Wilt Chamberlain

"He was basketball's unstoppable force, the most awesome offensive force the game has ever seen."

- Introductory line of Chamberlain's NBA Encyclopedia biography.

Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936–October 12, 1999) was an American professional basketball player for the Philadelphia/San Francisco Warriors, the Philadelphia 76ers and the Los Angeles Lakers.

He is known for three things: his numerical dominance, his 100-point game and the amount of women he claimed to have slept with. He also made a guest appearance in animated form on Goober and The Ghost Chasers.

Chamberlain was a two-time champion, four-time MVP and one-time Finals MVP. He is widely considered the most dominant player in the history of basketball.


 * The Ace
 * Awesome McCoolname
 * Badass
 * Badass Crew: The 1967 Sixers and 1972 Lakers.
 * Beyond the Impossible: Only player to score more than 4000 points in a season (The only other to score more than 3000 is Michael Jordan), is the all-time rebounding leader (and holds the record for rebounds in a season), was the only non-point guard to lead the league in assists, once averaged 50 points together with 25 rebounds per game and has the all-time high in minutes per game, at 45.8. These are just some of his records.
 * The Big Guy: He wasn't called Wilt "The Stilt" Chamberlain for nothing.
 * The Casanova: Chamberlain claimed he slept with 20,000 women. The people who knew him agreed that this is probably an exaggeration, but not by as much as one might think.
 * Crowning Moment of Awesome: In-Universe. Scoring 100 points in a single game by himself is almost universally regarded as this by basketball fans. Rightly so, as this is a feat that was never achieved before and has never been replicated since. ((For comparison, that's as much as most teams score nowadays.))
 * Enthusiasm Versus Stoicism: Chamberlain was the enthusiast; Bill Russell was The Stoic.
 * Friendly Enemy: Chamberlain was great friends with his rival Bill Russell.
 * Gentle Giant: By most accounts, this was because Chamberlain was genuinely afraid that he would kill an opposing player if he lost his temper (easy to believe, since Wilt bench-pressed 450 to 500 pounds with ease).
 * Humble Hero: He didn't really think too much about his 100 point game, and was very modest about the achievement.
 * The Juggernaut: He held 72 records at one time.
 * Large and In Charge
 * Lightning Bruiser: Very strong but also very fast, coordinated and graceful.
 * Nice Guy
 * One-Man Army: He scored 100 points in a single game by himself. Keep in mind that most teams don't even break that score very often.
 * Showy Invincible Hero: Chamberlain during the 1966-1967 season, ironically the first time he was not the top-scorer, but he led his team in four categories, won the rebounding title (again), was the MVP (again), led his team to a then-record 68-13 regular season record and won Philadelphia its first NBA championship.
 * Sobriquet: The Stilt, Goliath, The Big Dipper.
 * Super Strength: By normal human standards anyway, considering he could bench press over 500 pounds easily.
 * Thirteen Is Unlucky: Regarding team play, he suffered a long streak of losses against the ultra-stacked Boston Celtic dynasty, but his championship teams set several standards.
 * Tough Act to Follow: He scored 100 points in a single game alone, which is something no one else has been able to do.
 * Ubermensch: Anti-social personality (pretty much did whatever he wanted)? Check. A vision of how things could be different (basketball, women's athletics, how black men are seen)? Check. Also, Chamberlain had his own values, which made him such a complex person.