I started watching Wilt play in 1968. I can still remember a nationally televised game on Christmas Day that year where he blocked 23 shots. He was my favorite player to watch back then and is still the greatest player I ever watched. RIP Wilt … you are greatly missed.
@@dimitrisfarmakis7572where are you getting this information? 🤣 He threw it with both hands?! Like his massive hand couldn't handle a shot put. You're funny
Most don't realize just how good Wilt rreally was. In a game on March 18, 1968...he had an unofficial quintuple double, since they didn't count steals and blocks at the time. In that game he had 53 points, 32 rebounds, 14 assists, 11 steals and 24 blocks!!! GOAT.
Y'all misunderstood. When he said he was attacked by a cougar and got those back scratches, he was talking about one of the 20k women or however many he said he slept with
I can't tell if Wilt's normal handshake is just so abnormally strong, or was Shaq's reaction because Wilt intentionally gave Shaq a power handshake. Some guys do that, they like to show off how manly they are to other men and practically tear your arm off. I know an old man that does it, he's nearly 80 years old but likes to give power hand shakes. So it's hard to tell if Shaq's reaction was "bro, do you really need to give an unnecessary handshake like that!?" Would Wilt shake the hand of non-NBA players like that?
@@mitchelll3879 Shaq only got fat from 2004 and after or so, before that he was a beast of muscle. This clip is from the 90s, and Shaq was lean skinny guy.
We helped build Wilt's house in Los Angeles on the top of Mulholland. One day I was delivering large doors that weighed 125 lbs each, when I pulled Wilt was there and asked if he could help me. I was caught off guard, No Mr. Chamberlain, I can do it. He didn't listen to me, he grabbed four of them ( 500 lbs. ) and carried them into the house.
People tend to equate Shaq’s size (weight - over weight he was) to strength. There are a lot of big (fat) guys out there that are not necessarily strong. Don’t get me wrong, Shaq was big and strong, but not freakishly strong like Wilt. His bull rush style of play would not have been allowed back in the 60’s. Wilt was just blessed with an unequaled combination of athleticism, agility, strength, stamina, quickness and strength! Unfortunately TV was not prevalent back in the 60s so much of Wilt’s accomplishments have no video footage. He is similar to Ruth in being an anomaly that is hard to fathom due to not a lot of video.
I saw an interview with Phil Jackson where he told a story about Shaq asking him about Wilt and whether he could have matched todays players. Phil said there's one stat of Wilts if Shaq could match it he would consider if todays players could match Wilt and that is to play every minute of every game for a season. So Shaq took the challenge but after 8 games of playing every minute he sent someone to ask Phil to drop his minutes back off as before!😁😂🤣😃
Wish I knew wilton Norman Chamberlain as a teenager..not the athlete but the person. He died when I was 15 but he's been one of my favorite player besides Kobe and kg but once I learned more about wilt..I was won over
Who took 28 minutes to do it, according to an observer! Wilt would have learned the basic technique of arm wrestling and been a much better competitive opponent...
Jim Brown was friends with Angelo Dundee. He thought he could whump Ali and wanted to fight him. Ali saw Jim in the park and said "so I hear you think you can whump me? I want you to try to hit me as hard as you can." Jim swung for the fence for a full minute with Ali dodging every punch. Then like lightning, Ali slaps the hell out of Jim. Jim said....."ok, I get it now".
Wilt Chamberlain holds the most NBA records, including the record for the most regular-season records, a 100-point game, and the NBA rebounding record of all time
He SHOULD also hold just about every blocking record too, but they didn't formally record those. However, it is widely known that he could block more than twenty shots in a good game, and his average blocks per game over his entire career was very likely roughly 7 per game.
Love all these clips from former players telling stories! Lots of stuff I'd never seen before and I watch almost EVERY Wilt Chamberlain video that anyone I'm subbed to uploads. Good job digging all this stuff up that I'd never seen before.
If they put his Volleyball games on TV they 100% would have put his lifts on TV. I believe he was even offered to prove them and he cowardly ran away from it. Just like how he ran away from Ali. Dude was a complete fraud.
I remember hearing Walt Hazzard tell a story about Wilt, he said Wilt was in the lane and was getting ready to dump the basketball Walt said he put one hand on the top of the ball and the other hand on the bottom of the ball to stop wilt from dunking, Chamberlain went up to dunk the ball, and Hazard was still holding on once he got a couple of feet in the air. He said he let go because he didn’t want to be the first human being to be dunked lol
In 1981 was working the door at the Blue Water Cafe on Waikiki. I was used to seeing huge people since there are plenty of professional athletes who would come to Hawaii on vacation as well as some really big Hawaiians and Samoans who worked as bouncers in the clubs. Wilt walked in one night and I basically had to reprogram myself to what I had always thought of as being really big. I shook his hand and remember that he seemed to cradle my hand like an adult might do to keep from hurting a child. I had always thought of myself as being pretty strong because I pretty much lived in the gym back then. I'll never forget how I went from feeling strong to feeling almost powerless when I was next to Wilt.
A friend of mine and I, with some lady friends, were in a restaurant on the Wharf in 1968 in SF when Wilt walked in and sat at the next table. Sitting down he looked like a really strong guy of maybe 6'6". He was so well proportioned you could not believe it when he stood up. We said hello and he was extremely polite and shook our hands and I think he could have wrapped his hand twice around mine. He then left with the three gorgeous ladies that accompanied him. Saw Russell two weeks later at Cala foods in Berkeley.
I have to laugh when people name other people the GOAT and that Wilt only played against small white guys - Russell, Lanier, Reed, Thurmond, Unseld - and he dominated. They have no idea just how great he was.
Many people don't realize that Wilt played in an era of great centers, Bill Russell, Willis Reed, Wes Unseld, Nate Thurman, and Kareem just to mention a few! Wilt put up massive numbers against worthy centers!
Just by his body shape and physical build, I believe he had some of that, ancient mighty men of old DNA in him. It doesn't get expressed like it used to 100 to 200 years ago but from time to time it gets awakened to this day.
Wilt chamberlain, when he was building his mansion in California. He had some work done by a local artisan for his kitchen and when the deliverymen arrived he helped them unload the vehicle, it took normally four men to move one of these items, it was either wood or stone-work and Wilt picked up two under his arm effortlessly and walked into the house.... in Wilts case he really worked at it....his three school friends talked about Wilt having a three hundred pound dumbbell set in his bedroom at 15 and at 16 Wilt under an assumed name played against full grown adults averaging 40 points a game....
@djo-dji6018 All his teammates are fake? Arnold Schwarzenegger is fake? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is fake who talks about Wilt being held by multiple basketball players and still dunking!
Im telling you Wilt is the greatest basketball player to ever live. Yall dont know and he has been forgotten by many but that dont mean he wasn't the best. They changed the games rules so wilt wouldnt totally dominate it. Wilt was the first to dunk from the free throw and it wasn't that hard for him. He was ao dominate that they told him he scored to much so he became an assist machine that year. He could have done whatever he wanted. The man scored 100 points. The record of 20k is in question but the fact the conversation is had means he was like modern day genghis khan😂
The most basic fundamental of the game is shooting and he's one of the worst in history. I'm sorry but you're not the greatest basketball player of all time if you can't even shoot.
@nonamewillbegiven7228 Goku is one of the most famous fictional characters ever. Therefore me drawing comparison between a transcendental player like Wilt Chamberlain and a transcendental fictional character would be a reference most people would get. I am sorry my reference went over your head. I hope me expounding further on my point cleared up your confusion
16 lb. Bowling ball with no holes in it, Wilt would bowl with? So then his life was like Gulliver's travels, havin' fun with all these Lilliputians! What a character.
I believe he is far stronger 💪 than shaq ever was, wilt chamberlain was a true decathlon athletic a true freak of nature with animal strength running speed endurance stamina ect he could play any sport he set his mind to.
Did you see the video of Wilt shaking Shaq’s and Ewing’s hand? He almost took Shaq’s arm. Not even close. I understand Shaq is big and they couldn’t stop him, but Wilt is in a class by himself.
I always said if his bench and 40 time plus vertical and everything else is true we still never seen another player like him it's been plenty LeBrons and shaqs and kobe but nobody built like wilt
On TV I saw him break up a fight by wrapping the other team's fellow up from behind and carrying him to the other end of the court. Other fellow was calmed down by then! AND...Wilt was set for a dunk when the opposing (250 lb.) center decided to foul him instead. He stood face-to-face with Wilt and grabbed both his wrists. WILT CARRIED THE GUY UP TO MAKE THE DUNK. ('Course he probably missed his free throw.)
I’ve seen other people tell stories about Wilt Chamberlain, and they along with Wilt often embellish stories when you look at the evidence if there is any. The biggest issue I see with Wilt’s stories is there’s rarely any evidence to back it up so you have to take somebody’s word for it. And what I’ve noticed is that when other people tell the same stories the numbers sometimes get bigger.
Wilt was an extraordinary natural athlete. Few know he could run like a deer: He ran the 440 yd dash (400 meters) in under 50 seconds at Kansas as an undergraduate. A noteworthy feat in the mid 50's, but amazing for someone not on the track team.
I've never seen Wilt play, he was before my time, but I believe he was the best and most dominant big man ever, arguably the best basketball player. I saw Jordan so I ride with him tho.
MJ is what he is because David Stern and NBA Entertainment made him. Wilt was the greatest to play the game bar none. Politics is why Wilt's legacy, by and large, is ignored in comparison to other players.
I pretty much agree with your statement. I also think winning two rings is unfairly used against him. He was clearly better than Russell. I just wanted to ask you about his politics. I wasn’t aware of that.
Wilt was the Big 8 high jump champ 3 years running .....back in the days of the scissorlegged jump. ...Just one example of his phenomenal athleticism. He was a first rate sprinter and quarter miler, too. Makes me wonder if he could have gotten his giant body over a pole vault bar. For sure he could handle, at a world class level, all the other decathlon events without even prepping for them!
No he didn't. It was the Big 7 back then and he won it once - with an unimpressive height. You have fallen for the Wilt Track & Field list of exaggerated bullshit. He was no sprinter, his 440yd times were no great and neither was his high jump that great.
Stronger than Shaq. Seriously, Wilt was a real life folk hero. I just feel bad, because Wilt just wanted to be loved by the public. And to this day, he isn't appreciated. He would say, "Nobody likes the Giant". He would fuck up Shaq, and Shaq knows this if he has any brains.
My dad took me to Warrior games. At a Celtics game, Jim Luscatoff of the Celtics had been all over Wilt, and no fouls were called. You could hear Wilt complain to the refs, he was getting pissed. At one point, Luscatoff is holding Wilt contesting a rebound. Wilt shrugged and tossed Luscatoff from flying from the court into the second row. You could feel the fans' awe at seeing that.
One of the most amazing experiences in my life was getting to play a few minutes of beach volleyball against Wilt Chamberlin. I grew up watching him play with the Lakers and in the summer of 1976, I went to the beach at Santa Monica. After I was done, I was walking back towards the parking area, and at the first court South of the pier, Wilt was playing with some of his buddies and I stopped to watch the game. I had played a bit of recreational ball, but nothing serious. After I had been watching for a few minutes one of the guys looked at his watch and saw he had to go right then in the middle of the game. That left the sides uneven, so they asked if I wanted to fill in to finish the game. Didn’t have to ask me twice. The other guys were of a size and skill level that suggested they were all pro or college players. I was by far the worst player on that court, but the experience was amazing. First, Wilt could legitimately spike out of sand from mid court with ease. Second, you could tell he was careful with his spikes not to hurt anybody and held back if he was spiking at somebody. When he aimed a spike at an empty spot and really let go, it sounded like a rifle shot. I’m sure if you caught the full force of one on your forearms it could break a bone. I reached for one and it grazed my forearm and gave me a noticeable abrasion. None of the other players were anything close to his power level or jumping ability.
@@FoobasSports It certainly was. In addition to his inhuman physical abilities, I was impressed with his gentlemanly sportsmanship. In addition to his obvious effort not to hurt me or anyone else, as the smallest, weakest player on that court, he could have picked on me and singled me out for easy points, but did not. He treated me with the same "respect" as he did the other players.
Wilt was super strong, no doubt about it. I interviewed '56 Silver/'60 Gold Olympic shot put medalist, Bill Nieder, about 25 years ago for a biographical article and he told me what actually happened by the dorm one day. Wilt used an overhand, 2-hand "put" where one stands backward and slings it overhead. You see shot-putters often do this as a warm-up. Bill, was right-handed, but the bet required him and Al Oerter (also right handed) to use their left hands. I don't mean to demean Wilt but no one can seriously believe he could out-throw the Olympic silver medalist, soon to be gold medalist shot putter. Too, Al Oerter thought Wilt had great potential in the discus because of his arm span, worked with him but Wilt never progressed as much as he thought he might, his height making a discus ring look like a sewer plate. But, Wilt was a superman. He was also an excellent high jumper and I believe he tied an SMU jumper for 1st place at the Kansas or Drake Relays one year at around 6'7". As best I know, he wasn't his conference's high jump champ. Unbeknownst to many, Bill Russell actually had a better high jump. I believe he jumped 6'9" while he was in college. Bill was just a shade behind the top high jumper in the USA but chose to go to the '56 Olympics as a basketball team member and passed on the '56 Olympic Trials in the high jump. Wilt's supposed weight lifting? Nah! Most of it is gross hyperbole. There is no video evidence of Wilt doing giant lifts. Anyway, he was one in a hundred million and way ahead of the pack early on in his pro basketball days and he played well and stayed athletically active all the way to the end. He really seemed to like to compete. Most of his teammates will tell you he was a man of tall stories about himself, had a giant ego. One of the greats!!!
Wilt, I understand cleared 6'6" in the high jump. But I heard on one of these videos that he led the Big 8 Conference in the high jump three years in a row at 7'1". When Bill Russell was in high school in San Francisco his arch rival in the high jump was singer Johnny Mathis, who was better, and was the one invited to the Olympics, which he turned down.
@@user-kh2ig7ew3w No, Wilt never high jumped 7'1" at least not in a competition. I think the 6'6" or an inch or so more was his best. If he had specialized? Sure! And, Bill Russell had a legitimate chance to win a berth to the '56 Games but chose not to choosing basketball over T&F. No, Johnny Mathis wasn't better than Russell; his best was 6'5.5". People aren't invited to the Olympics, they have to qualify by winning a spot at the Olympic Trials. Mathis didn't compete at the '56 Olympic Trials. Chose singing. Both men were fine athletes; both made the proper decisions!!!
@@bradreid6057 I saw footage of his high jumping! He had to extend both his arms and legs forward down to land like a cat in that 'below sea level' sand pit! And he did it like takin' a Sunday stroll. I sure hope they came up with a better mouse trap by the '68 Olympics, or Dick Fosberry must've used his Gold Medal as an Endswell!
One of the greatest feats in track and field of all time was the world record in the high jump by Russian Valeriy Brumel who was only 6'1" and using the old straddle method jumped 7'5 and three quarters inches!
If Mahomes can throw it 80yds at his pro day in college, I have zero doubts with as long of arms as Wilt had that he could throw it 90yds like Walton said.
The preponderance of evidence...two or three crazy stories like this would seem ridiculous, but they seem so commonplace, and you hear them from so many individuals who knew Wilt--you'd be an idiot to try and deny them.
Lot of idiots in the comments. Its like a conspiracy or agenda against Wilt.Doesn't make much sense.Part of it is.Jordan or LeBron can't be the goat unless you get rid of Wilt
I saw a TV episode where he palmed a 16 lb. bowling ball that had no holes in it. He held it straight out and then started waving it around and around like you would with a softball.
I watched several of his games on TV, back in the day. These highlights, on youtube, don't really do him justice. I saw him jump and intercept passes that looked to be between 13 and 14 feet high from the floor. If he went up for a dunk, not many could stop him. He would take a small looking guard, or forward up with him, if they grabbed him, or break the grip of a big man.
Many of the First Time stat lines do not include Wilt. Blocks and steals weren’t recorded until 1973. Imagine how many triple doubles he would have. Wilt NEVER fouled out of a game. He played almost every minute and even averaged over 48 minutes per game one season.
All I can think is that if Wilt hadn't pushed himself to play every minute of every game, it would not have stressed his heart so much and he might have lived much longer.
Remember that fast pitch pitcher (Eddie Feigner) on the "King and His Court" threw a bigger ball 104MPH and some people say 114MPH and fast pitch is underhand.
Actually uf u want true story. He really is. Go look every interview and then search his pendant around his neck on google. Well if u zoom in it will show u Free Mason Egyptian pyramid but without peak top cause it stands around his neck considering that Wilt head is that top of pyramide. Then zoom into center of it and see Pharao head. It is RA, the highest God of Egypt.
To add onto my previous comment : search Wilt Chamberlain necklace. He wear that everytime. That is resemble of Free Mason RA Egyptian highest God !! He created pyramide as 1 of the alien race.
Has anyone ever matched Wilt Chamberlain's strength in the NBA?
No
I'd say he'd not only the strongest in total, but also from the pound-by-pound point of view. 7,1 feet plus that "farmer strenght" lol overkill
I don’t think so
Nowhere close. Ben Wallace was pretty strong, but not to the level of Wilt. Even Shaq wasn't as strong as Wilt.
Hell Naw.
WILT the myth ,the legend, the God of basketball. let others fight as to who wants to be a GOAT
These Wilt stories are fantastic, Probably the greatest pure athlete of all time let alone basketball player. My favorite player.
I started watching Wilt play in 1968. I can still remember a nationally televised game on Christmas Day that year where he blocked 23 shots. He was my favorite player to watch back then and is still the greatest player I ever watched. RIP Wilt … you are greatly missed.
Were games in any sport broadcast on Christmas Day in 1968?
@@kevinmadden1645 Search it out. Use the key words "Wilt" "23 blocks" "Christmas". I tried to post a link but the YT censorship police blocked it.
@@kevinmadden1645 ABC broadcasted christmas games from 1967 - 1972
that shot put story is nuts.... those guys were the best in the world.... wilt simply an absolute physical once in a century freak.
Do you know he was throwing with both hands? Stop the bullshit.
@@dimitrisfarmakis7572where are you getting this information? 🤣 He threw it with both hands?! Like his massive hand couldn't handle a shot put. You're funny
@@dimitrisfarmakis7572that doesn’t even makes sense from a kineses stand point. just say you don’t like the guy. no need to make shxt up
@@dimitrisfarmakis7572 if there is any bull here it is you fool.
Most don't realize just how good Wilt rreally was. In a game on March 18, 1968...he had an unofficial quintuple double, since they didn't count steals and blocks at the time. In that game he had 53 points, 32 rebounds, 14 assists, 11 steals and 24 blocks!!! GOAT.
Anyone who thinks Russell was a better player doesn't know what he is talking about .
24 blocks??? Insane!
Yes, but in all fairness he was playing against white guys half his size
To put it succinctly: Wilt Chamberlain was an ABSOLUTE phenomenon!!!
Wilt was naturally strong. Plus an athlete
The Almighty Wilt Chamberlain
Wilt was the greatest athlete to ever walk the earth.
This man was absolutely incredible!!! Wilt is definitely the Goat!
Agreed. Simply unfathomable athletic ability and strength.
Y'all misunderstood. When he said he was attacked by a cougar and got those back scratches, he was talking about one of the 20k women or however many he said he slept with
Bah ha ha ha....
He indeed had big scratch marks on his back. U can see in some interviews where he wear his fam t-shirt.
Interesting fact: Wilt himself never told the cougar story. It was told by Cal Ramsey, Knicks Announcer.
Shaq looks caught off guard how strong Wilt’s handshake was.
Shaq can't handle Wilt.
Shaq hole body shook
Wilt was massive strong.. shaq is just fat
I can't tell if Wilt's normal handshake is just so abnormally strong, or was Shaq's reaction because Wilt intentionally gave Shaq a power handshake. Some guys do that, they like to show off how manly they are to other men and practically tear your arm off. I know an old man that does it, he's nearly 80 years old but likes to give power hand shakes. So it's hard to tell if Shaq's reaction was "bro, do you really need to give an unnecessary handshake like that!?" Would Wilt shake the hand of non-NBA players like that?
@@mitchelll3879 Shaq only got fat from 2004 and after or so, before that he was a beast of muscle. This clip is from the 90s, and Shaq was lean skinny guy.
The greatest athlete of all time, truly the outlier of outliers.
Secretariat was the greatest athlete of all time. Wilt was #2.
@jackfanning7952 the horse?
@@Ry3nel Do you know any other Secretariat?
Lmaostewpid comments
Not even close. Best in american history perhaps. Certainly better than anything after him.
Wilt was stronger than an ox
A true freak of nature
There will never ever be another Wilt Chamberlain !
I actually started to cry. I am thankful that someone made a video to highlight this superhuman.
We helped build Wilt's house in Los Angeles on the top of Mulholland. One day I was delivering large doors that weighed 125 lbs each, when I pulled Wilt was there and asked if he could help me. I was caught off guard, No Mr. Chamberlain, I can do it. He didn't listen to me, he grabbed four of them ( 500 lbs. ) and carried them into the house.
Amazing!
Wilt was a Mix of the Incredible Hulk and Herman Munster ! 😳😃
Greatest player ever!
People tend to equate Shaq’s size (weight - over weight he was) to strength. There are a lot of big (fat) guys out there that are not necessarily strong. Don’t get me wrong, Shaq was big and strong, but not freakishly strong like Wilt. His bull rush style of play would not have been allowed back in the 60’s.
Wilt was just blessed with an unequaled combination of athleticism, agility, strength, stamina, quickness and strength! Unfortunately TV was not prevalent back in the 60s so much of Wilt’s accomplishments have no video footage. He is similar to Ruth in being an anomaly that is hard to fathom due to not a lot of video.
The REAL GOAT 🐐
GOLIATH - I'll never forget the first time I saw him at 5 years old. Glued to the TV I saw a giant of a man.
No you didn't. Trolll
Wilt was practically a genetic super human
I recently heard the phrase “Many walked healthy in the NBA because of Wilt's great patience and mercy.”
WILT CHAMBERLAIN#13 .. THE BEST .. THE MOST ATHLETIC .. AND MOST DOMINANT PLAYER IN NBA HISTORY ..
The Stilt!!!!
I saw an interview with Phil Jackson where he told a story about Shaq asking him about Wilt and whether he could have matched todays players. Phil said there's one stat of Wilts if Shaq could match it he would consider if todays players could match Wilt and that is to play every minute of every game for a season. So Shaq took the challenge but after 8 games of playing every minute he sent someone to ask Phil to drop his minutes back off as before!😁😂🤣😃
Wish I knew wilton Norman Chamberlain as a teenager..not the athlete but the person. He died when I was 15 but he's been one of my favorite player besides Kobe and kg but once I learned more about wilt..I was won over
Sounding like you wanna marry him. Weirdo
Wilt once said that the only man to ever beat him in arm wrestling is the Late NFL Great, Jim Brown. That also shows how strong Jim Brown was. 🤔😉
Andre the Giant could handle him too
Who took 28 minutes to do it, according to an observer! Wilt would have learned the basic technique of arm wrestling and been a much better competitive opponent...
And Jim Brown confirmed tha it was Ali who backed out of a Box fight with Wilt Chamberlain.
no joke - you can find the video on YT
@@andrzejzborowski4920 Don't be so sure!
Jim Brown was friends with Angelo Dundee. He thought he could whump Ali and wanted to fight him. Ali saw Jim in the park and said "so I hear you think you can whump me? I want you to try to hit me as hard as you can." Jim swung for the fence for a full minute with Ali dodging every punch. Then like lightning, Ali slaps the hell out of Jim. Jim said....."ok, I get it now".
Wilt did unimaginable things. Without modern training and technology. Imagine if he'd had that.
Imagine if he played with ATTITUDE instead of kindness. What if he had Bill Laimbeer's Ndamukong Suh's approach....???
Wilt Chamberlain holds the most NBA records, including the record for the most regular-season records, a 100-point game, and the NBA rebounding record of all time
He SHOULD also hold just about every blocking record too, but they didn't formally record those. However, it is widely known that he could block more than twenty shots in a good game, and his average blocks per game over his entire career was very likely roughly 7 per game.
Love all these clips from former players telling stories! Lots of stuff I'd never seen before and I watch almost EVERY Wilt Chamberlain video that anyone I'm subbed to uploads.
Good job digging all this stuff up that I'd never seen before.
If they put his Volleyball games on TV they 100% would have put his lifts on TV. I believe he was even offered to prove them and he cowardly ran away from it. Just like how he ran away from Ali.
Dude was a complete fraud.
@@BrehBruhBrehBruhBreh "You can come out now Wilt!" 🤕
Wilt is the all time super Jayhawk!
I remember hearing Walt Hazzard tell a story about Wilt, he said Wilt was in the lane and was getting ready to dump the basketball Walt said he put one hand on the top of the ball and the other hand on the bottom of the ball to stop wilt from dunking, Chamberlain went up to dunk the ball, and Hazard was still holding on once he got a couple of feet in the air. He said he let go because he didn’t want to be the first human being to be dunked lol
In 1981 was working the door at the Blue Water Cafe on Waikiki. I was used to seeing huge people since there are plenty of professional athletes who would come to Hawaii on vacation as well as some really big Hawaiians and Samoans who worked as bouncers in the clubs. Wilt walked in one night and I basically had to reprogram myself to what I had always thought of as being really big. I shook his hand and remember that he seemed to cradle my hand like an adult might do to keep from hurting a child. I had always thought of myself as being pretty strong because I pretty much lived in the gym back then. I'll never forget how I went from feeling strong to feeling almost powerless when I was next to Wilt.
A friend of mine and I, with some lady friends, were in a restaurant on the Wharf in 1968 in SF when Wilt walked in and sat at the next table. Sitting down he looked like a really strong guy of maybe 6'6". He was so well proportioned you could not believe it when he stood up. We said hello and he was extremely polite and shook our hands and I think he could have wrapped his hand twice around mine. He then left with the three gorgeous ladies that accompanied him. Saw Russell two weeks later at Cala foods in Berkeley.
I have to laugh when people name other people the GOAT and that Wilt only played against small white guys - Russell, Lanier, Reed, Thurmond, Unseld - and he dominated. They have no idea just how great he was.
Even MJ feared Wilt's confidence.
Wilt was incredibly strong. I seen him and Arnold lift a solid stone wall.
🤣 that was impressive
i did a book report on Wilt Chamberlain's autobiography in 4th grade. My mom was really not happy with my choice, but my dad was thrilled.
Many people don't realize that Wilt played in an era of great centers, Bill Russell, Willis Reed, Wes Unseld, Nate Thurman, and Kareem just to mention a few! Wilt put up massive numbers against worthy centers!
Bob Lanier!
Wilt stated that the toughest player he played against was Nate Thurman as big as he was.
@@Alexander-nb1rzI thought he said Walt Bellamy was his toughest matchup
I don't care about no basketball bro a mountain 🦁lion that gets my attention, my respect!
Just by his body shape and physical build, I believe he had some of that, ancient mighty men of old DNA in him. It doesn't get expressed like it used to 100 to 200 years ago but from time to time it gets awakened to this day.
I like the way you did the video. most videos are the same thing. You made it more creative and added a few new pictures.
Wilt chamberlain, when he was building his mansion in California. He had some work done by a local artisan for his kitchen and when the deliverymen arrived he helped them unload the vehicle, it took normally four men to move one of these items, it was either wood or stone-work and Wilt picked up two under his arm effortlessly and walked into the house.... in Wilts case he really worked at it....his three school friends talked about Wilt having a three hundred pound dumbbell set in his bedroom at 15 and at 16 Wilt under an assumed name played against full grown adults averaging 40 points a game....
Hilarious fake stories.
@djo-dji6018 All his teammates are fake? Arnold Schwarzenegger is fake? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is fake who talks about Wilt being held by multiple basketball players and still dunking!
@@djo-dji6018he played against equivalent of farm league baseball basket teams.he got paid and had excellent stats..
Im telling you Wilt is the greatest basketball player to ever live. Yall dont know and he has been forgotten by many but that dont mean he wasn't the best. They changed the games rules so wilt wouldnt totally dominate it. Wilt was the first to dunk from the free throw and it wasn't that hard for him. He was ao dominate that they told him he scored to much so he became an assist machine that year. He could have done whatever he wanted. The man scored 100 points. The record of 20k is in question but the fact the conversation is had means he was like modern day genghis khan😂
Wilt Chamberlain vs Victor Wembanyama Speed
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He was the greatest for sure.
Lmao more stewpidcomments. Even dummer that none of you even saw him play
@@manumaliamore dummkoments
The most basic fundamental of the game is shooting and he's one of the worst in history. I'm sorry but you're not the greatest basketball player of all time if you can't even shoot.
A real life Paul Bunyan.
Naw the real life wilt Chamberlain..get it right
I think Wilt was more like Goku
Like a true fanboy
@@gerardrbain1972 Goku is a fictional alien smooth brain. Nice try
@nonamewillbegiven7228 Goku is one of the most famous fictional characters ever. Therefore me drawing comparison between a transcendental player like Wilt Chamberlain and a transcendental fictional character would be a reference most people would get. I am sorry my reference went over your head.
I hope me expounding further on my point cleared up your confusion
Wilt wasn't just an athlete. Dude was a demigod lol
What a top athlete is to normal people Wilt was to top athletes
He definitely could palm a 16-pound ball without the holes in it.
With either hand.
16 lb. Bowling ball with no holes in it, Wilt would bowl with? So then his life was like Gulliver's travels, havin' fun with all these Lilliputians! What a character.
@@user-kh2ig7ew3w No, he could palm it.
I believe he is far stronger 💪 than shaq ever was, wilt chamberlain was a true decathlon athletic a true freak of nature with animal strength running speed endurance stamina ect he could play any sport he set his mind to.
That man-child's name does not belong in any discussions about Wilt Chamberlain. Don't mention him again.
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Did you see the video of Wilt shaking Shaq’s and Ewing’s hand? He almost took Shaq’s arm. Not even close. I understand Shaq is big and they couldn’t stop him, but Wilt is in a class by himself.
@@bubufubuquit being soft, wilt is apoozy
I was only going to watch a few seconds. A few seconds later, the entire 10 minute video ended leaving me wanting MORE.
I guess I could do a part 2.
I always said if his bench and 40 time plus vertical and everything else is true we still never seen another player like him it's been plenty LeBrons and shaqs and kobe but nobody built like wilt
Another great video, thank you!
Much appreciated 🙏🙏
This 🥷🏽 was a cyborg or sum 😭😭
On TV I saw him break up a fight by wrapping the other team's fellow up from behind and carrying him to the other end of the court. Other fellow was calmed down by then!
AND...Wilt was set for a dunk when the opposing (250 lb.) center decided to foul him instead. He stood face-to-face with Wilt and grabbed both his wrists.
WILT CARRIED THE GUY UP TO MAKE THE DUNK. ('Course he probably missed his free throw.)
Imagine being caught in a small locked room where Wilt Chamberlain and Andre The Giant suddenly break into a violent fist fight.
They were both very gentle giants and decent, kind men though I doubt either of them would be violent.
@@23aceballeryeah, but you're leaving out the part of one of them being a known racist. (Andre) 😏🥱
@@23aceballer Let's imagine a "last piece of pizza" scenario.
@msolomon1781 if u gotta bring that s**t up then it shows that ur the same Thing
Keep throwing dat race card BOY
@msoltomon1781 they met in real life on conan the barbian set and were cool.
We love you Bill Walton
Throw it down big fellow
Throw it down 😅
The goat rest in paradise wilt we miss you
whos the goat in Mma
I’ve seen other people tell stories about Wilt Chamberlain, and they along with Wilt often embellish stories when you look at the evidence if there is any. The biggest issue I see with Wilt’s stories is there’s rarely any evidence to back it up so you have to take somebody’s word for it. And what I’ve noticed is that when other people tell the same stories the numbers sometimes get bigger.
keep dreaming fool and troll. Wilt is the King of both basketball and Volleyball!
All the Chuck Norris stories are true, only they got the name wrong. The name is Wilt Chamberlain.
Wilt was an extraordinary natural athlete. Few know he could run like a deer: He ran the 440 yd dash (400 meters) in under 50 seconds at Kansas as an undergraduate. A noteworthy feat in the mid 50's, but amazing for someone not on the track team.
Wilt was fast, he ran the 100yd
dash in 10.9 sec ! That’s just short of impossible, for a 7 footer !!
Wilt seemed like a nice guy too
I've never seen Wilt play, he was before my time, but I believe he was the best and most dominant big man ever, arguably the best basketball player. I saw Jordan so I ride with him tho.
Look up "Larry Brown tells a Wilt Chamberlain story." There's a perfect example!
Black superman
I got to see him play in person in the '71 finals. Also in that series Pat Riley and Phil Jackson played against each other.
He's a Bigfoot....him and Andre the giant
The Big Dipper the best there ever was!
Andre and Wilt are the two most athletic giants of all time. To be that big, that strong, and that agile is unheard of.
MJ is what he is because David Stern and NBA Entertainment made him. Wilt was the greatest to play the game bar none. Politics is why Wilt's legacy, by and large, is ignored in comparison to other players.
No NBA player would disagree.
All fax
You don't make money marketing a dead guy.
I pretty much agree with your statement. I also think winning two rings is unfairly used against him. He was clearly better than Russell. I just wanted to ask you about his politics. I wasn’t aware of that.
@@RG-ct6qztrue.
Wilt was the Big 8 high jump champ 3 years running .....back in the days of the scissorlegged jump. ...Just one example of his phenomenal athleticism. He was a first rate sprinter and quarter miler, too. Makes me wonder if he could have gotten his giant body over a pole vault bar. For sure he could handle, at a world class level, all the other decathlon events without even prepping for them!
No he didn't. It was the Big 7 back then and he won it once - with an unimpressive height.
You have fallen for the Wilt Track & Field list of exaggerated bullshit. He was no sprinter, his 440yd times were no great and neither was his high jump that great.
Awesome….simply awesome.
We need Wilt reincarnated.
Rest In Peace big guy
Stronger than Shaq. Seriously, Wilt was a real life folk hero. I just feel bad, because Wilt just wanted to be loved by the public. And to this day, he isn't appreciated. He would say, "Nobody likes the Giant". He would fuck up Shaq, and Shaq knows this if he has any brains.
He knows.
My dad took me to Warrior games. At a Celtics game, Jim Luscatoff of the Celtics had been all over Wilt, and no fouls were called. You could hear Wilt complain to the refs, he was getting pissed. At one point, Luscatoff is holding Wilt contesting a rebound. Wilt shrugged and tossed Luscatoff from flying from the court into the second row. You could feel the fans' awe at seeing that.
Jungle Jim was no match for Wilt.
One of the most amazing experiences in my life was getting to play a few minutes of beach volleyball against Wilt Chamberlin. I grew up watching him play with the Lakers and in the summer of 1976, I went to the beach at Santa Monica. After I was done, I was walking back towards the parking area, and at the first court South of the pier, Wilt was playing with some of his buddies and I stopped to watch the game. I had played a bit of recreational ball, but nothing serious. After I had been watching for a few minutes one of the guys looked at his watch and saw he had to go right then in the middle of the game. That left the sides uneven, so they asked if I wanted to fill in to finish the game. Didn’t have to ask me twice. The other guys were of a size and skill level that suggested they were all pro or college players. I was by far the worst player on that court, but the experience was amazing. First, Wilt could legitimately spike out of sand from mid court with ease. Second, you could tell he was careful with his spikes not to hurt anybody and held back if he was spiking at somebody. When he aimed a spike at an empty spot and really let go, it sounded like a rifle shot. I’m sure if you caught the full force of one on your forearms it could break a bone. I reached for one and it grazed my forearm and gave me a noticeable abrasion. None of the other players were anything close to his power level or jumping ability.
What an amazing experience!
@@FoobasSports It certainly was. In addition to his inhuman physical abilities, I was impressed with his gentlemanly sportsmanship. In addition to his obvious effort not to hurt me or anyone else, as the smallest, weakest player on that court, he could have picked on me and singled me out for easy points, but did not. He treated me with the same "respect" as he did the other players.
I remember him throwing Kareem jabbar around like a toy rag doll
Wilt blocked his sky hook twice in one possession
The strongest Human to ever grace the earth!
What a silly statement.
@@ngc-fo5teGrace? Like one guy said about Andre the Giants lingering flatulence "Big man, big farts!"
Silly statement indeed
Wilt was the GOAT in basketball Case Closed!
Agreed. Wilt is no. 1 and it is a long way to no. 2, whoever that is.
Wilt was super strong, no doubt about it. I interviewed '56 Silver/'60 Gold Olympic shot put medalist, Bill Nieder, about 25 years ago for a biographical article and he told me what actually happened by the dorm one day. Wilt used an overhand, 2-hand "put" where one stands backward and slings it overhead. You see shot-putters often do this as a warm-up. Bill, was right-handed, but the bet required him and Al Oerter (also right handed) to use their left hands. I don't mean to demean Wilt but no one can seriously believe he could out-throw the Olympic silver medalist, soon to be gold medalist shot putter. Too, Al Oerter thought Wilt had great potential in the discus because of his arm span, worked with him but Wilt never progressed as much as he thought he might, his height making a discus ring look like a sewer plate. But, Wilt was a superman. He was also an excellent high jumper and I believe he tied an SMU jumper for 1st place at the Kansas or Drake Relays one year at around 6'7". As best I know, he wasn't his conference's high jump champ. Unbeknownst to many, Bill Russell actually had a better high jump. I believe he jumped 6'9" while he was in college. Bill was just a shade behind the top high jumper in the USA but chose to go to the '56 Olympics as a basketball team member and passed on the '56 Olympic Trials in the high jump. Wilt's supposed weight lifting? Nah! Most of it is gross hyperbole. There is no video evidence of Wilt doing giant lifts. Anyway, he was one in a hundred million and way ahead of the pack early on in his pro basketball days and he played well and stayed athletically active all the way to the end. He really seemed to like to compete. Most of his teammates will tell you he was a man of tall stories about himself, had a giant ego. One of the greats!!!
Wilt, I understand cleared 6'6" in the high jump. But I heard on one of these videos that he led the Big 8 Conference in the high jump three years in a row at 7'1". When Bill Russell was in high school in San Francisco his arch rival in the high jump was singer Johnny Mathis, who was better, and was the one invited to the Olympics, which he turned down.
@@user-kh2ig7ew3w No, Wilt never high jumped 7'1" at least not in a competition. I think the 6'6" or an inch or so more was his best. If he had specialized? Sure! And, Bill Russell had a legitimate chance to win a berth to the '56 Games but chose not to choosing basketball over T&F. No, Johnny Mathis wasn't better than Russell; his best was 6'5.5". People aren't invited to the Olympics, they have to qualify by winning a spot at the Olympic Trials. Mathis didn't compete at the '56 Olympic Trials. Chose singing. Both men were fine athletes; both made the proper decisions!!!
No sir I meant he led the Big 8 three years in a row in the high jump. With a personal best of 6'6". With him at a standing height of 7'1".
@@user-kh2ig7ew3w Gotcha! Yes, he might've competed 3 yrs. Hard to say what the basketball coach allowed not wanting him to get injured.
@@bradreid6057 I saw footage of his high jumping! He had to extend both his arms and legs forward down to land like a cat in that 'below sea level' sand pit! And he did it like takin' a Sunday stroll. I sure hope they came up with a better mouse trap by the '68 Olympics, or Dick Fosberry must've used his Gold Medal as an Endswell!
The answer to this question is 100% yes.
One of the greatest feats in track and field of all time was the world record in the high jump by Russian Valeriy Brumel who was only 6'1" and using the old straddle method jumped 7'5 and three quarters inches!
If Mahomes can throw it 80yds at his pro day in college, I have zero doubts with as long of arms as Wilt had that he could throw it 90yds like Walton said.
Underhand!!
He was a track athlete so he probably threw it almost like a discus but without the spinning, just used his long a as arm to sling that thing!
Look how much taller Wilt is than Shaq. Shaq admitted he’s 6’11’. Wilt was 7’1” IIRC
If you haven't seen the documentary on Wilt called Goliath, why not? It was great.
The preponderance of evidence...two or three crazy stories like this would seem ridiculous, but they seem so commonplace, and you hear them from so many individuals who knew Wilt--you'd be an idiot to try and deny them.
Lot of idiots in the comments. Its like a conspiracy or agenda against Wilt.Doesn't make much sense.Part of it is.Jordan or LeBron can't be the goat unless you get rid of Wilt
I saw a TV episode where he palmed a 16 lb. bowling ball that had no holes in it. He held it straight out and then started waving it around and around like you would with a softball.
10,000 reasons to agree.
I watched him kill 3 sasquatches with his bare hands
I watched several of his games on TV, back in the day. These highlights, on youtube, don't really do him justice. I saw him jump and intercept passes that looked to be between 13 and 14 feet high from the floor. If he went up for a dunk, not many could stop him. He would take a small looking guard, or forward up with him, if they grabbed him, or break the grip of a big man.
I agree I saw those game too!
100 points in a ĝame
The problem with holding 300# out at arms length is it isn't about strength. Physics won't allow it.
Many of the First Time stat lines do not include Wilt. Blocks and steals weren’t recorded until 1973. Imagine how many triple doubles he would have.
Wilt NEVER fouled out of a game. He played almost every minute and even averaged over 48 minutes per game one season.
All I can think is that if Wilt hadn't pushed himself to play every minute of every game, it would not have stressed his heart so much and he might have lived much longer.
That’s cute, but most men like him have heart issues
20K is a feat of strength..what a gentle charasmatic giant
For example, on the finger tip pushups. Yes, he may have done more but what about the form and range of motion.
You didn't want to find out the hard way .
Remember that fast pitch pitcher (Eddie Feigner) on the "King and His Court" threw a bigger ball 104MPH and some people say 114MPH and fast pitch is underhand.
Wilt was an Alien 👽
Actually uf u want true story. He really is. Go look every interview and then search his pendant around his neck on google. Well if u zoom in it will show u Free Mason Egyptian pyramid but without peak top cause it stands around his neck considering that Wilt head is that top of pyramide. Then zoom into center of it and see Pharao head. It is RA, the highest God of Egypt.
To add onto my previous comment : search Wilt Chamberlain necklace. He wear that everytime. That is resemble of Free Mason RA Egyptian highest God !! He created pyramide as 1 of the alien race.
Also search Wilt with 2 cats play chess. Another resemble that he is RA, egyptian God. The Egypt is known for 2 cats infront pharao enterance.
🙏🙏🙏
Yep I know what time it is 😎
I grew up watching Mr chamberlain and Russell play it was awesome today's game is a advanced zone Noone plays defense