Wilt Chamberlain - ESPN Basketball Documentary

hello I'm Chris Fowler for sports century will Chamberlain size strength and athleticism were unimaginable he made large men appear small and when he played it seemed all too easy almost unfair his numbers were too big for comfort he didn't just break records he destroyed them basketball was Wilt Chamberlain's sandbox I once performed in an arena it's in Hershey Pennsylvania and all I could think about in a locker was this was a lock from them that wilt was in when he scored a hundred points how could somebody score a hundred points in a game as the big fourth quarter that everybody's thinking nobody's we've got again he's got $60 the second half the team decided that maybe didn't get 100 so they were feeding him constantly I don't think any of us realize that bill was on that much of a tear then Dave sing cough announced Dipper 82 points and literally wilts eyes lit up the bunt is just for trying New York was freezing the ball and how you just walked into the game and not realized what was going on you'd say here here's a team they're losing by 15 points and they're freezing the ball they wanted to use time so will couldn't score in fact they got so ridiculous at one stretch where they were deliberately fouling us when we got the ball inbounds to keep the clock from running I was embarrassed you know basically playing in a game like that we were going for a hundred his record was IRA must have been 46 or 47 seconds remaining in the game people just ran out of the stand just to touch will just to be there before 4000 mesmerize fans on March 2nd 1962 Wilt Chamberlain played in the clouds reigning 36 field goals and collecting 28 points from the line the 7-1 Center lifted his game beyond reach of any NBA player in history he was so dominant and so impossible to stop well it was bound to score hundred points whether it was going to be that season or some other season in the future and we used to watch well chairman every single Sunday the Big Dipper I think probably will dominate the game more than anyone else and reason I say that because will Purdue it on both ends of the floor eventually no one can garden and differentially what was going after every shot Russell cable emigrate walk like Hamlet I learned a lesson early against will when I was a rookie I blocked one of his shots and he blocked every shot that I took the next five times we played them Lenny Wilkens cast off a shot that appeared to be three feet above the basket and will jumped up and caught his ball with one hand referee called goaltending and I hollered and how could you call that goaltending aces guy what I just saw is not humanly possible you really can't tell how big he is until you actually see him already he shook my hand and my hand disappeared and and I'm just going I don't believe this people don't understand how big he is he like blocks out the Sun the sense of size will chamber is is the essence of the man it's just there just feel like you're in the presence of some giant will was simply you know a man-child in a game where it was just simple but he got fifty five rebounds than a game wilt averaged 50 points a game for a full season 50 points again Wilt Chamberlain played 80 beats one year and averaged over 48 minutes a game he never fouled out of a professional basketball game in his entire career in 1959 Chamberlain hit the NBA with full force he was the first player named Rookie of the Year and MVP in the same season the reaction to his size and talent was so unsettling that the rules of the game suddenly seemed inadequate I think in the long when I'll be able to have my thoughts man-to-man well both anyone ever lived he was the only guy that could change the landscape in basketball changed the rules offensive goaltending defensive goaltending had widened the lane the free-throw shooter had to release the ball behind the line will could take off from the free-throw line and dunk the foul shot when will came in to lead in the late 50s oh I think absolutely there was there was fear disa black man and he's dominating what had been basically a white sport well just Ford's right through those things will Chamberlain always judged everyone is an individual I was extremely impressed with his demeanor he never got flustered he never got made what was a nice guy sometimes to his detriment on the court he was too nice a man I can't tell you how many times I watched him go up for a dunk and someone would put their hand within the cylinder trying to block his shot and woke with led up because he knew could break the man's arm Chamberlain won seven straight scoring titles 11 rebounding crowns and two championship rings yet for most of his 14 seasons he played in a shadow of perfection cast by the press he's had a lot of terrible things said about him because he didn't win more worlds Hamlin will forever be defined where his failures and not his victims it's his own fault he had opportunities to change it and he could never do Chamberlain was concerned about Jay more he was in love with his stats I think showing his peers that he could score 50 a game that he could get twenty four rebounds that he could get eight assists I think that was enough for will to say look there the numbers he was so great that no matter what he did people never accepted as being enough if you look at his records and the records that he set I always thought it was like watching them in slow motion I thought he could have even done more if you win everybody says well look at him he's that big if you lose it's how can he lose a guy that size I think it's confused him he would have been better in an individual sport it'd have been much better just competing for himself are you blowing your summer waiting for the fun to start BAM it works it's not easy growing up seven feet tall gifted black and American Society a Wilt Chamberlain was just wilt distill you know I mean it they never saw the total human being born in Philadelphia on August 21st 1936 Wilton Norman Chamberlain suffered the emotional inequities generated by his rapid growth East sucked his thumb no matter what he was doing now don't forget we came out on into school he was six foot three he was still suffering that song he not only was tall and thought of as unusual he started it was always slouching over because he was not very proud it was a terrible terrible thing to be told because people pick at you the family called him dip because he had to dip through the dilib Union people had never seen anyone as tall as will some looked at him in amazement some will be fuddled being 610 611 at 13 years old 14 years old it really created a real barrier for him one of nine children will found solace and guidance within the nurturing atmosphere of his home his mother he really respected she was the rock around him his father was a laborer worked hard and that rubbed off a woman it was a great family atmosphere and wilt was not treated any different than anybody else in the family he was tall but you could still take out the trash he still had to do his chores scraping door frames at Overbrook high school Chamberlain's career thirty-seven point average overheated the imaginations of college recruiters across the country as he led the Panthers to consecutive city championships no one had seen anybody with this agility no one had seen anybody go up in the air and catch the ball at its apex and just bring it that was frightening it was a time when we had 120 scholarships being off with him he was being called day and night once school said we're going to put you in the movies and make you a celebrity another school said we'll give your brothers and sisters scholarships to colleges Eddie Gottlieb who was the owner of the full of your warriors got a rule put in that you could draft a player ally squad for delivery four years later you went to Kansas to play already belonging to Philadelphia upon graduation Wilt Chamberlain's reputation coming out of high school was that he was so big and so overwhelming that nobody could ever deal with him on a basketball court if he had been perceived as unstoppable on the hardwood Chamberlain would also challenge the values of middle American society in the fall of 1955 an unforgettable sighting occurred at KU's Lawrence campus a big black man coming to Kansas in the early 50s or the mid-50s it was a culture shock for a lot of people no question about it I think for him it was a little bit of a wake-up call to realize that most of America was not Philadelphia's not West Philadelphia net was overwhelmingly white and he was going to be treated as an oddity and the first time he went to a public restaurant he was denied they told they didn't serve blacks the color line was broken because wilt went in sat down ordered a meal and was served and from that point on there was no problem after being ordained a campus cult figure Chamberlain hosted a late-night radio show called flippin with the Dipper when he wasn't spinning 45s on the air will found refuge in the Brotherhood of sports and it wasn't always basketball he went to Bill least in the track coach one time and said coach I'd like to enter in the high jump and Bill said well will they said you haven't even practiced he said how could you possibly compete he said well just give me a chance wilt won the big seven high jump championship with no practice at all I saw Wilt Chamberlain run under 2-minutes in 880 yards I saw him put the shot over 50 feet in the 1950s big guys were still called goons there was a sense that they weren't athletes that they were only in the game because they were tall there was this natural disposition to see this guy simply as a freak of nature and no matter what he did on the track and field didn't change that image however he may have been perceived Chamberlain's impact on college basketball proved deep and permanent when he came to Kansas the rumor got out and scared the daylights out of everybody in the country they said he could stand at the free-throw line and just leap and stuff which under the old rules would have been legal we would play a team like Oklahoma State and they might pass the ball 40 40 five times before they'd attempt a shot realizing that anytime you ran with the team the wilt was on that you probably going to get blown out pretty good in his first varsity season wilt averaged 30 points and 19 rebounds leading Kansas into the 1957 NCAA final anchored by the big center bouquet use former coach fog Allen once whimsically remarked could win the national title with two cheerleaders and two Phi Beta Kappas the Jayhawks were seven-point favorites over top-ranked North Carolina Kansas had a forward named Maurice cam very good shooter well of course North Carolina is surrounded Wilk surrounded him all the time which left King open and King could not make a basket simply couldn't get the ball down despite Chamberlain's 23 points and 14 rebounds the Jayhawks trailed 54 53 in the closing seconds of the most famous triple overtime game in college history they're going to pass into Ronnie linetsky who's going to try to lob the ball high and get it into willed who can score but it was intercepted by North Carolina and the ball game ended and the Jayhawks come up one point short three overtimes Chamberlain carried the law says though it were his alone and he just thought that he'd let the University of Kansas down none of us felt that he'd let us down we were just glad to be riding on his coattails and he took us as far as he possibly could what happens team beats individual and Chamberlain was marked from that moment on people would hark back to that and say he can't win in the whigs following the 1957 NCAA title game loss to North Carolina will Chamberlain seriously wade whether he should remain at Kansas he decided to stay and despite an injury in December averaged over 30 points and 17 rebounds as a junior for the 18 and 5 Jayhawks but after the team failed to make the NCAA tournament he confided to a friend that he might leave he said Sonny if I stay in college they want to put three and four people around and I'm not going to be able to expand my game Chamberlain decided to leave but with the NBA closed to him until his Kansas class graduated he signed a one-year contract with Abe Sapperstein Harlem Globetrotters for $60,000 twice what any NBA basketball player was making at the time he learned some things how to relax and have some fun with the game I don't think he experienced before he'd wanted well more than one year he wanted to go play basketball a clown he wasn't after joining the Philadelphia Warriors upon his NBA eligibility in 1959 Chamberlain immediately asserted his dominance averaging 38 points and 27 rebounds as a rookie he had climbed to the top of the lead for only one other center stood he could not be guarded he could not be defended he could not be thwarted he was the greatest physical specimen that anybody has ever seen on a basketball court and one guy had his number one guy was David to his Goliath one guy Bill Russell I'll be the greatest matchup in the history of basketball but really took on biblical proportions in a way it was like good against evil office against defense everybody thought bill is the nice guy and here comes this big giant from Philadelphia and he's the bad guy he was the monster he was this this [ __ ] he was not Jack the giant-killer he was the giant that we all wanted to kill this guy was five or six inches bigger than Russell for 70 pounds heavier than Russell was very skillful of what he did the first time we played welts wilt destroyed Bill Russell put enough fear in the Russell's heart that Russell was going to do anything to beat wilt the only difference between the two of them was the fire in the belly if he had one third of Russ's intensity God he would have been even more awesome than he was anything more awesome was almost inconceivable never averaging below 33 points and 22 rebounds a season between 1960 and 1966 Chamberlain reached his offensive Zenith by scoring 50 points a game in 1962 but in those seven years Chamberlain fell to Russell in five playoffs when the Celtics would come to town a lot of people don't realize that will would invite Russell to his house for dinner and then they'd go to the arena and Russell would try to tear his head off Russell was a master of psychology he knew exactly was doing all the time you know and he used that Russell would let will score wilts teammates would stand there and watch will score they never be involved then he shut wilt down and now this time two other guys a cold I've seen we'll get down before me his hands on the port hands and easy so frustrated I used to be very honest with you Boston probably had a better team than we did you know there's always talk of wilt versus Russell and Russell beat willed and said er that's not true Russell didn't beat will Boston beat Philly in 1962 the Warriors moved to San Francisco or for the next two and a half seasons Chamberlain stated topped the scoring and rebounding charts meanwhile the Syracuse Nationals moved to Philadelphia and were renamed the 76ers in January of 1965 wilt would resume his on-again off-again relationship with the City of Brotherly Love when the trade was made to bring him back to Philadelphia from San Francisco I mean the media just went crazy he was like for a couple of weeks it was the known one [ __ ] page story in the city so are you happy or sad about it mixed mixed emotions actually I'll be like totally believe in my heart in San Francisco because I fell in love with the city in 1966 the 76ers head coach Alex Hannum convinced the 30 year old Chamberlain that in order to win an NBA title he would have to rebuild his game from the ground up never in the history of sport as a player of world's magnitude been asked to change what he has done so well for so many years for a betterment of T wilt just looked around and saw the talent on that team and realized that these players would perform better the more they were involved in the play rather than wilt doing everything he was a system more he was rebounder more he's playing better defense the whole bit he beats Russell Farris square one time when it mattered in 1967 when he had his finest year the most balanced year a man can have 24 points a game 24 rebounds a game at 8 assists a game where a team that wins 68 games if they blow out the Celtics in five games breakin my pay for the heart we go in the locker room there champagnes out and everybody's so excited Chamberlain didn't woman she paint said we have one more step to go and then the champagne was put down and we understood that we'll drink it you know another ten days then we felt that being Boston was tantamount to winning the championship of course we had to beat San Francisco first don't get the world's title which the 76ers did in six games elbow will revamp game brought Philadelphia's first NBA title the future which might have held a dynasty would be flawed by the great centers bete noire the foul shot ultimately of course we get to the fact that he couldn't sing free-throws he loved to say that he could sing shots from outside as well as Jerry West or Gail Goodrich or somebody he was playing which was perfect nonsense but that was important for him because you see that wasn't a function of size but then you'd ask him well if that's true well why can't you shoot a free throw and he didn't have an answer the germ of Wilt Chamberlain's foul line affliction had been planted back in Kansas a 62% free-throw shooter with the Jayhawks will by 1968 was missing more than six of ten from the stripe right mean he tried underhand sideways and almost back to the top of the circle and just never could do that but yet in practice he could sit there and make seven out of ten I think if we'll really concentrated on it he had little help from somebody who could shoot fouls and instruct him like a golf pro he could have been a better shooter one game are all Strom the great referee was working the game and wilt got of a foul called on him he's on the way to the line and he turns and then the most if you can imagine a seven foot three inch or speaking in a pitiable voice he said Earl Earl tell me help me why can't I make a free throw against the Celtics of 1968 Eastern Division finals the 76ers blue with three games to one lead in their four-point loss in Game seven Chamberlain was less than dominant shooting 4 for 9 from the field and 6 of 15 from the foul line it was his last game as a 76 sir wilt as always said that he had been promised a piece of ownership of the team and if he was not going to get it he wanted to be traded he said I want to be traded and I want to be traded to a West Coast team and we got Darrell him off and Archie Clarke and Jerry chambers for Wilt Chamberlain we'll went to the Lakers and he's sitting there at the press conference and one of the reporters asks Wilton does he think butch von beretta cough who's the coach of the Lakers will be able to control him and will looks at the reporter and said no one controls Wilton then the first day of practice we moved the ball around and he's moving a little bit and guys are cutting I said holy mackerel listen guys guys look good second day you couldn't get him out of one spot in the court was it terribly just stood there fan belicoff refer to wilt as a big load and will refer to van brother cough as a dumbest coach he had ever played for that was understood and that polarized that particular team despite such mutual dislike the Lakers took the Celtics into the seventh game of the 1969 finals trailing by seven points Chamberlain took himself out with 5:19 left in the fourth quarter Walt's knee was really painting him then he just wanted to quiet it down for a couple of minutes and he came out and he put some ice on it so when the knee quieted down a little bit dipper said to me tell the man I'm ready to go back in and Vampirella Cobb said tell him the hell with him we don't need him if I remember correctly the words I said nobody said it off enough so we're playing better without you coach then beretta cough and will did not get along at all I think Van beretta cough would have been thrilled to win a championship with wilt sitting on the bench but the Lakers lost 108 106 and in the aftermath Chamberlain suffered a blow that would hurt long after his knee recover compliments of his chief adversary who had played his last game Russell column I Vega but he wouldn't stay in turn the game Russell gave him a little needle after that he should have play as a seventh game Russell couldn't understand it but in that moment you when all is on the line you wouldn't go back in the game you know it was a foreign idea to whatever criticism he received was unfair he was hurting and I know he was hurting he wasn't one of those players that would ever take himself over he hated to come out again with Russell gone in 1970 the path of the NBA title was rerouted through Madison Square Garden when Knicks center Willis Reed went down with the knee injury in Game five the way to glory seemed open for wilt and his talented supporting cast they somehow rallied together in the fifth game with no one on the floor taller than six seven in the second half and beat the Lakers to go up 3-2 to take themselves back to Los Angeles Wilt asserts himself with 45 points and 27 rebounds against hapless Nate Bowman taking us all back to New York with everyone wondering can you aspire Campbell was playing a couple of Nation come out they begin to shoot a couple of work of that and I'm watching Brooke and he keeps looking at the guys that came out he's looking for Willis Reed and suddenly there is this incredible roar I saw West I saw Chamberlain I saw Baylor stopping their tracks because the both teams were warming up and they were just staring at Reed and I said to myself at that forum and I think we got these guys Rachel time slows it down is picked up by Jerry West in the end willis reads two baskets in 27 minutes counted more than Chamberlain's 21 points and 24 rebounds as the Lakers went down 113 99 what Russell says is if I had been playing less rate I would have gone right at it I would have never played harder in my whole life I would have asked for the ball every time down I would have put it to him if he tried to shoot I'd have been right in his face and knocked it down and will was sort of intimidated will didn't want to be the bad guy he knew the whole world was cheering for Willis Reed he may not have had the killer instinct at certain moments to go after somebody's knees to go after somebody's weakness dispirited by his failure to reach the top Chamberlain decided to quit the NBA and looked elsewhere for victory professional boxing cus D'Amato toe will be to be trained he couldn't make a career out of fighting but if he trained for one fight specifically for Olli that he had a chance to succeed Angelo Dundee said to Muhammad you can't do this Muhammad says why not he can't fight and Angela stood up on a chair little guy had made himself seven foot one and 1/16 of an inch and said try to hit me we call this massive press conference in the Astrodome one-footed Wilt Chamberlain went to the next room asked permission to use the telephone called a person whom I believed to be jack kent cooke came out and said look guys i decided that i'm going to continue to play basketball I don't want to fight at the beginning of the 1972 season Lakers coach Bill Sharman proposed a different role for Chamberlain who will decide suggested very calmly that he play like Russell played defensively blocked shots not trying to be a high score and we'll thought about it and he did it content to average just 15 points will led the league in rebounds at 19 again the Lakers soared mounting a record 33 game winning streak and finishing with 69 victories beating the Knicks in five games they won their first NBA titles since moving to Los Angeles in 1960 he's got every challenge he's crossed every bridge a long time the world champion you after losing to the Knicks in the 1973 finals will Chamberlain although contractually bound as a player to the Lakers jump to the ABA as head coach of the San Diego conquistadors the word that comes to my mind is a publicity stunt I don't think he did a great deal of the actual coaching to the team I do remember that wilt would come into the games about 15 minutes before the game was would start a lot of times there wasn't even a team meeting with him involved anyway because he wouldn't come to the arena until the team was already out on the floor Chamberlain quit coaching after just one season to pursue new worlds many of which demanded talents that had lain fallow during his years as wilt the still if Wilt Chamberlain didn't play basketball he would have been a great success in something else he would have gone to Wharton School of Business he just found basketball was his vehicle to have the lifestyle that he enjoys he had some business people in his career that invested well for him he understood money he probably liked club up in Harlem called big built smalls paradise it was an all-black club and great music and jam-packed every night he owned racehorses he owned real estate he invested in the stock market his home was constructed for man 7-2 he takes me in the bedroom and he said watch this and he pressed the button next to the bed and the roof went back you gotta be kidding me we're in New York to play the Knicks and he asked me up to his suite but I wasn't there two or three minutes and here comes room service with four entrees Gigi who else I've already eaten no no no my man these are all for me although many and varied Chamberlain's appetites led him in directions other than the front lines of the civil rights movement will Chamberlain did not take any overt active role in the politics of the african-american community or in terms of race and ethnic relations issues he lived in a different world I really enjoyed that that will never brought up racism and of course you know he he supported Nixon figure that the only plans that I have is a trying to help make a Richard Nixon and ex-president now I take the marker he got a lot of flack from the black community because they were not really in Nixon corner at that time and when will came out for Nixon it was like yeah what is he doing when you have someone like the chamber supporting of the opposition it becomes sort of distressful somewhat disappointing an order for I believe the black man to get the most out his vote that he should you know try to infiltrate the Republican Party as much as possible he felt that isn't that would be to let you know that blacks are just as smart and intelligent as anybody else he was one of the most phenomenal athletes that this nation is ever like our intonation is ever likely to see but beyond the court he drops off the chart in terms of his relevance and maybe being the great athlete that he was is enough hey guys listen up you want volleyball became his passion and he thought he could make the Olympic team as a volleyball player he got involved in volleyball a couple years before he retired about three years before he beat mine and just sit that's it I think I can build volleyball and he became in the national volleyball president got beach volleyball off the record supporting women's track and such charities as Operation Smile will Chamberlain stayed in the public eye somebody wanted to do a commercial which talked about bigness who would you go to get you didn't go to get Kareem abdul-jabbar didn't go get bill wali that Wilt Chamberlain to show that he could get into a Volkswagen or whatever it was but then why are you driving around because it has more hair from the my Rolls Royce will was pretty selective in what products he endorsed best commercial he ever did was standing back-to-back with Willie shoemaker for a credit card it was a wonderful image he perhaps wanted to prove that seven-foot guy who was seen just as a basketball player was more than able to do a lot of other things maybe that's why he did movies he was just an incredible physical specimen and then I remember seeing him at a Lakers playoff game in the mid 80s and he had a black tank top what a specimen I mean even like a municipal statue well wilt seem to stay young an old foe was closing in on a record that had seemed unreachable when he retired in 1984 Kareem abdul-jabbar eclipsed Chamberlain's mark to become the NBA's all-time leading scorer it renewed the divide in the often on relationship that began in the 1960s when Kareem then Lew Alcindor was a teenager they were very tight he took them to the finest restaurants just get him used to what life is really gonna be he would lend me some of his jazz albums a couple times I went by his apartment on Central Park West and returned his albums I've known Kareem since 1965 Lew always a really admired Wilton will cave Lew a hard time because there was the heir to the throne when you're an athlete and you're finished and then you begin to recede in time and other people's minds not yours and so the headlines in the papers no longer say wilt now they say Jabbar history hasn't been that kind to wilt even though we set all sorts of records that took Greene forever to break we'll presented that as well he didn't think green was the all-around player and he let people know what did he do that was better than you and the fastest of the game you have do you score a better than idea the rebound bad leather he passed better than I did the run better than I did did he you know it's hard for me to figure out if Chamberlain's scoring record was overtaken by abdul-jabbar wilt went one better in his 1991 book a view from above the lifelong bachelor claimed statistical superiority in another activity I said there is no way in hell you could have slept with 20,000 women I said because there were too many nights that I saw you going back to your room with only a bag of McDonald's anybody who thinks that numbers don't mean anything to will chamber and all he had to do was to read that book somehow I think that he felt that validated him you got a call from a woman who Chloe wanted to come up and see him he said well I got a mean one on here right now can't make it besides I've had you if you got a girlfriend we'll talk about did wilt know a lot of women of course he did Bachelor living in LA being a star the publisher said you know we need to do something to really have this book jump out after all was said and done he was embarrassed that he allowed that to come out wilts defense of that is to say that it's harder to make love to the same woman a thousand times as to make a once to a thousand different women that's part of that same page in his book people ignored that to just zero in on the twenty thousand this revelation came along at a time when promiscuity was suddenly not the coolest thing to admit to because magic Johnson had just been diagnosed and at the same time he thought you know what if a woman admitted to that she would call the [ __ ] he didn't want to be tied down to one relationship he knew he wanted to travel he wanted a freer life and he lived the life he wanted to do my theory is that there are four really important numbers in world Chamberlain's life zero for the number of times he fouled out fifty for the number of points he averaged during one full season a hundred for the number of points you scored in one single game and twenty thousand for the number that will never be forgotten you in January 1998 in his first official visit to the University of Kansas since leaving the school some four decades earlier Wilt Chamberlain had his college number retired he said that he had kind of always felt like maybe the kayuu people blamed him for losing the national championship game to North Carolina in 1957 and the response that he got that day I think eliminated any feeling of that in his mind I've learned over the years that she must learn you take the bitter with the sweet how sweet is it and I'm now very much a part of it by being there and very proud of Raj Shah plagued by heart problems for years the Big Dipper will Chamberlain succumbed in October of 1999 I know when I saw him Saturday I knew that he would not need much longer he looked that bad that Tuesday I got a call one o'clock and it's with great sadness that we announced the death will Chamberlain Chamberlin was 63 years old when I got the phone call the will to died I felt like a kick to the stomach not only that I didn't want to believe it but I couldn't believe it I thought wilt was indestructible it was like Superman dying that's enough it's impossible dippy was so B we all thought he was gonna live forever more than 1300 mourners attended memorial services in Philadelphia and Los Angeles I'm unspeakably injured by what happened the last few days this was in Africa part of my life and a good friend lately we used to call each other and the message I would leave Wilton Norman Chamberlain this is William Felton Russell he used to call me and where I was home we'd say Felton this is Norman I think the people who attended kind of appreciated the way the service was done because it depicted him not so much as a basketball player but as a human being he was so busy doing I'm not surprised he had a tired heart he gave so much of it to us the bulk of his estate 90% or so is going to be distributed to charities that would be in line with his beliefs that's the way he always wanted you know when you come from an environment where children you know don't get unless somebody gives them a start it's easy to to take your mind and do that he always resented being regarded as a freak one-dimensional whether that one dimension is height black basketball score celebrity there's a side that bothers me that people don't know the gentle man off the court the caring man I would never want to be will changing there was no place to hide every few years Wilt Chamberlain would suggest in interviews that he could still play in the NBA the New Jersey Nets offered him about 360 thousand dollars for the final few games of the 86 season Chamberlain had been retired for 13 years and here was someone else agreeing with him that yes Wilt still at game for sports century I'm Chris Fowler

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Length: 42min 32sec (2552 seconds)

Published: Mon Oct 14 2013