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He is the toughest ruler in basketball history, and the energy he has shown on the offensive end has shocked the past. You can resort to two-person pockets, three-person pockets, and even shameless foul tactics. In short, when you've done every trick you think will stop Chamberlain's advance, you'll usually be desperate to find that the monster can still pick up points or rebounds at will.
Yes, all time, this is Chamberlain's most memorable heirloom, he is the only NBA player to score 4,000 points in a single season, he holds the league's single-game scoring record, consecutive scoring record (18) and single-game rebounding record (55). And in this appalling resume, the most terrifying thing is the Martian stats he created in the 61-62 superman season to average 50.4 points per game.
To prove he wasn't a selfish player, Chamberlain even overshadowed the league's total assist king in the 67-68 season.
In order to weaken its excessively powerful dominance, the league had to develop and modify a number of rules for Chamberlain, including expanding the three-second zone, introducing the concept of offensive interference balls, and some strict judgments when making free throws, etc. Before the rules, Chamberlain often jumped and dunked directly at the free throw.
Enough is enough, there is no second person in the history of the NBA who can create so many miracles and have such a huge and direct influence and constraint on the sport. It is hard to imagine what kind of alien guest Chamberlain would have evolved into an alien visitor with such modern and systematic training, equipment, etc. today. In fact, Chamberlain was already much taller and more powerful than any of his contemporaries, and he was a nationally recognized multi-sports genius in high school and college, with a perfect body of 2 meters 16 and 136 kilograms. If you flip through the photos of Chamberlain in high school, you'll see that he was a slim, nimble giant by then.
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Born in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Wilt Chamberlain was the ninth child in his family, a frail child who dropped out of school for a year because of pneumonia that was life-threatening. In his early years, Chamberlain didn't like basketball because he thought it was "a game for the faint of heart." Instead, he was an avid track and field athlete: as a young man, he scored 1.98 meters in the high jump and ran 49 seconds in the 400 meters. Chamberlain was a tall kid, 10 years old had measured to 1.82 meters.
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In the third year of high school, Chamberlain led his alma mater to play 19-2, 19-0 and 18-1 perverted win rates from the 1952-53 season, in order to give full play to Chamberlain's basket advantage, his coach even asked the players to practice the special move of not scoring free throws, so that Chamberlain could grab offensive rebounds and create more points. During that youthful period, Chamberlain left behind a team-high record of 2206 points and a single-game scoring stat of 90, 74 and 71 points. In his first year, he averaged 44.5 points per game, and in that 90-point game, 60 points came from 12 minutes in the second half.
In 1955, Chamberlain, who had already shocked the United States, announced that he would play for the University of Kansas basketball team. However, due to the NCAA's rule that freshmen were not allowed to participate directly in the varsity team, Chamberlain had to temporarily commit to the first-year rookie team.
On December 3, 1956, he ushered in his NCAA debut, immediately broke the school record with 52 points, led his alma mater to a 97:69 victory over Northwestern University, and was out of control, passing the level to break into the championship game, although he finally experienced three overtime, a one-point difference and lost to the powerful North Carolina, but the outstanding Chamberlain still won the season mop. He even showed his super athletic ability in the National Athletics Competition, setting a new stoop high jump record at 1.97 meters.
In May 1958, Chamberlain, feeling that college basketball was no longer challenging, decided to join the NBA, but was forced to stay for a year due to the league's regulations. Bored, in the 58-59 season, Chamberlain signed the famous Harlem basketball team for an astronomical $50,000 to tour.
After much trouble, in the 59-60 season, Chamberlain finally put on the uniform of a professional player, and the entire basketball circle is looking forward to a new monarch to come to the NBA. Chamberlain didn't disappoint them, scoring 43 points and 28 rebounds in his first game against the Knicks. It was a perfect and legendary rookie season, and Chamberlain won the best rookie, all-star MVP and regular season MVP awards and was named to the Best Team with a brilliant single of 37.6 points and 27 rebounds per game.
In the 1960 playoffs, the young Samurai encountered the powerful Celtics early, russell and Chamberlain, a lifelong nemesis, began to enter each other's lives, and in the following decades, they met eight times in the playoffs, playing the most magnificent giant duel in basketball history. Sadly, chamberlain only once from start to finish was to really knock out Russell. Just like their meeting this time, Chamberlain scored more than Russell by 81 points in the entire series, but Boston still won the victory.
In fact, during Chamberlain's ravaged rookie season and several seasons that followed, his opponents never found an effective way to contain him. Heinthorne, a Celtic all-star forward who later became coach and announcer, admitted afterwards that Boston was the first team in the league to offer to rely on team defense to limit Chamberlain.
Despite his incredibly strong physique, Chamberlain has never been a rough-mannered player, he knows how to control his strength and emotions, and he will not easily fall into unnecessary disputes. A surprising statistic illustrates the problem, with Chamberlain never been sent off in his 14-year career and more than 1,200 games.
In the 60-61 season, Chamberlain repeated the bravery of his rookie year, averaging 38.4 points and 27.2 rebounds per game. Another year later, this already terrifying report card ushered in a great leap forward, climbing to the height of 50.4 points, making him the only NBA player to score more than 4,000 points in a single season. On March 2, 1962, Chamberlain set another record that was destined to be forever sealed. He scored a full 100 points in a scoring game against the New York Knicks. The most incredible thing is that Zhang Buren's consistently poor free throws even have a magical shooting rate of 28 of 32 free throws, you know, he gained only a pitiful 50.6% at the free throw line that season.
In 1962, Chamberlain moved with the team to San Francisco, where he easily won the scoring championship in both 62-63 and 63-64 seasons. In contrast, in 1964, the Warriors struggled to reach the Finals, but were beaten back to their original form by the Celtics. The Warriors gradually lost patience with Chamberlain, and finally two days after the end of the 1965 All-Star, Chamberlain was swapped back to his hometown to join the Philadelphia 76ers. When Chamberlain joined the team, the 76ers were just a mediocre division with a 50% win rate, but a year later they won the league's highest 55-25. Hatefully, Boston once again rejected their request to move on in the Eastern Conference Finals.
In the first seven years of his career, Chamberlain dominated the entire scoring title, averaging 39.4 points per game, and it was only 20 years before Jordan tied the record with an identical seven-star streak.
In the 67-68 season, Chamberlain was selected to the Best Team for the seventh time in his career and was named MVP for the fourth time. In the Eastern Conference Finals that year, Boston beat Philadelphia for the third time in four years, everyone was bored, and soon, the league ushered in a big deal, and the Los Angeles Lakers paid Jerry Chambers, Archie Clark and Imanhoff, and they got Chamberlain.
Chamberlain spent the last 5 years of his career in the City of Angels, with the Lakers reaching the Finals four times. The most memorable of the youth history is naturally the great 71-72 season, where Chamberlain scored only 14.8 points, but his overall contribution to the team reached another level: he was elected the rebounding king with 19.2 rebounds; he entered the all-defensive team at the age of 35. Chamberlain really tasted the sweetness of teamwork, the Lakers in the incomparable unity and smooth operation, played a 33-game winning streak that has made future generations look forward to the peak, and created a super perfect record of 69 wins and 13 losses, which is the third win rate in the history of the NBA. In the end, the Lakers successfully entered the finals, and Chamberlain also wore a second championship ring.
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In the 72-73 season, Chamberlain officially retired. Like many professional players, Zhang Bolun also became a coach for a year after retiring. The San Diego wanted Chamberlain to be a player-coach like Russell, and Chamberlain himself agreed, but the league's terms and conditions once again swept him away. In 1984, Chamberlain starred in the Hollywood film Conan the Barbarian. After that, volleyball, tennis, marathons, and water polo are all good companions for spending time. With endless energy and unwilling to be lonely, he even almost crossed paths with the world's heavyweight boxing king Ali, but unfortunately he could not do it.
There has been a lot of news about him, and after many years of retirement, Chamberlain has been living in the center of the spotlight until his 50th birthday, and there are NBA teams that want to ask him out of the mountains as a backup center for five to 15 to 20 minutes per game. He also published several books, eagerly studied fine arts, and earned his bachelor's degree. In 1978, Chamberlain was first inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame and in 1996 was named to the Top 50 Superstars.
Take a break and talk about something else. In 1991, Chamberlain wrote his second autobiography, Overlook. In that book, the man who had beaten bare sticks all his life claimed to have slept with twenty thousand women. That meant that from the age of 15, he began to sleep with 1.2 women every day. Even Chamberlain himself admitted: "I was surprised by the figure of 20,000 women, as incredible as a 100 points in a single game." ”
Of course, this is most likely an imaginary number, but it shows Chamberlain's lifestyle and attitude.
On October 12, 1999, Chamberlain died of a heart attack at home at the age of 63. At that time, he had no relatives by his side except the nurse who took care of him. As you can imagine, what a deserted scene this is. And none of his 20,000 women were by his side, and left him with only two rings and data.
Chamberlain left this world in solitude, like that night in 1962, even though he scored 100 points, no one spoke to him in midfield. Yesterday, the 2022 All-Star Game began, and the award ceremony of the 75 biggest stars in history was also held during the period, and the major centers came to visit, but the most brilliant star was long gone