@@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 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.
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.
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.
@@BradTaylor-k2e 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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!
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.
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.
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.
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".
I never really thought about Chamberlin's strength just his play. I watched him play the LA Lakers in LosAngeles during the mid 60's. He was playing for the San Francisco Warriors and had a fade away bank shot that was unstoppable. When he was on his game his team won that night.
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!😁😂🤣😃
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 saw Wilt once at the Forum drag 2 guys from the other team across the floor-- all 3 holding the ball-- but Wilt dragged them both and their feet were bouncing on the floor. I don't remember who they were playing, but I will never forget seeing that.
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!
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.
Love this. When I was around 12 or thirteen years old, my twin brother and 1st cousin were in San Francisco on a trip to California and met Wilt. Not only was he a Giant but a real gentleman.
@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 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.
I stood next to Chamberlain at a Laker/Sonics game in Seattle years ago. I was going to ask for an autograph, but I chickened out completely when I saw just how MASSIVE the man was! Now, I'm NO shrimp! 6' 1" & 180lbs. Nobody's called me shorty in a while. He wasn't just tall, he was ENORMOUS! Nothing but a giant muscle, the likes of which I have never seen before or since! An absolute colossus of a human being! Terrifying man!
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.
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!
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.
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.
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.
This fantastic creature is just amazing. I'm a huge fan. When even the BEST defender ever in NBA history had no answers for him, I can only imagine what he'll do with these lollipop centers playing today.
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.
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.
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
Wilts rookie year he had 25 30 + rebound games! Can tell you stories all day my father worked for the Cellts in the 60s! I met him many times as a kid an teenager! Total Phenom like know other ever Athleticly!!!
Wilt Chamberlain is the Greatest because the rules change he was physically challenged more than MJ doing his NBA career . Wilt told MJ they changed so many rules that it would make his career MJ don’t even own his own name in it’s been making Billions for Nike him and his kid would never see beside fake news.Bill Russell is the most winning player ever Elementary toHighschool to pros look it up every where Bill went he 🥇
There is absolutely NO argument about the basketball G.O.A.T. Wilt Chamberlain would run rough shod over today's NBA. With Wilt under the basket, today's players would all have to resort to 3 pointers.
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.
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.)
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.
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.
@@MichaelStewart-j1l 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!
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.
Has anyone ever matched Wilt Chamberlain's strength in the NBA?
No
I'd say he'd not only the strongest in total, but also from the pound-by-pound point of view. 7,1 feet plus that "farmer strenght" lol overkill
I don’t think so
Nowhere close. Ben Wallace was pretty strong, but not to the level of Wilt. Even Shaq wasn't as strong as Wilt.
Hell Naw.
that shot put story is nuts.... those guys were the best in the world.... wilt simply an absolute physical once in a century freak.
Do you know he was throwing with both hands? Stop the bullshit.
@@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
@@dimitrisfarmakis7572that doesn’t even makes sense from a kineses stand point. just say you don’t like the guy. no need to make shxt up
@@dimitrisfarmakis7572 if there is any bull here it is you fool.
What was left out of that story was the part where Wilt beat Neider in arm wrestling.
These Wilt stories are fantastic, Probably the greatest pure athlete of all time let alone basketball player. My favorite player.
Get rid of the word “probably” & you are in the ballpark!
@@morrisparrish76 Got to ne humble even if I believe like you it is true. LOL Best.
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.
Were games in any sport broadcast on Christmas Day in 1968?
@@kevinmadden1645 Search it out. Use the key words "Wilt" "23 blocks" "Christmas". I tried to post a link but the YT censorship police blocked it.
@@kevinmadden1645 ABC broadcasted christmas games from 1967 - 1972
Shaq looks caught off guard how strong Wilt’s handshake was.
Shaq can't handle Wilt.
Shaq hole body shook
Wilt was massive strong.. shaq is just fat
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.
This man was absolutely incredible!!! Wilt is definitely the Goat!
Agreed. Simply unfathomable athletic ability and strength.
@@vernonleewarren280 i agree that wilt was one of the best but he won 2 championships. Bill russell won 11. Russell is the goat.
We all know it now!
One of these days; we’ll all say it!
with your FUBARed way of thinking: Robert Horry (7 titles) is better than Oscar Roberston & Jerry west (1 title each)?
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.
Anyone who thinks Russell was a better player doesn't know what he is talking about .
24 blocks??? Insane!
Yes, but in all fairness he was playing against white guys half his size
@@BradTaylor-k2e 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.
@@BradTaylor-k2eLike Walt Bellamy, Artis Gilmore, Willis Reed, Bill Russell, and Wes Unsell. Or are you content to sound as stew pit as you do
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
Bah ha ha ha....
He indeed had big scratch marks on his back. U can see in some interviews where he wear his fam t-shirt.
Interesting fact: Wilt himself never told the cougar story. It was told by Cal Ramsey, Knicks Announcer.
The duel with a cougar Is a Warner cartoon
Wilt was naturally strong. Plus an athlete
Wilt was stronger than an ox
A true freak of nature
There will never ever be another Wilt Chamberlain !
Paul Bunyan had an ox named BABE……..WNC didn’t have or need babe!
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.
To put it succinctly: Wilt Chamberlain was an ABSOLUTE phenomenon!!!
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.
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.
@@BrehBruhBrehBruhBreh "You can come out now Wilt!" 🤕
The greatest athlete of all time, truly the outlier of outliers.
Secretariat was the greatest athlete of all time. Wilt was #2.
@jackfanning7952 the horse?
@@Ry3nel Do you know any other Secretariat?
Lmaostewpid comments
Not even close. Best in american history perhaps. Certainly better than anything after him.
I actually started to cry. I am thankful that someone made a video to highlight this superhuman.
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
Sounding like you wanna marry him. Weirdo
Wilt was the greatest athlete to ever walk the earth.
WILT the myth ,the legend, the God of basketball. let others fight as to who wants to be a GOAT
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!
@@LordNuDTru141 get some help
Wilt was incredibly strong. I seen him and Arnold lift a solid stone wall.
🤣 that was impressive
Greatest player ever!
@@charlieb3943 bill russell is the greatest then michael jordan.
opinions vary!
Wilt did unimaginable things. Without modern training and technology. Imagine if he'd had that.
Imagine if he played with ATTITUDE instead of kindness. What if he had Bill Laimbeer's Ndamukong Suh's approach....???
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.
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.
Amazing!
Damn
I recently heard the phrase “Many walked healthy in the NBA because of Wilt's great patience and mercy.”
WTF do you think they called WNC “the gentle giant”?
i did a book report on Wilt Chamberlain's autobiography in 4th grade. My mom was really not happy with my choice, but my dad was thrilled.
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.
The REAL GOAT 🐐
Wilt once said that the only man to ever beat him in arm wrestling is the Late NFL Great, Jim Brown. That also shows how strong Jim Brown was. 🤔😉
Andre the Giant could handle him too
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...
And Jim Brown confirmed tha it was Ali who backed out of a Box fight with Wilt Chamberlain.
no joke - you can find the video on YT
@@andrzejzborowski4920 Don't be so sure!
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#13 .. THE BEST .. THE MOST ATHLETIC .. AND MOST DOMINANT PLAYER IN NBA HISTORY ..
The Stilt!!!!
I like the way you did the video. most videos are the same thing. You made it more creative and added a few new pictures.
I never really thought about Chamberlin's strength just his play. I watched him play the LA Lakers in LosAngeles during the mid 60's. He was playing for the San Francisco Warriors and had a fade away bank shot that was unstoppable. When he was on his game his team won that night.
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!😁😂🤣😃
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 saw Wilt once at the Forum drag 2 guys from the other team across the floor-- all 3 holding the ball-- but Wilt dragged them both and their feet were bouncing on the floor. I don't remember who they were playing, but I will never forget seeing that.
Wilt was practically a genetic super human
The Almighty Wilt Chamberlain
No: God is almighty!
WNC is about as close as I’ve seen to next!
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.
If he was that strong and that athletic without the training facilities. He would do the same thing against anybody in any era.
Actual NBA players were TALLER then than now as measured. Also, they had to bee in socks when they were measured. Today, they get to wear shoes.
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!
Bob Lanier!
Wilt stated that the toughest player he played against was Nate Thurman as big as he was.
@@Alexander-nb1rzI thought he said Walt Bellamy was his toughest matchup
no: wilt said walt Bellamy came as close as anybody……to handling me by himself!
Wilt was a Mix of the Incredible Hulk and Herman Munster ! 😳😃
Another great video, thank you!
Much appreciated 🙏🙏
I was only going to watch a few seconds. A few seconds later, the entire 10 minute video ended leaving me wanting MORE.
I guess I could do a part 2.
GOLIATH - I'll never forget the first time I saw him at 5 years old. Glued to the TV I saw a giant of a man.
No you didn't. Trolll
He definitely could palm a 16-pound ball without the holes in it.
With either hand.
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.
@@MichaelStewart-j1l No, he could palm it.
Love this. When I was around 12 or thirteen years old, my twin brother and 1st cousin were in San Francisco on a trip to California and met Wilt. Not only was he a Giant but a real gentleman.
Wilt is the all time super Jayhawk!
A real life Paul Bunyan.
Naw the real life wilt Chamberlain..get it right
I think Wilt was more like Goku
Like a true fanboy
@@gerardrbain1972 Goku is a fictional alien smooth brain. Nice try
@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 don't care about no basketball bro a mountain 🦁lion that gets my attention, my respect!
The goat rest in paradise wilt we miss you
whos the goat in Mma
We love you Bill Walton
Throw it down big fellow
Throw it down 😅
What a Colossus. Wouldn't spoil it any other thing 😊
Peace! Wilt was definitely from Sirius B Star…probably Amphibious no doubt..
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.
That man-child's name does not belong in any discussions about Wilt Chamberlain. Don't mention him again.
Wilt Chamberlain vs Victor Wembanyama Speed
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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.
@@bubufubuquit being soft, wilt is apoozy
Andre and Wilt are the two most athletic giants of all time. To be that big, that strong, and that agile is unheard of.
I stood next to Chamberlain at a Laker/Sonics game in Seattle years ago. I was going to ask for an autograph, but I chickened out completely when I saw just how MASSIVE the man was! Now, I'm NO shrimp! 6' 1" & 180lbs. Nobody's called me shorty in a while. He wasn't just tall, he was ENORMOUS! Nothing but a giant muscle, the likes of which I have never seen before or since! An absolute colossus of a human being! Terrifying man!
Wilt was a true giant. A real
Giant. A very inteligent man.
Rip, brother.
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😂
Wilt Chamberlain vs Victor Wembanyama Speed
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He was the greatest for sure.
Lmao more stewpidcomments. Even dummer that none of you even saw him play
@@manumaliamore dummkoments
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.
Simply put he is the greatest physical specimen known to have ever walked the face of the Earth
Wilt Chamberlain was a freak of nature. NO ONE ELSE WAS CLOSE! Guys like LeBron are only legends in their own minds.
Thats so stupid to say Lebron isnt a legend why put others down to elevate who u personally idolize
The true 🐐
Dad friend played against wilt chamberlain in Philadelphia during hs. Friend was 6'8"
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....
Hilarious fake stories.
@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!
@@djo-dji6018he played against equivalent of farm league baseball basket teams.he got paid and had excellent stats..
@@allistermcginlay6476 And the video is all fake too. Don't forget people's own eyes. Those were also fake.
Wilt was so great that the NBA implemented rules to make things more fair for the rest of the players!
I got to see him play in person in the '71 finals. Also in that series Pat Riley and Phil Jackson played against each other.
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.
No NBA player would disagree.
All fax
You don't make money marketing a dead guy.
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.
@@RG-ct6qztrue.
There will never ever be another Wilt Chamberlain.. one of the strongest folks to play in any sport..
Wilt wasn't just an athlete. Dude was a demigod lol
What a top athlete is to normal people Wilt was to top athletes
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.
keep dreaming fool and troll. Wilt is the King of both basketball and Volleyball!
Blah,blah,blah
Wilt seemed like a nice guy too
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.
Look up "Larry Brown tells a Wilt Chamberlain story." There's a perfect example!
Imagine being caught in a small locked room where Wilt Chamberlain and Andre The Giant suddenly break into a violent fist fight.
They were both very gentle giants and decent, kind men though I doubt either of them would be violent.
@@23aceballeryeah, but you're leaving out the part of one of them being a known racist. (Andre) 😏🥱
@@23aceballer Let's imagine a "last piece of pizza" scenario.
@msolomon1781 if u gotta bring that s**t up then it shows that ur the same Thing
Keep throwing dat race card BOY
@msoltomon1781 they met in real life on conan the barbian set and were cool.
Greatest body and ability any human soul has ever inhabited. Wilt.
Awesome….simply awesome.
This fantastic creature is just amazing. I'm a huge fan. When even the BEST defender ever in NBA history had no answers for him, I can only imagine what he'll do with these lollipop centers playing today.
@@OdelinSerrano-zu5fo Russell isn't the best defender ever and you're a old coot with dementia
He was the original BO JACKSON wilt could have played any sport or could have been a gold medalist in multiple events
He did play multiple sports & is in the HOF in 3 of them!
With all the high tech today this guy would be the black Zeus on earth
Even MJ feared Wilt's confidence.
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.
What an amazing experience!
@@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.
This 🥷🏽 was a cyborg or sum 😭😭
GOATed man of atheletics
i put Bo Jackson as #2. there is no question #1 is *Wilton Norman Chamberlain*
Bo Jackson is nowhere near wilt chamberlain when it comes to strength
@@alsimmonshellspawn6021 , thats a big part of why hes #2
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.
Wilt was fast, he ran the 100yd
dash in 10.9 sec ! That’s just short of impossible, for a 7 footer !!
The Big Dipper the best there ever was!
The music as the story of movers pushing a dolly lol... peak workup. Drama summoned from the cosmos.
Look how much taller Wilt is than Shaq. Shaq admitted he’s 6’11’. Wilt was 7’1” IIRC
I believe in Wilt.
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
Wilts rookie year he had 25 30 + rebound games! Can tell you stories all day my father worked for the Cellts in the 60s! I met him many times as a kid an teenager! Total Phenom like know other ever Athleticly!!!
Wilt would be scoring 100 a night in today's league.
Rest In Peace big guy
Wilt Chamberlain is the Greatest because the rules change he was physically challenged more than MJ doing his NBA career . Wilt told MJ they changed so many rules that it would make his career MJ don’t even own his own name in it’s been making Billions for Nike him and his kid would never see beside fake news.Bill Russell is the most winning player ever Elementary toHighschool to pros look it up every where Bill went he 🥇
No wonder he played with the handbrake on a lot of the time ...didnt want to hurt opposing players .
There is absolutely NO argument about the basketball G.O.A.T. Wilt Chamberlain would run rough shod over today's NBA. With Wilt under the basket, today's players would all have to resort to 3 pointers.
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.
You are wrong.
The strongest Human to ever grace the earth!
What a silly statement.
@@ngc-fo5teGrace? Like one guy said about Andre the Giants lingering flatulence "Big man, big farts!"
Silly statement indeed
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.)
Shaq WISHES he was Wilt.
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.
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.
@@MichaelStewart-j1l 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!!!
No sir I meant he led the Big 8 three years in a row in the high jump. With a personal best of 6'6". With him at a standing height of 7'1".
@@MichaelStewart-j1l Gotcha! Yes, he might've competed 3 yrs. Hard to say what the basketball coach allowed not wanting him to get injured.
@@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!
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.
Jungle Jim was no match for Wilt.
He's a Bigfoot....him and Andre the giant