Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell's beef turned a beautiful friendship into 24 years of silence 

It's so damned wholesome that it doesn't even feel real. They loved each other so much!

And got the classic Bill Russell laugh.

neither of these guys would even be starting in todays league.... they played a bunch of nobody 5 foot 10 white guys

@@BH-gh6qmI can all but guarantee you don’t have an athletic bone in your body , lame ahh dude

@@BH-gh6qm What a weak troll you are.

The NBA championship ring was the friends we made along the way -Wilt probably

He won championships though. He just didn’t have 7 hall of fame teammates lol. You think the warriors with KD was bad?? Sheesh!

Very wholesome beef!

​@@13LaRRiC2434 GAMES WITHOUT BILL RUSSEL SIR. Stop pushing lien narrative

yup i expected wilt to be petty and egocentric, with all his women stories and gym totals, yet he was the one who kept being professional. their souls may rest in peace.

@@tobznoobs well lets just say the slights against Wilt's playing career made by the media were mostly accurate. He was a quitter and a loser. That doesn't make him a terrible person, but I can understand how Bill finally realizing that the media was right about Wilt would hurt Bill's ego. I mean that was the guy he was beating all of those years and who he stood up for and for him to give up in the finals probably hurt Bill a lot. It's kind of like how Shaq hates on every new big guy that comes up in the league because he feels like his throne of most dominant is in jeopardy because he never put as much work into basketball as he should have. Wilt not being as great as everyone thought only hurts Bill's legacy.

Actually, as someone who has read up stuff and watched videos on Bill Russell, I'm not the least bit surprised.

@@xXSprMgaAwsmFxyHtXxcan you please objectively explain why Wilt is a quitter or why you consider him a loser? It’s possible to admire Bill Russell without denigrating Wilt. The guy was criminally underrated and bashed by the media for everything BESIDES basketball.

​@@xXSprMgaAwsmFxyHtXxhow the hell is wiltba quitter😂😂

Fans do this even more zealously though. Online MJ, Lebron & Kobe superfans *never* cease talking down on the others, despite all their mutual respect for each other, & especially the respect Bron & Jordan each shared for Kobe.

Magic and Bird still seem friendly

Can*

see: Embiid and Jokic media treatment

“They act like 2 legends can not co-exist” is the Cole line you were tryna say

Okay, I swear I remembered this and did find it. Bill Didn't go to the Press and say this. Now this is according to him but he was talking to a bunch of Iowa college kids and mixed in was a reporter. He didn't know he was a reporter but the reporter said to him, "Well you wouldn't have won that last championship if Wilt wasn't hurt." Now this doesn't excuse him saying what he said, but I feel tis another point that it was the Basketball Media trying to stir stuff up that caused the falling out. You can see him talk about this in this interview, ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KJp9y1-schc.html The timecode is 2:51:38.

hahaha, Simmons is obsessed with Wilt. His book "The Book of Basketball" is awesome, apart from when it comes to Wilt.

Russell was better, so was Kareem

and also better than jordan or anyone else to touch a basketball. also bill simmons is clown.

@@AB-sw4kb Fr and it’s not even close

Russell was like "You're early" to which Shaq replied "But Im ready"

What I like about these is that you'll look back on them in ten years and they'll be just as good, not some clickbait gossip nonsense

Absolutely fantastic !

Not even close. She needs to blow her dang nose 😂

Damn.... Haven't watched but not as excited knowing she is on it

@@arizonaFIREent thank God I'm not the only one

Shaq the unintentional peacemaker lol. Ironic since Shaq is always nose diving himself into beef.

​@@jwyh4162Exactly he had so much Beef SB had a whole mini series of just ShaqBeef

​@@jwyh4162yes, but Shaq is humble when he talks about the OG bigs. He says all he ever wanted for his career was to have his name brought up together with Wilt, Bill, Kareem, etc. Not above, not better, just to have his name there with them.

Bro Shaq is definitely not humble

​@jakehighley8037 especially if someone brings up Bill Walton.

Real

Magic/Bird is still the best imo. That rivalry built the NBA in terms of notoriety.

What made their rivalry unique was how often they faced each other. They played around 16 games against each other every year and had great battles down to game 7’s in the playoffs(Bill is 10-0 in game 7’s so the winner was though a bit obvious). Imagine Kobe v Jordan 16 times a year for 10 years straight.

​@@goldenstatewarriors9418 Magic and Bird resurrected the league, but they'd both tell you that they stand on the shoulders of giants and benefited from the strides Russell and the Big Dipper made.

​@wvu05 the reason that the rivalry had extra weight was because of wilt and Bill the revived the old rivalry that they had set.

​@@usernamenotwrittenoutoflaz9865exactly that is basically getting playoff basketball ALMOST CONSTANTLY. A which I say I wasn't around to see it but saw a few games and it's gotta be the biggest cause they literally played 100s of games against each other probably

She's my favorite 😊 (shh...don't tell Seth!)

​@@elizabethgeorge168She's my favorite too...😂😂

I cannot stand her. Secret Base is stupid elitist garbage produced by pathetic losers that are so proud of themselves for going to college and of their slightly upper middleclass backgrounds. Sound like you? Dry wit? Are you still sitting down to watch Seinfeld reruns are you? And Seth. Loves Boris Diaw because his mother is a biology professor and his father is a lawyer............ And you have ever seen a bigger beta pansy in your life? The guy makes me want to vomit. Not as hard as this Clara though. Classist scumbags.

Seeing an MF Doom reference = immediate big smile

@@episodesglow it’s mf doom

@@senororlando2you’re both wrong it’s MF DOOM.. remember all caps when you spell the man’s name.

MF DOOM talk on a Russell/Chamberlain beef vid? This is as me-core as it gets, I love it.

@@brandenbyrd5239damn I was happy for a second until I remembered that DOOM, Russell, & Chamberlain are all gone now. Rest well legends, your talents & contributions will be remembered for many years to come

A rarity that a Beef History has a happy ending

Yep. They hated each other as well. I find it ironic Bill Sharman a Celtics legend came in afterwards and they finally won in 73. Sharman eventually moved from coaching to the FO where he remained for nearly a decade until Jerry West took the reigns from him.

Wilt stunk all series....biggest individual choke job ever!

Actually 5, Hakeem, Kareem, Russell, Shaq and Wilt

Can we make it 6 with David Robinson?

@@BrandanTheBroker Absolutely! Him and Rodman would make for a great video

@@BrandanTheBroker if we're going off of "of the best", then it's not crazy to say that Alonzo Mourning, Dwight Howard, and Joel Embiid could all be included too since they are borderline top 10 centers all time

@@georgeprimoff3744 let Zo in, Embiid still has time to work his way in

she’s the best at this no doubt

And led the league in assists one season. Almost every “Wow… look at this crazy scoring, rebounding, etc. record” ESPN shows has to have an asterisk that Wilt did it like 20 times and they’re hyping up someone who did it three times, lol.

Except that wasn’t the best way to play. It’s why Russell won 5x as many titles. It’s why with the super team Lakers in 69, Russell still won. And why the most successful teams Wilt played on, were the ones when he played like Russell

​@@acgeewhizno he didn't. The most assists wilt ever averaged in a season was 8.6 The most assists anyone has ever averaged was 14.5 by John Stockton

​@@ethanennis8 The coach of the Lakers at the time(Breda van Kolff) was a petty f*ck who benched Wilt the final minutes of game seven because he complained of knee pain and wasn't allowed back in when he said he was ready. Does it guarantee the Lakers win if Wilt plays? No but he would've played better defense than Mel Counts at the very least.

Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest player in my mind. Wilt Chamberlain could play like Bill Russell Bill Russell COULDNT play like Wilt Chamberlain

Look guy, as much as I want more football/soccer material on SB, I wouldn’t hold my breath.. They’re a yank channel, and as such, footy stuff isn’t exactly gonna be a frequent occurrence!!

​​@@matthewlo7868 Yeah, they are from USA, but here is a free advice: soccer/football (that sport that a kicker is actualy loved) is popular in the billions outside of US. So if this channel wants to grow and make more money it's in the best interest that the Secret Base think less about US and more about us in regards to some of the videos.

@@mblaster3D I know, but some of SB’s fans aren’t exactly known for loving soccer/footy so… yeah.

@@matthewlo7868 I get it. That's why some of the videos could enhance their numbers. Not all, first test and then see the results. I would love to see the beef between Sampras and Agassi, because i'm a tennis guy, but some people in Brazil loved the beefs: Maradona x Pelé and Edmundo x Romário. Let's see if they want expand even further in the future.

Prism: Jose Mourinho (translator, bus parker, Special One) Beef History: George Karl v his players Untitled: Zlatan Ibrahimovic (UCL)

In what sense? That you don't believe it?

@@sanoban yes lol

Why was it unbelieveable? I'm not big into NBA. From this video it seems like the media just pitted WIlt as the bad guy vs Bill, the good guy

​@@jlim003They really did to make a beef and have something to talk about. It's the same today where only want negativity from players and BEEF

You should hear more things.

and the lakers finally won with bill sharman after this.

Yes, Breda Kolff wanted the Lakers to win with Wilt on the bench. It cost the Lakers a title and it cost him his job. What an idiot.

You know what’s interesting, @@tobznoobs? When the Lakers finally won their first title as a Los Angeles-based franchise (their first 5 titles, of course, were won in Minneapolis), the Lakers needed some “Celtic Pride” to win the championship. Bill Sharman won 4 championships as a player for the Celtics before becoming head coach of the Lakers. And one of Sharman’s assistant coaches was K.C. Jones, who won 8 championships as a player with - yep, you guessed it - the Celtics. So a little Celtic Pride goes a long way…even in Los Angeles.

@@whodidit99, here’s another funny part of this story: While Wilt was on the bench, Jack Kent Cooke, the Lakers owner, stormed his way down to the Lakers bench and yelled at Butch van Breda Kolff, ordering him to put Wilt in the game. Van Breda Kolff - I have to sanitize this next part - told Cooke “Get the f$&! outta here.”

Wilt and Bill played each other like 15 times in the regular season each year. plus an additional playoff series if they were matched up. usually the best players will only play each other 2 times a year and be lucky to be matched up in the playoffs.

Russell wasn't his kryptonite, the Celtics were. If Russell was the reason for them winning then I would agree but almost always Wilt outperformed Russell.

​@@jasonnelson6624Wilt was his own kryptonite, biggest playoff choker until Karl Malone

@@reillyhopf6508 how was he a playoff choke? Because he didn't average more than 50 in the playoffs? He out preformed his opponent the opposite center.

@@jasonnelson6624 Chamberlain is notorious for underperforming in big games. Game 7 of the 1962 and 1965 EDF are the biggest examples of this as he took FAR less shots in those games compared the his regular season average. Despite having better teams (which I can elaborate on if you'd like) from 1966 on, he only beat Russell once in that time frame. 1966 is a rare example where Wilt played almost as good as possible (apart from his 8/25 freethrow shooting which is awful, even for him) where his teammates failed him. He beat Russell in 1967 on the back of averaging a triple double though five games. 1968 he led his team to a 3-1 lead before blowing it, the first in NBA history. This was just the second game 7 won on the road in playoff history and the first since the BAA and NBL merger. In 1969, Wilt's Lakers were clear favorites for the title and went down 2-0 to the Warriors in the first round in games where Wilt could have played better. They then won for the first 2-0 comeback in a 7 game series. In the finals, they then blew a 2-0 lead with Chamberlain having some ugly showings, meaning this was the first blown 2-0 lead in finals history. This was also the first of just four game sevens in the finals won by the road team. So he has some very bad individual games, the first blown 3-1 lead, and the first blown 2-0 finals lead on his resume, all while having usual drop offs in production. Chamberlain was the biggest playoff choker until Karl Malone.

@@reillyhopf6508The playoff choker that averaged 31.1 points 25.7 rebounds 3.5 assist on 59.1% in elimination games