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Damn that's a long arm lol. What was his wingspan?
[QUOTE=RoundMoundOfReb]Damn that's a long arm lol. What was his wingspan?[/QUOTE]
7 feet 8 inches
Wilt as a High Schooler:
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[QUOTE=Psileas]Wilt as a High Schooler:
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That looks like 24" vertical, extend his legs and it's nothing special.
[QUOTE=-23-]That looks like 24" vertical, extend his legs and it's nothing special.[/QUOTE]
Dude, can't you tell that's a 12 foot rim? :lol
Couldn't help myself, sorry Wilt stans.
If I had a time machine, I'd go back to Wilt's college days, and record him dunking at that 12 foot rim and then come back and upload that shit to youtube, and then tell all the anti-Wilts to bite me.
[QUOTE=Deuce Bigalow]This is what a 42" vertical means for Wilt
Wilt- 7'1" = 85"
+ 42" vertical
85" + 42" = 126"
126" = 10'6", meaning he could his head half a foot above the rim. Yet we have zero images of Wilt's head near the rim, let alone above it.[/QUOTE]
Duece Bigalow = General Custer at Little Bighorn.
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[QUOTE=Lebron23]Overrated[/QUOTE]
YES.............LEBRON JAMES IS OVERRATED :rockon:
:oldlol: at idiots looking at his feet instead of his head. Last time I checked, Wilt wasn't ever 8 feet tall, so jumping 24 inches high wouldn't bring his head anywhere near that level.
[QUOTE=secund2nun]Wilt= overrated feasting on a primarily white unathletic scrub league.[/QUOTE]
no one is more overrated than leflop James,who is invisible 6 of 7 games in 2013 Finals :roll:
[QUOTE=Deuce Bigalow]5>2[/QUOTE]
NO............
KOBE ONLY WINS 2 RINGS BY HIMSELF :banana:
[QUOTE=Kblaze8855]You cant use "Where is the footage" for a guy who peaked as an athlete late 50s early 60s. Might as well deny the era even happened if you only accept what is proven. We have zero footage of a Wilt 40 point game but he had like 300 and dozens were recorded.
You take that as evidence they didnt happen?
Jumping 40 inches for a college highjump champ is not shocking. Not in 1956 or 2006. It really isnt special. Its not even that unusual for bigmen. I mean...its unusual in that not many can do it. Its not unusual to an extent that its absurd to question. Ive seen Dan Gadzuric get headlevel off like 2 steps on a putback dunk over Kenyon Martin. Antionio Mcdyess had a 42 inch one step vertical according to the NBA and harder to believe(but NBA claimed from a combine test) 47 inch vertical on the run.
Larry Nance, Shawn Kemp, Dwight, Blake, Tyrus thomas, and so on....
Bigmen can get up there. Especially ones built like young Wilt. Lakers Wilt was getting up like few today. When he was kinda lanky? I can see him flying.[/QUOTE]
This.
And I would like to add...in the very limited footage that we do have, Chamberlain IS blocking shots and dunking. But, I guess he should have been aware that ESPN would show highlights nightly some 30-40 years later, and touched the top of the backboard before depositing the ball in the basket, or blocked those shots with his head and chest instead of easily blocking them with his 7-8 wingspan.
I still get a kick out of one Chamberlain-basher that used to routinely post here, who had footage of Wilt running down a shooter from behind, and blocking the shot...and in it, Wilt is only a couple of feet off the ground. Of course, he failed to mention the obvious...that Wilt blocked the shot with his arm extended parallel to the ground. Had Chamberlain leaped as high as he could, he likely would have watched the shot go under his armpit and into the basket.
God ISH used to be retarded when it came to Wilt
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[QUOTE=Psileas]:oldlol: at idiots looking at his feet instead of his head. Last time I checked, Wilt wasn't ever 8 feet tall, so jumping 24 inches high wouldn't bring his head anywhere near that level.[/QUOTE]
His head looks to be rim level there.
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Certainly doesn't sound like the athletic freak we've heard so much about. He also had only a 7'2 wingspan which is pretty surprising. And 225lbs is just embarassing. Shaq weighed something like 310lbs at the same age with 10x the athleticism.
For comparison, Shaq had a 7'7 wingspan and 36 vertical.[/QUOTE]
what am i missing here - the link just goees to the sporting news homepage - i don't see any article on wilt.
[QUOTE=3ball]what am i missing here - the link just goees to the sporting news homepage - i don't see any article on wilt.[/QUOTE]
It's been taken down. But there used to be an article written in the 1950's about Wilt when he was in high school that stated he could "jump 24" straight up" and this was used by Wilt's detractors here as evidence that Wilt, one of the greatest athletes that ever existed, had a "max-vert" of only 24 inches high (4 inches less than Larry Bird).
Also in the article was a highly questionable indication of Wilt's armspan, it cited it as "7 feet 2 inches" ... however a few years later both video evidence (his armspan actually being measured on film) and articles comparing his armspan to Kareem Abdul-Jabbars surfaced that proved in reality it was 92 inches, or 7 feet 8 inches. Also it cited his weight at 225lbs... even though this was his high school weight, it didn't matter, all of this was used as evidence against testimony of his strength size and athleticism which was all deemed by ISH's band of Wilt detractors to be nothing but a myth not to be taken seriously.
In hindsight, this shit is funny as hell to read, but at the time it was frustrating because not much video or evidence to suggest otherwise existed.