Wilt Chamberlin, 7 foot 1, center from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was one of the greatest basketball players of all time. Chamberlain still holds records in the NBA, like when he scored 100 points in a single game, and he also hold records for rebounding. He was also the Most Valuable Player (MVP) two times while he was in the NBA. He has been in thirteen all star games and ten all NBA first and second teams. Chamberlain was named by the NBA as one of the 50 greatest players in 1996.
When Chamberlain was young, he didn’t like basketball that much. He was into track and fields events like the high jump and things like that. When he was younger he uses to say that basketball was a sport for sissies because he wasn’t interested in basketball as a child. When Chamberlain came to high school, he started liking the sport because he was taller than everybody and it was hard for them to stop him. When he first came to high school Chamberlain was already 6 feet 11 inches.
In 1953 when Chamberlain first stared playing basketball for Overbrook High School, he averaged 31 points a game. In his second season he scored 71 points in a high school game. They also won the public league title that year and they went undefeated that year 19-0. During that summer Chamberlain got a job at the Jewish hotel name Kutsher’s. One day Chamberlain met Red Auerbach, the coach of the Boston Celtics who told Chamberlain to play B.H. Born, the MVP of the 1954 NCAA Final. Chamberlain beat him 25-10. Born then said that he didn’t want to go the NBA because he couldn’t beat a high school student.
In 1955 Chamberlain joined the Kansas Jayhawks. He went to racist places and sat down and ate. The people got so use to him that they just didn’t mess with him no more; they just let him sit in the restaurants and didn’t say anything to him. One day at practice, the freshmen had to play the rest of the team and Chamberlain scored 52 points. At the time Chamberlain was playing under Allen, the starter for Kansas at the time. After that game Chamberlain started over Allen, and later Allen retired because he saw that he wasn’t going to play that much.
After the three years at Kansas he left early trying to go to NBA, but the NBA wouldn’t accept him until he finished his last year in college. Chamberlain instead decided to join the Harlem Globetrotters. On October 24, 1959 he was drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors, becoming the best paid player in the league earning $30,000 in his rookie season. In his first game Chamberlain scored 43 points and brought down 28 rebounds. In his first season he averaged 37.6 points a game and 27 rebounds; that year he won both the rookie of the year and MVP, as well as he won the MVP of the all-star game. Later on in Chamberlain’s career he was traded to the 76ers and to the Lakers. And then later retired and became a player coach and was getting paid $600,000 dollars for that.
Wilt Chamberlain will always be one of the greatest players to play the game of basketball. He still holds records right now that is almost impossible to beat. Even if someone breaks his records, I think that he will still be one of the greatest players who ever played the game. There hasn’t been I single player who held records as long as he has, and there has not been another big man who has accomplishes more on the basketball court.
When Chamberlain was young, he didn’t like basketball that much. He was into track and fields events like the high jump and things like that. When he was younger he uses to say that basketball was a sport for sissies because he wasn’t interested in basketball as a child. When Chamberlain came to high school, he started liking the sport because he was taller than everybody and it was hard for them to stop him. When he first came to high school Chamberlain was already 6 feet 11 inches.
In 1953 when Chamberlain first stared playing basketball for Overbrook High School, he averaged 31 points a game. In his second season he scored 71 points in a high school game. They also won the public league title that year and they went undefeated that year 19-0. During that summer Chamberlain got a job at the Jewish hotel name Kutsher’s. One day Chamberlain met Red Auerbach, the coach of the Boston Celtics who told Chamberlain to play B.H. Born, the MVP of the 1954 NCAA Final. Chamberlain beat him 25-10. Born then said that he didn’t want to go the NBA because he couldn’t beat a high school student.
In 1955 Chamberlain joined the Kansas Jayhawks. He went to racist places and sat down and ate. The people got so use to him that they just didn’t mess with him no more; they just let him sit in the restaurants and didn’t say anything to him. One day at practice, the freshmen had to play the rest of the team and Chamberlain scored 52 points. At the time Chamberlain was playing under Allen, the starter for Kansas at the time. After that game Chamberlain started over Allen, and later Allen retired because he saw that he wasn’t going to play that much.
After the three years at Kansas he left early trying to go to NBA, but the NBA wouldn’t accept him until he finished his last year in college. Chamberlain instead decided to join the Harlem Globetrotters. On October 24, 1959 he was drafted by the Philadelphia Warriors, becoming the best paid player in the league earning $30,000 in his rookie season. In his first game Chamberlain scored 43 points and brought down 28 rebounds. In his first season he averaged 37.6 points a game and 27 rebounds; that year he won both the rookie of the year and MVP, as well as he won the MVP of the all-star game. Later on in Chamberlain’s career he was traded to the 76ers and to the Lakers. And then later retired and became a player coach and was getting paid $600,000 dollars for that.
Wilt Chamberlain will always be one of the greatest players to play the game of basketball. He still holds records right now that is almost impossible to beat. Even if someone breaks his records, I think that he will still be one of the greatest players who ever played the game. There hasn’t been I single player who held records as long as he has, and there has not been another big man who has accomplishes more on the basketball court.
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