Harlem Globetrotters The Team That Changed The World

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Philadelphia San Francisco Warriors. Philadelphia 7. 6ers. Los Angeles Lakers. As coach 1. 97. 31. San Diego Conquistadors. Career highlights and awards. NBA champion 1. 96. NBA Finals MVP 1. NBA Most Valuable Player 1. NBA All Star 1. NBA All Star Game MVP 1. All NBA First Team 1. All NBA Second Team 1. NBA All Defensive First Team 1. NBA Rookie of the Year 1. NBA scoring champion 1. NBA rebounding champion 1. NBA assists leader 1. No. 1. 3 retired by Golden State Warriors. No. 1. 3 retired by Philadelphia 7. No. 1. 3 retired by Los Angeles Lakers. NBA 3. 5th Anniversary Team. NBA 5. 0th Anniversary Team. NCAA Final Four Most Outstanding Player 1. Consensus first team All American 1. No. 1. 3 jersey retired by University of Kansas. NBA records. Career statistics. Points. 31,4. 19 3. Rebounds. 23,9. 24 2. Assists. 4,6. 43 4. Stats at Basketball Reference. Basketball Hall of Fame as player. College Basketball Hall of Fame. Community Installer Popcorn Hour more. Inducted in 2. 00. Wilton Norman Chamberlain August 2. October 1. 2, 1. 99. American basketball player. He played for the PhiladelphiaSan Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 7. Los Angeles Lakers of the National Basketball Association NBA he played for the University of Kansas and also for the Harlem Globetrotters before playing in the NBA. The 7 foot 1 inch Chamberlain weighed 2. Lakers. He played the center position and is widely considered one of the greatest and most dominant players in NBA history. Chamberlain holds numerous NBA records in scoring, rebounding, and durability categories. He is the only player to score 1. NBA game or average more than 4. He also won seven scoring, eleven rebounding, nine field goal percentage titles and led the league in assists once. Chamberlain is the only player in NBA history to average at least 3. He is also the only player to average at least 3. NBA career. Although he suffered a long string of professional losses,4 Chamberlain had a successful career, winning two NBA championships, earning four regular season Most Valuable Player awards, the Rookie of the Year award, one NBA Finals MVP award, and being selected to 1. All Star Games and ten All NBA First and Second teams. Chamberlain was subsequently enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1. NBAs 3. 5th Anniversary Team of 1. Greatest Players in NBA History of 1. Chamberlain was known by various nicknames during his basketball playing career. He hated the ones that called attention to his height such as Goliath and Wilt the Stilt, which was coined during his high school days by a Philadelphia sportswriter. He preferred The Big Dipper, which was inspired by his friends who saw him dip his head as he walked through doorways. After his basketball career ended, Chamberlain played volleyball in the short lived International Volleyball Association, was president of this organization, and is enshrined in the IVA Hall of Fame for his contributions. Chamberlain was also a successful businessman, authored several books, and appeared in the movie Conan the Destroyer. He was a lifelong bachelor, and became notorious for his claim to have had sexual intercourse with as many as 2. Early years. Wilton Norman Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia, into a family of nine children, the son of Olivia Ruth Johnson, a domestic worker and homemaker, and William Chamberlain, a welder, custodian, and handyman. He was a frail child, nearly dying of pneumonia in his early years and missing a whole year of school as a result. In his early years Chamberlain was not interested in basketball, because he thought it was a game for sissies. Instead, he was an avid track and field athlete as a youth, he high jumped 6 feet, 6 inches, ran the 4. But according to Chamberlain, basketball was king in Philadelphia, so he eventually turned to the sport. Because Chamberlain was a very tall child, already measuring six feet at age 1. Philadelphias Overbrook High School,3 he had a natural advantage against his peers he soon was renowned for his scoring talent, his physical strength and his shot blocking abilities. According to ESPN journalist Hal Bock, Chamberlain was scary, flat out frightening. Chamberlain changed that. It was also in this period of his life when his three lifelong nicknames Wilt the Stilt, Goliath, and his favorite, The Big Dipper, were allegedly born. High school career. As a player for the Overbrook Panthers, Chamberlain averaged 3. Northeast High School of his future NBA teammate Guy Rodgers. He scored 3. 4 points, won Overbrook the Public League title and a berth for the Philadelphia city championship game against the winner of the rival Catholic league, West Catholic. In that game, West Catholic quadruple teamed Chamberlain the entire game, and despite the centers 2. Panthers lost 5. 44. In his second Overbrook season, Chamberlain continued his prolific scoring, among them scoring a high school record 7. Roxborough. 1. 8 The Panthers comfortably won the Public League title after again beating Northeast in which Chamberlain scored 4. South Catholic 7. Chamberlain scored 3. Overbrook to a flawless 1. During summer vacations Chamberlain worked as a bellhop in Kutshers Hotel. Subsequently, owners Milton and Helen Kutsher kept up a lifelong friendship with Wilt, and according to their son Mark, They were his second set of parents. Red Auerbach, the coach of the Boston Celtics, spotted the talented teenager at Kutschers and had him play 1 on 1 against Kansas University standout and national champion, B. H. Born, elected the Most Valuable Player of the 1. NCAA Finals. Chamberlain won 2. Born was so dejected that he gave up a promising NBA career and became a tractor engineer If there were high school kids that good, I figured I wasnt going to make it to the pros,2. Auerbach wanted Chamberlain to go to a New England university, so he could draft him as a territorial pick for the Celtics, but Chamberlain did not respond. In Chamberlains third and final Overbrook season, he continued his high scoring, once logging 7. The Panthers won the Public League a third time, beating West Philadelphia 7. West Catholic once again. Scoring 3. 5 points, Chamberlain led Overbrook to an easy 8. After three years, Chamberlain had led Overbrook to two city championships, logged a 5. Tom Golas high school scoring record by scoring 2,2. After his last Overbrook season, over 2. Among others, UCLA offered Chamberlain the opportunity to become a movie star, the University of Pennsylvania wanted to buy him diamonds, and Chamberlains Panthers coach Mosenson was even offered a coaching position if he could persuade the center. In his 2. 00. 4 biography of Chamberlain, Robert Cherry has described that Chamberlain wanted a change and therefore did not want to go to or near Philadelphia also eliminating New York, was not interested in New England, and snubbed the South because of segregation leaving the Midwest.