Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American basketball player who played as a center. He played for the PhiladelphiaSan Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He is the only player in NBA history to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game in a season, which he accomplished seven times. After his professional basketball career, Chamberlain played volleyball in the short-lived International Volleyball Association, was president of that organization, and is enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his contributions.
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Wilton Norman Chamberlain was an American basketball player who played as a center. He played for the PhiladelphiaSan Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association. He is the only player in NBA history to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds per game in a season, which he accomplished seven times. After his professional basketball career, Chamberlain played volleyball in the short-lived International Volleyball Association, was president of that organization, and is enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his contributions. He was a successful businessman, authored several books, and appeared in the movie Conan the Destroyer. He became notorious for his claim of having had sexual relations with as many as 20,000 women. Chamberlain was born in 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, into a family of nine children, the son of Olivia Ruth Johnson, a domestic worker and homemaker, and William Chamberlain, a welder, custodian, and handyman. He stood 7 ft 1 in tall, and weighed 250 pounds as a rookie before bulking up to 275 and eventually to over 300 pounds with the Lakers. As the star player for the Overbrook Panthers, Chamberlain averaged 31 points a game during the 1953 high school season and led his team to a 71–62 win over the Northeast High School team. In his high school record game, he tallied a 71 points against West Catholic Catholic league, West Catholic, despite the center’s 29 points and despite the game’s entire game, the Panthers lost 54–42.
He continued his prolific scoring when he scored 34 points against the Roxborough Roxborough High School in his second season of high school. At age 10 he was already measuring 6 ft 0 in at age 10 and 6 ft 11 in when he entered Philadelphia’s Overbrook High School. He soon was renowned for his scoring talent, his physical strength and his shot blocking abilities. As a youth, he high jumped 6 feet, 6 inches; ran the 440 yards in 49. 0 seconds and the 880 yards in 1: 58. 3; put the shot 53 feet,. 4 inches, and long jumped 22 feet. He preferred the nicknames \”The Big Dipper\”, which was inspired by his friends who saw him dip his head as he walked through doorways. He hated the ones that called attention to his height, such as \”Goliath\” and \”Wilt the Stilt\”, and his favorite, ‘The Big Stilt’ He was inducted into the NBA’s 35th Anniversary Team of 1980. In 1996 he was chosen as one of the 50 Greatest Players in NBA History. He won seven scoring, eleven rebounding, and nine field goal percentage titles and led the league in assists once. Chamberlain won two NBA championships, earning four regular-season Most Valuable Player awards, the Rookie of the Year award, one NBA Finals MVP award, and was selected to 13 All-Star Games and ten All-NBA First and Second teams.
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