Happy Birthday Wilt!

[THE HCP]

Mr. Chamberlain would have been 76 today. Hope Lillard puts up these numbers........

@NBAHistory: Wilt's B-Day (8/21/36) Rookie Season (1959-60): averaged 37.6 points, 27.0 rebounds, NBA Rookie of the Year, All-Star Game MVP, NBA MVP

 

[Nikolokolus]

Weird coincidence -- just went on a bad movie marathon this weekend and one of the movies we watched was Conan "holy shit what a mess" the Destroyer. Wilt made a pretty convincing barbarian though.

 

[Boob-No-More]

Mr. Chamberlain would have been 76 today. Hope Lillard puts up these numbers........

@NBAHistory: Wilt's B-Day (8/21/36) Rookie Season (1959-60): averaged 37.6 points, 27.0 rebounds, NBA Rookie of the Year, All-Star Game MVP, NBA MVP

As impressive as those numbers are (27.0 RPG is still a record and will ever be broken), you left out the most impressive stat of all - 20,000 babes. Wilt is the all-time career leader in poon!

BNM

 

[Denny Crane]

As impressive as those numbers are (27.0 RPG is still a record and will ever be broken), you left out the most impressive stat of all - 20,000 babes. Wilt is the all-time career leader in poon!

BNM

Another meaning of "boob no more"

;-)

 

[dviss1]

Meh... He was a Laker....

 

[BLAZER PROPHET]

Meh... He was a Laker....

But as a rookie he was a 76'er.

And before the NBA he played a season with the Harlem Globetrotters.

 

[THE HCP]

Amazingly he didn't play as a freshman in college..... Against the rules back then. Can you imagine playing against him in freshman PE!

 

[NOVoodoo]

Amazingly he didn't play as a freshman in college..... Against the rules back then. Can you imagine playing against him in freshman PE!

Some other interesting facts about Chamberlain are that he never won a college title, and that fact (or the racism in Lawrence, KS at the time) led to him joining the Harlem Globetrotters for a year after his junior year in college.

Chamberlain was also the first territorial draft pick that didn't go to college in the team's area. Back in the day, teams were granted the right to have 'first dibs' on college players from their area. Although Chamberlain played at Kansas, the fact that he grew up and played high school ball in Philly was enough for the NBA to grant the Philadelphia Warriors a territorial pick.

Wilt was also an accomplished track-and-field athlete. Quoting wiki, "He ran the 100-yard dash in 10.9 seconds, shot-putted 56 feet, triple jumped more than 50 feet, and won the high jump in the Big Eight track and field championships three straight years." So when people wonder what he'd do against today's more athletic competition, you can look at his track-and-field numbers and ask yourself if any of today's centers could have done the same.

 

[jlprk]

With today's heights, training methods, food supplements, computers, and modern world coaching methods, guys like Chamberlain and Jerry West would be 2nd-round picks nowadays.

 

[3RA1N1AC]

With today's heights, training methods, food supplements, computers, and modern world coaching methods, guys like Chamberlain and Jerry West would be 2nd-round picks nowadays.

guys like wilt and jerry would have the same advantages

GOAT

 

[Nikolokolus]

With today's heights, training methods, food supplements, computers, and modern world coaching methods, guys like Chamberlain and Jerry West would be 2nd-round picks nowadays.

Maybe, but I'll be damned if they wouldn't be seasoned veterans ... which you should love.

 

[jlprk]

Nowadays we have large tins of powder and electric mixers. We have scrumptious supplements for greens, protein, and many chemicals unknown back then. They didn't know the difference between Omega 3 and polyunsaturates.

Back then people were little runts ruining their hearts who didn't have the energy to play defense. Does anyone here really think that Chamberlain could win championships today?

 

[3RA1N1AC]

Nowadays we have large tins of powder and electric mixers. We have scrumptious supplements for greens, protein, and many chemicals unknown back then. They didn't know the difference between Omega 3 and polyunsaturates.

Back then people were little runts ruining their hearts who didn't have the energy to play defense. Does anyone here really think that Chamberlain could win championships today?

hes no joel anthony, thats for sure

 

[dviss1]

With today's heights, training methods, food supplements, computers, and modern world coaching methods, guys like Chamberlain and Jerry West would be 2nd-round picks nowadays.

Look at your quote. You ended with nowadays. So if they lived nowadays wouldn't they have the same access to those weights, training methods, food supplements, computers, and modern world coaching methods?

 

[jlprk]

You really think those old guys would think flexibly enough now to stop mixing stuff with manual egg beaters, and tap on a tablet with their dancing shoes off? You tell them here's my new tablet, they'd try to swallow it. Dumb.

Chamberlain was called uncoachable by some. Especially by Auerbach, who had the purest motives. It was in the papers and bothered Wilt for years.