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Without a doubt, chamberlain is the This girl loves her New York Islanders heart 2023 shirt Also,I will get this GOAT. He could play offense and defense better than anybody. Only when he began to sacrifice his scoring after he got traded and surrounded himself with better players did he start winning titles. Had good management built players around him early in his career, he would’ve been winning titles at the beginning. Russell throughout his entire career played with teammates who were future HOFers. No matter how dominant you are, it’s still a team game, and you need quality players to take the pressure off of the superstar. I’ve said it once and I’ll say it again. Wilt was well ahead of his time. The athleticism, height, strength, vision, and stamina Wilt had then is not even emulated today. As physical a guy he was and the amount of attention he garnered and the amount of times he touched the ball, and the amount of time he spent on the court (he averaged 45 plus out 48 minutes) for his career, he never once fouled out. He was just an incredible player who will some records that never will be matched. And had they recorded block shots back then, he would be the only player to have recorded multiple quadruple doubles.



Wilt Chamberlain was measured in the This girl loves her New York Islanders heart 2023 shirt Also,I will get this NCAAs at 7′1 1/8″ in his bare feet. Years later after he retired, he was measured lying on a table on Philadelphia TV. Again he measured 7 feet one and an eighth inches, top of his head to his bottom of his feet, no shoes. Wilt seemed even bigger than that because he had a short neck & a small head. That made his shoulders high and added to his standing reach. Look at this photo of Wilt next to Kareem Abdul Jabbar. Jabbar is nearly 1 inch taller at the top of the head, but Wilt is nearly an inch taller at the top of the shoulders. Kareem has an inch on Wilt only because he has a long neck and big head. Chamberlain had a 92″ wingspan (measured on TV with Muhammad Ali) and a 48″ vertical leap. He ran five events in college and continued heavy into playing sports even after retiring from the NBA. Chamberlain was a heck of an athlete. Here is Wilt next to Bill Walton, Shaquille O’Neal, Bill Russell and Kareem. UCLA coach John Wooden is in front. The angle is not straight, but it is still obvious that a 50 year old Wilt Chamberlain was big enough to make young Shaq look small. O’Neal clearly isn’t the 7′1″ he is listed as. The photo shows Shaq to be right around the 6′11 7/8″ he was said to have measured at LSU. He looks to be 1 -2 inches shorter than both Wilt & Kareem. It also shows that Walton really is the over 7 footer he was always rumored to be. He wanted to be listed at 6′11″ in order to be respected as a basketball player, not just a “7 foot freak”.


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