But I'm sure he wouldn't keep this up in the remaining 78 games. Wilton Norman Chamberlain (Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper, Dippy, Dip, The Load, Big Musty, The Record Book, Hook and Ladder, Wiltie, Whip, Whipper) Position: Center Shoots: Right More bio, uniform, draft, salary info Hall of Fame 13x All Star 7x Scoring Champ 11x TRB Champ 1967-68 AST Champ 2x NBA Champ 10x All-NBA 1959-60 AS MVP 4x MVP So many more shots meant so many more rebounds, especially when combined with factor no. The following season, however, Russell again triumphed, as Wilt, perhaps bored with passing, failed to take a shot in the second half of the deciding game. Plenty of records are falling this NBA season, but this feat wont. When Wilt grabbed a record 55 rebounds in one game against Russell, the Celtics still won. I always knew Wilt blocked more shots than Russell. A newspaper won't report it if they had like 2 blocks in the game. Every Sports Reference Social Media Account, Site Last Updated: Saturday, March 4, 4:50AM. Wilt Chamberlain is the All-Time leader in rebounds. For more information, please see our And what about sickness? A year later he joined his hometown Philadelphia Warriors in the National Basketball Association. A lot of Chamberlain's records will be difficult to break. Kevin Durant, Kyrie Irving, Karl-Anthony Towns, Kawhi Leonard, Anthony Davis and Brandon Ingram will play outsized roles in how their respective teams close the season. According to close friends, Wilt loved threesomes. From 1956 to 1969, only twice did they fail to clinch a championship 1958 and 1967. Learn more on Basketball-Reference.com. But it is believed that Chamberlain achieved a quintuple-double in that game. His skills revolutionised the game, yet his own prowess seemed to bore him, and he played best answering internal challenges. You can change your choices at any time by clicking on the 'Privacy dashboard' links on our sites and apps. But it is believed that Chamberlain achieved a quintuple-double in that game. Thats more than there have been total 30-rebound games from every NBA player combined since he retired. He especially disliked his nickname "Wilt the Stilt", because it implied he had nothing to offer but his height. Accounting for pace yields a massive differenceabout an extra 40 rebounds every game for teams in the 1960s to chase. He looks Hakeem level at it in the clips I've seen which isn't surprising as Hakeem is the closest modern player to Russell defensively. Ultimately, while Drummond might expect to be on the court for about 60 rebound opportunities in the average 2019 game, his half-century-ago predecessor would have expected to be on court for about 110. Because of the lack of comprehensive play-by-play data for most of Wilts career, we have exact rebounding percentages for only the final three seasons of his career. But he possessed the coordination of a much smaller man. He also came under fire in African-American circles for promoting Black racial stereotypes. We have tools and resources that can help you use sports data. The seven-foot-one . The reality is there are only four real contenders. Uh, what? Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. The publicity turned the book into a bestseller. Or write about sports? In Wilts final 40-rebound gamethe one celebrating its 50th anniversaryhis rebounding percentage was just 28 percent, as he benefited from playing all 53 minutes in a fast-paced overtime duel. This performance played a big role in how he's perceived by fans to this day. In his legendary career, Chamberlain scored 31,419 points, including the unbelievable time he actually scored 100 points in one game. By accepting all cookies, you agree to our use of cookies to deliver and maintain our services and site, improve the quality of Reddit, personalize Reddit content and advertising, and measure the effectiveness of advertising. Boston's Russell, at 6ft 9ins, was a consummate competitor, who recognised that Chamberlain lacked the killer instinct. In both categories, Jason Kidd ranks second to Stockton with 12,091assistsand 2,684 steals. In the case of the remaining 10%, thoserecords are unbreakable. The fact that he said 20,000 different women also leaves little time for repeats, or love. The streak is part of Green's 1,278-game career that lasted 16seasons withfourfranchises Los Angeles Lakers, Phoenix Suns, Dallas Mavericks, and the Miami Heat. That puts Wilt at 7'4". On one it says "Blocked 9 shots and nicked at least a dozen more" and it's just tallied as 21 blocks. So if Wilt (or anyone else from that era) wear's Dwight Howard's shoes, add 2" (two inches). If you do not want us and our partners to use cookies and personal data for these additional purposes, click 'Reject all'. (Not impressive at all!). Drummond himself has done it 11 times. He scored 23 points in the first quarter and had 41 by halftime, then tallied 28 in the third quarter, when the fans began to chant, "Give It To Wilt! Chamberlain tallied 25 separate 30-rebound games in his rookie season. But his playoff averages significantly dropped. 1 that suggests Drummond would struggle to challenge Chamberlains total is that teams in 2019 dont take enough shots. . To believe that any of 2023's neo-contenders can become bonafide champs over the next few months is to believe that a once-in-a-quarter-century occurrence is about to transpire. That works out to roughly 1.4 women a day. He won one more championship, with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972. Wilt would have encountered even more, given his workload. FTA complete back to 1948-49. That Wilt Chamberlain passed away in 1999 without ever marrying is understandable. Russell Westbrook has made the triple-double look easy. It is unlikely that a player will ever record another quintuple-double. Chamberlain played for three teams in his career. Before Chamberlain, basketball's lumbering giants mostly set immobile screens for more skilled shooters. Head to Head: Wilt Chamberlain vs. Bill Russell. "The key is being able to stop him once or twice when you need to.". Please logout and login again. His lack of foul shooting ability was notorious, as if he refused to take advantage of the inevitability of being hacked by lesser mortals. Is Golden State a sleeping giant? Or, at least he was extraordinary in a different way. Chamberlain finally bested his nemesis in 1967, when his Philadelphia 76ers put together a remarkably strong team, and he was persuaded to pass the ball more. However, it's highly unlikely that this record will be broken simply because of a rule change that was enforced in 2006. Tools and Resources Used by Real General Managers. His NBA years: from 1960 to 1973 Wilt Chamberlain NBA Stats Summary: Career Averages Wilt Chamberlain Full Stats by Year : Per Game: Regular Season Stats Playoffs Stats But most incredibly, even with those reported 20,000 sexual liaisons, Chamberlain is not known to have contracted any serious sexually transmitted diseases. At the end of a 19-year NBA career, John Stockton amassed an NBA record 15,806 assists and 3,265 steals. Given the taxing weighton every player for a single game with travel, media commitments and so on, it doesn't seem likely that this record of 33 straight wins will ever be bettered. However, CP3is 35 years old and is heading into his 16th season. In recent times, only a handful of playersplay all 82 games each season, let alone multiple consecutive seasons. The owner of Wilt Chamberlain Archieve channell, don't remember his realgm nname, has large sample size of data about this. Reggie Jackson is amazing and a killer in the clutch that's all. Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic both had 40-point games after the Sixers loss against the Mavs. Chamberlain attempted nearly 40 field goals and shot 17 free throws per game. In sports, and possibly even in life, that's true in about 90% of all instances. In his nine-year career, the . He also made 13 All-Star appearances, 10 All-NBA Teams, and won seven scoring titles. Whats different about the Sixers this year? Mal, Jo, and Ben get together to talk about where the Mandalorian people are, what adventure awaits Din and Grogu, and much more. According to statisticians,. At least his totals stand alone, a numerical testament to the unassailable mix of right player, right time, and right place. Regular season: PTS, FG, FT, 3P complete all-time. Reddit and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to provide you with a better experience. 1 and 2. Every guy in human history has been turned down by a woman at some point. Who could be a value signing? In leading the Warriors to a169-147 victory, Chamberlain broke his own single-game scoring record of 78 points set on Dec. 8, 1961, against the Los Angeles Lakers, a game that included multiple overtime periods. He averaged 30.1 points, 22.9 rebounds and 4.4 assists in 1,045 regular-season games. 4. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979. As for his nemesis Bill Russell, in 1961, the man with 11 rings pulled off one of the most shocking quadruple doubles ever and it was against Wilt: 15 points, 25 rebounds, 13 blocks and 15 stealsnot assists but steals. We will take a closer look at his remarkable quintuple-double performance and the myths surrounding the record. Monta Ellis in 2010-11 is the last player to exceed 40 minutes per game over the course of a season, and no big man has done so since Kevin Garnett in 2002-03. https://twitter.com/bullsmanguy/status/1379037281479139334, https://twitter.com/bullsmanguy/status/1379037314924474370, https://twitter.com/bullsmanguy/status/1379037346641813505, https://twitter.com/bullsmanguy/status/1379037380640841738. He also claimed he never fathered a child, but Aaron Levi has some strong evidence that Wilt was his dad. Great find. There are caveats, of course: Wilts rebounding percentages would have improved if he hadnt had to pace himself for 48 minutes, and he wouldve grabbed even more rebounds had the court been dominated by guards and wings instead of fellow bigs who he had to fight for boards. But not historically so, or even particularly notable next to totals from this decade. Re: All known blocked shot data of Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain. Chamberlain routinely went off for 50or 60 points throughout his career, but this one felt different, especially when the crowd got behind the chase for 100. Weve ranked them, from 1 to 100. Rules were changed to help teams cope with Wilt's skills; the same thing would happen when he turned professional. Off the court, he embodied Hugh Hefner's 60s "Playboy philosophy"; a hipster who owned a popular jazz club, Smalls, he made no bones about romancing women of all races. Most people use statistics like a drunk man uses a lamppost; more for support than illumination, Andrew Lang. When he retired following the 1972-73 season, it was 128 times. The difference in shooting percentage between 1961 and 2019 would lead to about 8-10 extra rebounds per night in a single game, even before accounting for the former seasons heightened pace. He would spit downward and reply: "It's raining". Since the official NBA record for steals is 11, that means Russell's unknown quadruple-double also contains an unknown NBA record. Coaches and front offices understand the importance of rest much better than they did a half-century ago. "The inside scoop was he was hungover," said Darrall Imhoff(via the Los Angeles Times), the man who took Jordon's spot in the starting lineup. He won the Rookie of the Year award, 4 MVP awards, 1 Finals MVP award and 2 NBA championships. Both had different ideas as to what Wilt's role should be on the team. All those extra shots often missed, and they often found their way into Chamberlains giant paws. ", I have Bird #19 and Kobe #20 on my all-time list and both guys will probably get passed by Jokic by the end of this season, Jonathan Isaac Out For Season Following Adductor Surgery, Norm Powell To Be Re-Evaluated In One Week Due To Shoulder Injury, Bucks Emerge As Favorites For Goran Dragic, Stephen Curry Targeting Return From Leg Injury Sunday At Lakers, The Lottery Pick Gleam Still On Kris Dunn, The 2023 Title Contenders Are Already Here, Six Biggest X-Factors After The All-Star Break, Ty Lue Says Clippers Need 'To Be Tougher', Spurs Claim And Convert Sandro Mamukelashvili, Waive Isaiah Roby, Thunder Sign Jared Butler To Two-Way Contract. Keep in mind, a bulk of these games are from the later rounds of the playoffs. Recalling the difficulty of adjusting to his height, he remembered people asking him interminably: "How's the weather up there". He averaged over 50 points per game for an entire season. Thats 37 percent. As he blocked 15 shots and grabbed 11 rebounds in the 2nd half alone. The Creed Franchise Has Stepped Out of Rockys Shadow at Last, With Sylvester Stallone removed from the equation, Creed III is the sternest test yet of Adonis Creeds appealand a new challenge for first-time director Michael B. Jordan, The Clock Is Already Ticking for Kyrie Irving and the Mavs, Dallas now has a costar alongside Luka Doncic but has precious little time to make it all work. He began the 1968-69 season with the New York Knicks, for whom he played out the first 35 games of the campaignbefore getting dealt with the Detroit PistonsforDave DeBusschere. Thats good! A quintuple-double means a player recorded at least 10 points, 10 rebounds, 10 assists, 10 steals, and 10 blocks in a game. He was acquired by the Philadelphia 76ers midway through the 1964-65 season. With the way the game is played today, it will be tough for anyone to come close to that record. He would have a lot more steals if every opposing big took the challenge of playing him 1 on 1 as Kareem does here: https://twitter.com/bullsmanguy/status/1379037412291084288, https://twitter.com/bullsmanguy/status/1379037446818594825. This data along with some other defensive data of 72 Wilt and Nba archives footage that I have seen of him throughout that legendary season. 2023 Minute Media - All Rights Reserved. He had been hospitalised with an irregular heartbeat in 1992, and was awaiting a pacemaker before undergoing hip-replacement surgery. Drummond hit that mark in a game this season. Todays stats are just an estimation just as they were in the 60s. For much of this Celtics' dynasty, the leaguehad aroundeight teams. Rasheed Wallace, while with the Portland Trail Blazers in the 2000-01 season,set the NBA record for most technicals fouls in a single season with 41. Cousy, Jones, Young to stud Havlicek, Heinsohn for a run is an ATG cast imo I dont think its overrated at all. Sure but not as much.. Here is some official blocked shot data from other players of the Russell / Wilt era: The best BLK% of all time (actually since 73-74) is Bol with 10.8%. Lets zoom in on the three-season stretch from 1960-61 to 1962-63, when he produced the best rebounding numbers of his career and also played in 99 percent of all possible minutes. It would be like saying Michael Jordan averaged 40 PPG because of newspaper headlines that only pointed out his great games. Chamberlain won two NBA championships, four NBA MVPs, and an NBA Finals MVP (1972). He never fouled out of a game, ever. 14 assists and one steal in 28 minutes. Jordan did it three times. Ive examined all of Wilt's footage that is available to the general public at the moment and collected data as well as numerous clips that showcase what I believe to be a very underrated aspect of his game on the defensive end. At the end of a 19-year NBA career, John Stockton amassed an NBA record 15,806 assists and 3,265 . Recorded the Only Double Triple Double In NBA History His dominance was such that nearly every scoring or rebounding recordof hiswould remainuntouched. Who has the most points in a half in NBA history? According to legend, he was intimate with 23 different women on one 10-day road trip. Chamberlain finished with 100 points on36-of-63 shooting from the field (57.1 percent) and 28-of-32 shooting from the free throw line (87.5 percent). Copyright 2023 Sporting News Holdings Limited. Heck, Chamberlain might have posted a 100-point triple-double. Or, view "Trailers" for Season Field Goal Pct, or Career . Chamberlain spent the last five seasons of his career with the LA Lakers from 1968-1973. Thats a stark departure from more ancient NBA history, and from Wilt especially. He also holds the record for most points in a single game (aiming for a double-double), with 50. Moderators: trex_8063, Doctor MJ, PaulieWal, Quotatious, Clyde Frazier, penbeast0, Post#1 by coastalmarker99 Tue Apr 6, 2021 1:46 am, Post#2 by coastalmarker99 Tue Apr 6, 2021 1:53 am, Post#3 by penbeast0 Tue Apr 6, 2021 5:50 am, Post#4 by coastalmarker99 Tue Apr 6, 2021 10:11 am, Post#5 by penbeast0 Tue Apr 6, 2021 11:05 am, Post#6 by ty 4191 Tue Apr 6, 2021 10:28 pm, Post#7 by feyki Wed Apr 7, 2021 9:15 am, Post#8 by 70sFan Wed Apr 7, 2021 9:38 am, Post#9 by feyki Wed Apr 7, 2021 9:45 am, Post#10 by BullsFan45 Wed Apr 7, 2021 10:44 am, Post#11 by DCasey91 Wed Apr 7, 2021 10:55 am, Post#12 by 70sFan Wed Apr 7, 2021 10:57 am. Not 98 points, not 102, but a nice, round 100 an imposing record set by a most imposing player. All rights reserved. And what about turndowns? Wilt Chamberlain, 7ft 2ins tall and 23 stone, was forced to play that role all his life. His basketball battles against his own personal . Wilt Chamberlain wasnt just a scoring champion. I remember reading that someone kept a tally of Chamberlain's blocks one game, and he ended up with 26. The reasons for their failure may have been inherent to the whole project. My friend thinks if they kept track of blocks, Wilt would have been the triple-double leader of the NBA by a wide margin to boot. After his retirement he dabbled with coaching, and took up volleyball, becoming a legend on the California beaches and playing professionally briefly in his late 40s. Something went wrong. How many 40 point games has James Harden had? Our reasoning for presenting offensive logos. The Alabama passer is one of the smallest QB prospects to be pegged as a first-round pick. According to statisticians, Chamberlain dropped 53 points, 32 rebounds, 14 assists, 24 blocks, and 11 steals in a game against the LA Lakers. As of the All-Star break, there had been 60 quarters in the past three seasons in which a player tallied 10 or more rebounds. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. Hassan Whiteside did it four. We present them here for purely educational purposes. Chamberlain is reportedly the only player in NBA history to record a quintuple-double. Wilt was also a lifelong insomniac, sometimes just not sleeping at all. So why are rebounds seemingly immune to other sorts of statistical inflation? 1y. The rollicking "Naatu Naatu" is a musical performance that moves the story forward, making it more integral to the film than some competitors songs are. Wed 13 Oct 1999 21.45 EDT. Lakers Forward Was the Steal of the Trade Deadline. Coach Bill Sharman, a former Celtic, challenged Wilt to play "like Russell" for a season. If Chamberlain started having sex at the age of 15, from then up to the age of 55 (when the book was published) he would have had 40 years to sleep with 20,000 women, or 500 different women a yeareasy math. Join us for a March Madness Webinar on Tuesday, March 7 at 8pm ET. Born in Philadelphia, one of 10 children, Wilt began attracting attention after growing five inches the summer he entered high school. Since it's inception in 1947, the NBA has witnessed plenty of such records. James Harden cant stop climbing historical leaderboards. Give It To Wilt!". Hakeem Olajuwon once recorded a quadruple-double. He topped the rebounding leaderboards, too, and took the league's crown in 11 of his 14 seasons, often averaging by himself what an entire. "Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA," Auerbach said. Klay Thompson set a record by sinking 14 3s in a game, just two years after teammate Steph Curry set the record with 13. Season Points, Career Rebounds, Active Assists, Yearly Steals, Progressive Blocks. Cookie Notice He had also lost 50 pounds in the last month following oral surgery. The leagues pace seems hectic this season, as teams attempt nearly 89 shots per game, the highest mark in 30 years. Let alone the best depth too. He scored 100 points in a single game. So perhaps he made time for repeats after all. Wilt Chamberlain played 14 seasons for the Lakers, Warriors and 76ers. Maybe that tally isnt fair to Chamberlain, given that it comprises the end of his career rather than his peak. For Wilt to have this kind of % in the 61-62 season he would need to average 12 blks per game. Toward theend of the franchise's reign, the number of teams grew to 14. And considering he never had any children, I would suggest that he could have been infertile from an STD he caught early in his career. In 2018-19, 11 qualifying players boast a higher mark, and that group includes Embiid, who lauds Wilt as superior to Michael Jordan specifically because of records like these. But because of rest minutes, that kind of pace is simply unsustainable over a full game, or even just a half. Check out Wilt Chamberlain career offensive and defensive statistics (Per Game)including PPG, Rebounds, Assists, Steals and Blocks as part of WhatIfSports Free SimMatchup Basketball! NEW: Sample Searches for learning more about the power and flexibility of Stathead. We actually have enough data for him and Russell to know they both averaged 8-9 blocks per game. The 76ers came away with a 158128 win. That disparity leads to the final piece of Wilts rebounding puzzle. Chamberlains besting of Bill Russell on the boards wasnt just the most recent 40-rebound game; it was the last. To put that number in perspective, in the past decade, just four teams have taken 109 or more shots in a non-overtime game (and three of those four hit 109 exactly). Despite the backlash, Chamberlain never backed down from his claim. The reasons for their failure may have been inherent to the whole project. Even more than his 50.4 points per game, Chamberlains most unbreakable single-season record might be his minutes-per-game mark: 48.5 in 1961-62. Additionally, he did have a six-month schedule, for 14 seasons, of playing professional basketball. Do you have a sports website? Your login session has expired. Visit site . The NBA did not count steals and blocks at the time, so the record is unofficial. All my points are not only valid, but carry a level of weight that would sink a rubberized yellow plastic duck. He did it as a member of the Philadelphia 76ers on March 18, 1968. Chamberlain averaged 48.5 minutes per game. However, the Warriors also played 10 overtime periods that season, and Chamberlain logged 3,882 of a possible 3,890 minutes. The single-game record is 55, courtesy of Wilt in November 1960, which is so absurd from a modern vantage that it might as well be a million. As part of this record, the 1971-72 Lakers, which were led by legendary players likeWilt Chamberlain, Jerry West, and Gail Goodrich, won 16 straight games on the road also an NBA record. On March 18, 1968, Wilt Chamberlain allegedly put up a stat line of 53 points, 32 rebounds, 14 assists, 24 blocks, and 11 steals.
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