive. today's athletes are pathetci whiners who are prima donnas who get all that modern dient and trining and can't perform after 38 minutes of playing lol. wilt did int in the faststed pace era ever and never wore down. and still shot a very high percentage among thehighest ever even after all that time on the court.
@@stephen8797 Sure, except Wilt was always an assist leader in the league, leading the league in that category at least once. He had the ball in his hands a lot, but he wasn't the only weapon on those teams.
Because his team needed it. Coach told him they needed to spread the ball around to win, so he did and they did. I was lucky enough to see him play. It was almost unfair how good he was. But there was always the Celtics.
Wilt combo of strength, speed, size, jumping, stamina is still unmatched . ...he also kept himself in great shape to play 46 minutes for 82 games unlike shaq
With all of Wilt’s offensive prowess I think people tend to overlook his defensive skills. I remember watching him as a Laker. He owned the key and anybody entering was probably going to get their shot swatted out of bounds. The battles he had with Kareem, Willis Reid, Nate Thurmond and Bill Russell we’re to me the most exciting matchups in all of sports. He is the greatest center of all time both offensively and defensively.
watch a whole bunch of Wilt's early film clips. Wilt had a complete game. Dribbling end to end with finish. Shots from way outside. Dominating against other 7 footers. The list goes on. I used to be glued to the TV as a kid watching Wilt and West play. Great, great memories.
Easily the greatest physical specimen of an athlete to ever live. Faster than prime LeBron, Stronger than Prime Shaq, with endurance & stamina no one else has even come remotely close to achieving. Truly the best.
Wilt and company gave me my first heartbreak as a youngster when his 76ers beat my Warriors and it stung even more considering he used store a Warrior 3 seasons before. He was so good and aathlete and had the stamina of a thoroughbred! Hell, he'd make Genghis Kahn think twice. Shaq's size made him great, but Wilt and Jim Thorpe were 2 of the greatest athletes ever.
Bombaata got in the volleyball hall of fame, after his hof career in basketball. Nobody else in the conversation. One quote from a journalist i like, that describes Wilt at 50 years old: "As athletic as Zeus."
My favorite quote from Chamberlain on why Jordan couldn't be the NBA goat was this one, “The difference between you and me is that they had to change the rules for me so I couldn't dominate. They changed the rules so that you could.”
I saw him play, I was a big Basketball fan growing up in New York. He was incredible. He was legend in Rucker Park, and in the NBA. I believe he also played for the Globetrotters too, unbelievable Legend! Good video, thank you!
Good to see this video put together as I believe Wilt is the most disrespected player now with the people arguing about Lebron and MJ being the GOAT or saying Russell is because hie "team" won more titles. This guy today would be best Athlete in the NBA, he had the speed of Hakeem, the power of Shaq, the hops of Dominique Wilkins and endurance like no other.
Neither MJ nor LeBron were, are, or could be as valuable to a basketball team as the greatest centers (or point guards) who've ever played were a their peaks. Wilt, Kareem, Moses Malone, Hakeem, Ewing, Robinson, and Shaq were all more valuable than Jordan and LeBron.
@@merlball8520 You mentioned Moses Malone, he is very disrespected also. He was ferocious on the offensive boards. Wish he and Barkley could have played together in their primes, the other team would never get a rebound -lol
Shaq was great because of his body weight, and strength. He moved well for a big man. He was able to dominate because of that but Wilt was a better all around player and his numbers and video clips proves that
Shaq love too many Krispy Cream and got fat and out of shape. Kobe would get totally frustrated with Shaq because of his conditioning. Wilt bench press 650 lbs and 600 at age 59. High jump in college ran the 400 meters on the Kansas University track team. Played the whole game all 48 minutes 82 game season for 13 seasons and never fouled out of the game. He would expend so much energy that half time he would eat a whole two layer cake or consume a whole apple pie. Sometimes on the off season he would water fast for 10 days at a time. ALWAY in shape and condition, no "load management" a very kind but confident man. A man who holds all the records and could play in any Era. Also the first player in the NBA to get $2 million dollar contract. Champion volleyball player at age 53. Stop it and do your homework Shaq knows who Wolt really was. Peace.
@@shafiqshabazz2462 , you know i "almost" believe until you said "82" games 🤦🏻♂️. As i read history., there were.only "62" games during that time ... yeah i am having a hard time seeing Wilt all that, BECAUSE i only started watching NBA in late 70s till now 2022, and watched Jabbar, Shaq, Olajuwan, Ewing,and Giannis as greatest 🏀 CENTERs .. and hearing many stories of Jabbar, not really hearing much about Wilt except as a name in cartoon Harlen Gobotrers .... and my relatives did not really like Wilt because they say Wilt was a ONE MAN TEAM, only "give me the ball" pushing his teamates, did not like sharing the ball, like Kobe-Mamba. Well i am only 60, and my Uncles played street TEAM basketball in the 60s-70s, in my island Guam, most of them dead now, they be like 76+ age older if still alive. Everyone i know (and read/see on ESPN, Sports illustrated, Bleacher, forgot the 4th name), reported by "paid professionals writers/reporters said SHAQ is the MOST DOMINANT CENTER IN NBA HISTORY, and the thing is "i saw it" , and to include NBA COACHES said "they do NOT have an answer to BEAT SHAQ. But NOW watching this video, i just do not really know, but hearing Jabbar talk about Wilt is AMAZING. I know that Wilt only have 2 Rings, and many record breaking, BUT LETS FACE IT "RINGS and STATs are IMPORTANT" to be in "TOP 10 NBA GOAT" between over 75 years of NBA players, that is a lot of PLAYERS to compare against. You can NOT. ignor that pass 6-7 years, the NBA players are FASTER, QUICKER. HIGH FLYING ABOVE RIM!, SLAM DUNKING ACROBATIC MOVEs, and absolutely crazy amazing shooting abilities COMPARED to 60's. GSW Chef S. Curry is so small at only 6'4" Shooting Guard, is unquestionable the GOAT SHOOTER. Basketball as we know has always been a BIG TALL MAN GAME, but Air Mike, and NOW Chef Curry is changing the game,.NBA coaches are scatching thier brains how to BEAT THIS 3pt scoring threats by smaller/quicker players. So based on this video i am NOW looking at Wilt differently. Someone said Wilt had 4 MVPs ? What years if you know ? I still think Air Jordan is.GOAT because he has 6-Six Rings and 6-Six MVPs plus STATs 👍🏽.
@@gregcampbell3052 Yeah, if he gets deep in the paint. But if he’s not in position, he will have to work for it but it’s all speculation. We don’t know. Even Rodman delt with Shaq and sometimes did ok
@@gregcampbell3052 How? Wilt Vertical leap = 48 inches Shaq Vertical leap = 42 inches Wilt 40 yard dash = 4.4 seconds Shaq 40 yard dash = 5.8 seconds Wilt would have been far stronger and also had a bigger wingspan. Shaq would have looked like a clown compared to Wilt.
Everybody and their mom knows Wilt is the best C of all time. Dude invented the one legged post fadeaway and was doing skyhooks before Kareem was in the league. He would also hold the records for blocks and be wayyyy up there in steals.
Unfortunately Blocks & Steals were not officially documented/recorded until the 1973-74 season. But I agree, that Wilt, Russell & Kareem would likely be #1 - 3 Alltime leaders in Blocks
@@patriciamccormick9321 Ok this is where you need to stop. The "hook" motion was before Wilt but at no point in time did Wilt Ever have a "skyhook". Kareem is the only one to actually flex his wrist and snap through the shot like a pure shooter would. It's the reason that he had such ridiculous range. This is like Steph Curry learned from Kenny Sailors, there's a difference here.
@@tj5180 At no point and time did Mikan or anyone else in history every execute a skyhook with a shooters touch. Everyone has always kept the wrist cupped throughout the shot where Kareem is the sole person to snap his wrist through where the ball. His index and middle finger where the last to leave the ball, like a pure jump shot. Because of this motion he also finished it higher in his motion than anyone else making it that much harder to block. The only person to come close to Kareem's skyhook is Magic.....that's it, IMO.
You can't compare players from different times, in any sports. You can compare how they fared against their contemporaries. And with this, Wilt is ways ahead than everyone!
I met Wilt when he was inducted into the hall of fame 1978 ! Springfield Mass. I borrowed a bike at a nearby college I attended and saw him in the parking lot after the ceremony. I approached him with a torn piece of paper, he said " this all you got " but signed it ! and was cool to me ! If I knew I'd meet him I would have brought a picture of him to autograph. Saw him play often on TV against Kareem. I think rebounds and assists were " padded " back then but not points ! Yes he was the best MVP !
@@averyce2 the home teams primarily would add rebounds and assists to their star players, no doubt, there was little to no oversight up until the late seventies when the ABA merged with the NBA. No slight to Wilt he was the greatest, but Dominique's story of Wilt bench pressing 650 lbs. is hard to swallow. Those who get to that level have shorter arms and thick barrel chests so they only have to move the bar a foot or less.Wilts long arms would have him holding the 650lbs. for close to 2 feet on the way down and back up. Dominique was my favorite most exciting player to watch, saw him 3 times at MSGarden ,I have stories about him as well but this claim ...... Wilt said himself with laughter that he could bench 600lbs. but it left me wondering if he was exaggerating!!
In the 76ers era, Chamberlain was urged by the head coach to share the ball with his teammates and score more efficiently than to hold the ball, and to put more effort into the defense, while colliding with the Celtics. I like the episode where I continued to lick my tongue and decided to change my playing style and won the NBA.
has anybody ever noticed that some of Wilt's greatest highlight plays, are against Bill Russell and NONE of Russell's highlights are against Wilt hmmmm. Blocked shots, rebounds, dunks one time he almost put Russell in the basket
"He [Wilt] stopped me dead in my tracks with his arm, hugged me and lifted me off the floor with my feet dangling. It scared the hell out of me. When I went to the free-throw line, my legs were still shaking. Wilt was the strongest guy and best athlete ever to play the game." -- KC Jones
It wasn't that he was playing against bad competition. That was his contemporaries and they were the best players in the world at that time. He just happened to be the best of the best. And he dominated his era more than any other player ever. That's not his fault if guys weren't as good as him. I hate that argument.
In 1961-1962 season Wilt averaged 50.4/27.2. That season HE WAS NOT the league MVP (selected by the players back then)! He averaged 30/20 for his career basically stopping to score his last 6 seasons. No matter what he did - was never enough. Karim was never scoring AND rebounding leader during a season. Wilt did it 6 or 7 times. Most people who rank him never saw him play. I never did. But by the sheer amount of lies about him and attempts to discredit and diminish his accomplishments there is no doubt in my mind - he was by far the most dominant player to ever play in the NBA.
Wilt still holds most of the records. He was a dominant all around athlete. If Wilt played in this era with year round training and coaching he would dominate in this era as well.
Wilt was an all-around athlete. He said that he was accused of hogging the shots, so he assisted his teammates. Then they claimed that his point average was down. Can't win for losing. Wilt could bench press Shaq. Wilt could bench press six hundred and fifty pounds.
Wilt chamberlain was a true decathlon athletic that could be a Olympic gold medalist 🏅 if he applied to it, wilt was a 7'2" monster with animal like strength power, agility of a 5'6" speed , coordination, endurance and stamina of a horse 🐎, I think he could dominate any sport and he also was a very smart human being.
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on the average height of a center back then was 6 ft 10 without shoes the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes so take that into consideration wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time while still having an 82 game schedule with about 80% of the teams having a hof center this means wilt played a hof center just about every night C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons) (up to 14 times in the regular season) C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 5 times in the regular season) C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs- C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season) (Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons) (Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons) (Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons) (please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9) ALL STARS AND OTHERS: Dennis Awtrey: 7'0" Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2" Nate Bowmen: 7,0" Mel Counts: 7'1" Walter Dukes: 7'1" Jim Eakins: 6'11" Ray Felix: 6'11" Hank Finkel: 7'0" Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights) Reggie Harding: 7'0" Jim McDaniels: 7'0" Otto Moore: 6'11" Dave Newmark: 7'0" Rich Niemann: 7'0" Billy Paultz: 6'11" Craig Raymond: 6'11" Elmore Smith: 7'0" Chuck Share: 7,0 " Ronald Taylor: 7'1" Walt Wesley: 7,0" TOM PAYNE 7'4 " GREG FILLMORE 7'1 CRAIG SPITZER 7'0 LARUE MARTIN 6'11 VIC BARTOLOME 7'1 GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11 WILLIAM SMITH 7'1 (the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes) you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like: 70s fan Wilt chamberlain archive
"One time, when I was with Boston and he was with the Lakers, Happy Hairston and I were about to get in a scrape. All of a sudden, I felt an enormous vice around me. I was 6-7, 235, and Wilt had picked me up and turned me around. He said, 'We're not going to have that stuff.' I said, 'Yes sir.' -- Paul Silas
Agreed. For the NBA, Wilt and Russell are like the Titans. Bird, Magic, and MJ are the gods. And Kobe, Lebron, Stephh are the demi-gods. A mythology created in real time
@@vegadog3053 Please never forget the incomparable DR.J....poetry in motion who changed the trajectory of professional basketball...a man truly worth beyond the stats!...my opinion...
People don't realize how good he was. He could of played dominantly in his fifties. He made a prime magic get off the court with his teammates at forty blocking all shots. He would hold the block record. Averaged 8 a game even when he played as an older man. His timing and athleticism was off the charts and he played with finesse instead of power or he'd problem scored 120 in a game.
@@davidjriley no on back to back but Larry got him on the way up from behind once. Wilt was after his prime then too. He wasn't fresh as Kareem at the time. He was getting older but still the best big out there in my opinion. I also heard he was the best at forty something years old when he played pick up games against NBA champions and shit
Truth is what I believe, the reason so much of the youth today can't comprehend this kind of a talent is because many of the special player's of Wilts time from the '50s all the way until the '90s we're definitely many decade's ahead of thier time. Which is why we still haven't seen player's with such talent since.
People want to dismiss players of the past like they didn't count. Just FYI, no need to put ' for plural words. It's players and decades not player's and decade's.
Wilt is basically a taller, more athletic, more conditioned, more talented version of Shaq. Shaq got most of his points on dunks, Wilt got most of his points w/ fades. Wilt could run ppl over but he chose not to.
For about 8 years, Wilt was both the best offensive and defensive player in the league. If blocks and steals were recorded in his era he would have at least one centuple double and a dozen quadruple doubles. He would be, by far, the leader in career blocks. There was nothing he didn’t do better than Shaq.
Media gets a hard on over Kareem's skyhook and yet you can see both Wilt and Nate blocking it. Now trying blocking Wilt's fadeaway jump shot. To me that's the most unstoppable shot in basketball.
Wilt did it his way. He didn’t chase records or he would hold them all. The goat and possibly the best athlete ever. My favorite story is that Hank Stram worked him out and said he would have been the best receiver ever. The problem was that Wilt wanted to play quarterback.
I think Shaq can claim to be the second best *Laker's* center, since he played 8 seasons in his prime while Wilt effectively played his last 4 seasons with them.
@@kevinthomes1046 Shaq played with rules more suited to his brute force than Wilt did. Shaq would have been called for offensive fouls more with the 60s rules.
When they gotta change the rules to accommodate you and also make a game fair...then you are the most dominant. Rule changes include...widening the lane, instituting offensive goaltending and revising rules governing inbounding the ball and shooting free throws (Chamberlain would leap with the ball from behind the foul line to deposit the ball in the basket).
The man averaged 55 points a game for an entire season. If that doesn't do it for you he averaged 25 rebounds as well. He dominated rebounding to where his own teammates complained to the coach and GM. They said they couldn't get the stats they needed to get paid their bonuses. So management agreed to sit Wilt for 4 or 5 minute stretches during games so the power forwards could produce the numbers they needed for their bonuses.
@@ziginaigra Wilt chose to play away from the basket more because he wanted to be a skilled player rather than a brute force player. If he was playing against Shaq, and didn't have to worry about hurting him, I expect his fg percentage in those games would be higher than Shaq's. Especially since Wilt's strength would have significantly lowered Shaq's fg%.
@@UnconventionalReasoning that is just dumb ,not to use his size and strenght....50ppg with 50%fg.... imagine if any other player take that many shoots on avg in season😂
Wilt was the Jordan of centers. Wilt averaged 50 and grabbed 25rpg while playing 48 mpg in one season. (1962). One of two non guards who led the league in assist. 👍🏀
That same season his play off average dropped to 35 pts per game and no championship. Teams would key on Wilt’s glaring weaknesses, which was the free throw shooting and his flakiness
@@naturalfinish that doesn’t hurt the wilt argument it helps it. It shows he was so good they “hack a Shaq” him before hack a Shaq in order to stop him. Wilt didn’t have much help and it’s coear
He was playing against short UNathletic white men that couldn't even go between the legs or do a killer crossover.Shaq would have backed backed him down and DUNKED on him every time! cut it out!!!!!! Wilt Chamberlain overrated for the talent he was playing against
@@romaleshawn23 Lmmfao the average height in the NBA during wilts time was 6’6” tall. Today it’s 6’7” tall. Lmmfao. Shaq would have backed wilt down and dunked on him why because Shaq was stronger then him? Shaqs max bench press is 450, wilt benched 600….. Shaq dunks on him because he was bigger? Shaq came in the league are a rookie 7’1” (with shoes on) and was 250ish. Wilt was 7’1” (without shoes) and was 240. At the end of both guys career they was both over 300, more like 320. So basically same size guy but will was a lot stronger. Lmmfao looks like you lost this debat
Foul Trouble: Wilt changed the rules of the game. He was the man responsible for the goal-tending rule, lanes being widened and no inbound passes over the backboard. But in spite of rules meant to corral Chamberlain, Wilt made it his mission to never foul out of a game and, like most everything else, he was successful. “It was not by accident that I never fouled out of a game, either. I was taught early in my career by an old Philly coach that my value was on the court, not on the bench…So I worked extremely hard from making dumb, over-the-back fouls.” The whole foul thing is a game in itself but someone good at playing basketball also knows how to play the foul game.
Shaq's size (plus a bit), Kareem's finesse around the rim, Olijouwan's footwork, Mutumbo's blocking. That more or less describes Wilt. I don't even really understand why there's a discussion.
My first experience with the NBA was the 84 Draft. Coincidence? Nope. I was rooting for the Dream. I must have been 8 or 9 years old. As fate would have it, both Michael and the Dream are in my top 5 of all time. Of course I grew up thinking Michael was GOAT, till I discovered the record books. Wilt sits on top of Mt. Rushmore. He casts a shadow on the NBA. Wilt stopped scoring in his 7th season. He must have scored 30 or 33 points that season. Let that sink in. That Jordan GOAT bs must stop. Wilt is GOAT ! Lest I forget, more than a decade after Wilt retired, he played pick up basketball with a couple of college kids against Magic, Scott, Worthy (Lakers). He still beat them ! Wilt must have been 50 years old if not older. Let that sink in kids. Let that sink in. That Jordan GOAT bs has got to stop. Wilt was beyond goatness! He wasn't just strong and dominant, he was skilled.
Great video man I completely agree with you I love the clip at the beginning where Jordan is standing next to him with his head down like dude you are just gigantic
Glad to see the love to the older players in others sports the older players still get recognised as goats etc but in basketball it’s discredited because of era
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on the average height of a center back then was 6 ft 10 without shoes the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes so take that into consideration wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time while still having an 82 game schedule with about 80% of the teams having a hof center this means wilt played a hof center just about every night C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons) (up to 14 times in the regular season) C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 5 times in the regular season) C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs- C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season) (Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons) (Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons) (Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons) (please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9) ALL STARS AND OTHERS: Dennis Awtrey: 7'0" Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2" Nate Bowmen: 7,0" Mel Counts: 7'1" Walter Dukes: 7'1" Jim Eakins: 6'11" Ray Felix: 6'11" Hank Finkel: 7'0" Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights) Reggie Harding: 7'0" Jim McDaniels: 7'0" Otto Moore: 6'11" Dave Newmark: 7'0" Rich Niemann: 7'0" Billy Paultz: 6'11" Craig Raymond: 6'11" Elmore Smith: 7'0" Chuck Share: 7,0 " Ronald Taylor: 7'1" Walt Wesley: 7,0" TOM PAYNE 7'4 " GREG FILLMORE 7'1 CRAIG SPITZER 7'0 LARUE MARTIN 6'11 VIC BARTOLOME 7'1 GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11 WILLIAM SMITH 7'1 AND MOREE (the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes) you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like: 70s fan Wilt chamberlain archive
@@pioplu4803 my comment is as a wilt fan have looked into a lot of the history etc would of dominated any era could only have been better in modern era if you think about it was able to play crazy minutes with converse shoes poor rehab etc appreciate the comment must have taken a while to type haha
@@RobertSchuster68 bruh u delusional Jordan greatest season ever was a WILT normal season Jordan greatest game was a WILT normal game. This ain't even a comparison WILT was on a whole another level from everyone that ever played
@@theetruth8626 sorry dude, I was just kitting. Different time, different system, different athletic training, … but his moves and athleticism have been so much ahead of his time, that he would have been great in any era. His only problem, he was born to early. If he would have started his career in the 90ys, he would been as rich as MJ or Shaq.
@Mister T Don't you ever mention Michael and Wilt in the same breath. Or Shaq for that matter. Do you bloody understand that? There is Wilt ! And there's the NBA. Wilt was above the NBA. He's been retired for 50 years, but he still holds over 60 records. Did you just hear that? Wilt is beyond 'goatness'.
Bill Russel called Chamberlain the 8th wonder of the world, lol. If his friend and fellow legend looked at Wilt like that, well who are we mere mortals to argue? 48+ Mins. Scored over 3K in a season 3 times, one at 4,049! 23,924 career Rebounds, 55 in one game! Unstoppable.
there was a time when Wilt would look like the Greek Freak, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan. He was far too skilled to play back then. Once he started getting older and slower... and Kareem could hook shot over him and block his shots, it was too late. Kareem started looking like a younger Wilt. But his early 20's the way he could get up and down the court... always get the ball no matter the situation and out run everyone... scoring at will. It left the world in AWE. We couldn't compute what the heck was going on. There wasn't enough court for him to even look normal out there.
Wilt would’ve been dominant and amongst the best in the league in any era. He’s a 7’0er that competed in the high-jump and could lift over 600 pounds. That speaks for itself. His achievements can’t be refuted.
Yeah, but hearing people stating that the game was different... Yeah, it was different, but it was MORE difficult in many ways. It's best not to pay attention to those guys. They are also saying that people like Jordan wouldn't be able to play today. TODAY. In snowflake era. They are a joke.
Wilt was incredible in many ways; but I doubt that he benched 600 lbs. There is no real evidence of it. All that there is are stories that get passed round and round. Big time power lifters of the time barely did that. No way Wilt benched 600; especially with his body type; with those long arms.
@@anthonyjulianelle6695 You don't have evidence of anyone lifting anything. I can use plastic weights in a video of me lifting 300 pounds. You wouldn't know whether I'm really doing that. Point is, too many people testified in favor of Wilts enormous strength for that not to be true. Arnold even said that Wilt practiced certain muscle types with weights that the strongest guys in the world couldn't manage, and he did it effortlessly. So yeah, he was strong, definitely. Clearly a one in a billion athlete.
Look at his track and field statistics(incredible high jump and sprint times), the amount of weight he could move in the gym etc...he was a more athletic version of Shaq. He was much faster, stronger and weighed nearly as much. His feats in the weight room are legendary. He was an absolute beast. Give him modern day sports science, shoes, nutrition etc...he would be a dominant force in any era. He really doesnt get the credit he deserves imo.
World class athlete.... In any sport. He will always have a case for GOAT. Wilt in any other decade would be even better given new tech / ways to train, think for a second
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on the average height of a center back then was 6 ft 10 without shoes the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes so take that into consideration wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time while still having an 82 game schedule with about 80% of the teams having a hof center this means wilt played a hof center just about every night C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons) (up to 14 times in the regular season) C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 5 times in the regular season) C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs- C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season) (Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons) (Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons) (Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons) (please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9) ALL STARS AND OTHERS: Dennis Awtrey: 7'0" Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2" Nate Bowmen: 7,0" Mel Counts: 7'1" Walter Dukes: 7'1" Jim Eakins: 6'11" Ray Felix: 6'11" Hank Finkel: 7'0" Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights) Reggie Harding: 7'0" Jim McDaniels: 7'0" Otto Moore: 6'11" Dave Newmark: 7'0" Rich Niemann: 7'0" Billy Paultz: 6'11" Craig Raymond: 6'11" Elmore Smith: 7'0" Chuck Share: 7,0 " Ronald Taylor: 7'1" Walt Wesley: 7,0" TOM PAYNE 7'4 " GREG FILLMORE 7'1 CRAIG SPITZER 7'0 LARUE MARTIN 6'11 VIC BARTOLOME 7'1 GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11 WILLIAM SMITH 7'1 (the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes) you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like: 70s fan Wilt chamberlain archive
Love the content. Shaq struggled with Sabonis, Hakeem and Stanley Roberts....what do those guys have in common? Wilt would run him ragged in transition alone
Shaq to me never really played any true defense,the only time you had huge rebounding games was when you scored BIG. While playing for Orlando,Shaq was a BEAST !!! Leading the fastbreak,running the court,rebounding,attempted to play some defense.Then got that big,fat contract from the Lakers and became sloppy,fat !!! LOL. He was HUGE and not in a good way. Even Kobe was calling him out on him being FAT.Is Shaq better than Wilt,it's debatible.
Shaq to me never really played any true defense,the only time you had huge rebounding games was when you scored BIG. While playing for Orlando,Shaq was a BEAST !!! Leading the fastbreak,running the court,rebounding,attempted to play some defense.Then got that big,fat contract from the Lakers and became sloppy,fat !!! LOL. He was HUGE and not in a good way. Even Kobe was calling him out on him being FAT.Is Shaq better than Wilt,it's debatible.
Shaq to me never really played any true defense,the only time you had huge rebounding games was when you scored BIG. While playing for Orlando,Shaq was a BEAST !!! Leading the fastbreak,running the court,rebounding,attempted to play some defense.Then got that big,fat contract from the Lakers and became sloppy,fat !!! LOL. He was HUGE and not in a good way. Even Kobe was calling him out on him being FAT.Is Shaq better than Wilt,it's debatible.
@@powerbad696 WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on the average height of a center back then was 6 ft 10 without shoes the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes so take that into consideration wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time while still having an 82 game schedule with about 80% of the teams having a hof center this means wilt played a hof center just about every night C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons) (up to 14 times in the regular season) C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 5 times in the regular season) C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons) (up to 10 times a season) C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs- C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons) (up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season) (Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons) (Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons) (Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons) (please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9) ALL STARS AND OTHERS: Dennis Awtrey: 7'0" Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2" Nate Bowmen: 7,0" Mel Counts: 7'1" Walter Dukes: 7'1" Jim Eakins: 6'11" Ray Felix: 6'11" Hank Finkel: 7'0" Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights) Reggie Harding: 7'0" Jim McDaniels: 7'0" Otto Moore: 6'11" Dave Newmark: 7'0" Rich Niemann: 7'0" Billy Paultz: 6'11" Craig Raymond: 6'11" Elmore Smith: 7'0" Chuck Share: 7,0 " Ronald Taylor: 7'1" Walt Wesley: 7,0" TOM PAYNE 7'4 " GREG FILLMORE 7'1 CRAIG SPITZER 7'0 LARUE MARTIN 6'11 VIC BARTOLOME 7'1 GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11 WILLIAM SMITH 7'1 (the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes) you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like: 70s fan Wilt chamberlain archive
I tell the youngsters who think that Lebron or MJ are the greatest ever that I saw guys that they never did, such as Wilt, Baylor, Oscar, Kareem, Bird, Magic, McAdoo, West, Erving, Gervin, Hayes, Havlicek, Barry, Dominique, Bernard King etc.. So having watched the NBA since the late 60's, my choice for the greatest is Wilt Chamberlain...
@Johnny Reed You're dead wrong ! Wilt was better the a mere GOAT. Wilt was that guy. Wilt was beyond 'goatness' ! Wilt sits on top of that bloody Mt. Rushmore. That Jordan GOAT bs has to stop.
@@emperordante8948 , right next to him is the great, great Elgin Baylor, another truly transcendent player, who had an elite all around game and was highly athletic and virtually unguardable. Him and Wilt were truly special.
Wilt Chamberlain IS the best basketball player there has ever been. A 20 year old Wilt could dominate in the NBA right now... especially with all the cream puff rules in today's game. Nobody else will ever be able to match all the amazing things Wilt was able to do.
Wilt was legendary but I always take into account that he played at 7’1/280+ in an era where the average center was 6’9/230 and the average power forward was 6’7/216. In Shaqs era the average center was 6’11/250 And the average power forward was 6’9/230 so basically all the power forwards in Shaq’s era would be centers in Wilts. Wilt was ahead of his time and that’s not his fault but that detail still matters.
@@cediep0tp0t32 Look up all these players. Wilt's Playoff Competition(# of series out of 29) Russell: 8 (GOAT, MVP, Top 75) Kareem: 2 (GOAT, MVP, Top 75) Thurmond: 3 (Top 75) Reed: 3 (MVP, Top 75) Beatty/Bellamy/Embry: 4 (HOF) Others: 9(Lucas was a Top 75 player but better known as a forward, even though he played center when Reed was injured) 10/29 GOAT level(34%) 13/29 MVP level(45%) 16/29 Top 75(55%) 59% if you count Lucas 21/29 HOF(72%) Finals Competition 2/6 GOAT level(33%) 4/6 MVP level(67%) 5/6 Top 75(83%) 100% if you count Lucas 6/6 HOF(100%) One year, he faced Lucas and Debusschere, who were both Top 75 players, but better known as forwards. Others: Kerr, Halbrook, Clifford Ray, Boerwinkle, Fox, Dierking On the teams without a star center, they usually had 2 or 3 centers playing in rotation.
Shaq isn't even 7 foot tall barefoot. Those 60's heights are barefoot. Hakeem and Ewing are basically the same height as Russell. Hakeem is no where near 7 foot. Watch "Wilt meets Shaq and Ewing". Wilt towers over Ewing and Ewing is a half inch taller than Hakeem. They started inflating players heights in the mid-70's.
since they started measuring nba players barefoot again, average starting center height is a half inch higher than it was in the 60s. Don't follow this common misleading centers weren't big in 60s and Wilts competition was low.
@@spaltersar it’s not hype I looked it up myself. The average center was 6’9 230 in wilts era, and 6’11 250 in Shaq’s.. even without shoes they’re still much bigger. It’s really the power forwards from the 2000s would be centers in the 60s if shaq was the only guy in the nba over 6’11/250 and only faced power forwards. He’d average 40-50 pts too
Who remembers Steph Curry passing Wilt to become all time leading scorer for the Warriors? It only took Curry something like 13 years with a lot of 3's. To pass Wilts 5 years. I don't care what era Wilt dominates in any era.
And a shit ton of free throws as well.
@@ZappakeR Yeah..maybe THE ONE THING Wilt Chamberlain wasn't great at...
@@brettrobinson2901 he used to be awesome at free throws, but then the NBA outlawed dunking from the free throw line during free throws. That brought Wilt's FT% waaayyyy down.
@@ZappakeR great point.
@@brettrobinson2901 but when needed he his percentage was better. Besides when you score as much as Wilt on and off the court some aspects will be lacking a little lol.
We can argue who is the all time best all day long, but can we agree that Wilt set the standard? Give those who blazed the trail the respect they deserve.
Nope. Bill Russell did
@@chadsevedra925 NOPE HORRY DID
HORRRY >> JORDAN
Jordan is the greater then wilt because Jordan has more skill n a bigger impact on the game… greatness is measured in many ways. As a full body of work there no player in history that impact the games as Jordan did.
@@leog9844 JORDAN HAVE MORE SKILLS ?? FUNNY CAUSE WILT WS HOF IN HARLEM GLOBE T'S . KNOWN AS MOST SKILLED TEAM EVER. STOP LIE HERE !!
@@leog9844 JORDAN IMPACT ON WHAT ON SCORING ONLY ??? U LIAR.
Wilt was a beast and would be in any era. His athleticism was beyond any center ever. Thanks for giving him his props.
He also still has the strongest bench press ever. Beats Shaq (#2 all-time at 450 lb) by 50 lb. Dude was a Demi-god
Facts!!!
THERE IS NO WAY SHAQ WAS MORE DOMINANT THAN WILT.
Duh.....7 foot 1, lol
@@pickzkickz and tacko falls is 7’6 so why isn’t he good
When you consider what Wilt did in track and field, volleyball, and the fact that he never got too fat for his legs to hold him up, he is a greater athlete than shaq. He was stronger. He jumped higher. he ran faster. he was still competitive in professional sports when he was almost 50. It's really no contest .
not sure if it's true, but i just read that Wilt could still bench 465 at age 59!
@@SpeedOfThought1111 if you seen how big he was when magic played you thick twice .they have a video of him benching
From my understanding off of various videos I ve watched about Wilt he had NBA teams trying to get him to sign when he was around 50. In his 40's he shut Magic down during a pick up game at the UCLA practice courts. Just sad that Wilt and Bill's era gets so disrespected now.
Yes. He was still getting phone calls from teams at 50 to come out of retirement. Shaq was scared of Wilt when he was alive. Shaq has only been scared of 2 people in his life. His daddy, and Wilt Chamberlain.
You're insulting Wilt by comparing O'Neill to him.
This guy didn't take any time off. Played all game every game. No scheduled days off or not playing because he had a boo boo like today's players. He beat Jim Brown in a foot race, had a 48 inch verticle, could bench 600 lbs, ran the 440 in 49 seconds, track and field star, drafted by the Kansas City Chiefs, played professional volleyball in his 40s, holds 70 NBA records many of which will never be broken. One of a kind freak athlete. No one like him.
had a torn meniscus and still played in the Finals.
Played professionally as a teen under false name
He didn't take any time off and played all games. Now on top of that, off-court he scored 20,000 lifetime record sleeping with women. Mere mortal or Zeus?
The best. End of story. He would have eaten Shaq alive. Great post Frank !
And never fouled out!!
When I was a kid, Bird and Magic we're #1. Got to highschool, Jordan was #1. I remember asking my dad if he also thought Jordan was the best of all time, he said no. "Then who was?" I asked. He said "Wilt the Stilt. He was unstoppable and could lead the league in either scoring, rebounds, or assists whenever he wanted"
I always thought pistol Pete and Paul westphal were as great as bird.they said that westphal was probably the best guard in the league from 76 to 80
Marc! You should quit thinking.
The real 🐏 Ram..fck a 🐐 goat....
@@marcconnelly5652 bird was the best of those 3 then Pete then paul
@@senseichess8688 no way.i I wish westphal and pistol Pete played with Bird when they were in the 70s.bird couldn't dribble as good as them.plus bird was a forward.
Just the fact he averaged 48 mins a game is ridiculous! Basketball evolved from a playground game to a battle of warriors! Defenses, offenses, statistics and NBA rules changed because of Wilt Chamberlain. Anyone who watches basketball owes Wilt EVERYTHING!!!
Facts!...Just FACTS!👍
He averaged 48 minutes per game average for 3 consecutive seasons
Wilt and Jordan the 2 most impactful players the game has ever seen.
💯💯💯💯💯
Well it's devolved back to a playground game now.
Great homage to Wilt. He left us too soon and he's greatly missed but his presence is always felt whenever there's talk about the greatest basketball players or athletes who ever lived.
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME
AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES
the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes
now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on
the average height of a center back then was
6 ft 10 without shoes
the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes
so take that into consideration
wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight
Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time
while still having an 82 game schedule
with about 80% of the teams having a hof center
this means wilt played a hof center just about every night
C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons)
(up to 14 times in the regular season)
C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 5 times in the regular season)
C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs-
C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs
C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs
C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season)
(Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons)
(Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons)
(please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9)
ALL STARS AND OTHERS:
Dennis Awtrey: 7'0"
Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2"
Nate Bowmen: 7,0"
Mel Counts: 7'1"
Walter Dukes: 7'1"
Jim Eakins: 6'11"
Ray Felix: 6'11"
Hank Finkel: 7'0"
Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights)
Reggie Harding: 7'0"
Jim McDaniels: 7'0"
Otto Moore: 6'11"
Dave Newmark: 7'0"
Rich Niemann: 7'0"
Billy Paultz: 6'11"
Craig Raymond: 6'11"
Elmore Smith: 7'0"
Chuck Share: 7,0 "
Ronald Taylor: 7'1"
Walt Wesley: 7,0"
TOM PAYNE 7'4 "
GREG FILLMORE 7'1
CRAIG SPITZER 7'0
LARUE MARTIN 6'11
VIC BARTOLOME 7'1
GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11
WILLIAM SMITH 7'1
(the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes)
you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like:
70s fan
Wilt chamberlain archive
Wilt was basketball's Zeus, clearly the real GOAT. Still holding 72 NBA records 50 yrs after his retirement. He had all of Duncan's moves before Duncan with greater agility and strength. So yeah, prime Wilt could dominate in any era of basketball. Not to mention avg. 30 pts 28 rebs life-time against Russell. And Bill Russell would outclass a lot of centers and powerforwards in the 75th team.
72 records that are "shown" this doesn't even include the fact the NBA never kept track of or aknowledged blocks and steals as a stat but in his last 2-3 or 4 yearss a highly respected NBA statistician kept track of his blocks he averaged 8.8 blocks per game and half of that was after a massive knee surgery. he was seen blocking 26 shots against the pistons once, a televised game that is recorded and people saw on christmas one year he blocked 23. wilt would easily have every single blocking record known toman with maybe the remeaining few going to russell. . now add in the records for double doubles, triple doubles, quadruople doulbe s and quinitiple doubles to that
@@Johnadams20760 Said statistician (Harvey Pollack, I believe) also recorded 11 steals for Wilt in one of those games. I'm not sure that's Wilt's highest steal count, but that game is where he registered a quintuple-double for Wilt.
So true
Wilt was so strong that Arnold had to ask him to stop coming to his gym because everyone would stop working out to watch. He used to bench 650 before games because that’s all the weights they had in the facility. Russell famously said, that Wilt had to hold back for fear of hurting his opponents. There has never been a player that compared to him. High jumper, hurdler, and in his late 40’s he was acknowledged as the greatest volleyball player in the world. Lebron is a physical phenomenon, but there are no words for Wilt except super human.
One big difference between Chamberlin and Russell. Chamberlin won 2 rings, Russell won 11 rings.
People could argue that training and skills weren’t as good back then, but his sheer athleticism and finesse would translate to any era and he would still dominate.
I always say look at the racehorse Secretariat from 1973, he still holds the record for fastest time in all three triple crown races. I think Wilt was that type of athlete.
@@nhardman Watch him score. He wasn't just athletic. He had a natural talent with the ball. He had a touch that Shaq, Dwight Howard, and Duncan never had.
Exactly if any great athlete was born to play in this era they would still be athletically dominate with access to today’s training science
There was still a lot of good players and good athletes from when Chamberlain played rest assured
@@nhardmanit wasn't a different game, it's evolved but you gotta get rebounds make passes hit shots.
The NBA and NCAA literally changed the rules of the game to make it harder for Wilt.
Kareem NCAA
That's the one point that basketball aficionados seem to breezily overlook every time they get into a heated debate about the GOAT. People forget that competitors/rivals, and the authorities who dictated the rules of engagement on the court were, absolutely terrified of Wilt. There simply was no other player who had this kind of effect on all concerned. Wilt was/is the GOAT.
@@user-ps55619 I agree thus changing of the rules
And easy for everyone else
"They made the rule harder for me but easier for you." Wilt said that to certain someone.
Wilt was the MOST DOMINANT PLAYER OF ALL TIME!!!..He ran track, high jump and volleyball. Don't think any player any era could hold Wilt.💯💯💯
Dominated in the shot-put, as well.
That's easy when your a foot taller than everyone else you played against... Shaq was more Dominant.. We're talking about a 7'1 330 pound man that had the agility of a cat..Wilt was not stopping Shaq
@@AnthonyScarpa-er3sq haha if shaq was a cat then wilt was a cat on steroids. he could run faster, jump higher, had more stamina, was a better defender, stronger.. shaq never faced anyone that he couldn't physically dominate and wilt is probably the only player in history that was his physical superior. wilt would toy with him. and he holds 70+ NBA records to this day, who was more dominant is not even a question, shaq himself puts wilt over him.
@@AnthonyScarpa-er3sq wilt Chamberlain would block everything o Neal would attempt to put up wit ☝️
The argument that Wilt was a foot taller than anyone he played against just doesn’t hold water. There were far fewer teams in the NBA and every team had a TRUE center that was 6’9-6’11. And at least 7 of them are in the HOF. Look it up!
People forget how dominant Wilt was, yes there have been strong Centers but Wilt is a legend
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME
AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES
the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes
now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on
the average height of a center back then was
6 ft 10 without shoes
the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes
so take that into consideration
wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight
Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time
while still having an 82 game schedule
with about 80% of the teams having a hof center
this means wilt played a hof center just about every night
C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons)
(up to 14 times in the regular season)
C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 5 times in the regular season)
C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs-
C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs
C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs
C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season)
(Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons)
(Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons)
(please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9)
ALL STARS AND OTHERS:
Dennis Awtrey: 7'0"
Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2"
Nate Bowmen: 7,0"
Mel Counts: 7'1"
Walter Dukes: 7'1"
Jim Eakins: 6'11"
Ray Felix: 6'11"
Hank Finkel: 7'0"
Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights)
Reggie Harding: 7'0"
Jim McDaniels: 7'0"
Otto Moore: 6'11"
Dave Newmark: 7'0"
Rich Niemann: 7'0"
Billy Paultz: 6'11"
Craig Raymond: 6'11"
Elmore Smith: 7'0"
Chuck Share: 7,0 "
Ronald Taylor: 7'1"
Walt Wesley: 7,0"
TOM PAYNE 7'4 "
GREG FILLMORE 7'1
CRAIG SPITZER 7'0
LARUE MARTIN 6'11
VIC BARTOLOME 7'1
GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11
WILLIAM SMITH 7'1
(the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes)
you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like:
70s fan
Wilt chamberlain archive
@@pioplu4803 THANX SPIT FACTS
LEBRON AND AD BEAT ROCKETS TALLEST PLAYER WAS CENTER PJ TUCKER, WESTBROOK PLAYED PF HARDEN SF. ERIC GORDON WAS 6'2 PG. CAPELA WAS SENT TO HAWKS. SO ROCKETS LINEUP WAS UNDER 6'6.
Artis Gilmore was the second strongest player behind Wilt.robert parish played against both Shaq and Gilmore and he said Gilmore was stronger.even Domique Wilkins thought that Gilmore was the strongest player he's ever seen
@@marcconnelly5652 u have to remember Robert and other centers was hating on Shaq during those times it could be toss up who is the second strongest center between Shaq or Gilmore
People are choosing to forget because Wilt being the phenom he was, does not support other arguments.
Wilt after only 14 seasons is still the all-time leader in rebounds.
He never played 14 full seasons!
Somewhere in UA-cam land there’s a video about a young MVP Magic Johnson organizing a pickup game with an old Wilt. Magic’s team had 4 other future hall of famers. Against them was an old Wilt and unimpressive players. After the first half, Wilt told Magic’s super team they’d never make another layup. Old Wilt lived up to his word and kept young MVP Magic with his future hall of famers from making a single layup. After seeing this all questions about who is the GOAT were settled in my mind.
Jerry Brown telling that story Wilt and 4 college kids against Magic and the starting lineup of Lakers champ team. 13-0. 50 yr old Wilt BLOCKED EVERY SHOT !
Shah’s work ethic was sub standard. Wilt was a legendary physical specimen his entire career
Shaq was lazy. He would of been a much better domiant player if he worked out.
@@TheMasterAtNothing only similarly was neither could hit a foul shot.
Shaq was not in wilts league. Orlando shaq was his peak and still no where near as good or as dominant as wilts final year
shaq used to be skinny in college and in his first nba season then he gained a lot of weight
@@MrBez007 Thank you. I don’t know where Shaq gets this idea that he could f-k with Wilt. He ain’t nowhere as good as he thinks and that’s why Barkley clowned him for it. He think just because he got four rings, on teams that had two of the 3 best shooting guards in history, that he can hold a torch to Wilt?? The same Wilt that averaged 48 minutes in one season?? Come on man
Shaq is just salty 🧂 😂
Not even interested in basketball but watching Wilt block Kareem's hook shot was pretty incredible.
I remember seeing a highlight of wilt blocking it literally twice in a row ON THE SAME PLAY. Kareem looked shaken, like he had no idea what to do if someone could stop that shot.
To top it off, that was an "old" Wilt that did that. @@chitownsuperfan
Wilt knock the air out of the jabber skyhook shot
@@LoydKline-uw4no wow that's funny ☝️🤨
@@chitownsuperfan yeah but wilt was only one the few who could block that shot along with Nate Thurman hard shot to stop coming from the great jab bar
Wilt was larger than life and bigger than basketball. They had to constrain him by rules to allow for competition. Nobody was as dominant. He still holds an astonishing number of records.
Over 70 records yet and it would be more if they kept steals and blocked shots back then. Jordan never held more than 26.
This is the comparison Wilt Chamberlain played against guys that was in the fifth grade Shaq played against guys that was pro
@@ronnieturner3110 BULLSHITT
@@ronnieturner3110 I actually think that Wilt was born to play basketball. He would have exceeded expectations in any era. I believe he never really was shaped by the best coach. Nobody had as much raw talent before or since.
Which of course is a joke. He faced better talent on a nightly basis, in part because there were only a third of the teams in the league then. As a result he faced Russell, Thurmond, Beatty, Bellamy and later Reed and Unseld 12 times each, annually.
Wilt was the most dominant player of all time. I saw him in Philly play in HS, with the Globe Trotters, the Warriors and the 76ers. I met him a number of times throughout and after his career. He was a true gentleman and a super athlete. I saw him play volleyball and he was unbelievably overpowering on offense and defense. He was truly one of a kind.
Also, Wilt never fouled out of a game and played every minute of many games.
How do you rate Bill Russell?
@@michaelcorenzwit8118 That just proves how inflated his stats are. Put him in todays league playing 45 minutes and your team won't win a single game. Back then you just fed the ball to the big man and won.
@@stephen8797 not inflated. that makes it even MORE impressive. today's athletes are pathetci whiners who are prima donnas who get all that modern dient and trining and can't perform after 38 minutes of playing lol. wilt did int in the faststed pace era ever and never wore down. and still shot a very high percentage among thehighest ever even after all that time on the court.
@@stephen8797 Sure, except Wilt was always an assist leader in the league, leading the league in that category at least once. He had the ball in his hands a lot, but he wasn't the only weapon on those teams.
Wilt led the league in assists just because he felt like it. GOAT.
I didn't know _anyone_ thought Shaq was better than Wilt.
Love it Bruh!
Because his team needed it. Coach told him they needed to spread the ball around to win, so he did and they did. I was lucky enough to see him play. It was almost unfair how good he was. But there was always the Celtics.
@@joemagarac405 the 67 Philadelphia 76 er
@@JosephScott-ct9sw, only Shaq thinks he is better than Wilt, but Shaq is delusional.
Wilt The GOAT🤟🏼🏀
Accept NO SUBSTITUTES!👍
mine too
Often imitated never duplicated!
Wilt combo of strength, speed, size, jumping, stamina is still unmatched . ...he also kept himself in great shape to play 46 minutes for 82 games unlike shaq
48.5 minutes a game - something shaq did/could not do!
Shaq could not even do what Wilt did in 37 MPG.
With all of Wilt’s offensive prowess I think people tend to overlook his defensive skills. I remember watching him as a Laker. He owned the key and anybody entering was probably going to get their shot swatted out of bounds. The battles he had with Kareem, Willis Reid, Nate Thurmond and Bill Russell we’re to me the most exciting matchups in all of sports. He is the greatest center of all time both offensively and defensively.
Wilt scored 40l points grabbed 20 rebounds and blocked 15 shots every day that's 100points from one person to
watch a whole bunch of Wilt's early film clips.
Wilt had a complete game. Dribbling end to end with finish.
Shots from way outside. Dominating against other 7 footers.
The list goes on. I used to be glued to the TV as a kid watching Wilt and West play.
Great, great memories.
And other Hall of famers
When u speak of his dribbling, remember he was a Globe Trotter at one point.
@@squireboi318 wilt can do tricks with the basketball 🤣☝️
A lot of All Stars and hall of famers back then 🙄☝️
@@AnthonyRobinson-dc3pq I don’t know but what I’m saying is he had to have some type of handles. lol
Easily the greatest physical specimen of an athlete to ever live. Faster than prime LeBron, Stronger than Prime Shaq, with endurance & stamina no one else has even come remotely close to achieving. Truly the best.
Wilt and company gave me my first heartbreak as a youngster when his 76ers beat my Warriors and it stung even more considering he used store a Warrior 3 seasons before. He was so good and aathlete and had the stamina of a thoroughbred! Hell, he'd make Genghis Kahn think twice. Shaq's size made him great, but Wilt and Jim Thorpe were 2 of the greatest athletes ever.
Bombaata got in the volleyball hall of fame, after his hof career in basketball. Nobody else in the conversation. One quote from a journalist i like, that describes Wilt at 50 years old: "As athletic as Zeus."
Bombaata...Conan the Destroyer lol
Just to show how much a freak he was, the guy ran a full marathon a week or two before his fatal heart attack.
TO BE NAMED THE GOAT AMONG THE goats - is the greatest honor to be given.
My favorite quote from Chamberlain on why Jordan couldn't be the NBA goat was this one, “The difference between you and me is that they had to change the rules for me so I couldn't dominate. They changed the rules so that you could.”
I saw him play, I was a big Basketball fan growing up in New York. He was incredible. He was legend in Rucker Park, and in the NBA. I believe he also played for the Globetrotters too, unbelievable Legend! Good video, thank you!
Good to see this video put together as I believe Wilt is the most disrespected player now with the people arguing about Lebron and MJ being the GOAT or saying Russell is because hie "team" won more titles. This guy today would be best Athlete in the NBA, he had the speed of Hakeem, the power of Shaq, the hops of Dominique Wilkins and endurance like no other.
Neither MJ nor LeBron were, are, or could be as valuable to a basketball team as the greatest centers (or point guards) who've ever played were a their peaks. Wilt, Kareem, Moses Malone, Hakeem, Ewing, Robinson, and Shaq were all more valuable than Jordan and LeBron.
@@merlball8520 You mentioned Moses Malone, he is very disrespected also. He was ferocious on the offensive boards. Wish he and Barkley could have played together in their primes, the other team would never get a rebound -lol
Shaq was great because of his body weight, and strength. He moved well for a big man. He was able to dominate because of that but Wilt was a better all around player and his numbers and video clips proves that
Shaq love too many Krispy Cream and got fat and out of shape. Kobe would get totally frustrated with Shaq because of his conditioning. Wilt bench press 650 lbs and 600 at age 59. High jump in college ran the 400 meters on the Kansas University track team. Played the whole game all 48 minutes 82 game season for 13 seasons and never fouled out of the game. He would expend so much energy that half time he would eat a whole two layer cake or consume a whole apple pie. Sometimes on the off season he would water fast for 10 days at a time. ALWAY in shape and condition, no "load management" a very kind but confident man. A man who holds all the records and could play in any Era. Also the first player in the NBA to get $2 million dollar contract. Champion volleyball player at age 53. Stop it and do your homework Shaq knows who Wolt really was.
Peace.
@@shafiqshabazz2462 , you know i "almost" believe until you said "82" games 🤦🏻♂️. As i read history., there were.only "62" games during that time ... yeah i am having a hard time seeing Wilt all that, BECAUSE i only started watching NBA in late 70s till now 2022, and watched Jabbar, Shaq, Olajuwan, Ewing,and Giannis as greatest 🏀 CENTERs .. and hearing many stories of Jabbar, not really hearing much about Wilt except as a name in cartoon Harlen Gobotrers .... and my relatives did not really like Wilt because they say Wilt was a ONE MAN TEAM, only "give me the ball" pushing his teamates, did not like sharing the ball, like Kobe-Mamba. Well i am only 60, and my Uncles played street TEAM basketball in the 60s-70s, in my island Guam, most of them dead now, they be like 76+ age older if still alive. Everyone i know (and read/see on ESPN, Sports illustrated, Bleacher, forgot the 4th name), reported by "paid professionals writers/reporters said SHAQ is the MOST DOMINANT CENTER IN NBA HISTORY, and the thing is "i saw it" , and to include NBA COACHES said "they do NOT have an answer to BEAT SHAQ. But NOW watching this video, i just do not really know, but hearing Jabbar talk about Wilt is AMAZING. I know that Wilt only have 2 Rings, and many record breaking, BUT LETS FACE IT "RINGS and STATs are IMPORTANT" to be in "TOP 10 NBA GOAT" between over 75 years of NBA players, that is a lot of PLAYERS to compare against. You can NOT. ignor that pass 6-7 years, the NBA players are FASTER, QUICKER. HIGH FLYING ABOVE RIM!, SLAM DUNKING ACROBATIC MOVEs, and absolutely crazy amazing shooting abilities COMPARED to 60's. GSW Chef S. Curry is so small at only 6'4" Shooting Guard, is unquestionable the GOAT SHOOTER. Basketball as we know has always been a BIG TALL MAN GAME, but Air Mike, and NOW Chef Curry is changing the game,.NBA coaches are scatching thier brains how to BEAT THIS 3pt scoring threats by smaller/quicker players. So based on this video i am NOW looking at Wilt differently.
Someone said Wilt had 4 MVPs ? What years if you know ?
I still think Air Jordan is.GOAT because he has 6-Six Rings and 6-Six MVPs plus STATs 👍🏽.
Shaq would destroy wilt in both of their primes
@@gregcampbell3052 Yeah, if he gets deep in the paint. But if he’s not in position, he will have to work for it but it’s all speculation. We don’t know. Even Rodman delt with Shaq and sometimes did ok
@@gregcampbell3052 How?
Wilt Vertical leap = 48 inches
Shaq Vertical leap = 42 inches
Wilt 40 yard dash = 4.4 seconds
Shaq 40 yard dash = 5.8 seconds
Wilt would have been far stronger and also had a bigger wingspan.
Shaq would have looked like a clown compared to Wilt.
Everybody and their mom knows Wilt is the best C of all time. Dude invented the one legged post fadeaway and was doing skyhooks before Kareem was in the league. He would also hold the records for blocks and be wayyyy up there in steals.
Kareem learned the skyhook by watching Wilt. There is a video of him talking about it.
Unfortunately Blocks & Steals were not officially documented/recorded until the 1973-74 season. But I agree, that Wilt, Russell & Kareem would likely be #1 - 3 Alltime leaders in Blocks
@@patriciamccormick9321 Ok this is where you need to stop. The "hook" motion was before Wilt but at no point in time did Wilt Ever have a "skyhook". Kareem is the only one to actually flex his wrist and snap through the shot like a pure shooter would. It's the reason that he had such ridiculous range. This is like Steph Curry learned from Kenny Sailors, there's a difference here.
@@billsikes4007 George mikan was one of the guys who did the hook. Apparently there was a interview from kareem talking about it
@@tj5180 At no point and time did Mikan or anyone else in history every execute a skyhook with a shooters touch. Everyone has always kept the wrist cupped throughout the shot where Kareem is the sole person to snap his wrist through where the ball. His index and middle finger where the last to leave the ball, like a pure jump shot. Because of this motion he also finished it higher in his motion than anyone else making it that much harder to block. The only person to come close to Kareem's skyhook is Magic.....that's it, IMO.
Wilt is a mythical legend who's presence will radiate though all times. Always fascinating.
You can't compare players from different times, in any sports. You can compare how they fared against their contemporaries. And with this, Wilt is ways ahead than everyone!
I met Wilt when he was inducted into the hall of fame 1978 ! Springfield Mass. I borrowed a bike at a nearby college I attended and saw him in the parking lot after the ceremony. I approached him with a torn piece of paper, he said " this all you got " but signed it ! and was cool to me ! If I knew I'd meet him I would have brought a picture of him to autograph. Saw him play often on TV against Kareem. I think rebounds and assists were " padded " back then but not points ! Yes he was the best MVP !
What do U mean by padded?
@@averyce2 the home teams primarily would add rebounds and assists to their star players, no doubt, there was little to no oversight up until the late seventies when the ABA merged with the NBA. No slight to Wilt he was the greatest, but Dominique's story of Wilt bench pressing 650 lbs. is hard to swallow. Those who get to that level have shorter arms and thick barrel chests so they only have to move the bar a foot or less.Wilts long arms would have him holding the 650lbs. for close to 2 feet on the way down and back up. Dominique was my favorite most exciting player to watch, saw him 3 times at MSGarden ,I have stories about him as well but this claim ......
Wilt said himself with laughter that he could bench 600lbs. but it left me wondering if he was exaggerating!!
In the 76ers era, Chamberlain was urged by the head coach to share the ball with his teammates and score more efficiently than to hold the ball, and to put more effort into the defense, while colliding with the Celtics. I like the episode where I continued to lick my tongue and decided to change my playing style and won the NBA.
I heard the same thing from my Uncles, i think he scared his teamates to give him the ball so only him can score, 🤦🏻♂️.
has anybody ever noticed that some of Wilt's greatest highlight plays, are against Bill Russell and NONE of Russell's highlights are against Wilt hmmmm. Blocked shots, rebounds, dunks one time he almost put Russell in the basket
Wilt did the whole league like that
"He [Wilt] stopped me dead in my tracks with his arm, hugged me and lifted me off the floor with my feet dangling. It scared the hell out of me. When I went to the free-throw line, my legs were still shaking. Wilt was the strongest guy and best athlete ever to play the game." -- KC
Jones
It's likely there will never be another athlete like Wilt... Shaq was great, but Wilt was superhuman!
O Neal is no wilt 🤨
Early 1960s wilt, unbeatable arm wrestling, bench press 500 pounds with reps etc etc
It wasn't that he was playing against bad competition. That was his contemporaries and they were the best players in the world at that time. He just happened to be the best of the best. And he dominated his era more than any other player ever. That's not his fault if guys weren't as good as him. I hate that argument.
Yeah, if it was so easy why didn't anybody else do it?
@@chizorama Facts!...Wilt WAS ONE OF A KIND!...like Jim Brown, ALI, Babe Ruth, Barry Sanders...
@@brettrobinson2901 Pelé as well
And lost to the playoffs most of the time
@@cediep0tp0t32 Please be mindful...basketball is a team sport unlike tennis!!!
In 1961-1962 season Wilt averaged 50.4/27.2. That season HE WAS NOT the league MVP (selected by the players back then)! He averaged 30/20 for his career basically stopping to score his last 6 seasons. No matter what he did - was never enough. Karim was never scoring AND rebounding leader during a season. Wilt did it 6 or 7 times. Most people who rank him never saw him play. I never did. But by the sheer amount of lies about him and attempts to discredit and diminish his accomplishments there is no doubt in my mind - he was by far the most dominant player to ever play in the NBA.
Wilt still holds most of the records. He was a dominant all around athlete. If Wilt played in this era with year round training and coaching he would dominate in this era as well.
Wilt is the biggest athletic freak in NBA history - especially for the time in which he played
Wilt was an all-around athlete. He said that he was accused of hogging the shots, so he assisted his teammates. Then they claimed that his point average was down. Can't win for losing. Wilt could bench press Shaq. Wilt could bench press six hundred and fifty pounds.
Six hundred and fifty pounds is TWO Shaqs!
Wilt is a fucking beast
@@johnanderson9765 I stand corrected. With one arm.
@@johnanderson9765 The way Shaq is going it may only be 1.5
it's known that he may have exaggerated his lifts in the gym, he was a nice guy but something of an insufferable boaster and braggart
He will always be my favorite player nobody could stand up to this MAN. Nobody no Shaquille no Michael hell no Kobe
Wilt chamberlain was a true decathlon athletic that could be a Olympic gold medalist 🏅 if he applied to it, wilt was a 7'2" monster with animal like strength power, agility of a 5'6" speed , coordination, endurance and stamina of a horse 🐎, I think he could dominate any sport and he also was a very smart human being.
Wilt was an alien! He was 100 years ahead of his time
Good that you made this video. One on one and in every category Wilt is the GOAT!
"Me and Wilt scored 102 points!"
Never heard of that one. Great line! Kudos to the guy that said it! :D
I guess that a teammate of Wilt's who sat the bench for that entire game could say, "Me and Wilt scored 100 pts)
Paige in baseball told his teammates to set down he got this .same thing with wilt . Jordan one in a million Chamberlain on in a billion
Wilt was an incredible basketball player.
Any young fan who disregards Wilt’s importance and his utter dominance is doing themselves a disservice. He was a monolith.
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME
AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES
the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes
now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on
the average height of a center back then was
6 ft 10 without shoes
the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes
so take that into consideration
wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight
Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time
while still having an 82 game schedule
with about 80% of the teams having a hof center
this means wilt played a hof center just about every night
C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons)
(up to 14 times in the regular season)
C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 5 times in the regular season)
C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs-
C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs
C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs
C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season)
(Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons)
(Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons)
(please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9)
ALL STARS AND OTHERS:
Dennis Awtrey: 7'0"
Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2"
Nate Bowmen: 7,0"
Mel Counts: 7'1"
Walter Dukes: 7'1"
Jim Eakins: 6'11"
Ray Felix: 6'11"
Hank Finkel: 7'0"
Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights)
Reggie Harding: 7'0"
Jim McDaniels: 7'0"
Otto Moore: 6'11"
Dave Newmark: 7'0"
Rich Niemann: 7'0"
Billy Paultz: 6'11"
Craig Raymond: 6'11"
Elmore Smith: 7'0"
Chuck Share: 7,0 "
Ronald Taylor: 7'1"
Walt Wesley: 7,0"
TOM PAYNE 7'4 "
GREG FILLMORE 7'1
CRAIG SPITZER 7'0
LARUE MARTIN 6'11
VIC BARTOLOME 7'1
GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11
WILLIAM SMITH 7'1
(the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes)
you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like:
70s fan
Wilt chamberlain archive
Great video and I loved Bill Russell's commentary on this.
"One time, when I was with Boston and he was with the Lakers, Happy Hairston and I were about to get in a scrape.
All of a sudden, I felt an enormous vice around me. I was 6-7, 235, and Wilt had picked me up and turned me around. He said, 'We're not going to have that stuff.' I said,
'Yes sir.' -- Paul Silas
Wilt is like a legend, a Titan, a mythical being. Except for today we have it on video.
Agreed. For the NBA, Wilt and Russell are like the Titans. Bird, Magic, and MJ are the gods. And Kobe, Lebron, Stephh are the demi-gods.
A mythology created in real time
@@vegadog3053 Please never forget the incomparable DR.J....poetry in motion who changed the trajectory of professional basketball...a man truly worth beyond the stats!...my opinion...
@@brettrobinson2901 facts
Hahahah, the first clip. Wilt pulling a Alpha move on alpha Michael Jordan. Michael's reaction is perfect!
That was a cool moment
People don't realize how good he was. He could of played dominantly in his fifties. He made a prime magic get off the court with his teammates at forty blocking all shots. He would hold the block record. Averaged 8 a game even when he played as an older man. His timing and athleticism was off the charts and he played with finesse instead of power or he'd problem scored 120 in a game.
He also blocked prime Kareems skyhook twice in a row.... How many players where able to block that shot let alot back to back
@@davidjriley no on back to back but Larry got him on the way up from behind once. Wilt was after his prime then too. He wasn't fresh as Kareem at the time. He was getting older but still the best big out there in my opinion. I also heard he was the best at forty something years old when he played pick up games against NBA champions and shit
Sharming host brings warth into our hearts.
Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain is the GOAT! 🐐
Always a great Jon, thank you!
Truth is what I believe, the reason so much of the youth today can't comprehend this kind of a talent is because many of the special player's of Wilts time from the '50s all the way until the '90s we're definitely many decade's ahead of thier time. Which is why we still haven't seen player's with such talent since.
People want to dismiss players of the past like they didn't count. Just FYI, no need to put ' for plural words. It's players and decades not player's and decade's.
Wilt is basically a taller, more athletic, more conditioned, more talented version of Shaq. Shaq got most of his points on dunks, Wilt got most of his points w/ fades. Wilt could run ppl over but he chose not to.
For about 8 years, Wilt was both the best offensive and defensive player in the league. If blocks and steals were recorded in his era he would have at least one centuple double and a dozen quadruple doubles. He would be, by far, the leader in career blocks. There was nothing he didn’t do better than Shaq.
Media gets a hard on over Kareem's skyhook and yet you can see both Wilt and Nate blocking it.
Now trying blocking Wilt's fadeaway jump shot. To me that's the most unstoppable shot in basketball.
This was a great video! 🔥🔥💯🤟🏾 I ALWAYS DOMINATE when I play with wilt on 2k 💯
one of my favorite players all time💯🤞🏾wish he was alive today to see players like GIANNIS😮💨
He seen Kareem that's enough
Wilt did it his way. He didn’t chase records or he would hold them all. The goat and possibly the best athlete ever. My favorite story is that Hank Stram worked him out and said he would have been the best receiver ever. The problem was that Wilt wanted to play quarterback.
Shaq is delusional if he thinks he's better than Wilt. Absolutely delusional
I think Shaq can claim to be the second best *Laker's* center, since he played 8 seasons in his prime while Wilt effectively played his last 4 seasons with them.
If Shaq got play under the rules Wilt did you don't think he would put up Wilt numbers?
@@kevinthomes1046 how did the rules benefit Wilt?
@@kevinthomes1046 Shaq played with rules more suited to his brute force than Wilt did. Shaq would have been called for offensive fouls more with the 60s rules.
@@UnconventionalReasoning so u dont think he couldnt adapt to those pussy rules?
A great great video I really enjoyed. Wilt was the best!!
When they gotta change the rules to accommodate you and also make a game fair...then you are the most dominant.
Rule changes include...widening the lane, instituting offensive goaltending and revising rules governing inbounding the ball and shooting free throws (Chamberlain would leap with the ball from behind the foul line to deposit the ball in the basket).
The man averaged 55 points a game for an entire season. If that doesn't do it for you he averaged 25 rebounds as well. He dominated rebounding to where his own teammates complained to the coach and GM. They said they couldn't get the stats they needed to get paid their bonuses. So management agreed to sit Wilt for 4 or 5 minute stretches during games so the power forwards could produce the numbers they needed for their bonuses.
he avg 55ppg with 50%fg 😆shaq would have 70%fg or more in 60s
@@ziginaigra shaq wouls have gassed out in the 60's-70's. Wilt and Bill were track standouts and would run shaq ro the ground.
We should get his amazing numbers right: 50.5 points / game.
@@ziginaigra Wilt chose to play away from the basket more because he wanted to be a skilled player rather than a brute force player. If he was playing against Shaq, and didn't have to worry about hurting him, I expect his fg percentage in those games would be higher than Shaq's. Especially since Wilt's strength would have significantly lowered Shaq's fg%.
@@UnconventionalReasoning that is just dumb ,not to use his size and strenght....50ppg with 50%fg.... imagine if any other player take that many shoots on avg in season😂
Wilt was the Jordan of centers. Wilt averaged 50 and grabbed 25rpg while playing 48 mpg in one season. (1962). One of two non guards who led the league in assist. 👍🏀
That same season his play off average dropped to 35 pts per game and no championship. Teams would key on Wilt’s glaring weaknesses, which was the free throw shooting and his flakiness
@@naturalfinish that doesn’t hurt the wilt argument it helps it. It shows he was so good they “hack a Shaq” him before hack a Shaq in order to stop him. Wilt didn’t have much help and it’s coear
*48.5 mpg
He was playing against short UNathletic white men that couldn't even go between the legs or do a killer crossover.Shaq would have backed backed him down and DUNKED on him every time! cut it out!!!!!! Wilt Chamberlain overrated for the talent he was playing against
@@romaleshawn23 Lmmfao the average height in the NBA during wilts time was 6’6” tall. Today it’s 6’7” tall. Lmmfao. Shaq would have backed wilt down and dunked on him why because Shaq was stronger then him? Shaqs max bench press is 450, wilt benched 600….. Shaq dunks on him because he was bigger? Shaq came in the league are a rookie 7’1” (with shoes on) and was 250ish. Wilt was 7’1” (without shoes) and was 240. At the end of both guys career they was both over 300, more like 320. So basically same size guy but will was a lot stronger. Lmmfao looks like you lost this debat
It would be a good series to cover the expansion teams, the players they drafted and what they became. Miami, Minnesota, Charlotte, Toronto...
Nice one!
Thank you for creating this video of and for the most dominant NBA player by far.
Foul Trouble:
Wilt changed the rules of the game. He was the man responsible for the goal-tending rule, lanes being widened and no inbound passes over the backboard. But in spite of rules meant to corral Chamberlain, Wilt made it his mission to never foul out of a game and, like most everything else, he was successful.
“It was not by accident that I never fouled out of a game, either. I was taught early in my career by an old Philly coach that my value was on the court, not on the bench…So I worked extremely hard from making dumb, over-the-back fouls.”
The whole foul thing is a game in itself but someone good at playing basketball also knows how to play the foul game.
Shaq's size (plus a bit), Kareem's finesse around the rim, Olijouwan's footwork, Mutumbo's blocking. That more or less describes Wilt. I don't even really understand why there's a discussion.
Because now advertising is big that why did keep Jordan going and O'Neil too sell those tennis shoes 😀☝️
And Moses Rebounding.
There shouldn't be 😡☝️
@@mackstack4901 chairman of the boards ☝️😡
My first experience with the NBA was the 84 Draft. Coincidence? Nope. I was rooting for the Dream. I must have been 8 or 9 years old.
As fate would have it, both Michael and the Dream are in my top 5 of all time.
Of course I grew up thinking Michael was GOAT, till I discovered the record books.
Wilt sits on top of Mt. Rushmore. He casts a shadow on the NBA. Wilt stopped scoring in his 7th season. He must have scored 30 or 33 points that season. Let that sink in.
That Jordan GOAT bs must stop. Wilt is GOAT !
Lest I forget, more than a decade after Wilt retired, he played pick up basketball with a couple of college kids against Magic, Scott, Worthy (Lakers). He still beat them ! Wilt must have been 50 years old if not older. Let that sink in kids. Let that sink in.
That Jordan GOAT bs has got to stop. Wilt was beyond goatness! He wasn't just strong and dominant, he was skilled.
@Rich Doee
Can you read at all? Wilt stopped scoring in his 7th season. Imagine Jordan stopped scoring in the 91 season.
Wilt wouldve made Shaq look bad. Kareem too. BTW LOOOOOOOOOOOOOVE your channel man. You just give love to the game sans the drama
Great video man I completely agree with you I love the clip at the beginning where Jordan is standing next to him with his head down like dude you are just gigantic
Great and entertaining analysis. Keep goin
Glad to see the love to the older players in others sports the older players still get recognised as goats etc but in basketball it’s discredited because of era
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME
AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES
the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes
now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on
the average height of a center back then was
6 ft 10 without shoes
the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes
so take that into consideration
wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight
Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time
while still having an 82 game schedule
with about 80% of the teams having a hof center
this means wilt played a hof center just about every night
C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons)
(up to 14 times in the regular season)
C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 5 times in the regular season)
C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs-
C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs
C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs
C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season)
(Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons)
(Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons)
(please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9)
ALL STARS AND OTHERS:
Dennis Awtrey: 7'0"
Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2"
Nate Bowmen: 7,0"
Mel Counts: 7'1"
Walter Dukes: 7'1"
Jim Eakins: 6'11"
Ray Felix: 6'11"
Hank Finkel: 7'0"
Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights)
Reggie Harding: 7'0"
Jim McDaniels: 7'0"
Otto Moore: 6'11"
Dave Newmark: 7'0"
Rich Niemann: 7'0"
Billy Paultz: 6'11"
Craig Raymond: 6'11"
Elmore Smith: 7'0"
Chuck Share: 7,0 "
Ronald Taylor: 7'1"
Walt Wesley: 7,0"
TOM PAYNE 7'4 "
GREG FILLMORE 7'1
CRAIG SPITZER 7'0
LARUE MARTIN 6'11
VIC BARTOLOME 7'1
GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11
WILLIAM SMITH 7'1
AND MOREE
(the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes)
you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like:
70s fan
Wilt chamberlain archive
@@pioplu4803 my comment is as a wilt fan have looked into a lot of the history etc would of dominated any era could only have been better in modern era if you think about it was able to play crazy minutes with converse shoes poor rehab etc appreciate the comment must have taken a while to type haha
@@JakeMal97wilt is the most dominant player to ever play basketball. He’s the true goat.
Wilt Chamberlin was the Michael Jordan of all Shaquille O’Neals
U mean Jordan was the WILT of shooting guards because WILT the best of the best
@@theetruth8626 nope, MJ was the Michael Jordan of all Michael Jordans. Wilt was just the Michael Jordan of all Shaqs
@@RobertSchuster68 bruh u delusional Jordan greatest season ever was a WILT normal season Jordan greatest game was a WILT normal game. This ain't even a comparison WILT was on a whole another level from everyone that ever played
@@theetruth8626 sorry dude, I was just kitting. Different time, different system, different athletic training, … but his moves and athleticism have been so much ahead of his time, that he would have been great in any era. His only problem, he was born to early. If he would have started his career in the 90ys, he would been as rich as MJ or Shaq.
@Mister T
Don't you ever mention Michael and Wilt in the same breath. Or Shaq for that matter. Do you bloody understand that?
There is Wilt ! And there's the NBA. Wilt was above the NBA. He's been retired for 50 years, but he still holds over 60 records. Did you just hear that? Wilt is beyond 'goatness'.
Bill Russel called Chamberlain the 8th wonder of the world, lol. If his friend and fellow legend looked at Wilt like that, well who are we mere mortals to argue? 48+ Mins. Scored over 3K in a season 3 times, one at 4,049! 23,924 career Rebounds, 55 in one game! Unstoppable.
The best basketball channel!
Untouchable records. He never comes up in conversation because his numbers aren’t comparable. GOAT
Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain! 👍
there was a time when Wilt would look like the Greek Freak, Magic Johnson, and Michael Jordan. He was far too skilled to play back then. Once he started getting older and slower... and Kareem could hook shot over him and block his shots, it was too late. Kareem started looking like a younger Wilt.
But his early 20's the way he could get up and down the court... always get the ball no matter the situation and out run everyone... scoring at will. It left the world in AWE. We couldn't compute what the heck was going on. There wasn't enough court for him to even look normal out there.
Wilt would’ve been dominant and amongst the best in the league in any era. He’s a 7’0er that competed in the high-jump and could lift over 600 pounds. That speaks for itself. His achievements can’t be refuted.
WORD!
Yeah, but hearing people stating that the game was different...
Yeah, it was different, but it was MORE difficult in many ways.
It's best not to pay attention to those guys. They are also saying that people like Jordan wouldn't be able to play today. TODAY. In snowflake era. They are a joke.
It is still basketball
Wilt was incredible in many ways; but I doubt that he benched 600 lbs. There is no real evidence of it. All that there is are stories that get passed round and round. Big time power lifters of the time barely did that. No way Wilt benched 600; especially with his body type; with those long arms.
@@anthonyjulianelle6695 You don't have evidence of anyone lifting anything.
I can use plastic weights in a video of me lifting 300 pounds. You wouldn't know whether I'm really doing that.
Point is, too many people testified in favor of Wilts enormous strength for that not to be true.
Arnold even said that Wilt practiced certain muscle types with weights that the strongest guys in the world couldn't manage, and he did it effortlessly.
So yeah, he was strong, definitely.
Clearly a one in a billion athlete.
Wilt #1 GOAT ‘
The greatest human expression of size, strength, and athletic ability. Wilton Norman Chamberlain
What’s crazy is he was even more dominate in volleyball than he ever was in basketball, and that was after he retired.
Look at his track and field statistics(incredible high jump and sprint times), the amount of weight he could move in the gym etc...he was a more athletic version of Shaq. He was much faster, stronger and weighed nearly as much. His feats in the weight room are legendary. He was an absolute beast. Give him modern day sports science, shoes, nutrition etc...he would be a dominant force in any era. He really doesnt get the credit he deserves imo.
World class athlete.... In any sport.
He will always have a case for GOAT.
Wilt in any other decade would be even better given new tech / ways to train, think for a second
FACTS!
And sports medicine!
He out there jumping 44 inches off the ground, in a pair of chuck Taylor’s, while being 7ft tall 🤯
And the rules
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME
AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES
the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes
now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on
the average height of a center back then was
6 ft 10 without shoes
the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes
so take that into consideration
wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight
Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time
while still having an 82 game schedule
with about 80% of the teams having a hof center
this means wilt played a hof center just about every night
C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons)
(up to 14 times in the regular season)
C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 5 times in the regular season)
C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs-
C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs
C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs
C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season)
(Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons)
(Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons)
(please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9)
ALL STARS AND OTHERS:
Dennis Awtrey: 7'0"
Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2"
Nate Bowmen: 7,0"
Mel Counts: 7'1"
Walter Dukes: 7'1"
Jim Eakins: 6'11"
Ray Felix: 6'11"
Hank Finkel: 7'0"
Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights)
Reggie Harding: 7'0"
Jim McDaniels: 7'0"
Otto Moore: 6'11"
Dave Newmark: 7'0"
Rich Niemann: 7'0"
Billy Paultz: 6'11"
Craig Raymond: 6'11"
Elmore Smith: 7'0"
Chuck Share: 7,0 "
Ronald Taylor: 7'1"
Walt Wesley: 7,0"
TOM PAYNE 7'4 "
GREG FILLMORE 7'1
CRAIG SPITZER 7'0
LARUE MARTIN 6'11
VIC BARTOLOME 7'1
GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11
WILLIAM SMITH 7'1
(the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes)
you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like:
70s fan
Wilt chamberlain archive
As a 64 year old I have always said that Wilt is truly the GOAT.
MJ looked so intimated at the start when he was talking to Wilt
Love the content. Shaq struggled with Sabonis, Hakeem and Stanley Roberts....what do those guys have in common? Wilt would run him ragged in transition alone
Shaq to me never really played any true defense,the only time you had huge rebounding games was when you scored BIG. While playing for Orlando,Shaq was a BEAST !!! Leading the fastbreak,running the court,rebounding,attempted to play some defense.Then got that big,fat contract from the Lakers and became sloppy,fat !!! LOL. He was HUGE and not in a good way. Even Kobe was calling him out on him being FAT.Is Shaq better than Wilt,it's debatible.
Shaq to me never really played any true defense,the only time you had huge rebounding games was when you scored BIG. While playing for Orlando,Shaq was a BEAST !!! Leading the fastbreak,running the court,rebounding,attempted to play some defense.Then got that big,fat contract from the Lakers and became sloppy,fat !!! LOL. He was HUGE and not in a good way. Even Kobe was calling him out on him being FAT.Is Shaq better than Wilt,it's debatible.
Shaq to me never really played any true defense,the only time you had huge rebounding games was when you scored BIG. While playing for Orlando,Shaq was a BEAST !!! Leading the fastbreak,running the court,rebounding,attempted to play some defense.Then got that big,fat contract from the Lakers and became sloppy,fat !!! LOL. He was HUGE and not in a good way. Even Kobe was calling him out on him being FAT.Is Shaq better than Wilt,it's debatible.
@@powerbad696
WILT WOULD BE LISTED AT 7 FT 3 300 POUNDS IN TODAYS GAME
AS PLAYERS BACK THEN WERE MEASURED WITHOUT SHOES
the average height of the nba back then was 6 ft 6 without shoes
now its 6 ft 6 with shoes on
the average height of a center back then was
6 ft 10 without shoes
the average height now is 6 ft 10 with shoes
so take that into consideration
wilt would be listed at 7 ft 3, 300 pounds in his prime today , hed be the biggest, when taking into his height and weight
Wilt played in a league with 8-12 teams at a time
while still having an 82 game schedule
with about 80% of the teams having a hof center
this means wilt played a hof center just about every night
C-Bill Russell: 6’11” 235 ibs HOF (143 games played in 9 seasons)
(up to 14 times in the regular season)
C-Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 240 ibs 7'4" HOF(27 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 5 times in the regular season)
C-Willis Reed: 6,10.5” 255 ibs HOF(72 games played in 8 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Walt Bellamy: 7, 0" 270 ibs HOF(100 games played in 11 seasons)
(up to 10 times a season)
C-Artis Gilmore: 7'3" HOF - 260 ibs-
C-Bob Lanier: 7'0" HOF(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 280 ibs
C-Nate Thurmond: 7'1" HOF(47 games played in 4 seasons)
(up to 7 times a season) 240 ibs
C-Bob McAdoo: 6’10” HOF (5 games played in 1 season)
(Wes Unseld is also a HOF center but he is 6’9 -270 ibs-) (26 times in 5 seasons)
(Dave Cowens is also a HOF Center/Forward but he is 6”9)(17 games played in 3 seasons)
(Connie Hawkins is also a HOF Forward/ center but he is 6”9)(31 games played in 4 seasons)
(please note there are more HOF PF who guarded and were guarded by wilt chamberlain but the majority of them are about 6’9)
ALL STARS AND OTHERS:
Dennis Awtrey: 7'0"
Tom Boerwinkle: 7'2"
Nate Bowmen: 7,0"
Mel Counts: 7'1"
Walter Dukes: 7'1"
Jim Eakins: 6'11"
Ray Felix: 6'11"
Hank Finkel: 7'0"
Swede Halbrook: 7'5" (look at his highlights)
Reggie Harding: 7'0"
Jim McDaniels: 7'0"
Otto Moore: 6'11"
Dave Newmark: 7'0"
Rich Niemann: 7'0"
Billy Paultz: 6'11"
Craig Raymond: 6'11"
Elmore Smith: 7'0"
Chuck Share: 7,0 "
Ronald Taylor: 7'1"
Walt Wesley: 7,0"
TOM PAYNE 7'4 "
GREG FILLMORE 7'1
CRAIG SPITZER 7'0
LARUE MARTIN 6'11
VIC BARTOLOME 7'1
GEORGE JOHNSON 6'11
WILLIAM SMITH 7'1
(the heights are with the added 1 1/2 inches to take into consideration the fact that players in this "era" were measured without shoes)
you can look up the hof centers on youtube pages like:
70s fan
Wilt chamberlain archive
@@pioplu4803 listed.....was shorter than 7'1 3/4 Kareem.
I tell the youngsters who think that Lebron or MJ are the greatest ever that I saw guys that they never did, such as Wilt, Baylor, Oscar, Kareem, Bird, Magic, McAdoo, West, Erving, Gervin, Hayes, Havlicek, Barry, Dominique, Bernard King etc.. So having watched the NBA since the late 60's, my choice for the greatest is Wilt Chamberlain...
@Johnny Reed
You're dead wrong ! Wilt was better the a mere GOAT. Wilt was that guy.
Wilt was beyond 'goatness' ! Wilt sits on top of that bloody Mt. Rushmore.
That Jordan GOAT bs has to stop.
@@emperordante8948 , right next to him is the great, great Elgin Baylor, another truly transcendent player, who had an elite all around game and was highly athletic and virtually unguardable. Him and Wilt were truly special.
@@karl24-75
You sir are absolutely right.
@@emperordante8948 AGREED...
Wilt Chamberlain IS the best basketball player there has ever been. A 20 year old Wilt could dominate in the NBA right now... especially with all the cream puff rules in today's game. Nobody else will ever be able to match all the amazing things Wilt was able to do.
AGREED...
Great channel and it's only getting better, !
Great video. Really enjoyed it.
Wilt was legendary but I always take into account that he played at 7’1/280+ in an era where the average center was 6’9/230 and the average power forward was 6’7/216. In Shaqs era the average center was 6’11/250
And the average power forward was 6’9/230 so basically all the power forwards in Shaq’s era would be centers in Wilts. Wilt was ahead of his time and that’s not his fault but that detail still matters.
Thanks for the facts... And there aren't many black athletes when he was playing
@@cediep0tp0t32 Look up all these players.
Wilt's Playoff Competition(# of series out of 29)
Russell: 8 (GOAT, MVP, Top 75)
Kareem: 2 (GOAT, MVP, Top 75)
Thurmond: 3 (Top 75)
Reed: 3 (MVP, Top 75)
Beatty/Bellamy/Embry: 4 (HOF)
Others: 9(Lucas was a Top 75 player but better known as a forward, even though he played center when Reed was injured)
10/29 GOAT level(34%)
13/29 MVP level(45%)
16/29 Top 75(55%) 59% if you count Lucas
21/29 HOF(72%)
Finals Competition
2/6 GOAT level(33%)
4/6 MVP level(67%)
5/6 Top 75(83%) 100% if you count Lucas
6/6 HOF(100%)
One year, he faced Lucas and Debusschere, who were both Top 75 players, but better known as forwards.
Others: Kerr, Halbrook, Clifford Ray, Boerwinkle, Fox, Dierking
On the teams without a star center, they usually had 2 or 3 centers playing in rotation.
Shaq isn't even 7 foot tall barefoot. Those 60's heights are barefoot. Hakeem and Ewing are basically the same height as Russell. Hakeem is no where near 7 foot. Watch "Wilt meets Shaq and Ewing". Wilt towers over Ewing and Ewing is a half inch taller than Hakeem. They started inflating players heights in the mid-70's.
since they started measuring nba players barefoot again, average starting center height is a half inch higher than it was in the 60s. Don't follow this common misleading centers weren't big in 60s and Wilts competition was low.
@@spaltersar it’s not hype I looked it up myself. The average center was 6’9 230 in wilts era, and 6’11 250 in Shaq’s.. even without shoes they’re still much bigger. It’s really the power forwards from the 2000s would be centers in the 60s if shaq was the only guy in the nba over 6’11/250 and only faced power forwards. He’d average 40-50 pts too