Wilt ''The Stilt'' Chamberlain (Age 61) One On One Interview With Chris Myers (1997)
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- Wilt ''The Stilt'' Chamberlain (age 61) in a one on one interview with Chris Myers in 1997. Just two years prior to his death. Watch & enjoy. Thank you.
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Wow, the strongest and most dominant player in the NBA ever was VERY well spoken too!
The Universe Galaxy stfu
You mean shaq?
@@ashtonkingsmith9542 early 1960s wilt would wear out Shaquille o'neal in the weight room, arm wrestling, checkers, cards,
@@ashtonkingsmith9542 no no Wilt was the strongest basketball player ever he was incriedibly strong . Arnold Schwarzenegger himself said Wilt lifted him up one handed and bench pressed 550 lbs
@@ashtonkingsmith9542 Shaq is a child compared to Wilt. Saw them shake hands once on film, Wilt almost jerked Shaq off his feet. No comparison.
Wilt is so damn alpha. I see he is too smart for most of NBA fans to even understand what he is saying. Wilt is right.
UbyTuesday You clearly don't know what you are talking about. Wilt was always better than Russell in their playoff series. Russell is considered a playoff God, yet Wilt was still better than him. Grow up.
UbyTuesday Yeah, so? He was still better. Great coaches are hard to find. Wilt was tired and needed rest, and he was the only one who kicked ass in the game. Russell regularly missed practice, because he was bored with it and didn't like it at all. The only difference was that Auerbach gave a tired Russell a break, while Wilt was given shit and bitching. Wilt did exactly what coaches asked of him, even when he didn't like them. Now that is a professional.
UbyTuesday You are pathetic. Focusing on FTs. Well every human knows Wilt was bad at FTs. What about FGs, rebounds, assists, defence, keep ignoring these things.
Wilt did what he was asked to do on the court. Wilt played like he was asked to. Of course he didn't agree with coaches on some occasions. Of course he didn't, because the coaches mostly werent ready for a player of his caliber (which was one of a kind). They didn't know how to use him. He brought so many weapons, yet his coaches and teams failed to use him.
When you try and make Wilt seem to be doing worse than his team mates, you are destroying your credibility. FTs were the only category where Wilt was not the best and even there he made many points from the FT line. His teams also took many many FTs, usually way more than opponents, who were forced to make most points from the field (low %, especially the man Wilt was guarding). Wilt commited very few fouls and forced his man to shoot mostly from the field. He dramatically reduced FG% to every player he guarded and he reduced FG% of TEAMs FFS. He also won way more possessions with his insane number of rebounds than he lost with his misses. Do you even realise what the ability to won more possessions than you lose means? Add the ability to score many points and reduce opponents FG% and you got yourself the GOAT.
UbyTuesday When you blame Wilt for 1969 game 7 INJURY, you show that there is no point in debating with you.
You are sooo full of shit man. The fact is, that only his FTs were his weakness and he was at the very top of every other category.
Do you really think Rodman would have 40 rebounds a game with balls bouncing all over the place? The fact is that Wilt outrebounded every center he ever faced, was by far the best rebounder of his time and led the league in rebounds per game for 11 fucking seasons. He was the best rebounder in the vast majority of games he played. And yes, rebounds are very fucking important. Wilt had 26% of available rebounds in his last fucking game. The fact that he set the rebounding record on Russell should tell you something. You are just a hater.
Wilt was misunderstood his whole career, "No one loves Goliath.". No wonder he loved being alone, except for female companionship...
Wilt was a rock star ever since his teens. Unlike most, he developed himself further, into a very worldly, and interesting man.
100%
al regas such a lively man magnificent athlete
Dude lost his virginity in elementary school.
More like he was otherworldly
Super cultured.
Look at how smart and well spoken wilt was why can't now a days people be like this
I miss the man, there will never be another player like him ever.
Wilt I hear great at checker, card player, arm wrestling , weight lifting training partners with arnold schzenegger
I think Wilt hits the nail on the head....I agree with just about everything he says in this interview.
Yeah I kinda think he's great to he never lost his cool players fouled him a lot remember hack a Shaq it happened to all the time never threw the ball at someone or get into a fight through out his career can't say that about Shaq
Shockingly eloquent, logical and intelligent person. Not only unbelievable physical specimen and basketball player.
Hold up, did I just hear Wilt make the case that Sir Charles could be the GOAT over MJ?...I'm digging it. I'm digging it.
WILT is a sharp dude.love it CHAMBERLAIN is basketball!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
crazy that he died less than 2 years after this he seemed in great shape in his 60's here
Larry bird said it. You hardly see any of the big men(~7ft guys) live past 70 years. They're plagued by heart problems most of the time. Sad, but true. Russell and a few others are exceptions.
womanizing does cause heart proplems
Sam Salamat what about running then, for example? That makes your heart beat fast. Does that make it bad for you?
Wilt was murdered by Big Harma pharma Zionist Doctors who prescribed him shit he didnt need...Just like they did to Muhammad Ali and his un needed thyroid "medicine" that gave him Parkinson's
@@drone99wallk44Womanizing 😂 give me a break
I wish there were more interviews with him, he's so interesting to listen to.
Yes, 💯 percent
What a guy! RIP Wilt
Wilt had the 4 highest AVERAGES OF ALL TIME!!! 55 rebounds in a playoff game! Against Bill Russell! Jordan a little boy compared to Wilt!
Another thing people who weren't around when Wilt Chamberlain walked the earth are unaware of is that in addition to being the greatest athlete ever to live he also was a very intelligent, keenly knowledgeable, socially graceful and cultured man. It is said that Wilt also could converse in several different languages. He was the closest thing to a living demigod anybody will ever know. Ironically, some people hated him for that, and came up with all kinds of reasons not to acknowledge that...which was not only a travesty both for him and future sports fans who were thereby denied the spectacular pleasure of watching and appreciating Wilt do his work and the thrill that came with it.
Wilt was absolutely right when he was talking about prices going up. Since then prices have escalated ridiculously
Imagine what Wilt would say about todays stars load management? Wilt one season averaged over 48 min a game!
Ser Uresto
Actually Wilt Chamberlain claimed 80s NBA players, furthermore centers, were better athletes (compare to his time), but they lack basketball IQ.
You can find it on CZcams, Ray Firestone did a marvelous job in 1987.
The centers of the 80s were nowhere as athletic ashe was he would have destroyed them.
The most interesting man in the world, well spoken, a complete man and mind and the ultimate ALPHA.
Wilt was just a brilliant guy man. Just great to listen to him talk.
I can listen to wilt talk all day
This guy was a super human. Freakish size, strength, athleticism, and intelligence. The odds of getting these kind of genetics has to be like one in one trillion.
too smart ive heard him say things that i never thought of hes genius
OMG!!! how many sports guys today can be half as articulate as this man
You mean out of the black guys "articulate" :)
Best interview I've seen with Wilt.
Wilt the stilt when he was made the mold was broken! Wilt was one of a kind!
i wish i was alive to watch him play. hes probably the most fascinating player in basketball history to me, but theres so little game footage of him.
What genius, and the best athlete ever.R.I.P
SUPERMAN !! Also very smart man !
Damn wilt talking econ! He knows what's up, athletic and smart too. Wonder how he did in school.
Wilt is great !!!!
Wilt was stronger faster agile than Shaq. So good he actually play point guard for the Harlem globetrotters. There people here who think they know the game of basketball but no. Wilt was one of the fastest NBA player on the court. Shaq was fat and out of shape .
RIP to the goat of basketball, he was spittin nonstop facts waaay before he passed. A shame no one ever believed him
I completely agreed with Wilt here about Shaq back then. Looking at it now, Shaq certainly belongs in the top 50 players of all time, and even then I knew he would be. But, at that time in 97, watching Shaq being considered one of the top 50 players of all time, over guys like Bob McAdoo, and Dominique Wilkins, was premature.
+Pappy Tron
Yea, McAdoo was a big time player in his prime, and a Hall of Famer....definitely deserved to be in the top 50 over Shaq back in 97.
+Pappy Tron
Yea, people nowadays, young fans especially, say a lot of stupid shit. Wilt was before my time, as well as McAdoo, but as a big fan of basketball, I've looked up a lot of the greats before my time to see what they brought to the game, and for anyone to put Wilt as the 6th greatest Center is ridiculous. He would adjust to the rules of any era, and dominate.
+Pappy Tron lol...
Yeah you're right, people are nuts. Anyone that's a professional in basketball would get whooped by someone in a pro in boxing if they have a boxing match...especially the great Muhammad ali haha
+Jules
Ali wanted a contract before he wupped that tail. Lyle Alsaydo from the Raiders thought he could hang with Ali. He got beat up and Ali took it easy on him for charity.
Well, it would only take one "lucky" punch to land and Ali would be in serious trouble. Not entirely improbable. Freaks of nature like Wilt can cause freak results.
The statement that the people he played against were college grads who played because they loved it because the money wasn't great. In those days the NBA finals, as far as NBC, CBS, and ABC were concerned, couldn't replace a rerun of the Beverly Hillbillies. It may have been a golden age of basketball as he describes it. Would love to have a time machine and see how his team that won 33 straight would fare against this years G.S. Warriors. I think they would have adjusted quickly and made a game of it.
Well, Wilt kind of had a point. Muresan shot just as well (and sometimes even better) from the field than Shaq did and shot far better from the free throw line. They just didn't give Muresan as many minutes or touches on the ball.
Well not really If he took more shot his percentage will naturally diminish. Taking more shot means that you gonna be less selective with the shot you take. You are gonna have to take shot that you don't like. Wilt experienced it himself. The season when took less shot his percentage naturally rose up.
He HATED being called 'The Stilt"...
Why?
pmount07
I don't remember why but he did....
pmount07 he didn't like being defined by his height.
he preferred the big dipper. stilt has no meaning...other than rhyming.
HES SO WISE
No man should have to defend his legacy. His peers should be doing it. Money make ya sale your soul. Wilts The Goat. Ill stand Wilt as long as I can. You the Goat.
I appreciate the correction.
Wish wilt lived longee,what an interview!!!
Why was this interview cut short? Fucking shame.
Wilt made some great points! All their teaching young people today, is to pay these spoiled babies tons of $ and expect no character from them. I think it's a honor and a privilege to be a professional, not your right! When kids look up to u, you automatically have the responsibility to be a positive role model. if no where else, least in public settings.
Wilt is lucky to play in his era, in this era he’d have 100 civil suits 💰
AMEN WILT! WELL SAID!
"The love of money is the root of all evil." The Lord Jesus Christ HOLY WORD
Wilt is 1000 percent correct! Money has killed sports and today regular average players get paid top dollar lol
Wow, he is the same age here that I am. We both look good.
Charisma.
It's also called inflation. Although I see where Wilt Chamberlain is coming from with the more money NBA players make are making. It can get out of hand.
Ladies and gentleman, the GOAT.
I wish people would listen to this, its not even about right or wrong, just listen
Its so wild how Im upset with the way basketball is played now (I miss like 2012-14 and earlier), and here Wilt is saying how basketball sucked in the 90s 😂😂😂
Wilt is easily the most dominant individual basketball player in NBA history. Bill Russell is the most dominant team basketball player in NBA history. And yet both are derided by people who never saw them play in person.
Also, off topic, Wilt said no one had ever made a claim against him for sexual assault. At the time he was correct. Unfortunately, 22 years after his death, Elvira made a claim of that nature against him.
Wilt was a physical BEAST and I think he would be great in any era but he also played against a lot less athletic people back in those days.
The athletes in his day understood team play.a team that plays great together will beat any great individual player just ask jordan about losing to the great celtics teams of the 80s.not great athletes mostly slow white guys but they swept jordan 2 years in a row thats right they were 6-0against jordan.
GOAT
Not "The Stilt." Wilt HATED that moniker. He preferred "The Big Dipper," given to him as a youngster because he had to dip his head to walk through most doorways.
Man I could only imagine how Wilt would critic todays dead overrated nba !!!! Wilt easily predicted the dilution since the late 90s 😮
Nobody, no one even in combat disciplines had to constantly hold back to not kill some other top level athlete by mistake. Most OP athlete ever by far.
I believe Wilt was sacrificed by them he was born in 1936 died in 1999 at 63 MJ was born in 1963 won 6 rings when Wilt passed MJ was 36 years old
The interviewer is Gary Miller
avg 12 blk/g in game footage that's still round
Wilt Explaining how he would take Muresan > Shaq is master trolling 101.
These comments are out of context. The first time that Shaq would hit him it would be a war to end all wars. Wilt would have changed in a split second once someone challenged him physically. People change after that first punch in the mouth. I would have loved to see it.
You're daft.
Take a look at WIlt shaking Shaq's hands. Or Arnold Schwarzeneggar talking about Wilt benching 500 pounds. Shaq looked stronger, but Wilt was the stronger of the 2.
Shaq was a beast of a basketball player but dipping his shoulder and running over defenders WOULD NOT have worked against Wilt. Bill Russell once said iif Wilt had a mean streak he’d have been twice as good as he was… Shaq would have brought out his mean streak.
The NBA is not the game it was when Wilt played. Those teams played like teams back then. Now it is an individual sport more than a team sport. If Wilt or Russell would be playing now both of them would be dominating the league. Unfortunately it is a guard focused league now.
Wilt was a good looking man
Wait, the difference is the Wilt was taking shots in the paint against lesser competition, whereas Jordan was taking mostly jump shots at still 50%. Wilt is very bitter at Jordan but he should be bitter at Russell who out played him and won 11 championships. Stats are garbage if you ain’t winning championships which Jordan did both
👉G 🏀 A T👈
His legendary athleticism transcended basketball, to track and field, pro volleyball, the weight room, the bedroom & beyond.
☆ Quite simply, a once-in-a-century, athletic phenomenon❗️
Wilt Chamberlain predicted the future nba quality has gone down thanks to businesses profit
Very very intelligent man...would have been awesome had he primed with Kareem, Hakeem, Shaq, Ewing, Mourning, Robinson, etc.....I think he would have dominated but not as much as he did in the 60s
well...2years before he died.
I wish he had kids so he can transfer his talent
He fucked 20000 women....a lot of fatherless kid s in the nba
Wilt's career stats and records - as well as his anecdotal legendary non-basketball related athletic feats - are so outrageous that they seem even more unbelievable than his famous claim of having slept with over 20k women! If you ask people which one seems more likely to be true - his career numbers or the number of women he claimed to have bedded down - most would say his claimed number of female conquests!
Hilarious near the end of the interview talking about the 20k women when the hosts asks Wilt: I don't want to pry, but have you cut back yet?...LMAO...Priceless!
No doubt- the true GOAT 🐐!
Wilt telling it like it is … Rip Big Dipper.
Wilt wasn’t allowed to dunk for awhile. So he used to dip it . Ya know like a doughnut 🍩!
Wilt hated “The Stilt” moniker, preferred “ the Dipper”. No respect.
Maybe he's TU PACs blood line
I can see a big resemblance in the audited
Has Wilt draped himself in velvet?
The Big Dipper!
Today's players should take notes. If you want to be a lady's man, don't get married. And, don't get into a situation of non consentual sex. Although Wilt no doubt had many partners, he was very discrete. This act is very difficult to accomplish in our current quick media paced society.
10:58 "so why is there a problem ?" (about sleeping with all these women). It's an amazing contradiction, when he begins this video blaming the trickle down effect of money. It's the same way here: if you're promiscuous a lot, you make society that bit more promiscuous. That would be the problem, Wilt.
11:59
SHAQ gets away with murder
George Muresan is more fundamentally sound than SHAQ
Washington needs to give the basketball to George Muresan maybe Muresan would’ve had 20-30 points per game
I don’t believe we should have had SHAQ in the 50th Anniversary Team & as one of the greatest players in NBA history
Wilt could have played in the 80s and made some $ if he really wanted to. He was playing pick up games against the best players in the NBA, and beating them. So yeah, even in his 40s, he was better than the stars of that current NBA.
Wilt would fucking the game today lol
he would choke as usual like he always did
Wilt = choker only 2-4 in the Finals. His team was so stacked with Hall of Famers like Thurmond, Cunningham, Greer, Goodrich, Baylor, West and he still only won 2 rings
1969 Finals - west dropped almost 40 a game without the 3pt line as well as 5 rebs + 7.5 apg and Wilt still couldn't win with all that help
outscored by 20+ ppg against Kareem in 1972 WCF and also outscored by Kareem in 1971 WCF. MJ has never been outscored in a playoff series after his rookie year (which was only 0.2 ppg difference)
Wilt = only 8-10 teams in the league majority of his career, one round to make NBA Finals and still cant win
In five out of his six NBA Finals (1964, 1967, 1969, 1970, 1972, and 1973), Wilt only averaged 12, 12, 18, 19, and 23 points. The one time Wilt was a top scorer in the NBA Finals was in the very early portion of his career in 1964 when basketball was very underdeveloped with especially excessive shot jacking and scoring, and as expected he still ended up losing that NBA Finals.
Wilt was never the leading scorer in an NBA Finals where he won, and only the leading scorer in one out of six NBA Finals appearances. Are you telling me someone who couldn't win with the ball in his hands is the greatest player of all time? As centers, Moses, Hakeem, Kareem, and Shaq are much more accomplished than Wilt. I don't recall Chamberlain ever putting up championship-winning performances like the aforementioned greats (1971, 1980, 1985, 1983, 1994, 1995, 2000, 2001, and 2002 Finals).
In only his second season, Kareem outplayed the experienced Chamberlain and eliminated him from the Playoffs. The next year, the Lakers did eliminate Kareem's Bucks on the way to Wilt's last championship, but Kareem averaged 34 pts a game in that series to Chamberlain's mere 11. Kareem was only in his third season, and he was already schooling a veteran and experienced Wilt.
In his first 7 years, Wilt averaged between 33 and 50 pts per game each year. After those 7 years, Wilt was entering his 30s. Most NBA players' primes are in their late 20s and early 30s. However, in his next 7 years, Wilt only had between 13 and 27 pts each year. Only ONCE did Chamberlain get more than 24 ppg in that timespan. Wilt's rebounding numbers also steadily decreased. Wilt was falling behind his own weak era as it slowly developed with slightly more efficiency, less shot jacking, and less rebound opportunities.
Wilt FAILED to show up in the playoffs repeatedly. How can he be anywhere close to the greatest if he fails to show up when it matters most? After his first 4 years, Wilt NEVER averaged 30 pts in one playoff year. Wilt averaged 37 or more pts FIVE times in the regular season, but only ONCE in the playoffs. He only averaged 22 and 15 pts in the playoffs when he won his only NBA championships - proving that he needs teammates to carry the scoring load for him.
Johnny Johns Anybody who goes out of their way to type out a short essay like that trying to diminish someone's accomplishments is a hater. Stay salty, my friend.
Johnny Johns ... He 'choked'? Basketball is a team game the last I checked..... The term choke is thrown around like confetti. Only two rings? What does that say for a lot of other great players? ' He' only beat the Celtics once...That's one more time than a lot of others did it. Jabbar? Great Player but how many rings did he win before Magic Johnson showed up?? In the few years they were in the league together,they both had 1 ring.....What does that say for Jabbar?? In your zeal to knock Wilt, I've used your reasoning against you.
Love Wilt...you can love him or hate him, but he was a very accomplished, interesting character. Too bad he passed so young, as many young ladies missed out on having his company.
Now the game is a fucking joke; don’t ever bring it back.
According to Wilt, George Murusan could score as much as Shaquelle O Neil? If they let him? Hmm...interesting.
not a bad take
like to see wilt 25 yrs old one on one 48 min against jorden then lebron that would shut up all these idiots would be comical he'd block at least half there shots (3 pointers also ) and they would be helpless to stop him not to mention they would b burnt out after 30 min hed be laughing
In his time he was drafted by a bad team and there was no free agent just trades and who whold trade prime wilt so he was stuck in thos bad teams wher he playd alone with no stars nobady just remember one guy who played with him and he was facing a stack team in celtics with 7 hall of farmers just imagen Bill Russell in place of him and him in place of Bill those stats with 11 titles who will argue then. In a different white world he could be Bill or MJ but they could never bee wilt no one could ever bee to score 100 points in a game.
Imagine Chamberlin on the good roids?
~shaking my head~ + lol @ the same time. dude, come on man. was that really necessary? we all know that he supposedly slept with 20,000 or more women in his lifetime.
he called it, basketball went downhill.....i cant watch today's ball games
Michael Jordan fans are the worst sports fans in the history of mankind then.
Universe Galaxy is the most pathetic NBA CZcamsr in the history of mankind
50.4 avg pssst mmm hmm and beside bill and Kareem all other centers was 6.8 and under... wilt was and is over rated period oh and bill was only 6’9 and 12 not that good teams with only 1 good 6’8 centers on each team and pf 6’5 come on wilt 👎🏾
You speak without knowledge.
@@tom7471 well you would know Uncle Tom Since you’re so smart Wilt sucked he was garbage the tallest besides Bill R. Who was only 6’9 was and 6’8 and 20,000 was 7’1 mouth
Wilt liked to minimize who Shaq was. Saying he'd take George Muresan over him was just 100% haterade.
I also love how he said Shaq would foul out in his era (not true), because they wouldn't allow that kind of contact. The funny thing about that is most players from that era say it was a mans game then, unlike today where you get to the line for next to nothing.
So which is it? Was it a mans game where they don't blow the whistle, or was it a finesse game that would have resulted in Shaq fouling out in the first quarter? You cannot argue for both.
I think there is a reality about Shaq that Wilt didn't like, that being Shaq is the only guy in NBA history who would have physically overpowered Wilt. Don't give me the stuff about how much Wilt could bench, and how high he could jump, yes Wilt was a phenom, and unlike Bill Russell, he'd dominate in today's game... But, once Shaq and his 330 lbs of pure explosiveness was next to you, it was over. Am I saying Shaq is better than Wilt? Not necessarily, but I will say back in that era, Shaq may have been able to average 70 per game, especially when the lane was 1/2 as wide. Just camp out at the edge of the key, it was illegal defense then to put 2 guys on him until he had the ball. He'd just catch, turn, hammer all night long. I can say without question Shaq would have more titles than Wilt back in that era.
He maybe a little jealous of how Shaq was allowed to bump guys. Wilt was a gentle giant because he was not allowed to be rough and get away with what is done these days. Remember he played in the Era of segregation. He was a caring guy which was afraid he would hurt people if he was to rough. wilt expressed his view of finesse around the basket in his era. That view in the Shaq era changed to a power dunk and bump and move finesse around the paint.
Average 70 ppg lmao he can't shoot
+Ryan Herich he was 7'1", 340 lbs of pure explosion. the key was half as wide so he could legally plant himself next to the basket against an Era of smaller, weaker defender. it was illegal to double team before catching the ball. no zone defense. translation: dunks all night long. what were you saying about shooting again?
Ryan Herich
Please watch the film. Amazingly enough, Wilt had a very good 10 to 16 foot bank shot. He also had a good hook shot before Kareem made the sky hook so famous.
Ryan Herich
He used lots of finesse with great accuracy around the lane.
Wilt was the greatest athlete in human history. Not just in pro sports but in the entire history of human existence. He should have been placed in a government breeding facility where his genes could have been the foundation of a super race of humans. Alas, hopefully those 20,000 are enough. 🏀👑🏐👑🦄🦄🐐🐐
The greatest athlete to ever play basketball.....unreal power and speed. And arguably the greatest player ever in basketball.
xerakis I concur. The things this man has accomplished in his career are almost mythical.
gerard bain Guy took no shit from anyone, was gonna fight Ali for God's sake!
And 99% that he woud win
MJ should be on the discussion too
The most overrated athlete of all time.
Wilt is more educated then the players of the day. Listen to his word knowledge and how he uses words that you and I would have to look up
he was like 60 years old chill
He's a granddad at this point. You think Wilt is smarter than Lebron? How sway?
I truly believe that no one, except for Wilt, could've had such stats in the NBA. The greatest player of all time. Better than MJ, Kareem, anybody. Nobody could ever dominate and control a game like he did.
Agree to disagree.
Chamberlain is the only player in NBA history to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game in a season, a feat he accomplished 9 times. That's crazy.
Chamberlain was amazing!!
+Brandon Van He even led the league in assists one season and many times in blocked shots.
Darkzz Lord Using your analogy Shaq had no competition because he was bigger than the rest.
+Darkzz Lord Bill Russell no competition?
+Darkzz Lord Bill Russell, Nate Thurmond, Jerry Lucas, young Kareem, and many more. Plus, the league had around 10 teams back then so every team had one or two Hall of Famers on it.
Wilt is easily the greatest of all time if you truly know how good he is
Watched a few interviews of Wilt, he was a pretty charming guy, rip Stilt.
And I I'm sure the ladies thought he was charming I don't doubt if he started talking to some lady he would have a good chance her sleeping in his bed that night
Wilt died too young he looked great for his age
A True Superman. I'm speculating here, as I recall early in his NBA career Wilt had teeth knocked out and anyway... just before he died he had a real bad gum infection and I wonder if bacteria got into his veins , then went into his heart, as he physically deteriorated in a hurry in the last 5 months or so. He had been in great shape before that.
MAGAMAN He had heart troubles.
@@vernpascal1531 Endocarditis
Around the time he died he aged so damn fast you would think he's in his mid 80's. He looked decent until around 2 years before his death
@@Poloskii so maybe thats because of some desease
Hard to believe he's been gone so long. Very bright man, old school values. A shame he's not around today.