jstern
10-12-2016, 06:28 PM
http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/stilt-dead-63apparent-heart-attack-fells-basketball-leg-article-1.848053
NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 1:55 PM
(Originally published by the Daily News on Oct. 13, 1999. This was written by Dave Goldiner.)
Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain, a basketball legend and American icon who scored a record-setting 100 points in a single game, died yesterday. He was 63.
Paramedics found the 7-foot-1 Chamberlain at his mansion in suburban Los Angeles around noon.
A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said Chamberlain, who had been treated for an irregular heartbeat, apparently died of a heart attack.
"Wilt was one of the greatest ever, and we will never see another one like him,”" said fellow basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Chamberlain had lost nearly 50 pounds in recent weeks, was scheduled to undergo hip surgery and had been in excruciating pain from a tooth extraction last week, relatives said.
It was not clear whether other medical problems could have contributed to the heart ailment.
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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 1:55 PM
(Originally published by the Daily News on Oct. 13, 1999. This was written by Dave Goldiner.)
Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain, a basketball legend and American icon who scored a record-setting 100 points in a single game, died yesterday. He was 63.
Paramedics found the 7-foot-1 Chamberlain at his mansion in suburban Los Angeles around noon.
A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said Chamberlain, who had been treated for an irregular heartbeat, apparently died of a heart attack.
"Wilt was one of the greatest ever, and we will never see another one like him,”" said fellow basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.
Chamberlain had lost nearly 50 pounds in recent weeks, was scheduled to undergo hip surgery and had been in excruciating pain from a tooth extraction last week, relatives said.
It was not clear whether other medical problems could have contributed to the heart ailment.
Click on the link for the articles and pictures http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/basketball/stilt-dead-63apparent-heart-attack-fells-basketball-leg-article-1.848053