Coach Bill Sharman, a former Celtic, challenged Wilt to play "like Russell" for a season. It was Russell with around 3.5 steals and Wilt with 1.5 steals on around 100 games. Both had different ideas as to what Wilt's role should be on the team. 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. He had a reputation as having many partners. A typical regular season game with 0-2 blocks wouldn't get any mention of blocks at all. Lets contrast Wilts situation with that of Andre Drummond, whos averaged at least 13 rebounds per game every season since he was a rookie and led the league in three of the past four. His "finger-roll" earned him the nickname Big Dipper, which he preferred to Stilt. Copyright 2000-2023 Sports Reference LLC. 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. March 4, 2015, 4:00 PM. FTA complete back to 1948-49. Powered by phpBB Forum Software phpBB Limited. The NBA did not count steals and blocks at the time, so the record is unofficial. the official stats partner of the NBA, NHL and MLB. Chamberlain took a pass from Warriors guard Joe Ruklick, who played only eight minutes off the bench, and scored his final two points with 46 seconds left to the delight of the fans in attendance. Anthony Davis and Jusuf Nurkic posted quintuple-nickels (five each of points, rebounds, assists, steals, and blocks) just six weeks apart. Tools and Resources Used by Real General Managers. He was probably a virgin when he left high school." But Chamberlain's enduring legacy is his series of losses to the Boston Celtics. Use without license or authorization is expressly prohibited. All those extra shots often missed, and they often found their way into Chamberlains giant paws. Stay tuned for a possible Part 2 for more 'unbreakable NBA records'. Great find. The publicity turned the book into a bestseller. Wilt Chamberlain claimed that he slept with 20,000 women. It's not easy being Goliath. For his career Wilt averaged 30.1 points, 4.4 assists, and 22.9 rebounds. Coaches and front offices understand the importance of rest much better than they did a half-century ago. Additionally, he did have a six-month schedule, for 14 seasons, of playing professional basketball. Klay Thompson set a record by sinking 14 3s in a game, just two years after teammate Steph Curry set the record with 13. That's quite the margin between Nos. Chamberlain tallied 25 separate 30-rebound games in his rookie season. He won one more championship, with the Los Angeles Lakers in 1972. 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. Due to the schedules forboth teams, he went on to play the Pistons' remaining 53 games and ended up with 88. So in addition to the advantage prior-generation players had because of their eras pace, and in addition to the advantage prior-generation players had because of their eras field goal inaccuracies, prior-generation players were also allowed to play more. Meanwhile, feminists resented his blatant sexism for using women in such a manner. As in, final; complete; etched, essentially, with chisel in stone. ", 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. In the case of the remaining 10%, thoserecords are unbreakable. He would spit downward and reply: "It's raining". Russell Westbrook has made the triple-double look easy. Learn more on Basketball-Reference.com. At the end of a 19-year NBA career, John Stockton amassed an NBA record 15,806 assists and 3,265 . A year later he joined his hometown Philadelphia Warriors in the National Basketball Association. Basketball games are 48 minutes long; Wilt averaged more than 48 minutes per game for an entire season, playing every minute of every game, including extra time. Oops. For his career. Give Naatu Naatu Best Original Song. Nor was there ever a woman who came forward with an unplanned pregnancy or a paternity suit. Logos were compiled by the amazing SportsLogos.net. Nate Thurmond, who played with and against Chamberlain, stated that Wilt was "7'2" and 290 lbs that season" (In the Wilt Chamberlain Scouting Tool video). "Wilt Chamberlain had a great deal to do with the success of the NBA," Auerbach said. Pokes the ball from Kareem + steals Oscars pass attempt. Since it's inception in 1947, the NBA has witnessed plenty of such records. The highest active player on the both these charts is Chris Paul with 9,653 assists and 2,233 steals. Since the official NBA record for steals is 11, that means Russell's unknown quadruple-double also contains an unknown NBA record. If this is a representative sample, using the blocked shot numbers: "If I walk outside somebody might just hit me with their car, or say anything negative to me. In it, the basketball great claimed to have slept with 20,000 different women during his life. No team has averaged even 50 rebounds per game since 1977-78. Despite the backlash, Chamberlain never backed down from his claim. Kyrie Irving and Luka Doncic both had 40-point games after the Sixers loss against the Mavs. The seven-foot-one . For all records held by Chamberlain, click here. Chamberlain attempted nearly 40 field goals and shot 17 free throws per game. If this is true, he owns the NBA records for points, rebounds, blocks, AND steals. Those arent trivial totals; theyre the precise pace needed to reach 40 boards in a game. In addition to his accomplishments on the court, Chamberlain also authored four books. A newspaper won't report it if they had like 2 blocks in the game. The Warriors were playing a "home" game, but the team had to travel toHersheypark Arena. But the 42 boards he gobbled up 50 years ago Thursday in an overtime win over the Boston Celtics represent his most relevant rebounding feat viewed from todays context. Five things you didn't know about Wilt Chamberlain's 100-point game. These 'unbreakable' recordswere set in a time and under circumstances that can never be duplicated. So many more shots meant so many more rebounds, especially when combined with factor no. Whats different about the Sixers this year? Only one player has even eclipsed the 80-point threshold since Chamberlain's historic night the late Kobe Bryant poured in 81 against the Raptors on Jan. 22, 2006. To succeed in the NFL, hell need to be an outlier among outliers. 2 in Wilts favor versus Drummond: Teams in 2019 dont miss enough shots. 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. Neutral site games were not all that uncommon, but the scheduledid present achallenge for players. Chamberlain entered the league in 1959 at the age of 21 years old. 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. They were a massive disappointment, yes, but also so transcendent for brief moments. I always knew Wilt blocked more shots than Russell. If this is all just based on newspaper reports the stats are not trustworthy at all. His is a name I know, although I have never followed basketball. Watch our How-To Videos to Become a Stathead, Subscribe to Stathead and get access to more data than you can imagine. Either way, winning 11 out of a possible 13 is difficult in any professional sport. However, the only NBA player in history to allegedly record a quintuple-double is Wilt Chamberlain. Who could be a value signing? Before Chamberlain, basketball's lumbering giants mostly set immobile screens for more skilled shooters. With the way the game is played today, it will be tough for anyone to come close to that record. Yet even if pace rocketed back to 1960s levels, and even if shooting percentages regressed half a century, Drummond still wouldnt challenge the record unless his coach were in on the scheme, too. Kc Jones the assistant coach of the 72 Lakers publicly said to the media that he was utterly wrong in his thought about Wilt as a defensive player and also as a human being and in fact he even said it was the fault of Wilt's teammates as to why Wilt couldn't beat Russell and the Celtics. He also came under fire in African-American circles for promoting Black racial stereotypes. 4. The reasons for their failure may have been inherent to the whole project. So, in 2015, Wilt Chamberlain would have: His quintuple-double performance in 1968 validates that statement. 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But that's not the best part. Chamberlains besting of Bill Russell on the boards wasnt just the most recent 40-rebound game; it was the last. But he possessed the coordination of a much smaller man. Find out more. Luckily, we can tinker with some available data from earlier in Wilts run. 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. I don't have steal numbers from available footage (yet) but I'm almost sure that Russell averaged more steals per game - he was Hakeem-esque in terms of disruption both down low and on perimeter. Miss only one extrafree throw, and he's stuck on99. 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. In the 2 games in the link he averaged at least 14.5 per game. But hey, let's at least give Buckner credit for scoring 33 points of his own. Even todays reb, blocks, steals and assists recording has an error rate of 20-30%. His dominance was such that nearly every scoring or rebounding recordof hiswould remainuntouched. Keep in mind Chamberlain shot 51.1 percent from the line for his career, so hitting nearly 90 percent of his free throws in one game is some kind of anomaly. 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. In his nine-year career, the . 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. Or write about sports? We, Yahoo, are part of the Yahoo family of brands. However, the Warriors also played 10 overtime periods that season, and Chamberlain logged 3,882 of a possible 3,890 minutes. "There were no hotels for us to go to or stay in because we didn't do those kinds of things in those days," Chamberlain said. In sports, and possibly even in life, that's true in about 90% of all instances. The Biggest Questions About the Seasons Stretch Run, KDs Suns Debut, Load Management, and Five-Year Anniversary of the Rockets-Clippers Tunnel Debacle.