The Battle of The Giants - Wilt Chamberlain versus Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 

Geordie I like to think we have a SF match-up like that in today's league. KD vs LBJ Kareem vs Wilt alot of similarities between em.

they were monsters back then in a much tougher game.

Right

the food was alot more nutritious 50 years ago

Kareem played 20 seasons and was still getting doubled lmfaoo

Lol. Agreed 🙏🏼

Great editing. Nice blast from the past.

@MANCHESTER UNITED okay bro... you can crawl back into the dungeon below old Trafford now..

Absolutely..

@@zainnaeem7148 🤣🤣👍🏾

Bear 7 they’re only 2 years apart lol

Stfu I’m better then all these people

@Kani Fuker stfu not funny get a life

@@burneraccount4576 lol

@@marcusmvpgoat1236 it kinda is because I wouldn't say Jordan was over the hill unless him talking Wizard days. They matched off first in 98 (Kobe&Mike)

Imagine what a younger Wilt would do to Kareem who was kinda soft imo.

​@@manumaliayeah his jump would be 10 inches higher. With faster reactions. That's scary, would illustrate how ridiculous he is. People forget he averaged 8+ blocks a game on all the games recorded 😂. If you have all the date, most like 10+ blocks on average. Kareem is cooked.

@@wingzero2348 oh for sure 💯

On a bum knee

Two years earlier? Kareem would have been SCHOOLED.

Here's Wilt Chamberlain swishing 4 corner 3 point hook shots in a row to win a $5 bet. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-h0IC8Nwkd1w.html

@@ShaunPhillipsAV Wilt made that hook shot 3 pointer look easy. Good video!

Dude Kareem has only scored one three-pointer in his life...

@@bila.l True, many centers weren't taking many 3 pointers in the old game, but now the game has changed.

@@bila.l Dude Kareem played most of his career before the three-point line was instituted. And he wouldn't have attempted 3s anyway, not at 7'2" and a smart team player.

Looked like the second was goaltending, but yeah it's crazy.

Manute bol has as well

I think only 3 people blocked it

Kareem is also blocking wilt you know.. its like kareem was sent by God to be wilt cryptonite

Wilt blocked the Sky Hook of the great Kareem quite a few times. Here are the records from a few games: 11/20/70: Wilt 28 pts, 23 rebs, 10 blocks (6 on Kareem) 04/09/71: Wilt 22 pts, 20 rebs, 8 blocks (3 on Kareem) 04/18/71: Wilt 23 pts, 12 rebs, 6 blocks (5 on Kareem) 04/14/72: Wilt 7 pts, 14 rebs, 10 blocks (6 on Kareem) 04/18/72: Wilt 12 pts, 26 rebs (4 blks on Kareem) 04/22/72: Wilt 20 pts, 24 rebs, 9 blocks (3 on Kareem) Sky Hook was unstoppable, ... just not against Wilt ..!

Webster Thomas against Un athletic big men lanky guys who really couldn’t play that’s who they played against

@@ocho552 since you obviously weren't alive for any of this..... Today's NBA players are posers. No way could they ever handle the rough physical punishment that Chamberlain would have dealt out. To make a statement that his competition was physically lacking.... Shows just how ignorant this generation is.

David Tree posers? You’re funny and bitter. I grew up watching basketball in the 90’s I can appreciate all eras. To say this generation basketball players are posers makes you the ignorant one

@@ocho552 ocho 55 lol you grew up in the 90's so you appreciate all eras..... lmao

@@oaw972 hes still a *shoot from the outside didn't wanna get hurt on the inside* boy lol

Imagine if they both were on the lakers at the same time.

@@marcusjohnson7321 They would lose because Wilt can not win. Wilt had Elgin Baylor and Jerry West on the same team and still lost.

@@user-oe4wr9tn2n BS Wilt could win and under good coaches he won twice.

@@chonasimpson6487 That is a statistically proven fact. Nothing you can say can disprove this statment. Wilt was a ballhog, and a terrible teammate, who could have been one of the greatest players ever but had too much ego to achieve it.

Kareem only got dunks and hook shots in his arsenals and no perimeter game. Todays bigs are dribbling , passing the ball like guards and shooting 3s at a very good percentage yet some people keep saying that basketball back then was better than today's

Very true, shame we couldn't have had Kareem, Russell and Wilt all in their prime all at once.

+Fede B Wouldn't that have been something!

Yeah, he was. And he still did pretty damn well.

seattwa that's true your right🤔🤔🤔

Kyzer Jyzer but who is better overall🤔🤔🤔🤔

He sure was. Wilt would destroy today's weak pivot play NBA.

alot of people forget that he is the only center to ever lead the league in assist!!!

He Led the league in assists one year!

he also averaged over 50 points a game for an entire season, averaged more than 48 minutes a game for a season one year, set the single game rebounding record against Bill Russell who was supposed to be a defensive wizard. Wilt Chamberlain was simply the greatest basketball player of all time, hands down. with his size and athletic ability, there is no doubt he would have dominated any era he played in. no doubt.

Steve Swangler i agree and fifty-five rebounds in one game in insane and even more ridiculous when you consider bill russell on the court at the same time!!!!

Alian Rodríguez in his mid 30s

He’s literally like MJ on the Wizards but he’s able to contend and push who many consider a top 3 player of all time. Wilt vs MJ is laughable.

@@darthridic123 There is an old saying in basketball: you can teach everything except the height. Jordan is the only non supertall freak of nature in the goat argument and that's already a massive statement.

Old and knee surgery knees wilt knock the air out the skyhook

Dribbled the more time in the keyway than most do for the length of the court

Very good point. He’s a tremendous human and one of my sports heroes as well.

'intelligence' 😆

@@geert574 yessir. I have Wilt as the GOAT but kareem is a highly intelligent guy and top 4 all time

100% correct !

My Mount Rushmore is Wilt, Kareem, Jordan and Lebron. Wilt on top for sure.

I feel like nowadays basketball is just dunks and traveling, nothing else. Aka its crap.

@Kamron Anderson shooting a 3 takes a lot more skill then being tall and jumping

@Kamron Anderson fair point but still how does a 3 point line make the game worse?

@slip satch you're right about the hugging taking a foul shot is a great accomplishment? Hahaha

@@conesinker_4209 you have a point but you neglected to realize that there's an in between game too have you forgotten about that? it takes skill to maneuver through a court through traffic to find open space to make a mid-range shot or to get to the basket so your point has to be readjusted and analyzed because it's not entirely accurate not to put you in a box of absolutism but think the the totality of the game out before you comment

And a lot stronger

I recall Wilt saying that they didn't allow the shoulder into the chest power move to create space in his time playing, unlike Shaq who would abuse that move. Wilt is the greatest physical specimen ever in basketball, he had freakishly huge hands and his vertical was off the charts. Kareem is the greatest center imo, because of the most unstoppable shot ever, his IQ was just as high as his talent and he was one of the most talented players to ever play the game.

SLIP NORRIS agreed, but I still have Wilt #1 slightly before Kareem.

boy yall smoking that crack they maze in the 70s shaq would dominate both of these great centers. im sorry but wilt was the same size in height but he didn't have the same type of mass as shaq and his footwork was horrible. you see how much a young skinny kareem gave him problems no imagine a young shaq.

Youre right. again; 0 put back dunks in the entire video by these 2monsters says a loooot about how good and fast prime shaq was!!!

Legendary stuff man

Western semi...?

Great series but most people don’t remember the Celtics won the NBA title that year with a 6’9 Dave Cowan’s at center. Won game 7 by fifteen!

@no name dumbest comment

Damn im 17 na man boutta be a senior man

Chamberlain would have kicked his booty

I noticed how Kareem calmed the hell down once Wilt came into the picture lmao

@@shakurleday9205 kareem was terrified 😂. came to his senses immediately

at no point could Kareem physically stand up to Wilt.

He slugged a helpless player. How fortunate for Kareem that the official was there and knew Kareem NEEDED to be in the game. Kareem should have been kicked out. But.....NO! We can't have that. Wilt would have kicked Kareem's A$$. Watch Kareem's reaction when Wilt runs up. Har, har, har. @@shakurleday9205

I am so glad I read your comment. You must be somebody who played. Maybe, like me, you had the chance to look at the bottom of another player's All-Stars while your hand was over the rim already ;) Relativity, a rare gift. Bravo.

@@goboy55 Nah, High school is as far as I went.... but I have a good imagination! lol

jim bishop Are you saying Kareem here had a standing reach of 11 feet? That’s completely untrue. His standing reach was 9 foot 6 inches. And no when he was performing the skyhook it did not add another 3 feet to his overall height. He leaped off the ground yes, but not overly high. He had a high reach to begin with but it certainly wasn’t being released at 14 feet. That would be around the top of the backboard his skyhook was being released. It was most likely being released somewhere around 10 and a half feet, maybe 11 feet. Wilt is arguably the greatest physical specimen the nba has ever seen. Possibly even in all of sport. But to block a 14 foot high shot.. that is 14 feet before the release... come on..

@@tigeryumyums9407 So what do you do for fun.... tell little old ladies that statistically they're going to die this year or the next? Make sure little kids are aware there is no santa claus? Jez man sometimes you gotta just let go and have some fun imagining what could be! No I sure didn't dig through thousands of pages of stats and check with the local college to extrapolate the physics of the arc of possible trajectory based on known data...... My Bad!

jim bishop Well my day is usually structured as follows: wake up and head off to the closest nursing home. Do my rounds informing as many elderly as I can that statistically they will be dead in the 3-5 years. After some good fun laughing at them as they contemplate death, I drive over to the children’s hospital. Obviously I zone in on the kids in Palliative Care. Tell them stories involving their low chance of survival and comfort their parents by telling them “Don’t worry, you can always make another!” That usually eats up most of my day. Afterwards I head home where I dine on shards of glass and a vial of children’s tears I carefully extracted from the children’s hospital... I informed you about an outlandish claim you made backed by nothing. No cursing, no caps spam, no name calling - nothing. So maybe stop making such harsh judgements on the character of another person over the internet. Cheers!

They complete each other

Underrated comment 😂😂😂

Lmao 🤣🤣

bruh lol

Why does this comment not have 5k+ likes😂😂😂

or even better young Wilt vs old Kareem.

@@toddstevens13 YES kareem aged very well, that would be a great matchup

Thats why Kareem use to feel the need to talk shit about Wilt...

I dint c it

I wouldn’t say that Wilt “got the best of a young Kareem.” But he more than held his own. Wilt was only the 4th scoring option on the Lakers, while Kareem was the man on offense for the Bucks. And on defense, Kareem was nowhere near the shot blocker and rebounder that Wilt was. He was a better free throw shooter though.

Joking, and to a lesser extent guys like sabonis are doing it now

​@@boxenrider7981 they're not particularly great defenders though. They're playing great basketball though & it's a breath of fresh air after watching the Center position practically evaporate for a decade. Now it appears the bigs have adjusted to the modern NBA because international players were better suited to play this type of game.

Today's dominant centers are leagues more well rounded than the old school centers. Yes, they passed, and yes they scored(a centers job in the past) but compared to big men like jokic and Durant now, the old centers are not even in the same league. The game has evolved so much. Big men need to shoot now. Big men need to be as much of a shooting threat as guards now. Training programs are insane. Back then, a successful center did one job really well. Nowadays, a successful centers do everything except dribble really well.

@@LiftedGamingLoL lmao skill wise the centers today dont even come close mate look it up again..and to think that jokic is the best center today man he played really well though but he's not even close yet to shaq..hakeem..wilt..russel..jabbar

@@LiftedGamingLoL did one job? Defense ..post up moves...the only difference between the big men in this era is the shooting and passing😂what are you on bruh

yes sir

of course

+Persian Rugs Declining Wilt was still beast , like at the power and effort Wilt put into his plays. Young Kareem look frighted by the Wilt dunk at 7:41 - 7:44 and moved away , so he won't get posterized. But still old declining Wilt still dunked on Kareem a couple times.

bob burger yes sir

KareeM won most of their battles but at 10 yEars younger in NBA YEARS...

Wilt in his prime jabar would get tired and get subbed out or not be able to run with wilt

Comment: bill russell like: wilt chamberlain

I did both

@@carladahlberg I LIKE what you did there

@@shahrukh877 no

just like the attitude era in wrestling. Its gone for all eternity.

Not really. It's just nobody at the center position is dominant. There's some crazy talented all-star centers. But they don't have the presence on the court that these 2 giants have.

@John Edward their missing that because it's not better. The ratings prove that.

No

Tall Paul , Truer words were never spoken Mr. Paul. I too am sadden by that fact. 😢😢😢😢😢

Yah, Wilt The Stilt..monster.

Wilt was at the end of career ,in prime he would "cook " Kareem! He would block many skyhook of Kareem in mid 60's form! Wilt is nr.1, Kareem nr.2,...

Wow !!!

@@mirospajic9929 I very strongly agree with "he would cook Kareem". I also agree about Wilt as #1, and won't argue about Kareem being #2.

@wmden1 Wilt was a " monster " in his prime! Kareem was a very " nice guy " ! I believe in Prime vs. Prime Wilt takes victory! He could do everything basicly, and endurance is unmatched by Wilt!

The_IcemaN I agree. In Wilt’s prime, they changed the rules to keep him from dominating helping today’s softer players.

@humanman1 modern training and diet has a lot to do with that. Imagine Wilt with the same regimen of weight lifting and diet. He would have added another dose of mass and strength to his already natural advantages. Modern kids also have improved training at a younger age as we see more big men who can handle the ball and shoot from outside. Comparing eras can be full of pitfalls. All you can try to do is compare the natural talents. As far as diet in the 60s? Wilt would drink a gallon of milk during the game. That was his idea of hydration.

Yeah just like Giannis, I don't get he played in a weak era crap, man was tall and athletic

He would obliterate the today's NBA.

Joe Martin He can't shoot. If you want to be an elite big man in today's NBA you need to be able to shoot. You act today's players are just terrible in the post. It's not that. It's that post play is just so inferior to the 3pt shooting. There's no need for it. It takes to long to set up and takes time away from the have would have been better spent shooting a 3

@@MB-jz3uu Inferior play, the object of basketball is to get the easiest shot possible, the 3 point shot is a low percentage shot that goes to show how much basketball you know today's NBA is played by cream puffs my friend with pussyfied rules LMAO!

Joe Martin no the objective is to win. If you shoot 30% from 3 and 40% inside it's better to just hit 3s. You'll get more points out of ur shots. It's just simple analytics. Say you 10 shots. If u shoot 30% that's 9 points. No say you shoot inside the arc with post ups and mids at 40% that's 8 points. U see what I'm saying. Players today are shooting much better than 30% too. Some players are hitting 40% percent and for a player to match that production with 2 pointers they'd have to be shooting 60% inside the arc which is unheard of unless ur a player who strictly dunks like DeAndre Jordan.

@@kmpakush your test lowers and test effects your ability to retain muscular density .. you need muscle to move weight.. wilts just a freak

i read an article that in 86, new jersey nets tried to sign wilt

Qistan Aushaf what if they did

6LUEforeva so if lebron hits 90 hes strength is still the same u dumb fck?

Friotic Mods he probably meant like it won’t disappear as fast as your durability and speed

Cripes, do I agree with you.

Luckily Wilt at 35 can still play like superstar, olajuwon at 35 declined way faster

DAVID HE that was because of olajuwons heart problem

Beichen Lu just like kobe and jordan OR Kobe and lebron its always like that , one in his prime and one nearly retired

2008 Kobe vs lbj

magic and bird

Time when centers were a factor in the game. The NBA is a piece shit nowadays. I cannot stand the gameplay in the NBA nowadays. Everybody shooting 3's and no one is playing down low.

Refs called everything. No contact. 5:36 offensive foul on KAJ?

@@vintagemxer9165 offense foul he diped his should into wilt

Not completely true. Frank Ramsey if I remember had a few sly tricks, some form of flopping being one of them.

@@badger5930 every era of nba had floppers, simple

Bb Bb they are treasures, to be honest🏀

Game 3 25 points 16 rebounds 9 assist 9 blocks Game 4 11 points 22 rebounds 6 assist and 15 blocks Game 5 22 points 25 rebounds 5 assist 10 blocks Game 6 12 points 19 rebounds 6 assist 12 blocks Series average 17.3 PPG 21.8 RPG 5.7 APG 10 BPG yes Russell averaged a triple double for the ENTIRE 1968 finals series GOAT go watch those finals games

@@casualfandestroyer2503 not the blocks 😭

@@casualfandestroyer2503 Wilt Chamberlain 1967 Playoffs Run as the PG 22 points 29 Boards 11 blocks 9ass On 58% not to mention averaging 22-32-10A-10B on Bill Russell 56% Kick rocks bum

@@coachwane In the 1967 Finals Wilt's 15.0 ppg in the 4 wins Wilt = 23.0 ppg in the 2 losses Conclusion: Wilt's teams can ONLY win if he does not take over the scoring load. Wilt's 7 years of scoring titles only cost his teams.

@@casualfandestroyer2503 This is an incredibly dumb take. Wilt's teammates in Warriors were mostly inconsistent shooters at best, so of course he had to do most of the scoring just to have a chance. In Sixers and Lakers it was different since he had good enough teams, but in Warriors the only way for Wilt to win was to score a lot. His own teammates there had admitted that Wilt literally dragged his team to 1962 ECF 7th game against Celtics. Hell if his second scorer Arizin shot at just above 30% shooting in 1962 ECF he'd have one more Finals trip and became the first one to defeat healthy Russell's Celtics.

Ninjja what about Bill Russell, Nate Thurmond, Swede Halbrook, and Mel Counts

@Jack Azz Halbrook was 7’3”

Ninja JABBAR was like bring it on old man!!!!!!!!

@@dwightlove3704 Then after his face said i want my mommy lol.

@@chonasimpson6487 You crazy as hell Jabbar wanted ALL THE SMOKE!!!!!!!

Konphetty He wasn't on their home court lol

But then they loved him in ‘75 or ‘76 when he joined LA

@Hezekiah Hopewell i totally agree with u sir. And i have a good feeling that this abdul-jabar guy will break a record someday in with lakers

stop lying butthurt fanpussys😏

disagree. in prime russ and wilt would stop anybody. i believe wilt and russ could also block the skyhook when wilt could jump higher when he was young

itamar avidan Olajuwon avg. 32.5 ppg vs Shaq in Finals. Olajuwon avg. 35.5 vs Robinson in WCF. Olajuwon avg. 28 vs Ewing in Finals. Olajuwon avg 31 vs Kareem in WCF. Olajuwon avg. 25 vs "The Greatest Frontcourt" in just his 4th year touching a ball . So with these facts on display my knowledge says NOBODY in the History of basketball would stop Hakeem Olajuwon.

itamar avidan It's almost impossible to block the sky hook (consistently), you would have to go through Jabbar's body to do that and that's just not possible on a consistent basis without being called for a foul.

No one? Willis Reed did TWICE. Bill Russell did several times even at his final year as player and as coach. How come a so unstopable player who played with greats as West and Baylor has only 2 rings?

Bruno Entringer cause basketball is a team effort and not individual sport. and with the lakers wilt played different. and 69 just because of that stupid coach he didn't brought him back. should have 3 rings

Young wilt would knock the air out of the jabbar skyhook , put a hole in jabbar skyhook shot

Facts my brother

Wilt would have swatted everyone of his own shots? That I'd like to see

Jabbar is x10 better wtf.

lloyd kline Jabbar x10 better wtf

When wilt got mad he reached many of them.

@@chonasimpson6487 Wilt dominated Jabbar,where was Jabbar when Wilt was in LA and won 33 games in a row, Jabbar was quiet as a church mouse in Milwaukee. Jabbar didn't want none of that smoke.

@@chonasimpson6487 Wilt Chamberlain blocked Jabbar's sky hook twice on the same play. Jabbar did not want Wilt's smoke.

Actually Wilt blocked the sky hook many times. There's footage right here on RU-vid.

@@generalkayoss7347 only blocked it 4 times

Wilt chamberlains fingerrolls was definitely his most effective move tbh

@@Poloskii Except against Bill, who blocked it a few times.

@@bricefleckenstein9666 yeah, Bill was the second best defender in history watchu mean, also his rebounding was on par with wilts so that information isn't much surprising to me considering how much of a beast Russell was In his prime he could probably lock down Michael Jordan although I'm not very sure about that

@@Poloskii Second best defender? That's a rare opinion - most of us rank Bill as #1. He also OUTREBOUNDED Wilt when it counted - in the playoffs - but it was close. One of my favorite basketball posters is Bill blocking a Wilt finger roll - and Wilt just looking at Bill as if to say "yeah, you got me THIS time, let's see what happens next time". BTW - you ever see the video of Bill blocking a Wilt DUNK attempt? *THAT* is impressive.

@@bricefleckenstein9666 yeah Russells defence is really impressive and is overall better than wilt since its more clutch but when wilt is effective, he is definitely the better defender since he unofficially average 10 blocks and 4 steals a game for his whole career(normal season) compared to Bill Russells 7.4 blocks and 1.7 steals a game

Mark J nope. Watch some footage and look at the stats. Kareem had him most of his career because Wilt was old.

Kyle. Laker Wilt was told to focus on defense,.passing and get rebounds. He led the NBA in Rebounds 4 out 6 years as a Laker. Everyone has limited energy and look what he did when player focuses mainly on defense. You get Dennis Rodman, Mutombo, Ben Wallace, Bill Russell, Mark Eaton. Past Prime Wilt.

j k right. I just don't agree with the idea of that guy who said old Wilt dominated Kareer completely still. :) can't also take away that fact that Kareem was no joke compared to old Wilt, regardless of what role Wilt played during those years.

A young much lighter Wilt would block most of those sky hooks.

Young wilt would put a hole 🕳 in the skyhook, plus put lew alcindor in the basket with his dunk shot

Shaquille was bigger stronger and more skilled. Kareem would still beat him with that hook. But I feel shaq would be better than Wilt

BigKing17 Wilt was better than Shaq at basically every facet of the game. Shaq was not on Wilts level.

Wilt scored more points and was dominate because there was no one remotely his size.

BigKing17 There was no one Wilts size in any era. he was arguably stronger than Shaq, had the speed of a small forward, jumped higher than anyone. No matter who he faced he would have advantages over anyone. I mean just look at the numbers he put up against Kareem in his final years when he was out of his prime. Shaq couldn't even handle Hakeem.

shaqpopcorn34 Shaq scored his points under the rim, Wilt scored his points under the rim and outside the paint because he had a 10-12 jump shot, on top of that he attempted about 4,000 more shots than Shaq so obviously Shaq's percentage would be higher. Wilt was still the better scorer, and had a peak percentage of 72% while Shaq never got above 60%, something Wilt did 3 times. Wilt was the better rebounder, passer, shot blocker and overall defender. And at his peak career was the more dominant individual while having among 3 of the highest per stats of all-time. You bring up Thurmond, he didn't face prime Wilt. Even later stages Wilt scored numerous 30+ point games on Thurmond, Wilt had 24 40 point against Russell, 2 60 point games on Bellamy, 2 50 point games against Reed, Old Wilt held a young dominant Kareem to a career 46% in their 28 head to head match ups. Wilt has dominanted everyone in his era head to head including the hall of fame centers. Feats that Shaq has never come close to. You bring up Thurmond outscoring Wilt, even though again Wilt stopped being the scorer he was and more of a team player but you fail to mention those offensive percentages. What about When Old Wilt held prime Thurmond to 36% in 6 games in the 72 season, Wilt was above 50%. Or the 37% he held Thurmond to in the Conference finals in 73. Or the 59% he shot against Cowens in 73. Again your mentions to the head to heads are silly considering Cowens and Thurmond faced Defensive Wilt, not the Offensive Wilt, just look at his scoring attempts in those match ups. He still limited those guys defensively to the likes that Shaq has never displayed against a HOF big, just ask Hakeem.

there where celtics also still there

@@IamnotfromUSA Not during this era. After Russell retired following the 68-69 season, Boston spent a few years rebuilding. Their next title came in '74.

Enjoyed seeing that.

@@waynejohanson1083 Me too. And he did the same to Bill Russel, earlier on, more times than a person could count. Of course Russel blocked a few of them too.

Yeah you can find lots of impressive looking dunks out there but there's really something pleasing in a different way when you watch Wilt do that.

***** Verticals reduce when u get older dude. Because of wear and tear on bodies.

***** Dude. U cannot defy nature and physics. Verticals change because a you keep practicing and playing, your bones and your body just doesn't perform as high as it can. Thats just basic science. Its why when michael jordan played at 40 years old, he could barely drop 15-20 points per game.

U can just wait till ur 40 and jump and see. It doesn't take an asian to know that. Even professionals no that there bodies perform worse when ur older. :):):)

Ur using ur eyes and not facts. U hav to face reality sometimes dude. Ur just really lost with ur heart.

***** I don't reply to much...but you really are an idiot. And what are you anyways? jewish?? just going by your name...

This. Its part of the game if you play defence, it shows that you are challenging the shots at the rim.

Lew Alcindor

@@firstlast3245 same shit

YOU JUST PICK THE WRONG PLAYER IN THAT VIDEO CHAMBERLAIN CAN BE KAREEM FATHER AND STILL BEAT KAREEM.but YOU favorite PLAYER IS KAREEM AND y respect THAT BUT BETTER than the BEAST OF CHAMBERLAIN NEVER WILT CHAMBERLAIN is the BEST BASKETBALL PLAYER EVER TO STEP IN THIS EARTH PLUS ATHLETIC too is probably THE ONLY FULL package ABOUT sportsmen his the Legend ABOUT SPORT RIP MR NORMAN WILTON CHAMBERLAIN

@@bobbymadera3234 calm the fuck down.

Hakeem made him look like trash in 1986.

Send Magic home mad after a pickup game.

No more lay-up in this game!

It actually happened the other way around.

Ron Matthews Yeah Wilt definitely needs one to.

Nor really. He had to develop the sky hook when in college the NCAA banned the dunk.

@@thomaschippie9057 he was already best friend with wilt when he was in highschool and wilt came to newyork during offseason.

@@thomaschippie9057 yeah talk about the most ridiculous rule ever put in place. Between that and prohibition lol.

@@thomaschippie9057 He probably mastered it b/c pf the rule but you can see that he had the shot in his repertoire in his HS highlights.

He ha llimited skills. Couldnt shoot. He bulled people by being bigger and stronger. When he played someone his own size like Kareem with skill he got dominated.

@@TheJpep2424 that sounds like shaq vs hakeem

@@TheJpep2424 wilt was old that time imagine young wilt👀👀👀👀

@@TheJpep2424 Wilt never bulled anyone he played with class and was never dominated he was the dominator period even though he was 11 years older than Kareem and just coming off two knee surguries he still shut young Kareem down. In Wilts prime Kareem would not have stood a chance. Wilt would have beat him so bad Kareem would have retired from basketball.

@@TheJpep2424 you know nothing about Wilt Chamberlain if you think he was just a big brute. Your describing Shaq not Wilt.

I couldn’t agree more! Wilt was 10 or 12 years older.

Still was

I do but at the same time i do not. I would not like to see Kareem humiliated from a major beat down.

Yes they allowed players to play the game. Today it’s much softer

Dang! Well spoken by you!

kentucy9999. MINE TOO MY IDOL

Ly in my bed “ Not Lie In your bed

Really? I grew up in Maine and watched Russell vs Wilt so many times, or listened to Johnny Most call the play by play. My brother rooted for Wilt too. Why I don't know, but he met Wilt at a beach shop in Waikiki years later. My favorites were Russell and Sam Jones. I even talked the principal into bringing Sam to our high school varsity banquet.

@@Braglemaster123 That's very helpful.

Love wilt too got his books too, love those 1960s basketball books about the NBA ,baseball

Plus wilt was old and knee surgery knees, young wilt would knock air out the skyhook, plus put lew alcindor in the basket

manure bolt did as well but he had an advantage cause he is 7’7 while Wilt is smaller then Kareem

manu*

Nate Thurmond also

@@blackpeoplespeaks ralph Sampson also blocked the skyhook

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Let's also not forget that Wilt played in a league with 8 teams of straight up bums and still would get swept by 38 win teams

@@armandodelossantos736 Educate yourself please.

@@chonasimpson6487 you don't even know who was on Wilt's teams! You watched some RU-vid highlights and now you think you know hoops! Typical phony wannabe hooper

@@armandodelossantos736 wow. In all my 45 yrs of actually STUDYING all the literature I could find on basketball history & I've never found anything like this claim. Congrats on doing what I failed to. Tell us all about all those hall of fame players back then who were just garbage, no skills, glorified plumbers??? I need educating, sir.

On ABC with Keith Jackson and Bill Russell! 👍

Barefoot measurements back then. And they stuck with rookie weights. Look for an old Bill Russell standing by a Shawn Kemp when he played with Celtics. They are same height. Russell should have lost 2 inches by then. Everyone had at least one guy who would be a 7 footer by today's standards, except maybe Seattle. I thi k they had Pete Cross and Don Smith who were 6-9 so only6-10 1/2 or eleven today. Even the guards were bigger than listed. Jerry West was not a 175 lb guy, more like 195 or 200. I don't know when they started counting shoes on heights. After the merger maybe.

Wilt woulda broke Kareem in half!

Kareem was trained by Bruce lee, Kareem would flick him

@@LimarzTheBoss Kareem had not met Bruce yet at that point. YEARS later.

@Dr. Strange More than a bit stronger - and Kareem never did bulk up to the level Wilt got to.

@@LimarzTheBoss lol wilt chamberlain and Mohammed Ali practiced with eachother

Just imagine if Wilt played for 512 more games like Kareem did his career scoring would be 10,240 more at 20 points a game average he would have 42,000 points and the career scoring record 4000 more than Kareem.That is a conservative number based on games played Wilt is number one and that is even when you factor in he was told to focus on defense and stop scoring so much for the last 6 years of his career.Come on people Wilt is the goat its easy the proof is in front of our faces.

Now you learning !!!

Correction: an old Wilt vs. a non-yet-in-his-prime Kareem. I don't see how Wilt "handled" Jabbar.....but it was certainly a battle.

bigdaddywbl battle that wilt won at least in this video

Barrack Obama the lakers were the better team, but kareem was pretty clearly the better individual player at that time

i wouldnt put him in my top 3 centers of all time so if that makes me a "kareem dick sucker" then so be it

brentisverycool all i know for sure top 5 centers of all time and I can't distinguish the order cause they all were amazing shaq,wilt,bill russel, kareem, hakeem

​@Nungwan this. Shaq was one of the most dominant big men to EVER play the game. Sure, he wasn't as athletic as wilt...because he didn't have to be. But I feel like because of his public relevance people forget how dominant he was through his career. Yao was the first player to ever give Shaq a run for his money. And Yao was an absolute monster.

​@LiftedGamingLoL the thing is that Wilt was just as powerful as Shaq but would foul out every game if he played like Shaq

@pawinrutwan7705 yeah I agree. Just so hard to compare eras

and much better handle and much better passing, steals, blocks, and incredible fitness and stamina. Wilt had him beat ten ways to Sunday

You know at one time shaq had a turn around shot, he just stopped using it ! It was easier to just dunk !😁😁

It took Jabbar twenty years to break records Wilt set in 13 years. Wilt was a way more dominant force than Jabbar. I've seen Moses Malone just dominate and push Jabbar all off the block in a sweep of the Lakers in the finals. Moses won MVP of that championship series.

Chamberlain had quick hands for a big man, look how he keeps stripping the ball from Jabbar.

Bill Russell said that Wilt was the smartest player he ever played against.

I get what you're saying, but the skyhook was a pretty real move in the post.

@@ja8ames True true. I'll call him a one trick post pony then. I don't blame it, it clearly worked for him. I just think Wilt was the better all around center

In all reason wilt always better than Kareem , he's play style like Giant Michael jordan

Wilt was able to block the sky hook a few times. Reason being is he was able to do so when Kareem tried it closer to the basket so less arc was applied. Kareem figured it out, moved out further from the basket, and put more arc to the shot.

​@adityadarmasaputra4104 I don't think Wilt is the greatest because as an individual player, I think you must factor in how he impacts his team and does he make the team better. Wilt and LeBron type players will dominate individual stats, but in terms of overall career goals that go beyond themselves, they fall short more often than not. That is why both have losing records in the NBA Finals. Kareem could be dominant and take over games similar to these two, but Kareem, especially as he got older, knew when to let others help him out and had extremely solid fundamental basketball skills.

Shaq does not COMPARE to Kareem. And Kareem does not compare to Wilt. What does that tell you about my opinion?

Kareem a better teammate than Wilt. Har, har, har. Wilt led the league in LOTS of team numbers. Blocks, rebounds, ASSISTS. Just 'cause a guy does not have a good team around him, does NOT mean he is not a good team player. @@davidrajaruzicka5546

You ought to see the clip of Bird shaming Jordan one on one.

As he should. He and Wilt would easily dominate that overhyped grub

Lmao stupid. Delusional... Kareem would take that back years later when MJ fully dominated everyone

@@SeanRankin2 nigga said overhyped, okay Sean Rankin

It's difficult to compare a shooting guard with a center, just as it's difficult to compare players across eras. This video gives us a chance to compare late-career Wilt with early Kareem, both playing the same position. Late-career Kareem and early MJ also overlap, but their roles on the court were very different.

Jordan will neeeeeever dare dunk on wilt... Period!

damn you have seen everyone what an experience

I'm an old man, I got to watch this playoff.

@@donaldwallace1525 Hey legend!

Yesss !

He did that on his aging ankles too so his vertical had decreased by 5 inches by that point

shank shrek true

Kareem scored boatloads on him even if Wilt got it once or twice

Some of them were goaltending

Acouple of blocks doesn't change the fact that the sky hook was unstoppable

kareem great scorer but kareem was a average rebounder for a man his size and defender not so good...with and bill russell were far superior defenders and rebounders then kareem...

mixkon1986 if I could have any duo of nba players throughout history I would want wilt and LeBron

Hard to be considered best ever when you can’t even sink half your free throws, but Wilt was a great man.

True but to be honest its defitny mj the best

mixkon1986 nhatvietnamnhattruoch

What do you think they were missing? Wilt's problem was that he gained too much upper body weight. It killed his agility. Both of them did continuous training. Kareem's training is well-documented. Wilt carried a 110 pound dumbbell everywhere. He never stopped lifting.

An excellent example of contrasting styles. Made the matchup that much better IMHO.

Agree

pointblack808 and he got 50 points per game

It tells you he stat padded on a team with 9 rookies and he was guarded by 6'9 backup forward Cleveland Buckner

@@keeptahoeblue7496 Paul Arizin wasn’t a rookie You just are a moron

Funny2bfunny1 Cheers mate. Most of these young kids today don't know or appreciate how great these guys were.

+Cory Hill I'm 14 and I think wilt was the best center of all time and maybe the best player of all time. Not everyone is blinded by the vastly improved spotlight new players get, although you can't undermine the talent of newer centers like hakeem or david robinson either.

+Cory Hill only the ignorant ones

Russell was flat out to small for wilt. I don't think wilt would get killed in today's game but he definitely would not average no 50ppg or score 100 in a game.

+Jordan Harp I agree I wouldn't be surprised he averaged 30 pts. 20 rebounds

Kareem was way better. 6 championships

Damain Crespo Wait you saw Wilt play live in person? If that's true then you're so lucky. I'm 20 years old and if I had the chance to see any legend play live, I wouldn't choose Jordan, Magic, Bird, Kareem, Hakeem, or even Russell. I would choose Wilt Chamberlain

I don’t know what Wilt high jumped, but I know that he did it using the old fashioned side straddle high jump style, into a sand pit, rather than the much more effective Fosbury flop onto a cushion mat. The Fosbury flop had yet to be invented. Wilt also ran the 400, was good in the shot put, and did the triple jump

+Taxi Talk NYC against a bunch of 6-5 white boys

Damn straight !!

+Taxi Talk NYC He was far out of his prime here

+SLIP NORRIS lol they had 7 footers such as bill russel fucking dumbass and people were taller than that know nothing

+Corey Syme Bill Russell was 6'9, not a 7-footer. Just saying.

yusufu9 I still can't fathom a guard getting 18 rebs. Damn!

don't forget Bob love with the size 22 feet.

+James bowser Bob Lanier?

Scott Reed, you are correct. Thanks for the correction. I meant Bob Lanier.

...and Elvin Hayes, Willis Reed.

MrDrmillgram yet you still have fools saying garbage like "Wilt and Russell were playing against 5'10 guys"