@@dimitrisfarmakis7572where are you getting this information? 🤣 He threw it with both hands?! Like his massive hand couldn't handle a shot put. You're funny
I can't tell if Wilt's normal handshake is just so abnormally strong, or was Shaq's reaction because Wilt intentionally gave Shaq a power handshake. Some guys do that, they like to show off how manly they are to other men and practically tear your arm off. I know an old man that does it, he's nearly 80 years old but likes to give power hand shakes. So it's hard to tell if Shaq's reaction was "bro, do you really need to give an unnecessary handshake like that!?" Would Wilt shake the hand of non-NBA players like that?
@@mitchelll3879 Shaq only got fat from 2004 and after or so, before that he was a beast of muscle. This clip is from the 90s, and Shaq was lean skinny guy.
I started watching Wilt play in 1968. I can still remember a nationally televised game on Christmas Day that year where he blocked 23 shots. He was my favorite player to watch back then and is still the greatest player I ever watched. RIP Wilt … you are greatly missed.
Most don't realize just how good Wilt rreally was. In a game on March 18, 1968...he had an unofficial quintuple double, since they didn't count steals and blocks at the time. In that game he had 53 points, 32 rebounds, 14 assists, 11 steals and 24 blocks!!! GOAT.
@@user-xu9rm6tr3x If that's how you want to call Elgin Baylor and Jerry West, sure. He got his quintuple against the Lakers led by Mr. Inside and Mr. Outside, with an average player height of 6'5". Mel Counts, their 7' center had already won two rings in 65 and 66. This Lakers team would get into the '68 Playoffs, beat the Bulls in 5 games, sweep the Warriors in 4 before losing the Finals to the Russell-led Celtics in 6 games with a point differential of only 9 points.
We helped build Wilt's house in Los Angeles on the top of Mulholland. One day I was delivering large doors that weighed 125 lbs each, when I pulled Wilt was there and asked if he could help me. I was caught off guard, No Mr. Chamberlain, I can do it. He didn't listen to me, he grabbed four of them ( 500 lbs. ) and carried them into the house.
Y'all misunderstood. When he said he was attacked by a cougar and got those back scratches, he was talking about one of the 20k women or however many he said he slept with
A 25 YEAR OLD WILT VERSUS A 25 YEAR OLD MICHAEL JORDAN IS A COMEDY SHOW! WILT WAS FASTER THAN JORDAN, MUCH LONGER AND JUMPED HIGHER AND 3X AS STRONG! HE WOULD HAVE BLOCKED EVERYTHING THAT JORDAN WOULD HAVE TRIED. IN A GAME OF 100, WILT 100 JORDAN 40!
Who took 28 minutes to do it, according to an observer! Wilt would have learned the basic technique of arm wrestling and been a much better competitive opponent...
Jim Brown was friends with Angelo Dundee. He thought he could whump Ali and wanted to fight him. Ali saw Jim in the park and said "so I hear you think you can whump me? I want you to try to hit me as hard as you can." Jim swung for the fence for a full minute with Ali dodging every punch. Then like lightning, Ali slaps the hell out of Jim. Jim said....."ok, I get it now".
Wilt Chamberlain holds the most NBA records, including the record for the most regular-season records, a 100-point game, and the NBA rebounding record of all time
He SHOULD also hold just about every blocking record too, but they didn't formally record those. However, it is widely known that he could block more than twenty shots in a good game, and his average blocks per game over his entire career was very likely roughly 7 per game.
People tend to equate Shaq’s size (weight - over weight he was) to strength. There are a lot of big (fat) guys out there that are not necessarily strong. Don’t get me wrong, Shaq was big and strong, but not freakishly strong like Wilt. His bull rush style of play would not have been allowed back in the 60’s. Wilt was just blessed with an unequaled combination of athleticism, agility, strength, stamina, quickness and strength! Unfortunately TV was not prevalent back in the 60s so much of Wilt’s accomplishments have no video footage. He is similar to Ruth in being an anomaly that is hard to fathom due to not a lot of video.
Love all these clips from former players telling stories! Lots of stuff I'd never seen before and I watch almost EVERY Wilt Chamberlain video that anyone I'm subbed to uploads. Good job digging all this stuff up that I'd never seen before.
If they put his Volleyball games on TV they 100% would have put his lifts on TV. I believe he was even offered to prove them and he cowardly ran away from it. Just like how he ran away from Ali. Dude was a complete fraud.
In 1981 was working the door at the Blue Water Cafe on Waikiki. I was used to seeing huge people since there are plenty of professional athletes who would come to Hawaii on vacation as well as some really big Hawaiians and Samoans who worked as bouncers in the clubs. Wilt walked in one night and I basically had to reprogram myself to what I had always thought of as being really big. I shook his hand and remember that he seemed to cradle my hand like an adult might do to keep from hurting a child. I had always thought of myself as being pretty strong because I pretty much lived in the gym back then. I'll never forget how I went from feeling strong to feeling almost powerless when I was next to Wilt.
A friend of mine and I, with some lady friends, were in a restaurant on the Wharf in 1968 in SF when Wilt walked in and sat at the next table. Sitting down he looked like a really strong guy of maybe 6'6". He was so well proportioned you could not believe it when he stood up. We said hello and he was extremely polite and shook our hands and I think he could have wrapped his hand twice around mine. He then left with the three gorgeous ladies that accompanied him. Saw Russell two weeks later at Cala foods in Berkeley.
Wish I knew wilton Norman Chamberlain as a teenager..not the athlete but the person. He died when I was 15 but he's been one of my favorite player besides Kobe and kg but once I learned more about wilt..I was won over
@nonamewillbegiven7228 Goku is one of the most famous fictional characters ever. Therefore me drawing comparison between a transcendental player like Wilt Chamberlain and a transcendental fictional character would be a reference most people would get. I am sorry my reference went over your head. I hope me expounding further on my point cleared up your confusion
I saw an interview with Phil Jackson where he told a story about Shaq asking him about Wilt and whether he could have matched todays players. Phil said there's one stat of Wilts if Shaq could match it he would consider if todays players could match Wilt and that is to play every minute of every game for a season. So Shaq took the challenge but after 8 games of playing every minute he sent someone to ask Phil to drop his minutes back off as before!😁😂🤣😃
16 lb. Bowling ball with no holes in it, Wilt would bowl with? So then his life was like Gulliver's travels, havin' fun with all these Lilliputians! What a character.
Wilt chamberlain, when he was building his mansion in California. He had some work done by a local artisan for his kitchen and when the deliverymen arrived he helped them unload the vehicle, it took normally four men to move one of these items, it was either wood or stone-work and Wilt picked up two under his arm effortlessly and walked into the house.... in Wilts case he really worked at it....his three school friends talked about Wilt having a three hundred pound dumbbell set in his bedroom at 15 and at 16 Wilt under an assumed name played against full grown adults averaging 40 points a game....
@djo-dji6018 All his teammates are fake? Arnold Schwarzenegger is fake? Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is fake who talks about Wilt being held by multiple basketball players and still dunking!
I remember hearing Walt Hazzard tell a story about Wilt, he said Wilt was in the lane and was getting ready to dump the basketball Walt said he put one hand on the top of the ball and the other hand on the bottom of the ball to stop wilt from dunking, Chamberlain went up to dunk the ball, and Hazard was still holding on once he got a couple of feet in the air. He said he let go because he didn’t want to be the first human being to be dunked lol
I have to laugh when people name other people the GOAT and that Wilt only played against small white guys - Russell, Lanier, Reed, Thurmond, Unseld - and he dominated. They have no idea just how great he was.
Many people don't realize that Wilt played in an era of great centers, Bill Russell, Willis Reed, Wes Unseld, Nate Thurman, and Kareem just to mention a few! Wilt put up massive numbers against worthy centers!
I believe he is far stronger 💪 than shaq ever was, wilt chamberlain was a true decathlon athletic a true freak of nature with animal strength running speed endurance stamina ect he could play any sport he set his mind to.
Did you see the video of Wilt shaking Shaq’s and Ewing’s hand? He almost took Shaq’s arm. Not even close. I understand Shaq is big and they couldn’t stop him, but Wilt is in a class by himself.
Just by his body shape and physical build, I believe he had some of that, ancient mighty men of old DNA in him. It doesn't get expressed like it used to 100 to 200 years ago but from time to time it gets awakened to this day.
Im telling you Wilt is the greatest basketball player to ever live. Yall dont know and he has been forgotten by many but that dont mean he wasn't the best. They changed the games rules so wilt wouldnt totally dominate it. Wilt was the first to dunk from the free throw and it wasn't that hard for him. He was ao dominate that they told him he scored to much so he became an assist machine that year. He could have done whatever he wanted. The man scored 100 points. The record of 20k is in question but the fact the conversation is had means he was like modern day genghis khan😂
The most basic fundamental of the game is shooting and he's one of the worst in history. I'm sorry but you're not the greatest basketball player of all time if you can't even shoot.
I always said if his bench and 40 time plus vertical and everything else is true we still never seen another player like him it's been plenty LeBrons and shaqs and kobe but nobody built like wilt
If you needed to pick an all around athlete in all of recorded history to represent earth in the Universe Olympics, the clear choice would be Wilt Chamberlain.
I’ve seen other people tell stories about Wilt Chamberlain, and they along with Wilt often embellish stories when you look at the evidence if there is any. The biggest issue I see with Wilt’s stories is there’s rarely any evidence to back it up so you have to take somebody’s word for it. And what I’ve noticed is that when other people tell the same stories the numbers sometimes get bigger.
Wilt was an extraordinary natural athlete. Few know he could run like a deer: He ran the 440 yd dash (400 meters) in under 50 seconds at Kansas as an undergraduate. A noteworthy feat in the mid 50's, but amazing for someone not on the track team.
MJ is what he is because David Stern and NBA Entertainment made him. Wilt was the greatest to play the game bar none. Politics is why Wilt's legacy, by and large, is ignored in comparison to other players.
I pretty much agree with your statement. I also think winning two rings is unfairly used against him. He was clearly better than Russell. I just wanted to ask you about his politics. I wasn’t aware of that.
On TV I saw him break up a fight by wrapping the other team's fellow up from behind and carrying him to the other end of the court. Other fellow was calmed down by then! AND...Wilt was set for a dunk when the opposing (250 lb.) center decided to foul him instead. He stood face-to-face with Wilt and grabbed both his wrists. WILT CARRIED THE GUY UP TO MAKE THE DUNK. ('Course he probably missed his free throw.)
Wilt was super strong, no doubt about it. I interviewed '56 Silver/'60 Gold Olympic shot put medalist, Bill Nieder, about 25 years ago for a biographical article and he told me what actually happened by the dorm one day. Wilt used an overhand, 2-hand "put" where one stands backward and slings it overhead. You see shot-putters often do this as a warm-up. Bill, was right-handed, but the bet required him and Al Oerter (also right handed) to use their left hands. I don't mean to demean Wilt but no one can seriously believe he could out-throw the Olympic silver medalist, soon to be gold medalist shot putter. Too, Al Oerter thought Wilt had great potential in the discus because of his arm span, worked with him but Wilt never progressed as much as he thought he might, his height making a discus ring look like a sewer plate. But, Wilt was a superman. He was also an excellent high jumper and I believe he tied an SMU jumper for 1st place at the Kansas or Drake Relays one year at around 6'7". As best I know, he wasn't his conference's high jump champ. Unbeknownst to many, Bill Russell actually had a better high jump. I believe he jumped 6'9" while he was in college. Bill was just a shade behind the top high jumper in the USA but chose to go to the '56 Olympics as a basketball team member and passed on the '56 Olympic Trials in the high jump. Wilt's supposed weight lifting? Nah! Most of it is gross hyperbole. There is no video evidence of Wilt doing giant lifts. Anyway, he was one in a hundred million and way ahead of the pack early on in his pro basketball days and he played well and stayed athletically active all the way to the end. He really seemed to like to compete. Most of his teammates will tell you he was a man of tall stories about himself, had a giant ego. One of the greats!!!
Wilt, I understand cleared 6'6" in the high jump. But I heard on one of these videos that he led the Big 8 Conference in the high jump three years in a row at 7'1". When Bill Russell was in high school in San Francisco his arch rival in the high jump was singer Johnny Mathis, who was better, and was the one invited to the Olympics, which he turned down.
@@user-kh2ig7ew3w No, Wilt never high jumped 7'1" at least not in a competition. I think the 6'6" or an inch or so more was his best. If he had specialized? Sure! And, Bill Russell had a legitimate chance to win a berth to the '56 Games but chose not to choosing basketball over T&F. No, Johnny Mathis wasn't better than Russell; his best was 6'5.5". People aren't invited to the Olympics, they have to qualify by winning a spot at the Olympic Trials. Mathis didn't compete at the '56 Olympic Trials. Chose singing. Both men were fine athletes; both made the proper decisions!!!
@@bradreid6057 I saw footage of his high jumping! He had to extend both his arms and legs forward down to land like a cat in that 'below sea level' sand pit! And he did it like takin' a Sunday stroll. I sure hope they came up with a better mouse trap by the '68 Olympics, or Dick Fosberry must've used his Gold Medal as an Endswell!
I've never seen Wilt play, he was before my time, but I believe he was the best and most dominant big man ever, arguably the best basketball player. I saw Jordan so I ride with him tho.
Wilt was the Big 8 high jump champ 3 years running .....back in the days of the scissorlegged jump. ...Just one example of his phenomenal athleticism. He was a first rate sprinter and quarter miler, too. Makes me wonder if he could have gotten his giant body over a pole vault bar. For sure he could handle, at a world class level, all the other decathlon events without even prepping for them!
No he didn't. It was the Big 7 back then and he won it once - with an unimpressive height. You have fallen for the Wilt Track & Field list of exaggerated bullshit. He was no sprinter, his 440yd times were no great and neither was his high jump that great.
My dad took me to Warrior games. At a Celtics game, Jim Luscatoff of the Celtics had been all over Wilt, and no fouls were called. You could hear Wilt complain to the refs, he was getting pissed. At one point, Luscatoff is holding Wilt contesting a rebound. Wilt shrugged and tossed Luscatoff from flying from the court into the second row. You could feel the fans' awe at seeing that.
One of the most amazing experiences in my life was getting to play a few minutes of beach volleyball against Wilt Chamberlin. I grew up watching him play with the Lakers and in the summer of 1976, I went to the beach at Santa Monica. After I was done, I was walking back towards the parking area, and at the first court South of the pier, Wilt was playing with some of his buddies and I stopped to watch the game. I had played a bit of recreational ball, but nothing serious. After I had been watching for a few minutes one of the guys looked at his watch and saw he had to go right then in the middle of the game. That left the sides uneven, so they asked if I wanted to fill in to finish the game. Didn’t have to ask me twice. The other guys were of a size and skill level that suggested they were all pro or college players. I was by far the worst player on that court, but the experience was amazing. First, Wilt could legitimately spike out of sand from mid court with ease. Second, you could tell he was careful with his spikes not to hurt anybody and held back if he was spiking at somebody. When he aimed a spike at an empty spot and really let go, it sounded like a rifle shot. I’m sure if you caught the full force of one on your forearms it could break a bone. I reached for one and it grazed my forearm and gave me a noticeable abrasion. None of the other players were anything close to his power level or jumping ability.
@@FoobasSports It certainly was. In addition to his inhuman physical abilities, I was impressed with his gentlemanly sportsmanship. In addition to his obvious effort not to hurt me or anyone else, as the smallest, weakest player on that court, he could have picked on me and singled me out for easy points, but did not. He treated me with the same "respect" as he did the other players.
I saw a TV episode where he palmed a 16 lb. bowling ball that had no holes in it. He held it straight out and then started waving it around and around like you would with a softball.
The preponderance of evidence...two or three crazy stories like this would seem ridiculous, but they seem so commonplace, and you hear them from so many individuals who knew Wilt--you'd be an idiot to try and deny them.
Lot of idiots in the comments. Its like a conspiracy or agenda against Wilt.Doesn't make much sense.Part of it is.Jordan or LeBron can't be the goat unless you get rid of Wilt
If Mahomes can throw it 80yds at his pro day in college, I have zero doubts with as long of arms as Wilt had that he could throw it 90yds like Walton said.
Stronger than Shaq. Seriously, Wilt was a real life folk hero. I just feel bad, because Wilt just wanted to be loved by the public. And to this day, he isn't appreciated. He would say, "Nobody likes the Giant". He would fuck up Shaq, and Shaq knows this if he has any brains.
Actually uf u want true story. He really is. Go look every interview and then search his pendant around his neck on google. Well if u zoom in it will show u Free Mason Egyptian pyramid but without peak top cause it stands around his neck considering that Wilt head is that top of pyramide. Then zoom into center of it and see Pharao head. It is RA, the highest God of Egypt.
To add onto my previous comment : search Wilt Chamberlain necklace. He wear that everytime. That is resemble of Free Mason RA Egyptian highest God !! He created pyramide as 1 of the alien race.
One of the greatest feats in track and field of all time was the world record in the high jump by Russian Valeriy Brumel who was only 6'1" and using the old straddle method jumped 7'5 and three quarters inches!
Another example of Wilt's strength that nobody seems to mention is at the end of Conan The Destroyer when he lifts the princess (Olivia D'Abo) straight out of the saddle by just grabbing her by the waist and bringing her down. Now, she was a tiny little thing, but the ease with which he did it shows raw power.
@@tunanorth i never realized she was in that movie. of course i saw it only once or twice a long time ago. and i saw like 200 + episodes of the wonder years so i would remember her a lot more there
All I can think is that if Wilt hadn't pushed himself to play every minute of every game, it would not have stressed his heart so much and he might have lived much longer.
