Wilt+Chamberlain

Wilt Chamberlain High School: Wilt Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania in August of 1936. He began playing basketball on a team in Junior High. Chamberlain attended Overbrook High School in 1952; he was already 6'11" tall.

College: Wilt Chamberlain joined the University of Kansas Jayhawks after high school. In Wilt's first varsity game he scored 52 points. Later in that season he lost to the University of North Carolina Tarheels in the National Championship in double overtime. He averaged over thirty points in his college basketball career. Because Wilt did not play his last season at Kansas, he was not able to play in the NBA for one more year, so he decided to join the Harlem Globetrotters in 1958. Chanberlain said that this year with the Globetrotters was his favorite season of basketball.

NBA Career: Wilt joined the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959. He was named Rookie of the Year and MVP, averaging an astonishing 37.9 points a game; more than eight points per game higher than anyone else had ever scored in the history of the NBA. Wilt Chamberlain led the NBA in scoring for the next six seasons. He averaged 50.4 points per game in the 1961-1962 season and averaged 44.8 points per game in the following season. Also during the 1961-1962 season, Wilt Chamberlain broke the record of points in a single game.

In March of 1962, Wilt Chamberlain tallied an outstanding 100 points in a victory over the New York Knicks. He had 41 points by halftime and by the end of the third quarter he had scored 68 points. That was when the fans started chanting, "Give it to Wilt! Give it to Wilt," and guess what they did. They gave it to Wilt and he finished with an off the charts, record-breaking 100 points. Wilt shot 36-for-63 from the field and 28-for-32 from the free throw line. In 1967 Chamberlain was traded to the new Philadelphia team, the 76ers, and they finished with the best regular season record in the history of the NBA, a record now held by the 1996 Chicago Bulls. Wilt Chamberlain also won his first NBA title that season. Wilt was traded to the Los Angeles Lakers several years later. In 1972 the Lakers, led by Chamberlain, finished with with the best regular season record in history, breaking the 1967 76ers record. Wilt and the Lakers played the New York Knickerbockers led by Walt Frazier in the championship. Chamberlain recorded 24 points, 29 rebounds, and 10 blocks in the final game of the series. The Los Angeles Lakers beat the Knickerbockers in only 5 games. Wilt Chamberlain left the NBA in 1973 with more than forty NBA records. After Retirement: Wilt Chamberlain sponsored several amateur athletic groups after retiring. He spent his retirement years as a very wealthy man. Wilt released an autobiography titled A View from Above in 1991 and published Who's Running the Asylum?: The Insane World of Sports Today in 1997.

In October of 1999, Wilt Chamberlain past away in his home in Bel Air, California. His record of 100 points in a game will probably never be broken.

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A short documentary of Wilt Chamberlain playing in highschool.

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