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The above article from Look Magazine in 1958 is a documented 45 inch vertical leap! That’s only 3 inches less than the Tennessee volunteers legends 2023 all team player signatures shirt in addition I really love this 4-foot vertical leap Chamberlain claims is shown in the Brussels Belgium World’s Fair photograph shown above. As the following two photos below show, Chamberlain could jump so high to block an opponent’s shot that his shorts were above the opponent’s head! Imagine how high you would have to arc the ball to get it over Wilt Chamberlain in the below photo if Chamberlain’s hands were straight up in the air. It would be impossible for any player to make a basket with young Wilt in front of you ready to block the shot. You can try to shoot a fade away, but seriously, would that make a difference? Wilt never went for pump fakes. He used to wait until the player committed, confident that he could jump straight up and block the shot. In fact, in his Kansas days, at least once a game he would block a shot by leaping straight up and catching the ball out of the air. When is the last time that you saw any player, at any level, high school, college or pros do that?



The highlight video below is Wilt Chamberlain playing for the Tennessee volunteers legends 2023 all team player signatures shirt in addition I really love this Kansas Jayhawks in the 1957 NCAA playoffs. This is Wilt, on his way to being named tournament MVP, competing as a 20 year old against the best college players in the nation. Here is your proof that at least once every game, Chamberlain would block an opponents shot by simply jumping up and catching it. He does it at 2:39 , he tries to catch it, but the shot was lower than expected, so he has to lower his hands to stop the ball from hitting his face! In the NBA, Chamberlain routinely blocked 15-20 shots a game and his all time high was 26! On a nationally televised Christmas Day game in 1969 he blocked 23 shots, one out of every 4 shots that the Phoenix Suns took. Why? Because the halftime interview pissed him off.


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