There have been many greats to play the game basketball, but we have never, and maybe never again, see the likes of Wilt Chamberlain. His entire life Wilt Chamberlain made the improbable look routine. No professional athlete in any team sport combined the size, strength, and fluidity of movement that Wilt Chamberlain brought into the sleepy, dimly lit NBA arenas of 1959. Iıll go one step further: No one who has played pro team sports has ever dominated every minute of every game in the early 60s. His size and strength were sources of wonder not only to paying spectators, but also to his fellow players.
Wilt played in the NBA for 14 seasons, from 59-60 through 72-73, and he helped the NBA from league of moderate local interest to a maj
Michael Jordan scored 50 or more points in 30 regular-season games in his career. Wilt Chamberlain scored 50 or more points in 45 games during the 61-62 season. Twenty-six years after he played his last NBA game, Wilt still holds the leagueıs all-time single-season records for average points, rebounds, and field goal percentage. Wiltıs second-best season in each of those categories is better than any other playerıs best through all of NBA history. Some day, perhaps, everyone will be talking about a player who is the Next Jordan, or the Next Magic, and maybe even the Next Russell. But I do not expect we will ever see anyone that we will call the Next Wilt.
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