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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Watch any video online with Open-SUBTITLES Free Browser extension: osdb.link/ext 2 00:00:20,063 --> 00:00:22,607 [Announcer] Sitting majestically on one of the highest hills 3 00:00:22,690 --> 00:00:25,234 in the sumptuous Bel Air section of Los Angeles 4 00:00:25,318 --> 00:00:27,945 it's a domicile as dazzling as Disneyland 5 00:00:27,987 --> 00:00:31,449 and even larger than its owner, who is a giant of a man. 6 00:00:31,491 --> 00:00:33,367 Wilt agreed to give us his own description 7 00:00:33,451 --> 00:00:35,369 of this marvelous pad on a hilltop. 8 00:00:35,453 --> 00:00:38,498 Here he is big as life. 9 00:00:38,581 --> 00:00:40,458 Well, like most people, 10 00:00:40,500 --> 00:00:43,961 I always dreamed of owning a home. 11 00:00:46,214 --> 00:00:49,300 Wilt built his own house. 12 00:00:50,384 --> 00:00:51,969 From the outside, 13 00:00:52,053 --> 00:00:56,140 the house looked like Darth Vader's helmet. 14 00:00:56,182 --> 00:00:57,809 There were triangles everywhere. 15 00:00:57,850 --> 00:01:01,104 As first I thought is he doing this right? 16 00:01:01,145 --> 00:01:05,316 But then it ended up being a fabulous, fabulous house. 17 00:01:05,399 --> 00:01:08,236 [Wilt Chamberlain] As you look around the house, 18 00:01:08,277 --> 00:01:09,320 it really represents me, 19 00:01:09,362 --> 00:01:11,405 and it's just really too complex 20 00:01:11,447 --> 00:01:14,575 to just sum it up in a sentence. 21 00:01:14,617 --> 00:01:16,494 It really is a lot of different things, 22 00:01:16,536 --> 00:01:19,872 as I think I'm probably a lot of different things. 23 00:01:19,914 --> 00:01:24,210 He had wolf fur on the floor and over on the couch. 24 00:01:24,293 --> 00:01:26,379 I'm, like, wow, this really is wolf. 25 00:01:26,462 --> 00:01:28,714 I mean, it has whiskers and everything. 26 00:01:28,798 --> 00:01:32,426 There were doors that were nine feet tall 27 00:01:32,510 --> 00:01:33,928 so he wouldn't have to duck. 28 00:01:33,970 --> 00:01:38,266 Then he had water all through his house. 29 00:01:38,349 --> 00:01:39,559 There was a hole. 30 00:01:39,642 --> 00:01:42,478 We could literally jump in from the living room, 31 00:01:42,562 --> 00:01:45,731 and then we would just swim under the house 32 00:01:45,815 --> 00:01:47,984 to take us around the pool. 33 00:01:48,776 --> 00:01:53,322 I loved the round waterbed. 34 00:01:53,406 --> 00:01:54,657 We called that the triple X room. 35 00:01:54,740 --> 00:01:57,160 We would go in there and play in there 36 00:01:57,201 --> 00:01:58,119 and jump in there. 37 00:01:58,161 --> 00:01:59,287 As I became an adult, 38 00:01:59,370 --> 00:02:00,538 I wondered to myself, okay, 39 00:02:00,580 --> 00:02:02,623 when was he doing in that room? [laughs] 40 00:02:02,665 --> 00:02:03,666 That was a special room. 41 00:02:03,708 --> 00:02:05,376 That was a special room. 42 00:02:05,418 --> 00:02:06,460 I am a bachelor, 43 00:02:06,544 --> 00:02:09,130 so I tried to create a type of house 44 00:02:09,213 --> 00:02:10,381 that would give me the mood 45 00:02:10,464 --> 00:02:12,717 that a bachelor would normally like to have. 46 00:02:12,800 --> 00:02:14,343 If I'm not mistaken, 47 00:02:14,427 --> 00:02:16,470 before Hugh Hefner purchased his mansion, 48 00:02:16,554 --> 00:02:18,639 he used to borrow Wilt Chamberlain's home 49 00:02:18,681 --> 00:02:20,808 for his parties. 50 00:02:20,892 --> 00:02:22,643 Was I thinking in my teens, 51 00:02:22,685 --> 00:02:24,312 you don't wanna get a job, you wanna invent a job. 52 00:02:24,395 --> 00:02:27,398 Wilt Chamberlain invented the world famous, 53 00:02:27,440 --> 00:02:29,317 photogenic, millionaire, 54 00:02:29,358 --> 00:02:30,568 seven-foot-tall basketball player. 55 00:02:30,651 --> 00:02:33,279 He created a job that did not exist before. 56 00:02:33,321 --> 00:02:35,072 Hello,MTV Cribviewers. 57 00:02:35,114 --> 00:02:36,157 It is I, Shaquille O'Neal. 58 00:02:36,240 --> 00:02:37,325 This is my house. 59 00:02:37,408 --> 00:02:38,492 By the time you get to Shaq, 60 00:02:38,534 --> 00:02:40,244 Shaq's just applying for that job. 61 00:02:41,704 --> 00:02:43,748 When he built his house, 62 00:02:43,789 --> 00:02:47,376 Wilt called it Ursa Major, 63 00:02:47,460 --> 00:02:49,754 the Big Dipper. 64 00:02:49,795 --> 00:02:52,882 Right next to the bed, there was a button. 65 00:02:52,965 --> 00:02:57,303 Press that button, the ceiling went back 66 00:02:57,345 --> 00:02:58,763 and there was the sky. 67 00:02:58,846 --> 00:03:00,306 [Gary Pomerantz] And at night, 68 00:03:00,389 --> 00:03:04,769 he would look up at a starry night. 69 00:03:05,728 --> 00:03:08,439 [Robert Cherry] And he liked to gaze at something 70 00:03:08,522 --> 00:03:11,234 even bigger than himself. 71 00:03:25,081 --> 00:03:28,709 So we're gonna call this the Saboteur Hall of Fame. 72 00:03:28,793 --> 00:03:32,338 Wilt Chamberlain, he's really kind of the poster boy 73 00:03:32,380 --> 00:03:33,923 for the Saboteur Hall of Fame. 74 00:03:33,965 --> 00:03:37,260 In 1965, Frank Deford wrote aSports Illustratedarticle 75 00:03:37,301 --> 00:03:38,469 about how Wilt 76 00:03:38,511 --> 00:03:40,721 had just forced his way out of San Francisco. 77 00:03:40,805 --> 00:03:42,473 He tried to leave Kansas twice. 78 00:03:42,556 --> 00:03:44,809 He tried to leave Philly after his rookie year. 79 00:03:44,892 --> 00:03:46,310 And meanwhile they have no idea 80 00:03:46,352 --> 00:03:47,645 he's gonna do it again in 1968 81 00:03:47,728 --> 00:03:50,815 when he forces them to trade him to the Lakers. 82 00:03:51,899 --> 00:03:54,443 [Wilt] All satisfying stories have a bad guy, 83 00:03:54,485 --> 00:03:57,863 a villain to make the good guy look even better. 84 00:03:57,905 --> 00:04:01,492 During my playing days, I was a classic bad guy. 85 00:04:01,534 --> 00:04:04,495 Controversy followed me wherever I went. 86 00:04:04,537 --> 00:04:08,749 Many times, though, the bad guy becomes the good guy 87 00:04:08,833 --> 00:04:11,002 as the plot unfolds. 88 00:04:13,170 --> 00:04:18,551 If Ike Richman was still alive, during that period of time, 89 00:04:18,592 --> 00:04:20,219 I think Wilt would have stayed in Philadelphia 90 00:04:20,303 --> 00:04:21,637 the rest of his career. 91 00:04:21,721 --> 00:04:23,097 [Announcer]On the right, president Irv Kosloff, 92 00:04:23,139 --> 00:04:25,558 sole owner after the death of Ike Richman. 93 00:04:25,599 --> 00:04:28,686 Back in '68, we had a situation 94 00:04:28,728 --> 00:04:31,230 where Wilt and Irv Kosloff had a disagreement. 95 00:04:31,314 --> 00:04:35,484 Ike Richman had promised Wilt a piece of the 76ers. 96 00:04:35,526 --> 00:04:37,820 That he would have a share of the team, 97 00:04:37,862 --> 00:04:40,990 and my dad acknowledged that that may be true. 98 00:04:41,073 --> 00:04:45,161 But there never was anything in writing, 99 00:04:45,244 --> 00:04:46,954 so was Wilt gonna buy it? 100 00:04:47,038 --> 00:04:49,498 Was it going to be in lieu of salary? 101 00:04:49,582 --> 00:04:51,083 I think it's highly unlikely 102 00:04:51,125 --> 00:04:54,462 that we were just gonna give him a share of the team, 103 00:04:54,503 --> 00:04:55,838 because he had no basis for it 104 00:04:55,880 --> 00:04:59,133 other than a verbal promise that Ike Richman told him. 105 00:04:59,175 --> 00:05:01,218 The 76ers wouldn't be worth anything 106 00:05:01,302 --> 00:05:02,720 if not for Wilt Chamberlain. 107 00:05:02,762 --> 00:05:05,806 He knew what he was worth. 108 00:05:05,848 --> 00:05:07,099 He was way before his time 109 00:05:07,141 --> 00:05:11,437 to be able to perceive why can't I own a team? 110 00:05:11,479 --> 00:05:15,691 But my dad felt one owner making decisions 111 00:05:15,733 --> 00:05:17,735 was the best way to do things. 112 00:05:17,818 --> 00:05:18,986 And Wilt said, look, 113 00:05:19,028 --> 00:05:20,654 if you're not gonna treat me right, I'm out. 114 00:05:20,696 --> 00:05:22,823 There was no free agency back in those days. 115 00:05:22,907 --> 00:05:24,241 That didn't come till later. 116 00:05:24,283 --> 00:05:26,744 So the players really didn't have much say 117 00:05:26,827 --> 00:05:28,579 in what they did. 118 00:05:28,621 --> 00:05:31,457 But Wilt was, like, if I don't like it here, 119 00:05:31,499 --> 00:05:32,666 I'm gonna figure out a way 120 00:05:32,708 --> 00:05:33,918 that you're gonna not want me here anymore 121 00:05:33,959 --> 00:05:36,212 so I can get over there. 122 00:05:38,005 --> 00:05:41,050 Wilt did a lot of complaining to the press. 123 00:05:41,092 --> 00:05:42,718 We're out here to make money. 124 00:05:42,802 --> 00:05:44,762 We're playing something that we love to do, 125 00:05:44,804 --> 00:05:48,432 but the primary interest for you is how much you can make. 126 00:05:48,474 --> 00:05:51,227 On July 9, 1968, 127 00:05:51,310 --> 00:05:55,398 Wilt's traded to the Los Angeles Lakers. 128 00:05:56,399 --> 00:05:58,025 Sometimes I sit back 129 00:05:58,109 --> 00:06:00,945 and I just wonder the impact that had 130 00:06:01,028 --> 00:06:02,822 on the whole franchise. 131 00:06:02,905 --> 00:06:04,490 Maybe it could have been resolved 132 00:06:04,573 --> 00:06:05,616 if he had part of the team. 133 00:06:05,658 --> 00:06:06,992 That might have been the answer. 134 00:06:07,034 --> 00:06:09,995 It would have changed the course of history, too, by the way. 135 00:06:10,037 --> 00:06:13,958 If that team could have stayed together 136 00:06:13,999 --> 00:06:15,209 and could have stayed healthy, 137 00:06:15,292 --> 00:06:17,837 no one would have beaten them for a few years. 138 00:06:17,878 --> 00:06:19,672 They had it all. 139 00:06:19,755 --> 00:06:23,134 The thing that Wilt Chamberlain often gets criticized for 140 00:06:23,217 --> 00:06:25,010 is the thing that players do now all the time, 141 00:06:25,052 --> 00:06:27,054 which is moving around a lot. 142 00:06:27,096 --> 00:06:28,889 Player empowerment has always been 143 00:06:28,973 --> 00:06:31,725 a scary dynamic in professional sports. 144 00:06:31,767 --> 00:06:33,394 Let me be very specific. 145 00:06:33,436 --> 00:06:34,979 Black player empowerment 146 00:06:35,062 --> 00:06:39,525 has been a scary dynamic for professional sports. 147 00:06:39,567 --> 00:06:41,610 The people who did it earliest 148 00:06:41,694 --> 00:06:43,779 often are the ones that are most villainized, 149 00:06:43,863 --> 00:06:45,614 and in Wilt Chamberlain's case, 150 00:06:45,656 --> 00:06:47,700 it's astounding that during that time 151 00:06:47,741 --> 00:06:49,994 where speaking up for yourself as a Black person 152 00:06:50,077 --> 00:06:51,495 could cost you your life, 153 00:06:51,537 --> 00:06:53,372 that he was willing to say 154 00:06:53,414 --> 00:06:56,459 this is what I demand. 155 00:06:56,542 --> 00:07:00,546 Wilt understood people are treating me like a commodity, 156 00:07:00,629 --> 00:07:02,256 so why don't I act like one? 157 00:07:02,339 --> 00:07:04,633 And you know what? I wanna go to L.A. 158 00:07:04,675 --> 00:07:07,178 Very happy to announce 159 00:07:07,261 --> 00:07:10,514 that Wilt Chamberlain has signed 160 00:07:10,598 --> 00:07:13,517 a five year contract 161 00:07:13,601 --> 00:07:16,687 with the Los Angeles Lakers. 162 00:07:18,981 --> 00:07:19,940 You would have thought the Lakers 163 00:07:20,024 --> 00:07:21,150 had won the lottery, right? 164 00:07:21,233 --> 00:07:22,860 Because you get Wilt Chamberlain. 165 00:07:22,943 --> 00:07:25,154 You've got Jerry West, one of the great players of all time, 166 00:07:25,237 --> 00:07:28,491 Elgin Baylor, one of the greatest players of all time, 167 00:07:28,532 --> 00:07:31,869 This Lakers team in 1969 is so fun 168 00:07:31,911 --> 00:07:34,455 because they were the first super team ever. 169 00:07:34,538 --> 00:07:37,750 I feel very, very happy that I've been traded to a team 170 00:07:37,833 --> 00:07:39,752 that I believe may stand a chance to be... 171 00:07:39,793 --> 00:07:40,920 go down in the records 172 00:07:40,961 --> 00:07:43,088 as one of the best teams in basketball ever. 173 00:07:43,172 --> 00:07:44,298 Everyone thought the Lakers 174 00:07:44,381 --> 00:07:46,133 were going to walk over the league, 175 00:07:46,175 --> 00:07:49,094 and that's not quite what happened. 176 00:07:49,178 --> 00:07:52,681 Butch Van Breda Kolff, the coach, 177 00:07:52,765 --> 00:07:54,892 got off on the wrong foot with Wilt 178 00:07:54,934 --> 00:07:57,019 and never got on the right foot. 179 00:07:57,061 --> 00:07:59,813 There was a total personality clash, 180 00:07:59,855 --> 00:08:01,815 and he was asking things of me to do 181 00:08:01,899 --> 00:08:05,819 that I didn't feel altogether that they were right. 182 00:08:05,861 --> 00:08:07,905 The success of great teams 183 00:08:07,947 --> 00:08:12,451 comes from trying to get more than the sum of your parts. 184 00:08:12,493 --> 00:08:13,702 There's only one ball, 185 00:08:13,786 --> 00:08:15,204 and you need to learn to share that ball 186 00:08:15,246 --> 00:08:17,790 in a way that makes you more efficient. 187 00:08:17,831 --> 00:08:20,417 Wilt loved to set up on the left block, 188 00:08:20,501 --> 00:08:22,586 but Butch Van Breda Kolff 189 00:08:22,628 --> 00:08:24,755 was focusing on spacing, 190 00:08:24,797 --> 00:08:26,632 setting screens, 191 00:08:26,715 --> 00:08:29,927 similar to Bill Russell in the high post, 192 00:08:29,969 --> 00:08:34,848 creating driving lanes for West and Baylor. 193 00:08:34,890 --> 00:08:39,061 But Wilt doesn't want to move up to the high post. 194 00:08:39,103 --> 00:08:42,273 Part of it is probably selfishly motivated 195 00:08:42,314 --> 00:08:45,985 in the sense that he doesn't want to play away from the ball. 196 00:08:46,068 --> 00:08:47,695 Well, if you're Wilt Chamberlain, 197 00:08:47,778 --> 00:08:48,946 you're like, really? 198 00:08:49,029 --> 00:08:51,949 I'm the greatest talent you've ever coached. 199 00:08:52,032 --> 00:08:53,200 I can score at will, 200 00:08:53,242 --> 00:08:54,535 and you're gonna have me set screens? 201 00:08:54,618 --> 00:08:58,330 I can understand Wilt chafing at that, to be honest. 202 00:08:58,414 --> 00:09:01,083 With Van Breda Kolff's style of play, 203 00:09:01,166 --> 00:09:03,460 you're empowering Wilt's teammates. 204 00:09:03,502 --> 00:09:06,380 When you play the way they were in Philadelphia, 205 00:09:06,422 --> 00:09:08,632 you're running more through Wilt, 206 00:09:08,716 --> 00:09:09,717 and he has the ball. 207 00:09:09,800 --> 00:09:11,927 He's making more decisions. 208 00:09:11,969 --> 00:09:14,471 Wilt wasn't used to sharing the ball, 209 00:09:14,555 --> 00:09:15,723 and it didn't work. 210 00:09:15,764 --> 00:09:16,932 It didn't work too well. 211 00:09:16,974 --> 00:09:18,267 Those guys had trouble meshing 212 00:09:18,350 --> 00:09:20,853 on the floor and off the floor. 213 00:09:20,894 --> 00:09:23,981 I probably wasn't affected as much as Elgin, 214 00:09:24,023 --> 00:09:25,232 because he didn't have enough room 215 00:09:25,316 --> 00:09:26,984 to do the things he normally did. 216 00:09:27,026 --> 00:09:29,987 It was a chore to try to find a way 217 00:09:30,070 --> 00:09:33,532 that they could both be successful at the same time. 218 00:09:33,616 --> 00:09:36,076 It was an awkward period for me 219 00:09:36,118 --> 00:09:37,911 because I was so close to Elgin. 220 00:09:37,995 --> 00:09:40,748 And then Wilt, I didn't even know him, okay? 221 00:09:40,789 --> 00:09:46,128 And because he was sort of aloof. 222 00:09:46,170 --> 00:09:48,714 He would tell some outlandish stories 223 00:09:48,756 --> 00:09:51,425 that, oh, my gosh, I didn't... 224 00:09:51,508 --> 00:09:54,887 He told me he drove from New York City to San Francisco 225 00:09:54,970 --> 00:09:56,180 in 24 hours. 226 00:09:56,263 --> 00:09:59,892 Elgin and I would kind of look at each other and... 227 00:09:59,975 --> 00:10:03,228 I don't think that's true. [laughs] 228 00:10:03,312 --> 00:10:05,439 [Wilt] I love to drive. 229 00:10:05,481 --> 00:10:08,567 I've gone across country 20 times, always alone. 230 00:10:08,609 --> 00:10:10,444 [Reporter] What do you think about when you're driving? 231 00:10:10,486 --> 00:10:13,072 [Wilt] Who I am. What I'd like to be. 232 00:10:13,113 --> 00:10:16,367 Going fast. Flirting a little bit with, um... 233 00:10:16,408 --> 00:10:18,118 not with death, but, you know, 234 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:21,330 just those things that seem to be what we like to do 235 00:10:21,413 --> 00:10:22,623 but are a little bit afraid of. 236 00:10:22,706 --> 00:10:24,708 He wasn't afraid to say things. 237 00:10:24,792 --> 00:10:27,044 If something's bothering him, he didn't give a damn who it was. 238 00:10:27,127 --> 00:10:28,295 He'd say it. 239 00:10:28,379 --> 00:10:30,297 [Wilt] I'm a loud extrovert 240 00:10:30,381 --> 00:10:32,424 who's not afraid to say something good about myself 241 00:10:32,508 --> 00:10:34,802 or something bad about someone else 242 00:10:34,843 --> 00:10:36,804 when the occasion warrants it. 243 00:10:36,845 --> 00:10:39,723 The two of them were like banty roosters 244 00:10:39,807 --> 00:10:40,849 going at each other. 245 00:10:40,933 --> 00:10:42,393 There was no respect there. 246 00:10:42,434 --> 00:10:45,896 When you don't have respect, that's what you're gonna have. 247 00:10:47,773 --> 00:10:49,900 Despite having this clash, 248 00:10:49,983 --> 00:10:51,276 at the end of the year, 249 00:10:51,360 --> 00:10:53,904 the Lakers are still competitive. 250 00:10:53,987 --> 00:10:55,531 They're still a very good team. 251 00:10:55,572 --> 00:10:58,826 With all that great talent, they start playing better. 252 00:10:58,867 --> 00:11:01,995 And they reach the NBA finals. 253 00:11:02,037 --> 00:11:03,539 And guess who was waiting for them 254 00:11:03,622 --> 00:11:05,791 in the finals of the NBA? 255 00:11:05,874 --> 00:11:08,669 Number six and friends. 256 00:11:08,752 --> 00:11:10,003 If we tried to write the novel, 257 00:11:10,045 --> 00:11:12,047 it might be dismissed as, oh, don't give me that. 258 00:11:12,131 --> 00:11:14,174 You're not gonna have them play the Celtics again, right? 259 00:11:14,258 --> 00:11:15,718 Yes, we are. 260 00:11:16,927 --> 00:11:18,512 And the Lakers are favored. 261 00:11:18,554 --> 00:11:19,972 Everyone's always been talking about 262 00:11:20,055 --> 00:11:21,724 how the Celtics have all the talent. 263 00:11:21,807 --> 00:11:23,350 Well, now you finally do. 264 00:11:23,392 --> 00:11:27,146 This was as valuable an NBA finals 265 00:11:27,187 --> 00:11:29,273 as there had been to that point. 266 00:11:32,025 --> 00:11:35,946 The series has these back and forth zigzags. 267 00:11:48,083 --> 00:11:50,210 I don't think it was widely known 268 00:11:50,294 --> 00:11:51,628 that that was Russ's last game, 269 00:11:51,670 --> 00:11:54,298 but certainly those guys knew on the team. 270 00:11:54,339 --> 00:11:56,842 One of the things I said before the last game 271 00:11:56,925 --> 00:11:59,595 was that we were gonna beat the Lakers. 272 00:12:00,429 --> 00:12:03,348 The teams I played on could play any style. 273 00:12:03,390 --> 00:12:07,394 And the way we were gonna beat 'em is we were gonna run. 274 00:12:12,733 --> 00:12:15,986 [Announcer]Wilt Chamberlain driving on Russell. 275 00:12:16,069 --> 00:12:17,946 18 points for Wilt. 276 00:12:18,030 --> 00:12:20,407 Even though Wilt played well... 277 00:12:20,449 --> 00:12:22,951 [Announcer]Chamberlain with the rebound. 278 00:12:22,993 --> 00:12:25,120 He has over 20 rebounds. 279 00:12:25,204 --> 00:12:27,790 The Celtics take a huge lead 280 00:12:27,831 --> 00:12:29,291 going into the fourth quarter. 281 00:12:29,374 --> 00:12:30,375 [Announcer]Fourth period. 282 00:12:30,459 --> 00:12:33,295 But this time, he has Jerry West. 283 00:12:34,463 --> 00:12:37,466 Jerry West, this incredible player 284 00:12:37,549 --> 00:12:39,218 who couldn't call himself champion. 285 00:12:39,301 --> 00:12:41,595 He was the noble loser in those days, you know, to the Celtics. 286 00:12:41,637 --> 00:12:43,430 He lost to them six times in the finals. 287 00:12:43,514 --> 00:12:45,349 Like with Wilt Chamberlain, 288 00:12:45,432 --> 00:12:48,852 it was his misfortune to play at the same time 289 00:12:48,894 --> 00:12:49,937 that Bill Russell and Sam Jones 290 00:12:49,978 --> 00:12:51,522 and all the Celtics did. 291 00:12:51,605 --> 00:12:53,524 [Announcer]They have to make up 17 points 292 00:12:53,607 --> 00:12:56,318 and they've gotta get that ball down quickly. 293 00:12:56,401 --> 00:12:58,445 They're looking for Jerry West. 294 00:12:58,529 --> 00:13:01,323 Howell switches off on West. 295 00:13:01,365 --> 00:13:04,493 And Jerry West starts this incredible comeback, 296 00:13:04,535 --> 00:13:06,995 draining jumper after jumper. 297 00:13:07,079 --> 00:13:09,164 Jerry West...another one! 298 00:13:09,206 --> 00:13:12,000 And the Celtics sense trouble. 299 00:13:12,084 --> 00:13:15,629 With five minutes left in the fourth quarter... 300 00:13:15,671 --> 00:13:16,964 Here's Havlicek. 301 00:13:17,047 --> 00:13:19,842 Rebound coming off and Chamberlain gets it. 302 00:13:19,925 --> 00:13:21,176 Chamberlain hurt his leg. 303 00:13:21,218 --> 00:13:22,636 Chamberlain can't move, Chris. 304 00:13:22,678 --> 00:13:24,346 He's down there holding that knee. 305 00:13:24,429 --> 00:13:26,849 [PA Announcer]20 second official's timeout. 306 00:13:26,890 --> 00:13:28,392 He comes out. 307 00:13:30,143 --> 00:13:33,647 And the lead gets down to seven. 308 00:13:34,439 --> 00:13:36,817 And then to five, and then to three. 309 00:13:36,900 --> 00:13:40,445 [Announcer]The Lakers within one point of the lead. 310 00:13:40,487 --> 00:13:42,781 Wilt is on the bench, 311 00:13:42,823 --> 00:13:46,076 so now you're thinking, is he coming back in? 312 00:13:47,452 --> 00:13:50,163 We could use him now with the way the tide has turned. 313 00:13:50,247 --> 00:13:53,208 He goes to his coach, says I'm ready to go back in, 314 00:13:53,250 --> 00:13:56,086 and the coach says, we don't need you. 315 00:14:01,383 --> 00:14:03,468 [Bob Ryan] It's a one point game. 316 00:14:03,510 --> 00:14:04,803 The Celtics have the ball. 317 00:14:04,887 --> 00:14:07,014 [Announcer]Havlicek. 318 00:14:07,097 --> 00:14:08,682 Erickson. 319 00:14:08,724 --> 00:14:11,518 Knocked away, but Nelson gets it. 320 00:14:13,312 --> 00:14:14,521 He goes and tips the ball. 321 00:14:14,605 --> 00:14:16,648 It goes right to Don Nelson, 322 00:14:16,732 --> 00:14:19,610 and Don Nelson nails a lucky jump shot. 323 00:14:21,320 --> 00:14:24,531 The Celtics win their 11th championship. 324 00:14:24,573 --> 00:14:27,242 That ball must have gone in the air 15 feet. 325 00:14:27,326 --> 00:14:29,786 I could not believe it. 326 00:14:29,828 --> 00:14:34,917 The disappointment, bitter disappointment. 327 00:14:35,000 --> 00:14:37,711 That was probably my lowest ebb 328 00:14:37,794 --> 00:14:40,923 in my life as a professional athlete. 329 00:14:40,964 --> 00:14:43,592 That one game. 330 00:14:45,135 --> 00:14:47,638 And the coach left after that. 331 00:14:48,513 --> 00:14:51,183 Three weeks after the game, 332 00:14:51,266 --> 00:14:54,186 Russell was speaking at the University of Wisconsin, 333 00:14:54,269 --> 00:14:57,689 and he started to criticize Wilt. 334 00:14:57,731 --> 00:15:00,108 [Jackie MacMullan] He really called Wilt out 335 00:15:00,192 --> 00:15:02,110 and said, you know, short of a broken back, 336 00:15:02,194 --> 00:15:03,362 you should have been out there. 337 00:15:03,445 --> 00:15:06,740 He felt it took away from his final game, 338 00:15:06,782 --> 00:15:09,076 from his legacy. 339 00:15:10,869 --> 00:15:11,620 I have to be honest. 340 00:15:11,703 --> 00:15:12,955 I thought Bill was out of line. 341 00:15:12,996 --> 00:15:13,914 Of all people, 342 00:15:13,956 --> 00:15:15,082 there's no one else on the earth 343 00:15:15,123 --> 00:15:16,249 that would have mattered more 344 00:15:16,291 --> 00:15:19,336 to have his respect than Russell. 345 00:15:19,378 --> 00:15:21,588 The inference that somehow he quit 346 00:15:21,672 --> 00:15:24,007 and that Russell was indignant over it, 347 00:15:24,091 --> 00:15:25,592 it bothered Wilt so much, 348 00:15:25,634 --> 00:15:29,763 they didn't speak for decades. 349 00:15:42,442 --> 00:15:47,030 Wilt loved Los Angeles from a lifestyle perspective. 350 00:15:48,240 --> 00:15:51,118 Well, he's the highest paid player in all of sports. 351 00:15:51,868 --> 00:15:54,204 But he wasn't just getting his money 352 00:15:54,287 --> 00:15:55,455 and just, you know, hanging out. 353 00:15:55,539 --> 00:15:56,707 He was investing. 354 00:15:56,790 --> 00:16:00,919 Wilt was the first professional basketball player 355 00:16:01,003 --> 00:16:02,212 that when they retired, 356 00:16:02,295 --> 00:16:04,965 he didn't have to work another day in his life. 357 00:16:05,549 --> 00:16:06,633 As bad as it was, 358 00:16:06,675 --> 00:16:08,385 we thought, when he was coming up, 359 00:16:08,468 --> 00:16:10,387 God turned it all around. 360 00:16:10,429 --> 00:16:11,638 My mother was worried about him, 361 00:16:11,722 --> 00:16:14,224 and he was able to take care of her. 362 00:16:15,058 --> 00:16:17,269 [Wilt] Of course, it didn't take me long to realize 363 00:16:17,352 --> 00:16:20,313 that it's not the amount of money you have. 364 00:16:20,397 --> 00:16:23,483 It's what you do with it that brings contentment. 365 00:16:23,567 --> 00:16:27,195 My parents and several of my aunts and uncles and cousins 366 00:16:27,279 --> 00:16:28,905 actually lived in an apartment building 367 00:16:28,989 --> 00:16:29,698 that my uncles owns. 368 00:16:29,781 --> 00:16:31,241 We called it Chamberlain Villa. 369 00:16:31,283 --> 00:16:33,869 28 apartments. 370 00:16:33,952 --> 00:16:35,412 There was a swimming pool 371 00:16:35,454 --> 00:16:37,080 so mom can have a swimming pool. 372 00:16:37,164 --> 00:16:39,708 My dad was loving sitting on the patio 373 00:16:39,791 --> 00:16:42,002 watching my mother jump in the pool 374 00:16:42,044 --> 00:16:43,628 like a crazy lady. 375 00:16:43,670 --> 00:16:46,339 But then my mother was a lot like Dip. 376 00:16:46,381 --> 00:16:49,384 She was a natural. 377 00:16:49,468 --> 00:16:52,179 The adults hung out. 378 00:16:52,220 --> 00:16:53,930 It was really like a little community, 379 00:16:53,972 --> 00:16:55,849 a really close little community. 380 00:16:55,891 --> 00:16:59,186 And then we'd be in the back yard shooting shots. 381 00:16:59,227 --> 00:17:00,520 Kids would lose their mind 382 00:17:00,604 --> 00:17:02,981 if they was around the neighborhood and see his car. 383 00:17:03,065 --> 00:17:05,192 A Ferrari or a Maserati 384 00:17:05,275 --> 00:17:07,694 or a Rolls-Royce. 385 00:17:09,988 --> 00:17:14,451 He bought that Chamberlain Villa for my father basically. 386 00:17:14,493 --> 00:17:17,204 Because my father was getting older, 387 00:17:17,287 --> 00:17:19,915 and we didn't trust his health. 388 00:17:19,998 --> 00:17:25,962 My dad died, you know, when we were still in California. 389 00:17:26,880 --> 00:17:31,176 My mother didn't do well after my father passed, 390 00:17:31,259 --> 00:17:32,469 and she came to the East coast, 391 00:17:32,511 --> 00:17:34,137 but she didn't want to live with none of us. 392 00:17:34,179 --> 00:17:36,973 She wanted to live by herself. 393 00:17:37,015 --> 00:17:40,143 I was at home in my house in Santa Monica 394 00:17:40,185 --> 00:17:41,978 when he called me from Philadelphia. 395 00:17:42,020 --> 00:17:44,106 His mother was dying. 396 00:17:44,189 --> 00:17:45,774 [monitor beeps] 397 00:17:45,816 --> 00:17:48,902 [Wilt] I lost both my mother and father 398 00:17:48,985 --> 00:17:50,737 to the disease of cancer, 399 00:17:50,779 --> 00:17:55,283 the most extraneous, indescribable. 400 00:17:55,367 --> 00:17:58,036 Wilt came home. 401 00:17:58,078 --> 00:17:59,621 That was a good thing. 402 00:17:59,704 --> 00:18:01,498 All the other kids had been around, 403 00:18:01,581 --> 00:18:04,751 and then he said, when I got there, 404 00:18:04,835 --> 00:18:09,381 the others left and it was just me. 405 00:18:09,422 --> 00:18:12,759 There was the incredibly moving thing I read 406 00:18:12,801 --> 00:18:15,137 about the end of her life, 407 00:18:15,178 --> 00:18:19,015 where he got into bed with her 408 00:18:19,057 --> 00:18:21,518 to nurse her till the end. 409 00:18:21,601 --> 00:18:23,353 [monitor beeps] 410 00:18:25,188 --> 00:18:27,816 [monitor flatlines] 411 00:18:29,109 --> 00:18:31,987 And she died in his arms. 412 00:18:37,659 --> 00:18:40,787 When I think about my Uncle Dippy, 413 00:18:40,871 --> 00:18:46,042 I think about just how warm he was. 414 00:18:46,084 --> 00:18:48,461 He was a hands-on uncle, 415 00:18:48,545 --> 00:18:51,131 almost like a father figure. 416 00:18:51,214 --> 00:18:52,382 Do you have any children? 417 00:18:52,465 --> 00:18:54,342 I'm a single man. 418 00:18:54,384 --> 00:18:55,844 I'm not sure. If I have some children... 419 00:18:55,927 --> 00:18:59,181 Yeah, but wouldn't you like to be a father? 420 00:19:07,230 --> 00:19:09,357 [ding dong] 421 00:19:10,525 --> 00:19:12,652 Hey-hey. 422 00:19:12,736 --> 00:19:14,446 How you doing, cuz? 423 00:19:14,529 --> 00:19:16,406 Good to see you, man. Good to see you. 424 00:19:16,489 --> 00:19:17,532 Looking good, looking good. 425 00:19:17,616 --> 00:19:18,658 Welcome back, welcome back. 426 00:19:18,742 --> 00:19:20,744 My full name is Aaron Levi, 427 00:19:20,827 --> 00:19:25,081 and Wilt Chamberlain was my biological father. 428 00:19:25,123 --> 00:19:28,251 You know, being in his family, I hate to say it. 429 00:19:28,293 --> 00:19:29,502 We got a lot of stuff 430 00:19:29,586 --> 00:19:32,339 where, like, oh, I think I could be... 431 00:19:32,380 --> 00:19:35,091 And it's just, like, no, no, no. 432 00:19:35,175 --> 00:19:35,926 Come on, man, you're not. 433 00:19:35,967 --> 00:19:39,012 Aaron brought more than a story. 434 00:19:39,095 --> 00:19:40,555 He brought documentation. 435 00:19:40,639 --> 00:19:42,641 It's called a non-identifying letter, 436 00:19:42,682 --> 00:19:45,894 and the description of the biological father 437 00:19:45,936 --> 00:19:48,855 was he's a professional basketball player, 438 00:19:48,939 --> 00:19:53,360 six-foot-ten, and that he had a connection to Kansas. 439 00:19:53,443 --> 00:19:57,280 I was born in San Jose, California. 440 00:19:57,364 --> 00:20:00,075 January 27, 1965. 441 00:20:00,116 --> 00:20:02,410 I knew I was adopted. 442 00:20:02,494 --> 00:20:05,288 I knew our adoptive parents were Jewish. 443 00:20:05,330 --> 00:20:07,457 I knew I was half Black, half white. 444 00:20:07,499 --> 00:20:10,543 All my brothers and sisters were adopted. 445 00:20:10,585 --> 00:20:14,047 I'm a little bit over 6-5. 446 00:20:14,089 --> 00:20:17,509 I definitely felt looked at as a kid 447 00:20:17,592 --> 00:20:19,302 because I'm tall and Black. 448 00:20:19,386 --> 00:20:22,847 I can only guess how it would have been 449 00:20:22,889 --> 00:20:26,434 for someone who looked like Wilt. 450 00:20:29,437 --> 00:20:30,939 It wasn't till I got a little older 451 00:20:31,022 --> 00:20:33,358 that I started thinking more about, well, 452 00:20:33,441 --> 00:20:34,985 you know, where are my parents 453 00:20:35,068 --> 00:20:38,446 and why did they, you know, let me go? 454 00:20:40,240 --> 00:20:42,117 And it was a long journey 455 00:20:42,158 --> 00:20:44,869 to find my birth mother. 456 00:20:44,953 --> 00:20:47,497 She did confirm immediately 457 00:20:47,539 --> 00:20:49,541 that Wilt was my father. 458 00:20:49,582 --> 00:20:52,585 She met him in a jazz club in San Francisco. 459 00:20:52,627 --> 00:20:55,380 He was playing for the Warriors. 460 00:20:55,463 --> 00:20:57,090 It was the sixties. 461 00:20:57,173 --> 00:20:59,926 The truth is it was a one night stand, 462 00:21:00,010 --> 00:21:02,595 and it was very clear to me 463 00:21:02,679 --> 00:21:04,597 that this was a big secret for her, 464 00:21:04,681 --> 00:21:07,600 and that maybe only one or two people 465 00:21:07,684 --> 00:21:11,146 even now know that she had a child. 466 00:21:12,272 --> 00:21:15,859 It's kind of funny. I see some of the resemblance, though. 467 00:21:15,942 --> 00:21:17,610 -Yeah. -You know what I mean? 468 00:21:17,694 --> 00:21:20,780 The first thing I noticed about me and Wilt 469 00:21:20,822 --> 00:21:22,198 is the eyebrows. 470 00:21:22,240 --> 00:21:25,410 What my mother told me 471 00:21:25,452 --> 00:21:28,788 was that she did reach out to Wilt 472 00:21:28,830 --> 00:21:31,833 and said that, you know, she was pregnant, 473 00:21:31,916 --> 00:21:35,128 but that she was going to put me up for adoption. 474 00:21:35,211 --> 00:21:38,840 And according to her, he said, okay. 475 00:21:38,882 --> 00:21:41,718 Yeah, this is when...because he's coming out of high school then. 476 00:21:41,801 --> 00:21:43,553 And then there I am right here. 477 00:21:43,636 --> 00:21:44,679 I like your hair. 478 00:21:44,721 --> 00:21:46,806 Finally do our own little thing, right? 479 00:21:46,848 --> 00:21:47,932 Yeah, it's... 480 00:21:48,016 --> 00:21:49,601 My Aunt Barbara told me 481 00:21:49,642 --> 00:21:51,728 that he would have been very surprised 482 00:21:51,811 --> 00:21:53,188 that I existed, 483 00:21:53,229 --> 00:21:55,732 because he thought that my birth mother 484 00:21:55,815 --> 00:21:57,525 was considering abortion. 485 00:21:57,567 --> 00:21:58,860 But he would have been happy. 486 00:21:58,902 --> 00:22:01,237 -How's Peggy doing? -She's doing well. 487 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:05,700 But because there's different versions of the story, 488 00:22:05,784 --> 00:22:06,993 I sometimes still think about, you know, 489 00:22:07,035 --> 00:22:10,038 what did he actually know? 490 00:22:12,832 --> 00:22:16,252 Once I confirmed when I did a DNA test 491 00:22:16,294 --> 00:22:17,545 that Wilt was my father, 492 00:22:17,629 --> 00:22:19,297 it was this very strange moment 493 00:22:19,339 --> 00:22:24,260 because I knew his name probably at three or four years old. 494 00:22:24,302 --> 00:22:27,347 You know, you could not not see him on TV. 495 00:22:27,389 --> 00:22:30,100 Reaching high 496 00:22:30,141 --> 00:22:33,603 All along the borderline 497 00:22:38,525 --> 00:22:40,110 I'm Wilt Chamberlain. 498 00:22:41,694 --> 00:22:44,072 His life was epic in so many ways. 499 00:22:45,031 --> 00:22:48,118 He's in a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. 500 00:22:48,201 --> 00:22:48,952 Aah! 501 00:22:48,993 --> 00:22:51,663 I'm more intimidating in my BVDs. 502 00:22:51,704 --> 00:22:55,625 He's stuffed inside a Volkswagen bug in an ad. 503 00:22:55,667 --> 00:22:57,794 He's on TV all the time. 504 00:22:57,877 --> 00:23:00,046 Hey, it's nice to see you guys again. 505 00:23:00,088 --> 00:23:02,340 Oh, it's great to be here, Wilt. 506 00:23:02,382 --> 00:23:05,093 He is spectacular. 507 00:23:05,135 --> 00:23:07,011 It doesn't mean he's a perfect person. 508 00:23:07,053 --> 00:23:11,307 I suppose if you're a spectacle all your life 509 00:23:11,349 --> 00:23:12,684 that it would make sense 510 00:23:12,725 --> 00:23:15,145 that you are also spectacular. 511 00:23:15,228 --> 00:23:19,566 Building his own race car was amazing. 512 00:23:21,192 --> 00:23:22,777 He was gambling. 513 00:23:22,861 --> 00:23:24,195 We were playing them in this exhibition, 514 00:23:24,237 --> 00:23:27,240 and he said, I gotta be at a party, you know, 515 00:23:27,282 --> 00:23:29,367 for, you know, the changing of the showgirls 516 00:23:29,409 --> 00:23:30,577 over at the Stardust. 517 00:23:30,618 --> 00:23:31,744 So he said, go cash these in. 518 00:23:31,786 --> 00:23:34,581 $20,000. 519 00:23:34,622 --> 00:23:35,915 I went and cashed it in. 520 00:23:35,999 --> 00:23:38,334 I was making 15,000 for the season, 521 00:23:38,376 --> 00:23:41,129 and I gave him $20,000 that I cashed in for him, 522 00:23:41,171 --> 00:23:44,299 and he said, hey, come with me to the party. 523 00:23:45,258 --> 00:23:47,427 The first time I ever met him in person, 524 00:23:47,469 --> 00:23:50,346 come out of a restaurant in Santa Monica, California, 525 00:23:50,388 --> 00:23:52,724 and there in a white Rolls-Royce 526 00:23:52,765 --> 00:23:55,310 with two dogs the size of small horses, 527 00:23:55,393 --> 00:23:59,439 a beautiful blonde woman, is Wilt Chamberlain. 528 00:23:59,481 --> 00:24:02,859 And he's got the wrap around tangerine sunglasses. 529 00:24:02,901 --> 00:24:04,569 He's got an African walking stick. 530 00:24:04,652 --> 00:24:05,862 He's got a beret. 531 00:24:05,945 --> 00:24:07,697 His feet are propped up against the steering wheel. 532 00:24:07,780 --> 00:24:09,032 No shoes. 533 00:24:09,115 --> 00:24:11,409 I said, Wilt Chamberlain, I'd love to have you on the show. 534 00:24:11,451 --> 00:24:14,037 He goes, Roy Firestone, I'd love to do the show, 535 00:24:14,078 --> 00:24:17,624 but you have to understand, I'm trying to keep a low profile. 536 00:24:20,835 --> 00:24:22,295 He was a peacock. 537 00:24:22,337 --> 00:24:24,964 Man, he looked good. He had that big medallion on. 538 00:24:25,006 --> 00:24:29,552 And when he wore those suede velvet shirts he had, 539 00:24:29,594 --> 00:24:30,929 then he was really cool. 540 00:24:31,012 --> 00:24:33,973 Long fringe leather jacket and pants. 541 00:24:34,057 --> 00:24:35,350 Of course, they had to be custom made 542 00:24:35,433 --> 00:24:38,269 because who makes clothes for a seven-footer? 543 00:24:38,311 --> 00:24:41,731 Wilt Chamberlain was the original gangster of fashion 544 00:24:41,773 --> 00:24:42,774 for NBA players. 545 00:24:42,857 --> 00:24:45,818 [laughs] Well, he thinks he dresses hard, 546 00:24:45,860 --> 00:24:47,904 but my mother was person that liked us to look nice, 547 00:24:47,987 --> 00:24:49,697 so we all dressed well. 548 00:24:49,781 --> 00:24:51,449 So because we dressed well, 549 00:24:51,491 --> 00:24:54,285 he thinks he's in fashion, too, but he's not. 550 00:24:54,327 --> 00:24:58,748 Keeping him in his place. [chuckles] 551 00:25:00,792 --> 00:25:05,129 Nine games into the 1970 season, 552 00:25:05,171 --> 00:25:07,882 Wilt Chamberlain takes a pass, 553 00:25:07,924 --> 00:25:10,927 starts to dribble towards the basket 554 00:25:10,969 --> 00:25:13,596 and collapses. 555 00:25:14,847 --> 00:25:17,392 It was the first time 556 00:25:17,475 --> 00:25:22,480 that I saw a distressed look on his face. 557 00:25:22,522 --> 00:25:27,026 I got the news that he was gonna miss a long time. 558 00:25:27,110 --> 00:25:33,032 His patellar tendon in his right knee was ruptured. 559 00:25:33,116 --> 00:25:34,325 It was the same knee 560 00:25:34,409 --> 00:25:38,413 that he wrenched in the '69 finals. 561 00:25:41,749 --> 00:25:44,127 The orthopedic surgeons thought 562 00:25:44,168 --> 00:25:48,047 that he may never play basketball again. 563 00:25:48,089 --> 00:25:50,925 [Wilt] My body was the one thing 564 00:25:51,009 --> 00:25:53,261 I'd always been able to count on. 565 00:25:53,928 --> 00:25:59,142 Now my body had failed me. 566 00:26:06,149 --> 00:26:08,026 Wilt rehabbed his knee 567 00:26:08,109 --> 00:26:10,236 on the beaches at Santa Monica. 568 00:26:10,320 --> 00:26:13,823 He went and ran on the sand. 569 00:26:14,824 --> 00:26:17,160 Gene Selznick, the king of the beach, 570 00:26:17,201 --> 00:26:20,246 taught him the game of volleyball for rehab, 571 00:26:20,288 --> 00:26:21,372 because running around in the sand, 572 00:26:21,456 --> 00:26:23,124 you get to really work your legs. 573 00:26:23,166 --> 00:26:26,961 He remembered me from when he was on the Globetrotters. 574 00:26:27,045 --> 00:26:29,380 I got into volleyball before basketball. 575 00:26:29,422 --> 00:26:30,965 So I started playing a lot with Wilt. 576 00:26:31,007 --> 00:26:33,509 And we hung out and we played cards together. 577 00:26:33,593 --> 00:26:34,969 And they're all cheating. 578 00:26:35,053 --> 00:26:38,014 Wilt cheated at backgammon, he cheated at cards. 579 00:26:38,097 --> 00:26:40,516 Let's face it. Wilt did not like to lose at anything. 580 00:26:40,558 --> 00:26:43,269 And then talk about yelling and screaming. 581 00:26:43,311 --> 00:26:44,854 We were the loudest on the beach. 582 00:26:44,896 --> 00:26:46,564 Everybody's going, what's going on over there? 583 00:26:46,648 --> 00:26:47,857 But he had fun. 584 00:26:48,941 --> 00:26:51,235 I think Wilt just loved it. 585 00:26:51,277 --> 00:26:53,488 You go to the beach and everyone's in a bathing suit, 586 00:26:53,529 --> 00:26:55,323 so you don't know if they're rich or they're poor. 587 00:26:55,365 --> 00:26:58,076 And everyone opened their arms to Wilt. 588 00:26:58,159 --> 00:26:59,452 They loved him. 589 00:26:59,535 --> 00:27:01,204 [Wilt] I was forced to do 590 00:27:01,245 --> 00:27:03,873 some serious thinking about myself 591 00:27:03,956 --> 00:27:08,127 and to take stock of Wilt Chamberlain the man. 592 00:27:08,211 --> 00:27:11,089 He had a whole new subculture of friends 593 00:27:11,130 --> 00:27:12,882 that he really did things with 594 00:27:12,924 --> 00:27:14,217 and liked him not just because 595 00:27:14,300 --> 00:27:16,969 he was the best basketball player for the Lakers, 596 00:27:17,053 --> 00:27:18,262 but for who he was. 597 00:27:18,304 --> 00:27:20,473 I mean, I think those dudes down on the beach 598 00:27:20,515 --> 00:27:23,601 knew Wilt better than any of us as teammates. 599 00:27:23,685 --> 00:27:26,312 People left him alone out there when he was doing... 600 00:27:26,396 --> 00:27:27,980 and maybe that's where he felt... 601 00:27:28,022 --> 00:27:31,776 he felt, um...more normal. 602 00:27:31,818 --> 00:27:34,487 [Wilt] I found out 603 00:27:34,529 --> 00:27:37,824 I really didn't need being the center of attention 604 00:27:37,907 --> 00:27:39,867 to be happy. 605 00:27:41,786 --> 00:27:46,457 And that led to him loving outdoor and indoor volleyball, 606 00:27:46,499 --> 00:27:49,377 and that's another phase of Wilt's life. 607 00:27:50,211 --> 00:27:53,297 Years later, he didn't go straight to retirement. 608 00:27:53,381 --> 00:27:55,007 He went straight into volleyball. 609 00:27:55,049 --> 00:27:58,010 People would flock to all these volleyball matches 610 00:27:58,094 --> 00:27:59,595 that he would be part of. 611 00:27:59,637 --> 00:28:02,014 Wilt put volley ball on the map. 612 00:28:02,056 --> 00:28:04,934 You know, you would think he would have been spoiled 613 00:28:05,017 --> 00:28:06,185 in this or that, but he wasn't. 614 00:28:06,269 --> 00:28:08,312 He had good values about hard work. 615 00:28:08,354 --> 00:28:09,647 And way back in the seventies, 616 00:28:09,689 --> 00:28:13,025 when he was coming back from his knee injury, 617 00:28:13,067 --> 00:28:14,986 I'm convinced that the reason 618 00:28:15,069 --> 00:28:16,571 that he came back so much quicker 619 00:28:16,612 --> 00:28:20,533 was because he was running in that soft sand every day. 620 00:28:20,616 --> 00:28:25,288 He put in 10 hours of rehab almost every day. 621 00:28:25,329 --> 00:28:28,166 Now, even with modern surgery, 622 00:28:28,207 --> 00:28:29,542 it's a good year 623 00:28:29,625 --> 00:28:31,127 to where you could come back and play. 624 00:28:31,210 --> 00:28:36,883 Well, he came back after four and a half months. 625 00:28:36,924 --> 00:28:38,342 Well, we're hoping it's strong enough. 626 00:28:38,426 --> 00:28:40,887 You know, it really feels different, I must say. 627 00:28:40,928 --> 00:28:42,346 The only way we can really test it 628 00:28:42,430 --> 00:28:43,556 is to try it, you know. 629 00:28:43,639 --> 00:28:47,018 It's unfortunate that it can only be proven 630 00:28:47,101 --> 00:28:49,896 by an error, which would be a very costly error. 631 00:28:51,272 --> 00:28:55,026 This is the guy that quit and didn't wanna play 632 00:28:55,109 --> 00:28:56,360 and came back four and a half months 633 00:28:56,402 --> 00:28:59,572 after fricking surgery for the playoffs. 634 00:29:00,364 --> 00:29:03,618 And they make it all the way to the NBA finals. 635 00:29:04,994 --> 00:29:06,370 [Announcer]NBA basketball 636 00:29:06,454 --> 00:29:08,956 is being brought to you by Salem filter cigarettes, 637 00:29:08,998 --> 00:29:11,626 with the taste that's springtime soft, 638 00:29:11,667 --> 00:29:13,169 menthol fresh. 639 00:29:13,252 --> 00:29:15,421 The 1970 finals 640 00:29:15,505 --> 00:29:19,050 were the Lakers against the New York Knicks, 641 00:29:19,133 --> 00:29:21,052 led by Willis Reed. 642 00:29:21,135 --> 00:29:24,138 And there are very clear clips in the 1970 finals 643 00:29:24,180 --> 00:29:27,099 where Wilt looks much stiffer. 644 00:29:27,183 --> 00:29:28,976 Just getting up and down the court, 645 00:29:29,060 --> 00:29:31,521 where you can see him laboring. 646 00:29:33,314 --> 00:29:35,775 In the middle of a tough series... 647 00:29:39,070 --> 00:29:41,405 Willis Reed injures his hip. 648 00:29:41,489 --> 00:29:43,616 I was there in game five when Willis went down, 649 00:29:43,658 --> 00:29:46,285 and now the Knicks played the entire second half 650 00:29:46,369 --> 00:29:48,579 with nobody over 6-6 of consequence, 651 00:29:48,663 --> 00:29:51,165 and Wilt did nothing in the second half. 652 00:29:51,207 --> 00:29:56,379 And they lost the game and Wilt got criticized 653 00:29:56,420 --> 00:29:59,382 that he didn't have that killer instinct. 654 00:30:03,553 --> 00:30:05,346 You know what happened in game six though, by the way. 655 00:30:05,429 --> 00:30:09,892 After all the ballyhoo, Wilt went for 45 and 27 656 00:30:09,934 --> 00:30:12,395 and they won the game. 657 00:30:12,478 --> 00:30:14,522 So here it is. It's game seven. 658 00:30:14,564 --> 00:30:16,357 We have theater. Theater counts. 659 00:30:16,440 --> 00:30:18,401 [Announcer]Tonight its a one game showdown. 660 00:30:18,484 --> 00:30:21,153 New York hoping that Willis Reed will play. 661 00:30:21,195 --> 00:30:23,197 I think we see Willis coming out. 662 00:30:23,281 --> 00:30:25,575 There he comes right now. 663 00:30:25,658 --> 00:30:30,037 Willis Reed literally limps onto the floor. 664 00:30:30,079 --> 00:30:32,707 This is certainly amazing. 665 00:30:32,748 --> 00:30:34,750 You never heard anything like that in your life. 666 00:30:34,792 --> 00:30:36,335 [Announcer]Frazier then slows it down, 667 00:30:36,419 --> 00:30:37,837 is picked up by Jerry West. 668 00:30:37,920 --> 00:30:40,381 Top of the post, Reed, good! 669 00:30:40,464 --> 00:30:41,757 Makes the first two jumpers. 670 00:30:41,799 --> 00:30:44,719 That was the only two baskets he made all game. 671 00:30:44,760 --> 00:30:47,680 The momentum shifts, and you can't stop it. 672 00:30:47,763 --> 00:30:50,016 [Announcer]Frazier. 673 00:30:50,099 --> 00:30:52,101 And then it was the Clyde Frazier game. 674 00:30:52,143 --> 00:30:54,020 36 points, 19 assists. 675 00:30:54,103 --> 00:30:56,480 We have a new NBA champion! 676 00:30:56,564 --> 00:30:59,025 But the story needs to be... 677 00:30:59,066 --> 00:31:00,026 Congratulations. 678 00:31:00,109 --> 00:31:01,485 You offered I think the best 679 00:31:01,569 --> 00:31:03,321 that the human spirit can offer. 680 00:31:03,404 --> 00:31:07,241 Willis Reed's almost put on the sporting Mount Rushmore 681 00:31:07,325 --> 00:31:08,367 for his effort. 682 00:31:08,409 --> 00:31:09,493 It was like a big miracle. 683 00:31:09,577 --> 00:31:10,786 You know what a miracle is? 684 00:31:10,870 --> 00:31:13,247 A miracle is getting on that freaking court 685 00:31:13,289 --> 00:31:16,459 four months after patellar tendon surgery, 686 00:31:16,542 --> 00:31:18,085 competing for the NBA title. 687 00:31:18,127 --> 00:31:19,879 That's a freaking miracle. 688 00:31:19,962 --> 00:31:21,339 Winning changes things. 689 00:31:21,422 --> 00:31:24,300 The theater could have been Wilt Chamberlain, 690 00:31:24,342 --> 00:31:26,385 after rehabbing from a knee injury 691 00:31:26,469 --> 00:31:27,887 and winning the game for the Lakers. 692 00:31:27,929 --> 00:31:29,639 Because he didn't win the championship that year, 693 00:31:29,722 --> 00:31:30,514 no one remembers. 694 00:31:30,556 --> 00:31:31,807 You know, you're talking about 695 00:31:31,849 --> 00:31:34,018 Wilt's surgically repaired knee. 696 00:31:34,060 --> 00:31:35,895 I forgot completely about it. 697 00:31:35,978 --> 00:31:37,480 Because at the end of the game, 698 00:31:37,563 --> 00:31:40,608 there goes Goliath again. 699 00:31:43,444 --> 00:31:46,322 I don't think it's fair to him at all. 700 00:31:46,405 --> 00:31:48,824 That was one of the most remarkable recoveries 701 00:31:48,908 --> 00:31:52,703 from an injury ever in the history of the game. 702 00:31:52,745 --> 00:31:53,454 Ever. 703 00:31:53,496 --> 00:31:55,539 At least here in Los Angeles, 704 00:31:55,623 --> 00:31:58,834 and the fans gave him a big ovation. 705 00:32:01,462 --> 00:32:04,256 [Wilt] It's almost as if my injury 706 00:32:04,298 --> 00:32:06,968 freed me of that Superman image. 707 00:32:07,009 --> 00:32:09,220 No one ever roots for Goliath, 708 00:32:09,303 --> 00:32:12,181 but in today's world... 709 00:32:12,223 --> 00:32:14,100 [Announcer]At center, from the Milwaukee Bucks, 710 00:32:14,183 --> 00:32:16,686 Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. 711 00:32:16,769 --> 00:32:20,606 The fans are not always sure who Goliath is. 712 00:32:21,440 --> 00:32:23,651 [Announcer] Jabbar and Chamberlain. 713 00:32:25,403 --> 00:32:28,781 I was never used to seeing anyone taller than Wilt 714 00:32:28,864 --> 00:32:30,533 until I saw Kareem. 715 00:32:31,784 --> 00:32:34,537 Wilt said, Sonny, this is the first time 716 00:32:34,578 --> 00:32:37,415 that I've ever looked around and said maybe I need some help. 717 00:32:37,456 --> 00:32:41,419 1971, young Kareem is coming off an MVP season, 718 00:32:41,460 --> 00:32:45,339 and then Milwaukee, they won the championship. 719 00:32:45,381 --> 00:32:46,882 People probably never would have guessed 720 00:32:46,924 --> 00:32:50,511 that Kareem met Wilt when he was a teenager 721 00:32:50,594 --> 00:32:51,595 at Rucker Park. 722 00:32:51,679 --> 00:32:52,722 You know the expression 723 00:32:52,805 --> 00:32:54,598 "he'd give you the shirt off his back?" 724 00:32:54,682 --> 00:32:55,975 Well, he literally did. 725 00:32:56,017 --> 00:32:58,477 Wilt would give him his clothes. 726 00:32:58,519 --> 00:33:00,229 He wasn't old enough to get into the clubs. 727 00:33:00,271 --> 00:33:01,480 Wilt got him in. 728 00:33:01,522 --> 00:33:04,233 There was a mentorship relationship that was there. 729 00:33:04,275 --> 00:33:07,820 [Wilt] When he got to UCLA and then turned pro 730 00:33:07,862 --> 00:33:11,115 and got so heavily into the Black pride/Black power thing, 731 00:33:11,157 --> 00:33:12,867 he started to snub me. 732 00:33:12,950 --> 00:33:15,828 He seems to think because I haven't changed my name 733 00:33:15,911 --> 00:33:18,414 and still have a lot of white friends 734 00:33:18,456 --> 00:33:20,708 I've abandoned the Black man. 735 00:33:20,791 --> 00:33:23,335 Kareem did not respect the fact 736 00:33:23,377 --> 00:33:25,880 that Wilt was a Nixon Republican. 737 00:33:25,963 --> 00:33:28,257 Kareem grew up in a more progressive era. 738 00:33:28,340 --> 00:33:29,884 You know, they had a rivalry. 739 00:33:29,925 --> 00:33:32,219 [Announcer] Right hand 12-footer good! 740 00:33:32,261 --> 00:33:34,430 The new king of scoring. 741 00:33:34,472 --> 00:33:36,682 has ascended his throne. 742 00:33:36,724 --> 00:33:38,601 [Wilt] I could have put the scoring record 743 00:33:38,684 --> 00:33:40,436 so far out of reach, 744 00:33:40,519 --> 00:33:44,398 Kareem would have had to play 30 years to break the record. 745 00:33:44,440 --> 00:33:47,193 I've found big men are much more sensitive 746 00:33:47,234 --> 00:33:48,527 than we realize. 747 00:33:48,569 --> 00:33:50,529 And I saw it in my interviews. 748 00:33:50,571 --> 00:33:52,656 And this is the open letter to Wilt. 749 00:33:52,698 --> 00:33:54,033 Which I've never read, by the way. 750 00:33:54,075 --> 00:33:55,868 So you're gonna read me something I've never read. 751 00:33:55,910 --> 00:33:58,245 You, Wilt Chamberlain, complain about the officiating, 752 00:33:58,329 --> 00:33:59,538 your teammates, and other things, 753 00:33:59,622 --> 00:34:01,499 and then you quit, leaving college early 754 00:34:01,582 --> 00:34:03,584 to tour with the Globetrotters and make your fortune. 755 00:34:03,667 --> 00:34:05,336 That seemed to set a pattern for you. 756 00:34:05,419 --> 00:34:08,380 After any tough test in which you didn't do well, 757 00:34:08,464 --> 00:34:10,841 you blamed those around you and quit. 758 00:34:10,883 --> 00:34:13,677 Playing 15 years of professional basketball, 759 00:34:13,761 --> 00:34:16,263 14 years in the NBA is quitting? 760 00:34:16,347 --> 00:34:21,060 Their competitive rivalry continued for years, 761 00:34:21,102 --> 00:34:24,605 but during the 1971/72 season, 762 00:34:24,688 --> 00:34:25,940 Wilt faced a crossroads 763 00:34:26,023 --> 00:34:28,275 that we've seen a lot of athletes face, 764 00:34:28,359 --> 00:34:30,861 which is the physical gifts that you once had 765 00:34:30,945 --> 00:34:33,781 are not as dominant as they used to be. 766 00:34:33,864 --> 00:34:37,368 I just couldn't play this guy all by myself. 767 00:34:37,409 --> 00:34:41,664 The hardest thing for a superstar to do 768 00:34:41,705 --> 00:34:43,666 is to not be a superstar anymore 769 00:34:43,707 --> 00:34:46,377 and to take your game down a notch 770 00:34:46,460 --> 00:34:47,670 for the better of the team. 771 00:34:47,711 --> 00:34:49,338 Wilt Chamberlain has to decide 772 00:34:49,421 --> 00:34:51,382 whether or not he is able 773 00:34:51,423 --> 00:34:53,217 to become more of a role player, 774 00:34:53,300 --> 00:34:55,511 as opposed to being the centerpiece 775 00:34:55,553 --> 00:34:58,639 to ironically play more like Bill Russell. 776 00:34:58,681 --> 00:35:00,474 The differences with Russell, 777 00:35:00,558 --> 00:35:02,434 he was never the guy scoring the winning baskets 778 00:35:02,518 --> 00:35:03,686 and getting all the points. 779 00:35:03,769 --> 00:35:06,480 His ego was already in check in some regards 780 00:35:06,522 --> 00:35:08,232 because of the way he played the game. 781 00:35:08,315 --> 00:35:09,567 There's things that Bill Russell does 782 00:35:09,650 --> 00:35:11,777 that are incredible, but he's not a great scorer. 783 00:35:11,819 --> 00:35:13,696 So there are literally players on the team 784 00:35:13,737 --> 00:35:15,406 who'd be, like, he needs them. 785 00:35:15,447 --> 00:35:17,575 I need you because I cannot score the way you can. 786 00:35:17,616 --> 00:35:19,535 Built trust amongst his teammates. 787 00:35:19,618 --> 00:35:22,955 That seemed to be something that Wilt maybe struggled with. 788 00:35:22,997 --> 00:35:24,999 Bill Russell, there was no such struggle. 789 00:35:25,040 --> 00:35:27,501 When I played for the Boston Celtics as a rookie 790 00:35:27,543 --> 00:35:29,837 with Bill Russell, the trust was there 791 00:35:29,920 --> 00:35:31,964 because that team stayed together 792 00:35:32,047 --> 00:35:33,090 for all those years. 793 00:35:33,132 --> 00:35:34,675 They won championships together. 794 00:35:34,717 --> 00:35:38,762 But Wilt, who was so dominant as an individual, 795 00:35:38,804 --> 00:35:41,140 and with all the different coaches, 796 00:35:41,182 --> 00:35:43,767 moving and getting traded, 797 00:35:43,809 --> 00:35:46,228 it took him a long time to learn that. 798 00:35:47,730 --> 00:35:51,734 He came to a place in his life 799 00:35:51,775 --> 00:35:54,486 where if this is what it's gonna take to win, 800 00:35:54,528 --> 00:35:55,654 I'm gonna do it. 801 00:35:55,696 --> 00:35:57,198 [Announcer] Screen by Washington. 802 00:35:57,239 --> 00:35:58,949 Shoots a 17-footer. No good. Tipped by Wilt to himself. 803 00:35:58,991 --> 00:36:00,451 Tight rope act. Throws the ball to McMillian. 804 00:36:00,492 --> 00:36:01,493 Great play by the big man. 805 00:36:01,577 --> 00:36:02,953 McMillian, bounce to Jerry, 806 00:36:02,995 --> 00:36:04,371 down the middle, around Maravich, up and in! 807 00:36:04,413 --> 00:36:06,498 They say that Wilt Chamberlain 808 00:36:06,582 --> 00:36:09,001 is now playing sort of Bill Russell style basketball. 809 00:36:09,043 --> 00:36:10,586 What does this mean? How does he... 810 00:36:10,628 --> 00:36:14,131 Well, first you have to say as well as he can. 811 00:36:14,215 --> 00:36:16,842 One of the reasons they call it a Russell impression 812 00:36:16,926 --> 00:36:20,679 is because Bill Sharman, former teammate of Bill Russell, 813 00:36:20,763 --> 00:36:23,057 comes in and coaches the Lakers 814 00:36:23,140 --> 00:36:26,560 On defense, Wilt's protecting the paint, 815 00:36:26,644 --> 00:36:27,728 blocking shots. 816 00:36:27,811 --> 00:36:30,522 He would go out to the perimeter if he needed to. 817 00:36:30,564 --> 00:36:33,442 He decided to play defense the way he could, 818 00:36:33,484 --> 00:36:35,903 and of course he became a great defender. 819 00:36:35,945 --> 00:36:39,823 He is grabbing the rebound and starting the fast break 820 00:36:39,907 --> 00:36:41,033 and getting Jerry West, 821 00:36:41,116 --> 00:36:44,703 getting Gail Goodrich out and going. 822 00:36:44,787 --> 00:36:48,165 On offense, now Wilt is playing up top 823 00:36:48,207 --> 00:36:49,500 off of the ball. 824 00:36:49,541 --> 00:36:50,668 He's setting screens, 825 00:36:50,751 --> 00:36:53,921 creating space for his teammates. 826 00:36:53,963 --> 00:36:57,675 He was an exceptional passer. 827 00:36:57,758 --> 00:36:59,468 And if we needed a big bucket, 828 00:36:59,510 --> 00:37:03,847 I mean, Wilt was the Big Dipper. 829 00:37:03,889 --> 00:37:06,725 He was only taking, you know, nine shots a game then. 830 00:37:06,767 --> 00:37:10,229 He'd do that in a minute and a half in 1962. 831 00:37:14,775 --> 00:37:18,654 That year we won 33 games in a row. 832 00:37:18,696 --> 00:37:19,947 It was like magic. 833 00:37:19,989 --> 00:37:22,658 To this day, it is the record 834 00:37:22,741 --> 00:37:25,327 among all professional sporting teams 835 00:37:25,411 --> 00:37:26,578 in North America. 836 00:37:26,662 --> 00:37:29,456 They had Jim McMillian, Happy Hairston, 837 00:37:29,498 --> 00:37:30,958 Gail Goodrich, and Jerry West. 838 00:37:31,000 --> 00:37:34,878 They just played together like a symphony. 839 00:37:34,920 --> 00:37:36,505 [Announcer]Wilt playing another tremendous game. 840 00:37:36,588 --> 00:37:37,756 Wrap around bounce pass... 841 00:37:37,798 --> 00:37:38,841 And now here's the final 842 00:37:38,924 --> 00:37:40,259 and third stage of Wilt's career. 843 00:37:40,342 --> 00:37:42,845 They were all scoring points, and he's okay with that. 844 00:37:42,928 --> 00:37:46,932 He actually felt, I think, a lot more happy 845 00:37:46,974 --> 00:37:48,892 to play that kind of game. 846 00:37:48,976 --> 00:37:52,521 I think he's one of the most misunderstood people 847 00:37:52,604 --> 00:37:54,023 that I've ever seen. 848 00:37:54,106 --> 00:37:56,233 I spent a lot of time with Wilt personally, 849 00:37:56,275 --> 00:37:59,570 particularly our last two years in the league. 850 00:37:59,611 --> 00:38:02,448 He was a good guy, okay? A good guy. 851 00:38:02,531 --> 00:38:04,908 I remember a time in San Francisco. 852 00:38:04,992 --> 00:38:08,454 Wilt, Happy Hairston, and myself 853 00:38:08,495 --> 00:38:09,788 pile into a cab. 854 00:38:09,872 --> 00:38:12,958 On the radio, all of a sudden The Temptations come on. 855 00:38:13,000 --> 00:38:14,626 And I looked back at both of them, 856 00:38:14,668 --> 00:38:18,630 and I said, hey, have you heard The Temps new one? 857 00:38:18,672 --> 00:38:22,343 You know, Just my imagination 858 00:38:22,426 --> 00:38:23,552 Running away 859 00:38:23,594 --> 00:38:26,138 And they picked up in the back seat. 860 00:38:26,221 --> 00:38:28,140 All the way to the arena, 861 00:38:28,182 --> 00:38:30,601 we're singing Just My Imagination. 862 00:38:30,684 --> 00:38:35,356 And I became one of his favorite dinner partners. 863 00:38:35,397 --> 00:38:36,857 He took Chris and I to dinner. 864 00:38:36,940 --> 00:38:39,151 He brings out this great bottle of wine. 865 00:38:39,193 --> 00:38:41,487 So he told me all about the wine, 866 00:38:41,528 --> 00:38:42,988 the grapes and where it came from. 867 00:38:43,030 --> 00:38:46,784 Wilt knew everything and all things about anything, 868 00:38:46,825 --> 00:38:49,787 and whether he was accurate or not 869 00:38:49,828 --> 00:38:51,789 didn't make any difference to him. 870 00:38:51,872 --> 00:38:54,750 If I had the savoir faire... 871 00:38:54,792 --> 00:38:56,377 There you go. 872 00:38:58,337 --> 00:38:59,421 What happens to the team, 873 00:38:59,505 --> 00:39:01,256 they win 69 games that year, 874 00:39:01,298 --> 00:39:05,135 and that was the record for wins at the time, 875 00:39:05,177 --> 00:39:08,555 producing the most efficient offense 876 00:39:08,639 --> 00:39:10,391 in NBA history. 877 00:39:10,474 --> 00:39:11,600 Everything clicked. 878 00:39:11,683 --> 00:39:14,228 They defeat Kareem Abdul-Jabbar 879 00:39:14,311 --> 00:39:17,815 and the Milwaukee Bucks for the Western Division title. 880 00:39:17,856 --> 00:39:21,527 They cap the season with a dominant NBA championship. 881 00:39:23,529 --> 00:39:24,738 [Announcer] The Los Angeles Lakers 882 00:39:24,822 --> 00:39:28,158 have won their first NBA title. 883 00:39:28,200 --> 00:39:30,911 Of course, I climbed all over his back 884 00:39:30,953 --> 00:39:34,248 as he drug me and everybody else there. 885 00:39:35,624 --> 00:39:38,335 Jerry West finally got a championship. 886 00:39:38,377 --> 00:39:40,379 That was a great team. 887 00:39:40,462 --> 00:39:43,048 A team. 888 00:39:43,090 --> 00:39:45,050 Widely considered one of the great teams of all time. 889 00:39:45,134 --> 00:39:48,429 And Wilt wins the MVP of the finals. 890 00:39:53,767 --> 00:39:56,228 When Wilt retired, 891 00:39:56,311 --> 00:40:01,316 he owned over 100 records in the record book. 892 00:40:01,358 --> 00:40:03,569 No athlete in team sport 893 00:40:03,610 --> 00:40:05,654 has been able to accomplish that. 894 00:40:05,737 --> 00:40:08,198 I'm a big fan of the lists. 895 00:40:08,240 --> 00:40:11,368 Like, who are the top? Who are the number one? 896 00:40:11,452 --> 00:40:13,620 If you had to start a team, who would you pick? 897 00:40:13,662 --> 00:40:15,372 Because in a life where you can't figure out 898 00:40:15,456 --> 00:40:16,748 why is my dog sick? 899 00:40:16,832 --> 00:40:18,041 Why is my wife mad at me? 900 00:40:18,125 --> 00:40:19,334 Why are the kids upset? 901 00:40:19,376 --> 00:40:21,003 It's one of the reasons people love sports 902 00:40:21,086 --> 00:40:22,629 is because we keep score. 903 00:40:22,671 --> 00:40:26,216 Wilt is often not in anyone's top five. 904 00:40:26,300 --> 00:40:28,635 Bill Russell won 11 championships 905 00:40:28,677 --> 00:40:29,928 in 13 seasons, 906 00:40:29,970 --> 00:40:33,515 and many of those were at the expense of Wilt Chamberlain. 907 00:40:33,557 --> 00:40:35,976 He had one to do and one job only. 908 00:40:36,059 --> 00:40:37,394 I had several that I had to do. 909 00:40:37,436 --> 00:40:40,105 I had to score at times and rebound and play defense. 910 00:40:40,189 --> 00:40:42,149 I don't think as far as individual talent goes 911 00:40:42,191 --> 00:40:44,485 that Russell even comes close. 912 00:40:44,568 --> 00:40:48,113 A sad thing about Wilt's legacy 913 00:40:48,197 --> 00:40:49,615 is that he gets defined by Russell, 914 00:40:49,698 --> 00:40:50,741 but not vice versa. 915 00:40:50,782 --> 00:40:52,409 Because he didn't win enough. 916 00:40:52,451 --> 00:40:53,494 Fuck winning. 917 00:40:53,535 --> 00:40:54,661 No one's out here. 918 00:40:54,745 --> 00:40:55,913 We gotta put three, four people out here 919 00:40:55,996 --> 00:40:56,955 to be able to match up with this. 920 00:40:57,039 --> 00:40:58,248 Like, just think about that. 921 00:40:58,290 --> 00:41:00,959 You had to start saying, hey, well, you can't win. 922 00:41:01,001 --> 00:41:03,086 You had to. You had to go to that. 923 00:41:03,170 --> 00:41:04,755 History's written by the winners, 924 00:41:04,838 --> 00:41:06,924 and then it becomes about we wanna tell the story 925 00:41:07,007 --> 00:41:08,926 of why this person deserved to win. 926 00:41:08,967 --> 00:41:10,302 Why he was guaranteed to win. 927 00:41:10,344 --> 00:41:12,262 Especially if we like that person. 928 00:41:12,304 --> 00:41:14,973 You don't win repeatedly by mistake. 929 00:41:15,057 --> 00:41:16,058 You just don't. 930 00:41:16,141 --> 00:41:17,851 There's something about you 931 00:41:17,935 --> 00:41:19,686 that makes that possible. 932 00:41:19,728 --> 00:41:21,480 The legacy of a great player, 933 00:41:21,563 --> 00:41:22,648 they make their own luck. 934 00:41:22,731 --> 00:41:25,817 [Gary Pomerantz] Russell won the four game sevens 935 00:41:25,901 --> 00:41:27,152 in the playoffs between them 936 00:41:27,194 --> 00:41:29,112 by a total of nine points. 937 00:41:29,154 --> 00:41:32,115 That's very close if you think about it. 938 00:41:32,157 --> 00:41:34,743 Sam Jones making an off balance shot 939 00:41:34,785 --> 00:41:38,080 doesn't change how Wilt Chamberlain played. 940 00:41:38,163 --> 00:41:41,875 Don Nelson hits the crazy bounce off the back of the backboard 941 00:41:41,917 --> 00:41:42,834 and up and in, 942 00:41:42,918 --> 00:41:44,086 What if that shot misses? 943 00:41:44,127 --> 00:41:46,755 If the ball bounces a few different ways, 944 00:41:46,838 --> 00:41:49,800 Russell could easily have seven or eight championships 945 00:41:49,841 --> 00:41:51,802 and Chamberlain could have four or five, 946 00:41:51,885 --> 00:41:55,847 and Wilt's legacy would be completely changed. 947 00:41:55,931 --> 00:41:57,432 But does that make sense? 948 00:41:57,516 --> 00:42:01,019 And the need for these simplified narratives 949 00:42:01,103 --> 00:42:03,063 reflect something in us 950 00:42:03,105 --> 00:42:07,526 even maybe more so than the athlete themselves. 951 00:42:09,486 --> 00:42:12,406 Wilt lives at the soul of the game today. 952 00:42:13,657 --> 00:42:15,909 Don't the younger generations know 953 00:42:15,951 --> 00:42:18,870 about the mighty Dipper? 954 00:42:18,954 --> 00:42:21,290 The way he saved the NBA when it needed saving? 955 00:42:21,373 --> 00:42:24,209 The way that he symbolically blew apart the quota 956 00:42:24,293 --> 00:42:28,255 that limited opportunities for Black players? 957 00:42:30,382 --> 00:42:33,719 The one thing that Wilt wasn't prepared for 958 00:42:33,760 --> 00:42:35,929 is all this thing that is very common now: 959 00:42:36,013 --> 00:42:37,472 legacy talk. 960 00:42:37,514 --> 00:42:39,891 How can you write a book 961 00:42:39,975 --> 00:42:42,394 and not say all the things that make you what you are 962 00:42:42,436 --> 00:42:46,148 to what actually helped you construct your views? 963 00:42:46,189 --> 00:42:52,029 He couldn't just allow his legend to rest. 964 00:42:52,070 --> 00:42:53,905 He was always stoking the embers. 965 00:42:53,989 --> 00:42:57,409 Wilt called me one day and said, I have a book deal. 966 00:42:57,492 --> 00:43:00,954 This editor wants me to say that I, like, 967 00:43:01,038 --> 00:43:03,624 that I slept with 20,000 women. 968 00:43:03,707 --> 00:43:05,125 I said, what, are you crazy? 969 00:43:05,208 --> 00:43:07,502 I thought it was a joke at first. 970 00:43:07,544 --> 00:43:09,338 And I said, don't do it. 971 00:43:09,421 --> 00:43:12,924 You don't need to prove that women like you. 972 00:43:13,008 --> 00:43:16,887 20,000 liaisons with women. 973 00:43:16,970 --> 00:43:20,432 Wilt did always like to put up numbers. [laughs] 974 00:43:21,433 --> 00:43:23,894 That averages out to 1.2 women per day 975 00:43:23,977 --> 00:43:25,228 from the age of 15. 976 00:43:25,270 --> 00:43:28,106 20,000? Come on, man. 977 00:43:28,190 --> 00:43:30,651 But I know about 30 in Rome. 978 00:43:30,692 --> 00:43:31,735 [laughs] 979 00:43:31,777 --> 00:43:34,780 I said, come on. You know it isn't 20,000. 980 00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:35,906 He just winked at me. 981 00:43:35,989 --> 00:43:38,075 He goes, what's a zero between friends? 982 00:43:38,116 --> 00:43:41,870 It has been treated more as a punchline, a joke. 983 00:43:41,912 --> 00:43:44,498 These 20,000 names 984 00:43:44,539 --> 00:43:47,709 are the women who slept with Wilt Chamberlain. 985 00:43:47,793 --> 00:43:50,170 [audience laughs] 986 00:43:51,129 --> 00:43:52,297 When the reviews came out, 987 00:43:52,339 --> 00:43:54,883 everything was all about the 20,000. 988 00:43:55,967 --> 00:43:58,345 I said you got six sisters. 989 00:43:58,387 --> 00:44:01,598 You cannot be talking that dumb talk. 990 00:44:01,640 --> 00:44:04,559 He was devastated. 991 00:44:04,643 --> 00:44:06,812 Why anyway? 992 00:44:06,853 --> 00:44:09,398 He said I don't know why I did it. 993 00:44:12,734 --> 00:44:16,822 In a way in his mind, there's constantly a dialogue 994 00:44:16,905 --> 00:44:18,657 with the external world 995 00:44:18,699 --> 00:44:20,534 about who he is. 996 00:44:20,617 --> 00:44:23,078 I mean, everything he writes in his book 997 00:44:23,161 --> 00:44:28,208 is in response to a real or imagined critique 998 00:44:28,291 --> 00:44:32,713 or pressure or view of him. 999 00:44:32,796 --> 00:44:34,423 When you're always in response, 1000 00:44:34,506 --> 00:44:39,010 there's certain things that you don't know how to evaluate. 1001 00:44:39,094 --> 00:44:43,014 If you can't evaluate by how do I feel about things, 1002 00:44:43,056 --> 00:44:44,766 what do I really want, 1003 00:44:44,850 --> 00:44:46,226 then you go to numbers, 1004 00:44:46,268 --> 00:44:50,439 and you say, okay, if it's higher than this, it's good. 1005 00:44:51,982 --> 00:44:56,445 [Wilt] I used the 20,000 as a figure of speech. 1006 00:44:56,528 --> 00:44:58,989 I called my relationships "encounters" 1007 00:44:59,030 --> 00:45:01,032 because that's what they were, 1008 00:45:01,116 --> 00:45:04,536 not conquests the way some people say. 1009 00:45:04,619 --> 00:45:10,125 I'm sorry if I did an injustice to my women friends. 1010 00:45:10,208 --> 00:45:13,253 Coming up, our program with Wilt Chamberlain. 1011 00:45:13,336 --> 00:45:15,088 We taped this show literally days 1012 00:45:15,130 --> 00:45:17,132 before the story about Magic Johnson 1013 00:45:17,174 --> 00:45:19,092 contracting the HIV virus broke. 1014 00:45:19,134 --> 00:45:20,427 The tone of it would have been different 1015 00:45:20,510 --> 00:45:22,596 had we known about Magic's tragic story. 1016 00:45:22,679 --> 00:45:25,599 And Wilt's on a book tour at the time in 1991 1017 00:45:25,640 --> 00:45:29,227 that Magic Johnson announces he's HIV positive. 1018 00:45:29,311 --> 00:45:32,355 So suddenly Wilt is seen as this symbol 1019 00:45:32,397 --> 00:45:36,443 of the over-sexed athlete. 1020 00:45:37,068 --> 00:45:38,320 Do you think that now 1021 00:45:38,403 --> 00:45:40,906 people are seizing on the tone of the book, 1022 00:45:40,989 --> 00:45:43,074 women's group especially, to single you out 1023 00:45:43,116 --> 00:45:44,993 as an example of everything wrong 1024 00:45:45,076 --> 00:45:47,162 with the way men treat and feel about women? 1025 00:45:47,204 --> 00:45:49,456 Well, I think that because of the times 1026 00:45:49,539 --> 00:45:52,042 and because of AIDS being so prevalent, 1027 00:45:52,083 --> 00:45:54,377 they just think that maybe I had the wrong attitude. 1028 00:45:54,419 --> 00:45:57,547 I'm not proud of what my life was all about then, 1029 00:45:57,631 --> 00:46:00,926 but it was my life and it was of mutual consent. 1030 00:46:00,967 --> 00:46:03,428 With AIDs being as bad as it is, 1031 00:46:03,470 --> 00:46:04,805 have you been tested for AIDS? 1032 00:46:04,846 --> 00:46:06,097 Yeah, I have, 1033 00:46:06,139 --> 00:46:07,516 not that I think it's anyone's business. 1034 00:46:07,557 --> 00:46:09,601 I think it's hilarious that you won't announce 1035 00:46:09,684 --> 00:46:11,269 whether or not you've had AIDS testing. 1036 00:46:11,353 --> 00:46:14,731 You all say in your book that you've had 20,000 women. 1037 00:46:14,773 --> 00:46:16,149 You have to say whether or not... 1038 00:46:16,191 --> 00:46:17,192 It is people's business. 1039 00:46:17,234 --> 00:46:19,486 Children look up to you. 1040 00:46:21,947 --> 00:46:24,908 It did haunt him. 1041 00:46:24,950 --> 00:46:26,326 He remained upset about that. 1042 00:46:26,368 --> 00:46:30,664 It just put this overwhelming shadow 1043 00:46:30,747 --> 00:46:34,668 on what was a tremendous basketball legacy. 1044 00:46:34,709 --> 00:46:36,920 It's one of the first things that comes up 1045 00:46:37,003 --> 00:46:38,171 when people talk about him. 1046 00:46:38,255 --> 00:46:40,715 People that don't even follow basketball. 1047 00:46:40,757 --> 00:46:42,259 It's too bad. 1048 00:46:42,300 --> 00:46:44,344 There's more to him than that. 1049 00:46:44,386 --> 00:46:48,056 Wilt, people would be almost shocked to learn 1050 00:46:48,098 --> 00:46:50,058 that it's been about 20 years 1051 00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:51,935 since you've seen Bill Russell, right? 1052 00:46:51,977 --> 00:46:53,061 Yeah. 1053 00:46:53,103 --> 00:46:55,230 It wasn't beneficial to either one of them 1054 00:46:55,313 --> 00:46:58,692 to have all this animosity between the two of them. 1055 00:46:58,733 --> 00:47:01,027 And then Shaq tells me 1056 00:47:01,111 --> 00:47:03,405 it was his idea to have this commercial 1057 00:47:03,488 --> 00:47:06,116 about his entrance into the Big Man's Club. 1058 00:47:06,199 --> 00:47:08,952 [knock knock knock] Password. 1059 00:47:08,994 --> 00:47:11,079 Don't fake the funk on a nasty dunk. 1060 00:47:11,162 --> 00:47:12,205 I.D. 1061 00:47:12,289 --> 00:47:15,083 It's a great commercial because it has Shaq, 1062 00:47:15,125 --> 00:47:19,004 Wilt Chamberlain, Bill Walton, Bill Russell. 1063 00:47:20,213 --> 00:47:22,924 -That's not enough. -And Kareem. 1064 00:47:23,592 --> 00:47:25,176 And from what I understand, 1065 00:47:25,260 --> 00:47:28,305 it was Wilt Chamberlain that was the big enough man 1066 00:47:28,346 --> 00:47:30,181 to extend his hand to everyone, 1067 00:47:30,265 --> 00:47:31,808 including Bill Russell, 1068 00:47:31,850 --> 00:47:33,768 and break the ice. 1069 00:47:34,853 --> 00:47:37,606 Wilt and I could talk, 1070 00:47:37,689 --> 00:47:41,067 and neither one was asking the other for anything 1071 00:47:41,109 --> 00:47:43,111 except friendship. 1072 00:47:44,237 --> 00:47:47,908 And friendship that is not this way or this way. 1073 00:47:47,949 --> 00:47:49,159 It's this way. 1074 00:47:49,242 --> 00:47:54,205 If you keep examining all the narratives about Wilt 1075 00:47:54,289 --> 00:47:56,625 and discarding these and discarding those 1076 00:47:56,666 --> 00:47:59,544 and finally getting to that core of Wilt, 1077 00:47:59,586 --> 00:48:02,672 you're gonna discover kindness 1078 00:48:02,714 --> 00:48:04,758 and sensitivity. 1079 00:48:04,799 --> 00:48:09,137 Wilt's teammate in his first three seasons 1080 00:48:09,179 --> 00:48:10,513 was Paul Arizin. 1081 00:48:10,555 --> 00:48:14,059 Even though they had very different lifestyles, 1082 00:48:14,100 --> 00:48:16,353 Wilt really admired my father. 1083 00:48:16,394 --> 00:48:19,189 Now you advance decades later, 1084 00:48:19,272 --> 00:48:22,359 and Paul Arizin's granddaughter Stephanie 1085 00:48:22,400 --> 00:48:24,736 has an inoperable brain tumor. 1086 00:48:24,778 --> 00:48:29,491 The doctor says your daughter has 12 to 18 months to live, 1087 00:48:29,532 --> 00:48:32,827 and there's nothing we can do. 1088 00:48:32,869 --> 00:48:35,246 Maybe it was the next day, 1089 00:48:35,330 --> 00:48:37,374 Stephanie said I just got off the phone 1090 00:48:37,457 --> 00:48:40,001 from a half hour conversation with Wilt Chamberlain. 1091 00:48:40,085 --> 00:48:42,003 Did grandfather call him and tell him? 1092 00:48:42,045 --> 00:48:43,546 I said, I don't know. 1093 00:48:43,588 --> 00:48:44,839 I didn't do anything. 1094 00:48:44,881 --> 00:48:46,341 I wouldn't know how to get in touch with Wilt. 1095 00:48:46,383 --> 00:48:48,843 And I get a phone call at my house. 1096 00:48:48,927 --> 00:48:50,053 [deep voice] Hello, Mike? 1097 00:48:50,136 --> 00:48:53,598 This is the Dipper. Remember me? 1098 00:48:53,640 --> 00:48:58,853 He said, do you mind if I call her 1099 00:48:58,937 --> 00:49:00,689 on a regular basis? 1100 00:49:00,730 --> 00:49:03,108 We had such a lovely conversation. 1101 00:49:03,191 --> 00:49:05,276 [exhales] 1102 00:49:05,360 --> 00:49:06,903 From that point onward, 1103 00:49:06,987 --> 00:49:10,657 she always had reserved 6:00 to 7:00 on Fridays 1104 00:49:10,699 --> 00:49:12,158 her and Wilt were gonna talk, 1105 00:49:12,200 --> 00:49:14,202 and he would call her. 1106 00:49:14,244 --> 00:49:16,871 She called him Wilty, 1107 00:49:16,955 --> 00:49:19,207 making her smile, 1108 00:49:19,290 --> 00:49:20,542 and we were not sure 1109 00:49:20,583 --> 00:49:23,962 if we would ever see her smile ever again. 1110 00:49:24,045 --> 00:49:26,881 After each call, he would call me 1111 00:49:26,965 --> 00:49:28,633 just to see how am I doing. 1112 00:49:28,675 --> 00:49:30,468 There was nothing in it for him. 1113 00:49:30,510 --> 00:49:33,888 Paul Arizin and Wilt are both named 1114 00:49:33,930 --> 00:49:37,267 to the NBA's All Time Top 50 Players list, 1115 00:49:37,308 --> 00:49:40,186 and they go to the All Star Game for a ceremony. 1116 00:49:40,228 --> 00:49:43,898 As we rolled up to the door to get in, 1117 00:49:43,982 --> 00:49:45,442 out comes Wilt. 1118 00:49:45,525 --> 00:49:47,652 I got her. She's with me. 1119 00:49:47,694 --> 00:49:50,530 The popular fad among my daughter and her girlfriends 1120 00:49:50,572 --> 00:49:51,656 was collecting autographs. 1121 00:49:51,740 --> 00:49:53,908 She wanted to collect the autographs 1122 00:49:53,992 --> 00:49:54,951 of all the players. 1123 00:49:55,035 --> 00:49:57,662 Wilt asked if he could lead her player to player. 1124 00:49:57,746 --> 00:50:01,332 He took her up to every player. 1125 00:50:01,374 --> 00:50:05,170 He was with her every second. 1126 00:50:05,253 --> 00:50:07,589 And Stephanie says, who's that guy? 1127 00:50:07,630 --> 00:50:09,591 And I said, that's Bill Russell. 1128 00:50:09,674 --> 00:50:11,634 Can we get his autograph? 1129 00:50:11,718 --> 00:50:14,387 And I said, he's kind of famous 1130 00:50:14,429 --> 00:50:17,390 for not signing autographs for anybody. 1131 00:50:17,474 --> 00:50:19,392 Wilt says, hold on. 1132 00:50:19,476 --> 00:50:23,938 Russ, this is Stephanie. Sign her book. 1133 00:50:24,022 --> 00:50:26,900 Happy to. Bill Russell. 1134 00:50:33,281 --> 00:50:36,409 Stephanie Arizin died months later. 1135 00:50:36,493 --> 00:50:40,371 Wilt sent a massive floral arrangement. 1136 00:50:40,455 --> 00:50:42,248 There was a telegram 1137 00:50:42,290 --> 00:50:44,626 that accompanied the flower arrangement. 1138 00:50:44,667 --> 00:50:46,920 "To the Arizin family, 1139 00:50:47,003 --> 00:50:49,422 I am here for you." 1140 00:50:49,506 --> 00:50:51,341 [clears throat] 1141 00:50:51,424 --> 00:50:54,010 "I am here for you, all of you. 1142 00:50:54,052 --> 00:50:56,638 "I lost a friend today 1143 00:50:56,721 --> 00:51:00,642 "who was full of strength and loved life passionately. 1144 00:51:00,725 --> 00:51:04,437 "From Stephanie, I realized 1145 00:51:04,479 --> 00:51:07,065 "you're never too old to learn 1146 00:51:07,107 --> 00:51:09,526 "and never too young to teach. 1147 00:51:09,609 --> 00:51:13,613 Love and peace, Dippy." 1148 00:51:14,948 --> 00:51:20,161 That's how I choose to remember Wilt Chamberlain. 1149 00:51:22,122 --> 00:51:24,749 He made such an effort. 1150 00:51:24,833 --> 00:51:28,378 I had a relationship, and a lot of it was by phone, 1151 00:51:28,461 --> 00:51:31,673 for almost 20 years. 1152 00:51:31,756 --> 00:51:33,091 Friend after friend told me 1153 00:51:33,174 --> 00:51:38,138 about Wilt's one hour and two hour long conversations. 1154 00:51:38,179 --> 00:51:39,722 It was 213-something. 1155 00:51:39,764 --> 00:51:41,432 I have it written down in my book. 1156 00:51:41,516 --> 00:51:42,600 I haven't scratched it out. 1157 00:51:42,642 --> 00:51:43,852 He'd call late at 11:00. 1158 00:51:43,935 --> 00:51:45,979 We'd talk like an hour just about everything. 1159 00:51:46,020 --> 00:51:47,564 Sometimes I was doing something else. 1160 00:51:47,647 --> 00:51:50,191 I'd just hold the phone out here, let him talk. 1161 00:51:53,778 --> 00:51:55,655 If I could go back, 1162 00:51:55,697 --> 00:51:58,199 I wish I'd spent more time with him. 1163 00:51:59,200 --> 00:52:00,493 I think that Wilt 1164 00:52:00,535 --> 00:52:04,122 was just about always lonely. 1165 00:52:07,834 --> 00:52:11,546 I wish I had done the search earlier 1166 00:52:11,588 --> 00:52:14,382 and at least been able to meet him. 1167 00:52:16,384 --> 00:52:18,136 I really did wait too long. 1168 00:52:18,178 --> 00:52:21,097 What scares you? 1169 00:52:21,139 --> 00:52:23,933 Probably not old age, 1170 00:52:23,975 --> 00:52:26,269 but not being able to do things 1171 00:52:26,311 --> 00:52:27,562 that I now am capable of doing. 1172 00:52:27,645 --> 00:52:31,065 I remember him saying one time, 1173 00:52:31,107 --> 00:52:34,444 you know, us big dogs don't last too long. 1174 00:52:34,527 --> 00:52:37,197 He told me I'm gonna stop by 1175 00:52:37,238 --> 00:52:38,615 when I come from the doctor's. 1176 00:52:38,698 --> 00:52:43,661 I had a purple lavender tree with these lavender things, 1177 00:52:43,703 --> 00:52:45,914 and he would always pull one off. 1178 00:52:45,997 --> 00:52:49,959 And he didn't do it. He hurried up and sat down. 1179 00:52:50,001 --> 00:52:51,211 I said to him, you want me to stay? 1180 00:52:51,294 --> 00:52:52,378 Because he wasn't feeling good. 1181 00:52:52,462 --> 00:52:54,172 No, I'm okay. I'm fine. 1182 00:52:54,214 --> 00:52:56,466 He didn't share a lot of stuff 1183 00:52:56,549 --> 00:52:58,676 that he thought might upset us. 1184 00:52:58,718 --> 00:53:02,263 He wouldn't want us to be burdened down with him. 1185 00:53:06,559 --> 00:53:07,936 [Reporter] Police and paramedics 1186 00:53:08,019 --> 00:53:10,855 rushed to the Bel Air home of Wilt Chamberlain this afternoon, 1187 00:53:10,897 --> 00:53:13,775 responding to reports of a cardiac arrest. 1188 00:53:13,858 --> 00:53:16,277 The 63 year old basketball great's attorney 1189 00:53:16,319 --> 00:53:17,737 was the first to release news 1190 00:53:17,779 --> 00:53:20,198 that Chamberlain had died. 1191 00:53:20,990 --> 00:53:23,785 It was the gardener who found his body. 1192 00:53:23,826 --> 00:53:27,330 He called out to Wilt and he went upstairs 1193 00:53:27,413 --> 00:53:32,418 and saw Wilt motionless in bed. 1194 00:53:34,921 --> 00:53:38,132 [Cherry] The roof was open. 1195 00:53:38,967 --> 00:53:42,595 Wilt Chamberlain's last moments on earth 1196 00:53:42,637 --> 00:53:46,224 were looking at the stars. 1197 00:53:50,979 --> 00:53:54,732 As he did when he was 10 or 11 years old 1198 00:53:54,774 --> 00:53:56,484 in Philadelphia. 1199 00:53:58,528 --> 00:54:00,905 [Wilt] People always have tried 1200 00:54:00,947 --> 00:54:04,117 to make me feel like a freak, 1201 00:54:04,158 --> 00:54:06,703 but I'm just a person. 1202 00:54:06,744 --> 00:54:09,414 I lived with that loser label 1203 00:54:09,455 --> 00:54:13,251 stuck on me like some big ugly scar. 1204 00:54:13,334 --> 00:54:16,838 People, just people 1205 00:54:16,879 --> 00:54:20,466 are the only ones that hurt you. 1206 00:54:20,508 --> 00:54:24,762 Wilt, from the standpoint of the world, 1207 00:54:24,846 --> 00:54:26,889 was one of the toughest people on the planet. 1208 00:54:26,973 --> 00:54:30,560 But the reality is he was like a little sweet man 1209 00:54:30,601 --> 00:54:34,522 inside of this giant body. 1210 00:54:34,564 --> 00:54:37,066 Things happened to him 1211 00:54:37,150 --> 00:54:40,987 that he could never rid himself of these things. 1212 00:54:41,029 --> 00:54:43,489 And everybody's got something, 1213 00:54:43,531 --> 00:54:46,826 and his is such a big life 1214 00:54:46,909 --> 00:54:49,996 that he just had the biggest version of it. 1215 00:54:51,956 --> 00:54:54,125 [Announcer] At halftime out at Allen Fieldhouse, 1216 00:54:54,167 --> 00:54:57,003 Kansas State trailing Kansas 32-31. 1217 00:54:57,086 --> 00:54:59,047 And Wilt Chamberlain is having his jersey retired 1218 00:54:59,130 --> 00:55:01,215 in a ceremony just getting underway. 1219 00:55:01,299 --> 00:55:02,717 Let's go out to Tim Ryan. 1220 00:55:02,800 --> 00:55:03,843 Thank you, Michelle. 1221 00:55:03,926 --> 00:55:05,970 It's been 23 years since Wilt Chamberlain 1222 00:55:06,012 --> 00:55:07,305 has been here in Lawrence. 1223 00:55:07,388 --> 00:55:09,891 A lot of people have wondered why he hasn't been back. 1224 00:55:09,932 --> 00:55:12,060 I think it was because Wilt felt 1225 00:55:12,101 --> 00:55:14,562 that he'd let down the entire state. 1226 00:55:14,604 --> 00:55:17,231 Not the school, the entire state of Kansas 1227 00:55:17,315 --> 00:55:22,862 when they lost that painful triple overtime. 1228 00:55:24,072 --> 00:55:26,824 Not until the year before his death 1229 00:55:26,866 --> 00:55:29,452 did Wilt agree to attend 1230 00:55:29,494 --> 00:55:31,496 to retire his number. 1231 00:55:31,537 --> 00:55:33,664 And he spoke to a journalist, 1232 00:55:33,706 --> 00:55:36,834 and said that I'm afraid that they'll boo me. 1233 00:55:36,918 --> 00:55:41,422 One of the true legends in the history of the game, 1234 00:55:41,464 --> 00:55:44,300 welcome back Wilt Chamberlain. 1235 00:55:44,342 --> 00:55:48,096 [cheering] 1236 00:55:50,306 --> 00:55:54,519 [Firestone] He walks out on that court and received the love 1237 00:55:54,602 --> 00:55:56,562 and he's overcome with emotion. 1238 00:56:03,111 --> 00:56:04,904 It meant the world to Wilt, 1239 00:56:04,987 --> 00:56:07,657 because deep down I think 1240 00:56:07,698 --> 00:56:10,368 the one thing that eluded this guy 1241 00:56:10,451 --> 00:56:11,744 was love. 1242 00:56:11,786 --> 00:56:15,748 Wilt was always admired and held in awe, 1243 00:56:15,790 --> 00:56:18,126 but not loved. 1244 00:56:18,167 --> 00:56:20,378 But what he should have taken to his grave 1245 00:56:20,461 --> 00:56:24,298 is the knowledge that people thought he was a damn good guy. 1246 00:56:24,382 --> 00:56:27,093 A little over 40 years ago, 1247 00:56:27,135 --> 00:56:31,931 I lost what I thought was the toughest battle in sports 1248 00:56:32,014 --> 00:56:35,184 in losing to the North Carolina Tar Heels 1249 00:56:35,226 --> 00:56:37,687 by one point in a triple overtime. 1250 00:56:37,770 --> 00:56:39,313 It was a devastating thing for me 1251 00:56:39,397 --> 00:56:43,025 because I felt as though I let the University of Kansas down 1252 00:56:43,067 --> 00:56:44,777 and my teammates down. 1253 00:56:44,861 --> 00:56:47,363 But when I come back here today 1254 00:56:47,447 --> 00:56:49,073 and realize how many people 1255 00:56:49,115 --> 00:56:50,491 have shown me so much appreciation 1256 00:56:50,575 --> 00:56:51,993 and love and warmth 1257 00:56:52,034 --> 00:56:54,036 from the University of Kansas... 1258 00:56:54,078 --> 00:56:57,915 [cheers and applause] 1259 00:56:57,957 --> 00:57:01,335 All right, all right. 1260 00:57:01,419 --> 00:57:03,129 I've learned over the years 1261 00:57:03,171 --> 00:57:05,882 that you must learn to take the bitter with the sweet, 1262 00:57:05,923 --> 00:57:08,509 and how sweet this is right here. 1263 00:57:08,551 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