Wilt Chamberlain (Digitally Restored 60fps). 1970 NBA Finals G7 Full Highlights (21pts, 24reb, 7a) 

Just need to say that I really respect this channel because it helps the younger generation see what we all didn’t get to see when we were younger

If wilt grew up in this era, with todays training and the amount of spacing in todays league, he wouldve still been an absolute MONSTER.

Wilts passing ability is pretty underrated. Led the league in assists in 1968.

Keep in mind he and others of his era are restricted to a palms-down dribble so they "can't" do things today's players do due to rules it's not just a skill thing. It actually takes a great level of skill to dribble palms down without turning it over because you can't protect it or change direction as easily as today's players can. In addition, no players can barrel inside (be it from the post or face-up) due to offensive foul rules being a lot more strict in 1970. No 3 point line so no wide floor spacing of course.

0:14 - 0:18 What an assist by Wilt chamberlain to chamberlain

I didn’t think this man was real when I was a kid looking through NBA and college hoops books. He just looked so cartoonish and freakish in some of the photos that was captured. It wasn’t until I was old enough to work and bought DVDs showing some of his amazing games. My gawd what an athlete!

Only player in NBA history to average at least 20 points and 20 rebounds while shooting at least 60% from the field across Game 7s in the playoffs.

the court looks way bigger without that three point line

Wilt chamberlain was like Hercules transported from ancient times to the modern times .. just a legend

That damn Wilt was too damn nice , he should have finish Willis With two power dunks to start the game it would of sent the message early

Love all that you do man keep it up!

Thanks!

Keep in mind this is a older wilt not prime wilt

So we just gonna ignore the fact that he threw a size 7 basketball like pitching a baseball?

This is fascinating to watch. The game is played foul line down since there is no three point line and although there is some good offense, there is some really poor spacing at times due to the lack of ball handling skills. It’s also exciting seeing the pace the game was played at back then

In the 80's Wilt legend was big in Europe, but very few clips made it though, so we could never imagine how good he was. I was based watching his clips from the first time. He made Kareem a legend. My GOAT list just changed for good.

People forget that Wilt blew out his patella tendon early in the 69-70 season. He worked to rehab during the season and only came back right before the playoffs began. Wilt was incredible even in rehabing a severe injury.

In my opinion the greatest basketball player to play at any level

I just can't understand why you don't have millions of subscribers. BEST sports channel om the tube.

Great footage

3:10 the ref did the matrix

Some context to this series: "Cherry observed that Reed, a prolific midrange shooter, was a bad matchup for Chamberlain. Having lost lateral quickness due to his injury, Chamberlain was often too slow to block Reed's preferred high post jump shots". Chamberlain had tore his patellar tendon during the 9th game of the season and sat out every game except the last 3. He came back just in time for the playoffs.

PLEASE, PLEASE release more of retro highlights!

The greatest basketball player ever! I appreciate this channel very much as someone not old enough to have seen Wilt. Many myths about Wilt and why he was so dominant can be proven just that myths. This game for instance he started off shaky from what I know but played pretty good. Should have been given the ball more. Don't think he was afraid of the ball as he posted up the entire game in my eyes expecting to expose the mismatches. Some may argue he posted up too much but that's not wilt's job to decide if they should of spaced him out more. I say do what happened in game 6 feed Wilt they had no answer from everything I've read and seen. Hats off to Walt Frazier incredible game

I like the sound the ball makes hitting the rim and backboard, reminds me of basketball at the park.

Damn!!! The very start of the video is fascinating. The way HE walked is just so MAJESTIC! HE WAS JUST A SPECIMEN

Wilt Chamberlain and LeBron James are the most incredible athletes the NBA has ever had

He was so amazing

Bro you can see how high he can jump on those jump balls. Like Damn

Chamberlain was such a tremendous force on the court. A great coach would have figured out how to best use his talents. Bill Sharman while coaching the 1972 Lakers had Wilt play Russell Ball and they won the championship.

respect NY Knicks... beating one of the greatest center of all time and Big Three ( Baylor, West, Wilt)....

The big dipper

I'm a young suffering knicks fan so I've been reading through "When The Garden Was Eden" about our championship years and when i got to the chapter about game 7 I was and still am confused. Jerry West thought it was the worst game he ever played despite his 28 pts since he was getting the work from Walt Frazier, and Elgin despite his 19 was hindered as wilt was that much of a presence in the paint; SO WHY NOT GIVE IT TO WILT EVERY TIME! we had no answer for him defensively; they state that he might of been checked out mentally because willis was playing mind games with him earlier in the day in a shoot around before people got into msg but I don't buy it, thanks for the footage

Elgin Baylor! Jerry West! Wilt! This is so cool!

I was angry with Wilt in this game. I thought he let Willis Reed off the hook. He could have and should have destroyed Reed.

My biggest take away is how BIG wilt is sheesh..... dude was a monster amongst men

All you guys have it all wrong as usual. You can’t take a player now and plug him into a 1970’s or 60’s league. Any player now has grown up watching basketball in the year 2000’s, etc. You would have to take a player now and have him grow up in the 50’s & 60’s for him to be a player in the 70’s. He would be on par with the players back then, his skill set and ability would be based off the knowledge and play of his era. All you guys say Curry, Durant, Lebron, etc. They would all be different players if they were born in the 50’s and grew up in the 60’s.

He averaged 50pts 25rbs for a whole season,He must be in the top 5 greatest players

We see this guy having 7 assists here. Imagine in this era he’d be the most dominant and best passing big man in history with the spacing we have nowadays. R.I.P The Big Dipper.

Wilt is the GOAT imo

I'm sorry but nothing from this game shows Wilt to be this dominate figure that he's hyped up as.

Wilt the Goat

The game is played so much different now but even though there are still some good offensive concepts here. Also I thought it was interesting that they jumped the ball again after halftime. It is not a bad idea.

legend

Goat

The Best!

The tip at each quarter is wild 😂

Even late in his career at 1/2 his potential he put up great numbers! For those that think that wilt did not have competition? Study the history! He played against more HOF centers than anyone in the NBA!

I wish Wilt wasn't a gentle giant and they kept his minutes down. He would have had a reign of terror so extreme they would've widened the lane to 24 feet.

Greatest basketball player the good lord ever created

1-11 FT? damn! luckily he's that dominate.

Oh hell yea!

i hope there is more highlights of game 6 of the nba finals game 6

Funny thing about wilt is some people say wilt was washed when he was with the lakers because he wasn't scoring 50 + every night still like wit the 76ers but in reality if you just took his lakers stats he still would be on of the best ever. He was the best rebounder in the league his whole career

Am i the only who's just watching going "holy hell, west plays like todays game(with less handles)." the pick-n-pop the pull up off dribble. it's pretty cool to see.

Baylor would be pretty good in every era of NBA definetly. His skillset is timeless like Wilt's

Played against some of the great centers of all time, but people say he deserves an asterisk next to his name...

Great footage of game 6 from the Forum. I was relegated to listening to Chick on the radio because the home games were blacked out in the Los Angeles area. Where did you get it? Do you have more?

I like how chamberlain was called for that over the back foul real refs really played by the book.

Was the basket wider back then? It looks bigger than the baskets today.

I think the game was more center oriented back in the day and those bigs consistently got more boards becuz the rims back then made the ball more bouncy. You can tell by watching how the ball hits the rim that it’s different now.

If someone posted a video of Wilt scoring 100, if everyone in the world saw it, only the 4,000 people that went to the game would be able to say that they’ve actually seen him make the record

1:22 Wilt with the handles

Finally I understand why they called him Wilt the Stilt. That reach...

Whew, he palmed the ball like its nothing

R.I.P

34 yrs old man got 45 pts and 27 rbs......

HE LOOKS SO MUCH BIGGER THAN REED WHO WAS 6' 10'' 240. HE WAS A BEAST AND FAST SEE THAT FOLLOW UP BASKET FROM THE MISSED LAY UP.

Everybody forgets just how intelligent and savvy Wilt was about offensive basketball. Note the lack of spacing in the paint here and how Wilt patiently used passes and fake passes to move the defense and set up himself and his teammates for easy baskets. It was during this part of his career that Wilt recognized that his scoring 50 points a game did not help his team win and he became an even better basketball player.

Only 171 likes ?! Not normal

You guys see how easily they called fouls? Why Wilt could not play like Shaq

Great video, I would love to see more individual game performance videos of Wilt like this. The mixtapes and compilation videos are great, but lack background info. Like what year was the game, who was guarding Wilt, what statline did Wilt have that season/game, etc. I love the mythos that surrounds Wilt, but sometimes you need a little realism that only individual game performance highlights can provide. For instance: now that I know this is Game 7 of the 1970 Finals, I can see that according to the boxscore, Wilt went 1-11 from the free throw line that game. Kinda humanizes him doesn't it? While doing exceptionally well everywhere else in the game, he still goes 9% from the Free Throw line. Regardless, I appreciate the effort you put into these videos. Always such a thrill to watch the highlights of the Big Guy. Thanks!

He should attacked like 1963 this game

Imagine if Wilt wasn’t a center. Like he acted like a small forward or shooting guard, and still had the vertical and two-thirds of the height and had a three point ability

Do you have game 6 where Wilt scored 45?

he did this and the announce even pointed out many times wilt was on a very bad leg

WCA, why didn't the Lakers simply fast break at every opportunity? If Willis was the offensive/defensive hub of the team, why didn't they hit the jets and find Wilt every or every other time down the floor? I know that though Coach Sharman asked him to play more like Bill Russell before the '72 season he sort of started playing like that during this time. I said that to say they needed him to be Wilt Chamberlain this game, not Bill Russell.

I never knew they tipped the ball at every quarter.

It’s a different sport from today’s basketball, it gives me the feeling of today’s handball rules. Imagine you can’t do any dribble moves due to palm down rule and you can’t drive to the basket or post up like today’s nba due to strict offense foul.

So how did the Lakers lose this series? Wish I can watch the whole series.

the one thing I never understood with wilt was why did his production decrease in the playoffs and finals

This was way before everybody and their mother THOUGHT they could shoot 3's. These days, kids don't learn how to attack the hoop.

Wilt Chamberlain was the best center of all time

I've read that Bill Russell was the better one between the two. I believe it too.

He was so strong. The ball looked like am kid's toy in his hands.

Another great post from WCA. Thanks! One of the many false accusations I see about Wilt from people who never saw him play is that he was unsuccessful and unproductive in the playoffs. I've mentioned here before that his career scoring numbers are lower than for the regular season because a preponderance of his playoff appearances were later in his career when he was not scoring as much. Regarding his playoff success, I've just taken a closer look with some surprising results. Comparing players simply by counting rings is absurd, in my opinion. Anyone who watched Lebron's performance in the 2018 playoffs knows that a ring is not the only measure of greatness. Rings go to the best-coached, best functioning TEAM and not to the best player. Nevertheless, a player's greatness is usually reflected in the success of his teams throughout his career. I came up with a way of measuring this. I awarded three points for a ring, 2 points for losing in the finals, and one point for losing in the semifinals to the eventual champion. Then I divided the total of these points by the number of years in a player's career. I only looked at alpha players who were clearly the best players on their teams. The exceptions are when Kareem played with Magic (10 years), Shaq with Kobe (8 years), and Wilt with West (5 years). The results are given below. Note that Wilt was more successful in the playoffs than anyone but Russell (who played on the greatest team) and Magic (who played with Kareem for a decade): Bill Russell: 2.78 Magic Johnson: 1.77 Wilt Chamberlain: 1.54 Lebron James: 1.47 Kareem Abdul Jabbar: 1.45 Jerry West: 1.43 Michael Jordan: 1.33 Larry Bird: 1.08 Kobe Bryant: 1.00 Shaquille O'Neal: 0.89 Many assume that stars like Jordan, Kareem, Bird, and Shaq enjoyed more playoff success than Wilt Chamberlain, but rings aside, it just isn't true.

Nba looked so strange without a 3pt line

Looking at this makes me really wonder how wilt never fouled out of a game since there is so many foul calls for basically nothing. For example what was the offensive foul on baylor or couple of the loose ball fouls

Game 6 highlights????

@3:06 look at that finger roll by Chamberlain.

wish they still tipped off for the start of each quarter

How tall is Wilt in his prime? The basketball court looks lower than it is these days.

This is one game they should have just told Wilt to score all he could, in the flow of the game. The Lakers would have won it, easily. He got most of his points, in this game, as in many others, from offensive rebounds and tip ins, which doesn't say a lot for his team mate's shooting, but a lot for Wilt's rebounding. Even half crippled, he was still the best, all around player on the court, in my humble opinion.

All of that in a losing effort ouch.

Man how many finals did lakers lose in 60s-70s?

NY shooting 72% in the first half, mostly from the outside, can't blame Wilt for that. Another thought I had based on watching the 20 minutes of remaining footage of game 5 is that the 3 forward line-up NY used after Willis' injury really threw the Lakers off. Prior to that it looked like they were in control, so had Reed not been injured, there might never have been a G7.

This man did not even need to try! Vert crafty with the ball, would definitely be the best player in today's game if he played.

Makes you wonder what if a player with today’s skillset would have played in that era. Would he be revolutionary? Or even considered a legend?

Anyone realize of fast he is 01:56 - 02:02

My GOAT list 1. MJ 2.Wilt 3. Lebron 4.Kareem 5.Kobe 6.Bird 7.Magic 9.Iverson 10. Garnett