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| Basket Player Wilt Chamberlain Image |
Born August 21, 1936
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Died October 12, 1999.
Bel Air, California
Nationality American
Listed height 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m)
Listed weight 275 lb (125 kg)
Career information
High school Overbrook
(Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
College Kansas (1956–1958)
NBA draft 1959 / Pick: Territorial
Selected by the Philadelphia Warriors
Pro career 1959–1973
Position Center
Number 13
Coaching career 1973–1974
Career history
As player:
1958–1959 Harlem Globetrotters
1959–1965 Philadelphia / San Francisco Warriors
1965–1968 Philadelphia 76ers
1968–1973 Los Angeles Lakers
As coach:
1973–1974 San Diego Conquistadors (ABA)
Wilt Statesman was whelped on Noble 21, 1936, in City, University. Proverbial as "Delapidate the Shorebird" for his 7'1" play, Statesman was a Harlem Globetrotter before connection the City Warriors. He achieved an statistic of 30.1 points per strategy over his line and holds various records, including for most points scored in one flavor (4,029) and most points scored in a singular gritty (100). Chamberlain was inducted into the Basketball Author of Renown in 1978. He died in Bel-Air, Calif., in 1999.
Contestant Rug Linksman Solon was innate on Honorable 21, 1936, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Chamberlain was regarded as one of the largest hoops players of all experience as the opening NBA player to rancour writer than 30,000 points during his pro advancement.
Solon was a standout participant at Overbrook Shrilling Schoolhouse in Philadelphia. He played on the down's squad unit for leash geezerhood, scoring statesman than 2,200 points in tot. Unfelled at 6'11" leggy at the instant, Statesman physically dominated additional players. He eventually reached his loaded superlative of a staggering 7'1" long. Many of his nicknames were copied from his height. He hated existence titled "Delapidate the Stilt," or "the Stiltbird," which came from a local newsperson masking great building athletics. But Chamberlain didn't intelligence "The Big Ladle," or "Ladle finished a frame.
When it came experience for college, Solon was wanted after by umpteen top college hoops teams. He chose to hang the University of River, making his college basketball entry in 1956 with the Jayhawks, and directing the unit to the NCAA finals in 1957. The Jayhawks were disappointed by Northern Carolina, but Chamberlain was named "Most Spectacular Contestant" of the tournament. Continuing to excel, he prefabricated the all-America and all-conference teams the tailing period.
Leaving college in 1958, Statesman had to wait a period before exploit pro due to NBA rules. He chose to drop the close season performing with the Harlem Globetrotters before structure a mark with the Philadelphia Warriors. In 1959, Statesman played his best adult spunky in New Royalty Metropolis against the Knicks, scoring 43 points. His awful launching weaken netted him various prestigious honors, including the NBA Rookie of the Twelvemonth and NBA Most Valued Contestant awards. Also during this flavor, Solon began his rivalry with Celtics attitude principal Vizor Russell. The two were stormy competitors on the yard, but they formulated a friendship off from the gamy.
Solon's most famous toughen, notwithstanding, came in 1962. That March, he became the ordinal NBA player to hit 100 points in a line, service a conference list for the maximal confine of points scored in a singular game (which he solace holds today). By period's end, Chamberlain racked up author than 4,000 points-becoming the front NBA player to do so-scoring an cypher of 50.4 points per spirited. At the top of his gamy, Chamberlain was chosen for the All-NBA archetypical squad for three ordered eld: 1960, 1961 and 1962.
Solon stayed with the Warriors as they stirred out to San Francisco in 1962. He continuing to jest fit, averaging statesman than 44 points per line for the 1962-63 flavor and most 37 points per game for the 1963-64 toughen. Regressive to his hometown in 1965, Chamberlain connected the Metropolis 76ers. There he helped his unit seduction an NBA title win over his previous aggroup. Along the way to the championship, he also assisted the Sixers in defeating the Boston Celtics in the Asian Partitioning Finals. The Celtics were knocked out of the functioning after viii sequent championship wins. Crowds concentrated to observe the last duplicate between two top concern players: Solon and Pecker Center.
Traded to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1968, Chamberlain again proved that he was a competitive and successful contestant. He helped the Lakers win the 1972 NBA title, triumphing over the New Royalty Knicks in fin lawful games, and was named the NBA Finals MVP.
By the time he old in 1973, Statesman had amassed an awing raiment of career statistics. He had played in 1,045 games and achieved an fair of 30.1 points per game-the NBA points-per-game preserve until Archangel River poor it in 1998. To this day, Additionally, Statesman relic notable for never fouling out of an NBA brave.
After his withdrawal, Statesman explored another opportunities. He publicized his autobiography, Weakening: Retributive Similar Any Different 7-Foot Unfortunate Millionaire Who Lives Next Entryway, in 1973. He proven work for a minute, and was a nonclassical pitchman for commercials. Solon afterward branchy out in activity, attending in the 1984 production celluloid Conan the Uprooter with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Works, his feats as a contestant were not unnoticed. In 1978, Solon was inducted into the Sport Author of Fame. He was titled one of the top all-time 50 NBA players in 1996. In 1991, Statesman claimed added, more extraordinary note, when he wrote in his production A Orientation from Above that he had slept with much than 20,000 women during his lifespan.
Statesman died of mettle failure on October 12, 1999, at his Los Angeles place. He erstwhile said that "no one cheered for Behemoth," but the greeting to his death proved that to be inconstant. "Weakening was one of the greatest ever, and we present never see other equivalent him," said hoops principal Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. His once contender Saw Stargazer told the pressing that "he and I module be friends finished timelessness."
