Wilt's Tall Tales

[jlauber]

Still more Wilt "myths":

NBA rebounding recordsSee also: List of National Basketball Association top individual rebounding season averages
See also: List of National Basketball Association top rookie rebounding averages
See also: List of National Basketball Association players with most rebounds in a game

NBA Record - Career Total Rebounds (23,924)

NBA Record - Career Rebounds Per Game (22.9)

NBA Record - Most seasons leading the league in rebounds (11)

NBA Record - Most seasons with 1,000 or more rebounds (13)

NBA Record - Rebounds Per Game in a season (27.2)
Chamberlain also holds the next two highest averages with 27.0 in 1959-60 and 25.7 in 1961-62)
Chamberlain and Bill Russell occupy the top 18 spots on this list (9 each).

NBA Record - Total Rebounds in a season (2,149 in 1960-1961)
Chamberlain also holds the next six highest totals.

NBA Record - Rebounds in a game (55, Philadelphia Warriors vs. Boston Celtics, November 24, 1960)
Besides Bill Russell (11 times, including 3 playoff games, max of 51) only two players, Nate Thurmond (42) and Jerry Lucas (40) have ever gotten at least 40.

NBA Record - Most rebounds per game by a rookie in a season (27.0)

NBA Record - Most rebounds by a rookie in a season (1941)

NBA Record - Most rebounds by a rookie in a game (45 on February 6, 1960)
Chamberlain, as a rookie, also grabbed 43 rebounds in one game, 42 in two others, and 40 in another.

NBA Playoff Record - Most rebounds in a playoff game (41 against the Boston Celtics, on April 5, 1967).
Game 3 victory in the Eastern Division finals.

NBA Playoff Record - Most rebounds in a half (26 against the San Francisco Warriors on April 16, 1967)
Also an NBA Finals record.

NBA Playoff Record - Highest rebounding average in a playoff series (32.0 in a five game series against the Boston Celtics in 1967).

NBA Playoff Record - Most rebounds in a 5-game playoff series (160 against the Boston Celtics in 1967).

NBA Playoff Record - Most rebounds in a 6-game playoff series (171 against the San Francisco Warriors in 1967).
Also an NBA Finals record for a 6-game series.

NBA Playoff Record - Most rebounds in a 7-game playoff series (220 against the Boston Celtics in 1965).

NBA Playoff Record - Most rebounds by a rookie in a game (35 against the Boston Celtics on March 22, 1960)
Scored a then-playoff record 53 points (still a rookie record) in the same game (a game 5 victory).

NBA All-Star Game Record - Most career rebounds in the NBA All-Star game (197).

NBA All-Star Game Record - Most rebounds in a half (16 in 1960).
Record shared with Bob Pettit

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[jlauber]

And still more Wilt "Tall Tales":

[QUOTE]Other selected rebound facts
2nd most consecutive seasons with 1,000+ rebounds (10)

[millwad]

Dunce Bungalow at his finest:

"Eye witnesses"... HAHA!

And LMAO at Wilt being a "HOF"-volleyball player...

First of all, he played in a shortlived CO-ED league from '75-'79 in California (yes, he was playing against women). And he got into the made up HOF of the league (not the real volleyball HOF) for promoting the sport, not for being great at it.

Wilt myths are really silly..

[millwad]

Still more Wilt "myths":



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No one claims that his stats are myths, you bloody idiot.

It's the eye witness crap about his so called "accomplishments" and other made up crap like Wilt being a worldclass-volleyball player after playing one year against girls..

[nightprowler10]

Little known fact: soccer wasn't well known in America until Wilt kicked a ball out of his yard back to his neighbor's kid. The kid died from the impact of the ball, but Wilt is now in FIFA's hall of fame for helping with soccer's popularity.

[jlauber]

Now, how about the REAL "Wilt Tall Tales" that we have read here on this forum many times, and usually by the same moronic posters:

"Wilt played in a weak era and against short white guys."



"Wilt shooting 1-11 from the line in game seven of the '70 Finals cost him 3-4 rings."



"Kareem outplayed Wilt in the '72 WCF's."



(Yeah right...EVERYONE who actually WATCHED that series, including the MILWAUKEE press and coach claimed that Wilt outplayed Kareem. BTW, TIME MAGAZINE hailed Wilt's performance as DECISIVELY OUTPLAYING Kareem in that SERIES.)

"Bird was more clutch than Wilt."



"Hakeem is a better player than Chamberlain."

[millwad]

"Wilt shooting 1-11 from the line in game seven of the '70 Finals cost him 3-4 rings." - HIS horrible FT's cost him at least one ring.



"Kareem outplayed Wilt in the '72 WCF's." - More so then other way around



(Yeah right...EVERYONE who actually WATCHED that series, including the MILWAUKEE press and coach claimed that Wilt outplayed Kareem. BTW, TIME MAGAZINE hailed Wilt's performance as DECISIVELY OUTPLAYING Kareem in that SERIES.)

"Bird was more clutch than Wilt." - HAHA, EASILY...



"Hakeem is a better player than Chamberlain." - EASILY, no doubt..

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[CavaliersFTW]

"Slightly"

Way to go out on a limb. All of these are extremely exaggerated.

They are extremely exaggerated by DEUCE dipshit. Most of what really happened is deliberately being burried under a veil of idiocy by deuces trolling. For example:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyz-FhP2ONk&t=3m16s






For example: The "Wilt Story" about free throw dunking is neither a story by Wilt, nor a myth at all, duece just doesn't tell the f_cking story straight. Tex Winter is the man who saw Wilt do it at the Hauck Auditorium at KU while scouting him out. He's also the source of the info going public in the 1950's, not Wilt. Is it some f_cking coincidence that the Rules and Regulations committee (which Tex was Chairmen of) did in fact propose some sort of rule that specifically addresses this feat? - And then a day later the rule WAS agreed on and implemented? No. Sorry. They don't make useless stupid rules in the NCAA based on stopping events that have never even happened before. Is it coincidence that the other rule Tex Winter's talks about is also mentioned in these list of rule changes too?

Somebody, somewhere dunked a free throw and the NCAA didn't want it to happen in a game. Hmmm call it blind intuition but something tells me Chamberlain was the reason?....

Late in life Wilt is asked about free throw dunks in an interview and he said he used to do it just goofing off in the gym and what not, he said he wouldn't have even tried them in serious games. That's the only time I've ever even heard Wilt talk about free throw dunks he didn't even boast about it.



The only idiots here are the ones that think these ridiculous versions of Wilt stories aren't being deliberately embellished by DEUCE

[SilkkTheShocker]

More Wilt Stories:

-Was better a badminton player than basketball player
-Climbed up Mount Everest than slid down it on a garbage can lid
-revived a coma patient by slapping him in the head with his d1ck.
- Played QB and WR at the same time in high school.
- Bowled a perfect game using a football
-played kicked ball using a medicine ball
-could light a match his his foreskin

[CavaliersFTW]

More Wilt Stories:

-Was better a badminton player than basketball player
-Climbed up Mount Everest than slid down it on a garbage can lid
-revived a coma patient by slapping him in the head with his d1ck.
- Played QB and WR at the same time in high school.
- Bowled a perfect game using a football
-played kicked ball using a medicine ball

That was said by Shaq on the episode of his Shaq Vs - (Shaq vs Ben)!

[jlauber]

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[SilkkTheShocker]

That was said by Shaq on the episode of his Shaq Vs - (Shaq vs Ben)!

coincidence since I never watched Shaq's show. Im guessing it was sh1tty though.

[CavaliersFTW]

coincidence since I never watched Shaq's show. Im guessing it was sh1tty though.

I'll say this... his show was about as good as his rap albums..

[asdf1990]

I heard he ate a horse
Outswam and a shark...and then killed it
dunked on the moon

I heard from a person whose friends cousins father saw wilt out run a cheetah while carrying 500 lbs of weight in each hand. Then he went back to the hotel and had sex with 6 women afterward to maintain his daily average to reach 20k women