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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 00:00:20,938 --> 00:00:23,900 [Wilt Chamberlain] There's just no way the average guy 3 00:00:23,941 --> 00:00:27,361 could envision what it's like being a seven-footer. 4 00:00:27,403 --> 00:00:30,573 When that seven-footer is also black, rich, 5 00:00:30,615 --> 00:00:32,909 famous, and dominates his sport 6 00:00:32,950 --> 00:00:36,204 as no other man in history has dominated any sport, 7 00:00:36,245 --> 00:00:38,706 well, you can see how difficult it is 8 00:00:38,748 --> 00:00:41,209 for people to relate to me. 9 00:00:41,250 --> 00:00:43,544 I am judged on what people have said, 10 00:00:43,586 --> 00:00:45,922 not what I actually have done. 11 00:00:45,963 --> 00:00:50,259 My guess is you have certain preconceptions about me. 12 00:00:50,301 --> 00:00:53,721 My guess is, too, that you're wrong. 13 00:00:53,763 --> 00:00:56,265 But when we get to the end of the story 14 00:00:56,307 --> 00:00:59,769 where they say, can this poor monster from Philadelphia 15 00:00:59,811 --> 00:01:01,479 really find happiness, 16 00:01:01,521 --> 00:01:04,941 you'll know just how it feels to be alive. 17 00:01:04,982 --> 00:01:10,238 How it feels to be seven feet and 1/16th inches tall 18 00:01:10,279 --> 00:01:11,948 with no place to hide. 19 00:01:19,497 --> 00:01:21,707 He's the greatest athlete that ever played. 20 00:01:21,749 --> 00:01:24,961 Shot block by Antetokounmpo! 21 00:01:25,002 --> 00:01:26,629 What a block from Giannis. 22 00:01:26,671 --> 00:01:28,756 Giannis is incredible what he can do, 23 00:01:28,798 --> 00:01:32,385 but you're not Wilt Chamberlain. 24 00:01:32,426 --> 00:01:34,470 Wilt Chamberlain has a bunch of records 25 00:01:34,512 --> 00:01:36,389 that will never be touched. 26 00:01:36,430 --> 00:01:38,391 Kobe Bryant with 81, 27 00:01:38,432 --> 00:01:40,101 second only to Wilt Chamberlain. 28 00:01:40,143 --> 00:01:41,978 He did score 100 points in a basketball game. 29 00:01:42,019 --> 00:01:43,980 100 points. 30 00:01:44,021 --> 00:01:46,941 Wilt against Michael, my prime and his prime. 31 00:01:46,983 --> 00:01:48,651 How much money would you be willing to bet? 32 00:01:48,693 --> 00:01:52,947 He's been polarizing for over half a century now. 33 00:01:52,989 --> 00:01:54,490 There's two numbers in basketball. 34 00:01:54,532 --> 00:01:55,992 There's Wilt getting 100, 35 00:01:56,033 --> 00:01:57,952 and Russell getting 11 championships. 36 00:01:57,994 --> 00:02:00,538 They were marketed as Russell being the good guy 37 00:02:00,580 --> 00:02:02,165 and Wilt being the villain. 38 00:02:02,206 --> 00:02:04,876 In his mind, there's constantly a dialogue 39 00:02:04,917 --> 00:02:08,129 with the external world about who he is. 40 00:02:08,171 --> 00:02:11,424 Wilt was demanding to be a part of ownership. 41 00:02:11,465 --> 00:02:13,384 It was revolutionary. 42 00:02:13,426 --> 00:02:15,052 We're out here to make money. 43 00:02:15,094 --> 00:02:17,597 The first player empowerment 44 00:02:17,638 --> 00:02:19,515 all the way back then in the sixties. 45 00:02:19,557 --> 00:02:22,852 Wilt, what about the young people in the Black community? 46 00:02:22,894 --> 00:02:26,355 A Black celebrity who transcended the sport. 47 00:02:26,397 --> 00:02:30,651 It's his claim that he slept with more than 20,000 women. 48 00:02:30,693 --> 00:02:32,195 20,000 women? 49 00:02:32,236 --> 00:02:33,696 Wilt did always like to put up numbers. 50 00:02:33,738 --> 00:02:35,281 [laughs] 51 00:02:36,866 --> 00:02:41,037 Today, the NBA is a global product. 52 00:02:41,078 --> 00:02:43,873 Today, a Black basketball player 53 00:02:43,915 --> 00:02:47,668 can create billion-dollar empires, 54 00:02:47,710 --> 00:02:50,129 is able to be the kind of celebrity 55 00:02:50,171 --> 00:02:52,506 that can influence styles, 56 00:02:52,548 --> 00:02:56,219 and that playbook originally started with Wilt Chamberlain, 57 00:02:56,260 --> 00:02:58,221 the original gangster of fashion. 58 00:02:58,262 --> 00:03:00,348 Wilt was a Renaissance man. 59 00:03:00,389 --> 00:03:01,641 [Wilt] This couldn't have happened 60 00:03:01,682 --> 00:03:02,934 to a fella like myself 61 00:03:02,975 --> 00:03:05,519 anywhere else but in America. 62 00:03:05,561 --> 00:03:07,855 He was the most important player of all time. 63 00:03:07,897 --> 00:03:10,358 Wilt Chamberlain invented the world-famous, photogenic, 64 00:03:10,399 --> 00:03:12,985 Black millionaire, seven-foot tall basketball player. 65 00:03:13,027 --> 00:03:15,279 He created a job that did not exist before. 66 00:03:15,321 --> 00:03:17,531 Shaq's just applying for that job. 67 00:03:17,573 --> 00:03:22,036 He was the first rock and roll superstar in basketball. 68 00:03:22,078 --> 00:03:24,705 Without Wilt, wouldn't be any Kevin Garnetts. 69 00:03:24,747 --> 00:03:27,333 Wouldn't be any Kobe Bryants. 70 00:03:27,375 --> 00:03:30,002 LeBron James, Michael Jordans, 71 00:03:30,044 --> 00:03:31,587 wouldn't be none of us. 72 00:03:31,629 --> 00:03:36,425 Wilt Chamberlain was an absolute motherfucker. 73 00:03:36,467 --> 00:03:39,929 I think he is one of the most misunderstood people 74 00:03:39,971 --> 00:03:41,430 that I've ever seen. 75 00:03:48,145 --> 00:03:51,274 [cheering] 76 00:03:53,734 --> 00:03:56,237 Wilt the Stilt Chamberlain, the seven-foot giant 77 00:03:56,279 --> 00:03:58,447 of the University of Kansas Jayhawks, 78 00:03:58,489 --> 00:03:59,949 is one reason why the Jayhawks 79 00:03:59,991 --> 00:04:01,659 are picked as the team to beat. 80 00:04:01,701 --> 00:04:06,080 The 1957 national championship game 81 00:04:06,122 --> 00:04:08,082 is the biggest game ever at the time. 82 00:04:08,124 --> 00:04:11,711 This is Wilt's first time on the big stage. 83 00:04:11,752 --> 00:04:13,504 He's playing an undefeated team in North Carolina, 84 00:04:13,546 --> 00:04:15,172 but Kansas, his team, 85 00:04:15,214 --> 00:04:18,342 is actually favored because he's out there. 86 00:04:18,384 --> 00:04:20,469 North Carolina coach Frank McGuire 87 00:04:20,511 --> 00:04:22,138 tried to get into Wilt's head 88 00:04:22,179 --> 00:04:23,764 by starting the game by having Tommy Kearns, 89 00:04:23,806 --> 00:04:26,309 who was 5-11, jump tip-off against him. 90 00:04:26,350 --> 00:04:31,564 Wilt has his hands on his hips, looking down at me, 91 00:04:31,605 --> 00:04:34,150 But there's no question it was a psychological thing, 92 00:04:34,191 --> 00:04:37,236 and that created the whole atmosphere. 93 00:04:37,278 --> 00:04:40,114 North Carolina came out 94 00:04:40,156 --> 00:04:44,327 with multiple players swarming around Wilt. 95 00:04:46,120 --> 00:04:48,748 The strategy was fairly basic: five against one. 96 00:04:48,789 --> 00:04:50,291 [Announcer] Goes to Kindred on the left. 97 00:04:50,333 --> 00:04:52,168 Down the line to Elstun for the shot. 98 00:04:52,209 --> 00:04:54,253 It's no good. Young has the rebound. 99 00:04:54,295 --> 00:04:57,340 And so they're conceding outside shots for Wilt's teammates. 100 00:04:57,381 --> 00:04:58,924 [Announcer] Out to Parker to the right of the circle. 101 00:04:58,966 --> 00:05:00,760 He fires the shot, missed it. 102 00:05:00,801 --> 00:05:03,763 Quite frankly, if they started hitting a couple of those, 103 00:05:03,804 --> 00:05:06,223 we would have had to have changed our tactics. 104 00:05:06,265 --> 00:05:07,725 [Announcer] Rosemond gets it to Cunningham. 105 00:05:07,767 --> 00:05:10,394 Below the circle. He shoots it. 106 00:05:10,436 --> 00:05:12,396 And then on the other side of the court, 107 00:05:12,438 --> 00:05:14,023 North Carolina's starting five, 108 00:05:14,065 --> 00:05:17,234 are all capable of making outside jumpers. 109 00:05:17,276 --> 00:05:19,153 [Announcer] Cunningham over near the right sideline to Kearns. 110 00:05:19,195 --> 00:05:21,947 He fakes, tries a push shot from outside and hits. 111 00:05:21,989 --> 00:05:25,409 We shot extremely well. 112 00:05:25,451 --> 00:05:27,870 We got off to a quick lead on them. 113 00:05:27,912 --> 00:05:28,913 [Announcer] Takes the shot from outside. 114 00:05:28,954 --> 00:05:30,581 It is no good. 115 00:05:30,623 --> 00:05:33,376 Chamberlain gets the rebound, shoot and misses. 116 00:05:33,417 --> 00:05:36,128 But Wilt starts to score. 117 00:05:36,170 --> 00:05:38,589 [Announcer] In to Chamberlain in the lane. 118 00:05:38,631 --> 00:05:40,883 He shoots and makes it. 119 00:05:40,925 --> 00:05:42,968 24-19. 120 00:05:43,010 --> 00:05:44,512 And then Kansas came back. 121 00:05:44,553 --> 00:05:46,180 [Announcer] Some help for Chamberlain. 122 00:05:46,222 --> 00:05:48,057 Chamberlain shoots and hits. 123 00:05:52,895 --> 00:05:56,023 Out it comes to Kearns near the center circle. 124 00:05:56,065 --> 00:05:57,650 Kearns faking with it. 125 00:05:57,691 --> 00:05:59,402 [Kearns] I remember just dribbling around 126 00:05:59,443 --> 00:06:02,488 because we just wanted to keep the ball away from Wilt. 127 00:06:02,530 --> 00:06:04,573 Dick Harp, who was the coach at Kansas, 128 00:06:04,615 --> 00:06:07,910 should have been a lot more aggressive with us defensively. 129 00:06:07,952 --> 00:06:11,914 I think strategically a mistake was made. 130 00:06:11,956 --> 00:06:14,458 [Announcer] Brennan puts it up and hits it. 131 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:16,669 It's a hook and he hits it. 132 00:06:16,710 --> 00:06:18,212 Amazing, amazing game. 133 00:06:18,254 --> 00:06:21,132 Eight seconds, seven, six, five, four. 134 00:06:21,173 --> 00:06:22,550 Driving in, it's Kearns. He shoots. 135 00:06:22,591 --> 00:06:24,176 It's knocked down by Chamberlain. 136 00:06:24,218 --> 00:06:26,470 That's it. A double overtime. 137 00:06:26,512 --> 00:06:27,930 I knew it was going in, 138 00:06:27,972 --> 00:06:30,141 and then out of nowhere, this guy comes 139 00:06:30,182 --> 00:06:34,353 and knocks it into the third row of the balcony. 140 00:06:34,395 --> 00:06:36,188 So the game goes in to not two overtimes, 141 00:06:36,230 --> 00:06:37,773 but triple overtime. 142 00:06:37,815 --> 00:06:38,774 [Announcer] North Carolina brings it in. 143 00:06:38,816 --> 00:06:40,192 Nine seconds left. 144 00:06:40,234 --> 00:06:41,777 Driving in is Joe Quigg. 145 00:06:41,819 --> 00:06:44,321 And we have a foul, I believe, on King. 146 00:06:44,363 --> 00:06:47,575 It's on King with six seconds left. 147 00:06:47,616 --> 00:06:49,076 Shot is up. It's good. 148 00:06:49,118 --> 00:06:51,120 It's tied up 53-53. 149 00:06:51,162 --> 00:06:52,746 Here comes another. 150 00:06:52,788 --> 00:06:54,123 It's up. It's good. 151 00:06:54,165 --> 00:06:56,959 54-53, North Carolina leading. 152 00:06:57,001 --> 00:06:58,878 Quigg made two foul shots. 153 00:06:58,919 --> 00:07:01,547 Kansas called a timeout. 154 00:07:01,589 --> 00:07:03,799 [Announcer] In to Loneski. 155 00:07:03,841 --> 00:07:06,594 It's tipped by Kearns. 156 00:07:06,635 --> 00:07:09,305 The ballgame is over. The Tar Heels win. 157 00:07:09,346 --> 00:07:11,223 They are champions! 158 00:07:11,265 --> 00:07:13,309 It was not a great pass into Wilt. 159 00:07:13,350 --> 00:07:15,728 Wilt didn't have a chance at getting it. 160 00:07:15,769 --> 00:07:18,439 The game was over. 161 00:07:18,481 --> 00:07:22,276 This game was the toughest loss of Wilt's career. 162 00:07:22,318 --> 00:07:26,822 Wilt shot 46% for the game, 163 00:07:26,864 --> 00:07:31,118 and Wilt had 23 of 53 points that Kansas scored, 164 00:07:31,160 --> 00:07:36,332 and his teammates shot 26%. 165 00:07:36,373 --> 00:07:39,084 We were really, ultimately no match for him, 166 00:07:39,126 --> 00:07:40,211 and nobody was. 167 00:07:40,252 --> 00:07:43,088 So were we lucky? Yes. 168 00:07:43,130 --> 00:07:46,300 We were blessed for one game, and I'll take it. 169 00:07:48,385 --> 00:07:51,430 [Wilt] I've always been more bitter about that loss 170 00:07:51,472 --> 00:07:55,184 than almost any other single game in my whole career. 171 00:07:55,226 --> 00:07:57,144 I guess it's because that's the game 172 00:07:57,186 --> 00:08:00,105 that started the whole "Wilt's a loser" thing. 173 00:08:00,147 --> 00:08:03,484 Like Goliath, I was a guy who should never lose. 174 00:08:03,526 --> 00:08:05,319 No one roots for Goliath, 175 00:08:05,361 --> 00:08:07,571 and no one tells the truth about him, either. 176 00:08:07,613 --> 00:08:09,615 I like to win. 177 00:08:09,657 --> 00:08:12,993 After all, I wanted to be the best at what I was doing 178 00:08:13,035 --> 00:08:16,539 long before I even knew what a basketball was. 179 00:08:25,297 --> 00:08:28,300 My mother and father had 11 children. 180 00:08:28,342 --> 00:08:31,470 The first two died with pneumonia 181 00:08:31,512 --> 00:08:33,180 before we were born. 182 00:08:33,222 --> 00:08:36,642 We're all 15 months apart, all nine of us. 183 00:08:36,684 --> 00:08:40,813 My brother Wilt, he would be 86 in August. 184 00:08:40,854 --> 00:08:42,773 His birthday's in August. 185 00:08:42,815 --> 00:08:47,152 My father and mother both did not finish school. 186 00:08:47,194 --> 00:08:48,320 Everybody was poor. 187 00:08:48,362 --> 00:08:50,114 As far as we were concerned, 188 00:08:50,155 --> 00:08:52,324 we were in better condition than most of my relatives 189 00:08:52,366 --> 00:08:54,827 because we owned a house with a garage. 190 00:08:54,868 --> 00:08:56,453 Not that we ever had a car. 191 00:08:56,495 --> 00:08:59,123 His father was William. 192 00:08:59,164 --> 00:09:02,084 His mother was Olivia Chamberlain. 193 00:09:02,126 --> 00:09:05,796 His father was a janitor at Curtis Publishing. 194 00:09:05,838 --> 00:09:08,132 Wilt's mother was a homemaker 195 00:09:08,173 --> 00:09:12,303 for predominantly Jewish-American families. 196 00:09:12,344 --> 00:09:15,514 My mom was a very tall, stunning-looking woman. 197 00:09:15,556 --> 00:09:18,058 My dad was a short guy. 198 00:09:18,100 --> 00:09:20,561 My mother was my height. I'm 5-9. 199 00:09:20,603 --> 00:09:23,522 Wilt, right away we knew that he was gonna be tall. 200 00:09:23,564 --> 00:09:25,441 Even at five years old, 201 00:09:25,482 --> 00:09:29,987 he looked like he was 12 years old. 202 00:09:30,029 --> 00:09:31,780 My father was born in Virginia, 203 00:09:31,822 --> 00:09:33,949 my mother was born in North Carolina, 204 00:09:33,991 --> 00:09:35,868 and my father was born on a farm. 205 00:09:35,909 --> 00:09:38,162 My father did not like the South at all 206 00:09:38,203 --> 00:09:42,082 and refused to go back there after he got married, 207 00:09:42,124 --> 00:09:44,877 and so he sent my brothers back there 208 00:09:44,918 --> 00:09:47,171 to do the farm work every summer. 209 00:09:47,212 --> 00:09:48,881 Which was fine with Wilt, 210 00:09:48,922 --> 00:09:51,592 because he absolutely loved animals. 211 00:09:53,802 --> 00:09:56,180 And when he come back from Virginia, 212 00:09:56,221 --> 00:09:58,974 he'd be another two inches or so taller. 213 00:09:59,016 --> 00:10:00,643 One summer he came home. 214 00:10:00,684 --> 00:10:03,354 At that time we were in elementary school, 215 00:10:03,395 --> 00:10:05,189 and my mother, she almost fainted. 216 00:10:05,230 --> 00:10:08,567 She could not believe he had grown so tall so fast. 217 00:10:08,609 --> 00:10:11,153 Like 6-5. 218 00:10:15,699 --> 00:10:18,452 Wilt stuttered as a child. 219 00:10:18,494 --> 00:10:20,412 Some of the teachers or administrators 220 00:10:20,454 --> 00:10:23,499 thought that Wilt was slow because of the stutter. 221 00:10:23,540 --> 00:10:25,918 They asked him questions in class, 222 00:10:25,959 --> 00:10:30,464 and because he did have a speech impediment, 223 00:10:30,506 --> 00:10:32,007 he didn't want to respond 224 00:10:32,049 --> 00:10:34,176 and that the kids would laugh at him. 225 00:10:34,218 --> 00:10:39,348 And they put him in a class for slow learners. 226 00:10:39,390 --> 00:10:42,142 That OB class was really something. 227 00:10:42,184 --> 00:10:45,854 It really affected him emotionally a lot. 228 00:10:45,896 --> 00:10:50,693 He kept saying that he wasn't learning anything. 229 00:10:52,277 --> 00:10:55,823 He began to lose his regular personality, 230 00:10:55,864 --> 00:10:59,743 and he really got upset and started stuttering worse. 231 00:11:01,203 --> 00:11:03,831 He came home really sad. 232 00:11:03,872 --> 00:11:07,167 He got very sick and had to stay in the bed 233 00:11:07,209 --> 00:11:10,671 for I think almost a month. 234 00:11:13,257 --> 00:11:15,676 My older sister said, mom, he doesn't belong OB. 235 00:11:15,718 --> 00:11:18,303 He's way too intelligent to be in this class. 236 00:11:18,345 --> 00:11:19,805 She went to the school, both her and my mother, 237 00:11:19,847 --> 00:11:21,181 and they fought. 238 00:11:21,223 --> 00:11:22,891 We're all outspoken, all of us. 239 00:11:22,933 --> 00:11:27,396 We would not let people take advantage of us. 240 00:11:27,438 --> 00:11:29,982 And they had to put him in my class. 241 00:11:31,358 --> 00:11:33,193 It makes me sad 242 00:11:33,235 --> 00:11:36,071 that he lived through that as a fourth grader 243 00:11:36,113 --> 00:11:39,199 when we are most vulnerable. 244 00:11:39,241 --> 00:11:42,244 People would imagine the abuse for being so tall. 245 00:11:42,286 --> 00:11:43,704 I don't know how tall you were in sixth grade? 246 00:11:43,746 --> 00:11:45,914 -Absolutely. In fact... -How bad was it? 247 00:11:45,956 --> 00:11:47,583 It was really very, very bad. 248 00:11:47,624 --> 00:11:48,792 It was actually embarrassing. 249 00:11:48,834 --> 00:11:51,420 It was quite traumatic. 250 00:11:51,462 --> 00:11:54,256 A lot of people looked at a guy like Wilt Chamberlain 251 00:11:54,298 --> 00:11:56,049 as though he was some kind of freak, 252 00:11:56,091 --> 00:11:58,927 almost like he has a disability. 253 00:11:58,969 --> 00:12:01,597 When Wilt was born, there was no NBA, 254 00:12:01,638 --> 00:12:03,390 and by the time there was an NBA, 255 00:12:03,432 --> 00:12:05,267 it wasn't necessarily accessible to Black people. 256 00:12:05,309 --> 00:12:07,436 Nobody goes, "Oh, you're so tall. 257 00:12:07,478 --> 00:12:10,022 "That's going to lead you to fame, fortune, 258 00:12:10,063 --> 00:12:11,190 and everything that goes with it." 259 00:12:11,231 --> 00:12:12,775 Nobody says that. 260 00:12:12,816 --> 00:12:15,277 Because, honestly, people hadn't seen it. 261 00:12:15,319 --> 00:12:18,322 I grew up in a Christian home. 262 00:12:18,363 --> 00:12:20,532 My mother often would pray 263 00:12:20,574 --> 00:12:22,409 that God would let her live long enough 264 00:12:22,451 --> 00:12:28,040 to see my brother would be able to take care of himself. 265 00:12:28,081 --> 00:12:30,626 As she said, God will provide. 266 00:12:34,254 --> 00:12:37,090 He and I both just loved to run. 267 00:12:37,132 --> 00:12:39,468 He would take my hand every day 268 00:12:39,510 --> 00:12:41,720 and try to get me to be the fastest girl running 269 00:12:41,762 --> 00:12:44,056 so he could be the fastest boy. 270 00:12:44,097 --> 00:12:49,228 He was chosen to anchor his elementary school team 271 00:12:49,269 --> 00:12:51,396 that ran in the Penn Relays, 272 00:12:51,438 --> 00:12:55,692 one of the most prestigious track events in the country. 273 00:12:55,734 --> 00:12:58,529 He said it was a wonderful feeling. 274 00:12:58,570 --> 00:13:02,533 The applause from the crowd made him tingle all over, 275 00:13:02,574 --> 00:13:05,994 and it was a moment that he never forgot. 276 00:13:13,085 --> 00:13:18,340 In the summer, Wilt used to sleep on the garage at night. 277 00:13:18,382 --> 00:13:21,802 He was fascinated by the stars. 278 00:13:23,679 --> 00:13:28,058 Wilt was a very unusual human being. 279 00:13:28,100 --> 00:13:31,353 Given the gifts that God gave him, 280 00:13:31,395 --> 00:13:34,815 and given the way that he overcame 281 00:13:34,857 --> 00:13:37,150 the path that he was put on as a child, 282 00:13:37,192 --> 00:13:39,862 he completely obliterated that. 283 00:13:58,171 --> 00:14:01,174 He started playing basketball. 284 00:14:01,216 --> 00:14:03,635 That was probably one of the best time of our lives. 285 00:14:03,677 --> 00:14:05,345 I would be at every game. 286 00:14:05,387 --> 00:14:07,514 Well, I've been coaching him for two years now, 287 00:14:07,556 --> 00:14:10,726 and I marvel at just watching him play. 288 00:14:13,520 --> 00:14:15,063 Everybody was aware 289 00:14:15,105 --> 00:14:17,983 that someone special was in West Philadelphia 290 00:14:18,025 --> 00:14:19,610 at Overbrook High School. 291 00:14:21,111 --> 00:14:24,781 There was one game when he scored 90 points. 292 00:14:24,823 --> 00:14:27,075 His team won the championship 293 00:14:27,117 --> 00:14:29,036 both in his junior year and senior year. 294 00:14:29,077 --> 00:14:31,747 Wilt Chamberlain was a phenomenon. 295 00:14:31,788 --> 00:14:33,624 There had never been a high school athlete 296 00:14:33,665 --> 00:14:36,919 who had got the attention that Wilt Chamberlain did. 297 00:14:40,255 --> 00:14:42,049 I used to get upset, quite upset. 298 00:14:42,090 --> 00:14:46,428 All these White men would come in, these reporters, 299 00:14:46,470 --> 00:14:47,888 and were sitting around the table and all that, 300 00:14:47,930 --> 00:14:49,556 and I wasn't used to that, 301 00:14:49,598 --> 00:14:52,392 and I didn't want them to invade our privacy. 302 00:14:52,434 --> 00:14:54,186 And then they start calling him Wilt the Stilt, 303 00:14:54,227 --> 00:14:55,729 which he did not like at all. 304 00:14:55,771 --> 00:14:57,606 He preferred The Dipper: 305 00:14:57,648 --> 00:15:00,442 the great constellation in the sky, 306 00:15:00,484 --> 00:15:02,069 the starry night. 307 00:15:02,110 --> 00:15:05,989 To get under the door, he had to dip his head. 308 00:15:06,031 --> 00:15:10,994 He kept hitting that arch and getting knocked on his head. 309 00:15:11,036 --> 00:15:12,537 So we got in the habit of calling him Dip 310 00:15:12,579 --> 00:15:14,164 because we had to keep telling him dip. 311 00:15:14,206 --> 00:15:17,000 And then we start calling him Dippy. 312 00:15:19,127 --> 00:15:21,254 Him being as tall as he was, that was the hardest part. 313 00:15:21,296 --> 00:15:23,924 Trying to get him with some clothes and some shoes. 314 00:15:23,966 --> 00:15:25,592 When we got in high school, 315 00:15:25,634 --> 00:15:27,302 they made his clothes for him. 316 00:15:27,344 --> 00:15:29,888 I don't remember him having a girlfriend 317 00:15:29,930 --> 00:15:31,682 until he got maybe into college. 318 00:15:31,723 --> 00:15:33,850 He wasn't a lover boy in those days. 319 00:15:33,892 --> 00:15:35,852 We were all dancers in our house. 320 00:15:35,894 --> 00:15:38,105 We loved to dance, but Dip didn't do it. 321 00:15:38,146 --> 00:15:40,732 He just didn't dance with the girls. 322 00:15:40,774 --> 00:15:44,569 This is Al Packman, a high school classmate. 323 00:15:44,611 --> 00:15:47,656 "In Wilt's sophomore year, his coach, Sam Cozen, 324 00:15:47,698 --> 00:15:49,324 "said to me, do you know any girl 325 00:15:49,366 --> 00:15:51,994 "who can dance with this guy? 326 00:15:52,035 --> 00:15:57,249 "So I went to this girl, she said she would, 327 00:15:57,290 --> 00:16:00,168 "and then Coach Cozen said to me, 328 00:16:00,210 --> 00:16:04,006 you stand at the girls' gym while they're in there dancing." 329 00:16:06,800 --> 00:16:08,427 "And if anyone hears music 330 00:16:08,468 --> 00:16:10,679 "and wants to know what is going on, 331 00:16:10,721 --> 00:16:12,973 "just tell them to move on. 332 00:16:13,015 --> 00:16:17,686 And that helped Wilt with his coordination." 333 00:16:17,728 --> 00:16:19,396 He didn't go to his prom. 334 00:16:19,438 --> 00:16:20,564 He didn't go to the things that we all went to. 335 00:16:20,605 --> 00:16:22,065 I guess he didn't ask nobody 336 00:16:22,107 --> 00:16:23,567 or they didn't want to go with him. 337 00:16:23,608 --> 00:16:25,485 I don't know what it was, but he didn't go. 338 00:16:25,527 --> 00:16:27,571 It's hard to be the Black guy who everybody's looking at 339 00:16:27,612 --> 00:16:29,489 for whatever reason, 340 00:16:29,531 --> 00:16:32,367 because it doesn't make you feel more safe in the world. 341 00:16:32,409 --> 00:16:35,203 We might have been juniors in high school, 342 00:16:35,245 --> 00:16:37,456 and as we were walking, 343 00:16:37,497 --> 00:16:41,543 there was a number of people stopping, gawking. 344 00:16:41,585 --> 00:16:45,756 By golly, look how tall he is. 345 00:16:47,340 --> 00:16:52,387 Wilt trying to hide. 346 00:16:52,429 --> 00:16:55,557 But when you grow to be seven-feet-one, 347 00:16:55,599 --> 00:16:57,476 you can't hide. 348 00:17:01,063 --> 00:17:03,523 [Wilt] One of the things that always bothered me 349 00:17:03,565 --> 00:17:06,109 was people always wondered, well, where do you sleep? 350 00:17:06,151 --> 00:17:08,528 How big is the bed that you sleep in? 351 00:17:08,570 --> 00:17:10,447 An old lady once asked me how tall I was, 352 00:17:10,489 --> 00:17:11,865 and I said 6-11. 353 00:17:11,907 --> 00:17:13,283 I was in high school at the time, 354 00:17:13,325 --> 00:17:15,118 And she said I just lied to her. 355 00:17:15,160 --> 00:17:17,412 She couldn't believe: "You gotta be nine feet tall." 356 00:17:17,454 --> 00:17:19,790 People had never seen a seven-foot kid. 357 00:17:19,831 --> 00:17:21,374 On top of that he's fast as shit. 358 00:17:21,416 --> 00:17:22,959 He's blocking all the shots. 359 00:17:23,001 --> 00:17:26,046 So, yeah, you're supposed to be stared at. 360 00:17:26,088 --> 00:17:27,881 You're supposed to be looked at 361 00:17:27,923 --> 00:17:30,467 like you're something different, 362 00:17:30,509 --> 00:17:32,219 because you are. 363 00:17:32,260 --> 00:17:33,804 [Announcer] Your sports commentator 364 00:17:33,845 --> 00:17:35,847 drove up to New York's Catskill Mountains 365 00:17:35,889 --> 00:17:37,724 to look in on tall timber, 366 00:17:37,766 --> 00:17:41,144 basketball timber in the person of Wilton Chamberlain. 367 00:17:41,186 --> 00:17:45,816 Kutsher's Country Club is a resort in the Catskills. 368 00:17:45,857 --> 00:17:49,945 The Borscht Belt was the compilation of hotels. 369 00:17:49,986 --> 00:17:51,822 It was like the Jewish Alps. 370 00:17:51,863 --> 00:17:55,325 Kutsher's brought in players from college and the pros 371 00:17:55,367 --> 00:17:58,537 to work by day, usually as waiters. 372 00:17:58,578 --> 00:18:01,331 Wilt was still in high school, which was unusual. 373 00:18:01,373 --> 00:18:02,874 He was a bellhop. 374 00:18:02,916 --> 00:18:04,376 Can you imagine Wilt Chamberlain 375 00:18:04,417 --> 00:18:06,336 taking your bags to your room? 376 00:18:06,378 --> 00:18:09,464 At night they would entertain by playing basketball games. 377 00:18:09,506 --> 00:18:14,427 You saw a 16-year-old outplay 20-year-olds, 378 00:18:14,469 --> 00:18:19,099 against college All Americans and kicking their butts. 379 00:18:19,141 --> 00:18:21,351 Remember the name Wilt Chamberlain. 380 00:18:21,393 --> 00:18:23,353 It'll probably make big sports copy 381 00:18:23,395 --> 00:18:25,939 for years to come. 382 00:18:25,981 --> 00:18:28,984 I think all of those things kind of helped him 383 00:18:29,025 --> 00:18:30,861 to get even more confidence. 384 00:18:30,902 --> 00:18:33,196 He stopped stuttering. 385 00:18:33,238 --> 00:18:35,323 Became powerful. 386 00:18:35,365 --> 00:18:37,409 All of these letters here in front of us, 387 00:18:37,450 --> 00:18:39,161 where do they come from? 388 00:18:39,202 --> 00:18:41,371 Well, from various colleges all over the nation. 389 00:18:41,413 --> 00:18:43,832 Some from the Midwest, West, 390 00:18:43,874 --> 00:18:47,085 even some from out East here, even some from the South. 391 00:18:47,127 --> 00:18:49,796 -Some from the South, too. -Yes, some from the South. 392 00:18:49,838 --> 00:18:53,508 And this is in a period of segregation. 393 00:18:53,550 --> 00:18:55,510 [Announcer] Arkansas National Guardsmen, 394 00:18:55,552 --> 00:18:57,012 under orders of Governor Faubus, 395 00:18:57,053 --> 00:18:59,055 preventing nine Negro youngsters 396 00:18:59,097 --> 00:19:02,559 from attending the Central High School in Little Rock. 397 00:19:03,852 --> 00:19:05,437 [Reporter] The demonstrations 398 00:19:05,478 --> 00:19:07,105 that came to be called the sit-in movement, 399 00:19:07,147 --> 00:19:08,523 exploded across the South. 400 00:19:08,565 --> 00:19:10,150 And for the first time, 401 00:19:10,192 --> 00:19:12,068 the community was confronted with Negroes 402 00:19:12,110 --> 00:19:16,072 in places where they had never been. 403 00:19:16,114 --> 00:19:18,658 When Wilt decided to go to Kansas, 404 00:19:18,700 --> 00:19:21,494 he was in a segregated community. 405 00:19:21,536 --> 00:19:23,538 We got to Kansas City. 406 00:19:23,580 --> 00:19:25,540 We stopped at a place and went in to eat, 407 00:19:25,582 --> 00:19:28,251 and the proprietor came to the table, 408 00:19:28,293 --> 00:19:30,378 and he knew who I was. 409 00:19:30,420 --> 00:19:32,088 And he said it was nice to have me here, 410 00:19:32,130 --> 00:19:33,632 but he would be more than happy 411 00:19:33,673 --> 00:19:34,841 to serve me in the kitchen. 412 00:19:34,883 --> 00:19:38,220 Perhaps more than any athlete, 413 00:19:38,261 --> 00:19:40,931 he understood how to use his power, 414 00:19:40,972 --> 00:19:43,642 how to leverage what he had 415 00:19:43,683 --> 00:19:46,853 to make sure that the institutions, 416 00:19:46,895 --> 00:19:50,065 the universities didn't exploit his labor, 417 00:19:50,106 --> 00:19:51,942 at least not without a fight. 418 00:19:51,983 --> 00:19:54,736 One of his proudest achievements 419 00:19:54,778 --> 00:19:56,738 was desegregating Lawrence, Kansas, 420 00:19:56,780 --> 00:19:59,115 where the University of Kansas is. 421 00:20:00,951 --> 00:20:03,119 [Wilt] It took me about a week to realize 422 00:20:03,161 --> 00:20:04,788 the whole area around Lawrence 423 00:20:04,829 --> 00:20:07,999 was infested with segregation. 424 00:20:08,041 --> 00:20:11,253 I called on a few of the alums who had recruited me. 425 00:20:11,294 --> 00:20:13,672 I told them that in no uncertain terms 426 00:20:13,713 --> 00:20:15,590 what they could do with Kansas 427 00:20:15,632 --> 00:20:17,926 if things didn't get straightened out in a hurry. 428 00:20:17,968 --> 00:20:21,221 A couple of them told me, look, sit down in those restaurants 429 00:20:21,263 --> 00:20:23,265 and don't leave until they serve you. 430 00:20:23,306 --> 00:20:25,433 That is exactly what I did. 431 00:20:25,475 --> 00:20:29,729 I went into every damn place within 40 miles of Lawrence. 432 00:20:29,771 --> 00:20:33,108 I singlehandedly integrated that whole area. 433 00:20:33,149 --> 00:20:36,778 Suddenly, restaurants, lunch counters 434 00:20:36,820 --> 00:20:39,406 would allow the celebrity Wilt Chamberlain 435 00:20:39,447 --> 00:20:41,700 and his teammates in. 436 00:20:41,741 --> 00:20:43,994 But think about where we are as a nation 437 00:20:44,035 --> 00:20:46,579 in terms of race relations at that time. 438 00:20:46,621 --> 00:20:50,166 But after Wilt left, no, it wasn't lasting. 439 00:20:50,208 --> 00:20:53,795 He began to understand that he was blessed. 440 00:20:53,837 --> 00:20:55,338 My mother used to say, you know, 441 00:20:55,380 --> 00:20:56,840 you didn't think you were, but you are. 442 00:20:56,881 --> 00:20:58,633 After four years of waiting, 443 00:20:58,675 --> 00:21:01,094 Eddie Gottlieb, the owner of the Philadelphia Warriors 444 00:21:01,136 --> 00:21:02,929 of the National Basketball Association, 445 00:21:02,971 --> 00:21:05,974 has finally signed Wilt Chamberlain. 446 00:21:06,016 --> 00:21:08,935 We were coming out of the era of George Miken, 447 00:21:08,977 --> 00:21:10,979 a very different kind of player. 448 00:21:11,021 --> 00:21:13,064 George Miken was at his time 449 00:21:13,106 --> 00:21:14,107 the greatest big man to... 450 00:21:14,149 --> 00:21:16,192 Man, Wilt destroyed that. 451 00:21:19,195 --> 00:21:20,822 Do you feel that you are ready for this? 452 00:21:20,864 --> 00:21:22,198 I actually do. 453 00:21:24,117 --> 00:21:26,286 I think there will be a period of orientation 454 00:21:26,328 --> 00:21:29,080 for me to cross like there is for every newcomer in the NBA. 455 00:21:29,122 --> 00:21:32,584 But I think in the long run, 456 00:21:32,625 --> 00:21:34,002 I'll be able to handle myself man to man 457 00:21:34,044 --> 00:21:36,004 with almost anyone in the league. 458 00:21:36,046 --> 00:21:38,089 He was an exceptional athlete 459 00:21:38,131 --> 00:21:39,674 who just happened to be seven feet, 460 00:21:39,716 --> 00:21:43,178 as he would say, and 1/16th of an inch tall. 461 00:21:43,219 --> 00:21:45,805 He would funnel the ball in the basket. 462 00:21:45,847 --> 00:21:47,932 This was before the phrase finger roll. 463 00:21:52,062 --> 00:21:55,065 Wilt was an amazing leaper. 464 00:21:55,106 --> 00:21:57,650 Philadelphia trainer Al Domenico 465 00:21:57,692 --> 00:22:01,279 saw Wilt put a quarter on the top of a backboard. 466 00:22:01,321 --> 00:22:04,366 Basketball may not have even have been his best sport. 467 00:22:04,407 --> 00:22:06,785 It might have been track and field. 468 00:22:06,826 --> 00:22:08,620 He was able to win back to back to back 469 00:22:08,661 --> 00:22:09,913 Big Eight track championships. 470 00:22:09,954 --> 00:22:12,165 He ran 100 yard dash 471 00:22:12,207 --> 00:22:14,209 in a little less than 11 seconds 472 00:22:14,250 --> 00:22:16,086 for a seven footer. 473 00:22:24,344 --> 00:22:26,388 He was the fastest player in basketball. 474 00:22:26,429 --> 00:22:29,307 When he was in a running mode, it was scary. 475 00:22:29,349 --> 00:22:32,727 Like, please don't hit me in the head with this ball. 476 00:22:32,769 --> 00:22:35,230 They always said he was by far 477 00:22:35,271 --> 00:22:37,357 the strongest person who's ever played in the NBA. 478 00:22:37,399 --> 00:22:40,360 Absolutely. I remember that he came to the gym 479 00:22:40,402 --> 00:22:43,238 and he would do a tricep extension 480 00:22:43,279 --> 00:22:46,533 that like the big guys, the strongest guys 481 00:22:46,574 --> 00:22:50,078 would do let's say 120 pounds. 482 00:22:50,120 --> 00:22:53,581 He would come and he would do 170 pounds. 483 00:22:53,623 --> 00:22:56,084 That's how strong he was. 484 00:22:56,126 --> 00:22:57,585 When he first started out, 485 00:22:57,627 --> 00:22:59,838 you saw this really skinny guy, but... 486 00:23:03,758 --> 00:23:05,468 He got to be a very powerful man. 487 00:23:07,679 --> 00:23:10,014 Picked up by Bill Russell now. 488 00:23:10,056 --> 00:23:12,100 Knocked out of bounds. 489 00:23:12,142 --> 00:23:14,727 He was the first player I can remember 490 00:23:14,769 --> 00:23:16,229 ever lifting weights. 491 00:23:16,271 --> 00:23:18,648 We used to work out once in a while 492 00:23:18,690 --> 00:23:21,276 at this place called the Philadelphia Athletic Club. 493 00:23:21,317 --> 00:23:22,986 And it was 180 pounds. 494 00:23:23,027 --> 00:23:25,447 Why do I remember that? I have no idea. 495 00:23:25,488 --> 00:23:28,533 My left hand is up here and my right hand is down here. 496 00:23:28,575 --> 00:23:30,952 All of a sudden, Wilt comes walking over 497 00:23:30,994 --> 00:23:34,038 and he said, you mean you can't pick this up, 498 00:23:34,080 --> 00:23:36,916 180 pounds with one hand? [laughs] 499 00:23:36,958 --> 00:23:40,462 I used to enjoy using my power 500 00:23:40,503 --> 00:23:43,089 to amaze other people and get reactions. 501 00:23:43,131 --> 00:23:44,799 Haskell Cohen, 502 00:23:44,841 --> 00:23:46,801 the publicity director for the NBA, 503 00:23:46,843 --> 00:23:49,220 has a flat tire. 504 00:23:49,262 --> 00:23:52,474 Wilt comes over and lifts the back of the car up 505 00:23:52,515 --> 00:23:55,977 so Haskell Cohen can change the tire. 506 00:23:57,979 --> 00:24:01,149 The frame of reference is Shaquille O'Neal. 507 00:24:01,191 --> 00:24:03,234 [Announcer] Up off the rim. Oh! 508 00:24:03,276 --> 00:24:05,653 what a dunk by O'Neal. Shaquille O'Neal. 509 00:24:05,695 --> 00:24:08,490 Shaq. Face up. Shoot. 510 00:24:08,531 --> 00:24:09,991 They were two of the strongest players 511 00:24:10,033 --> 00:24:11,451 that ever played the game period. 512 00:24:11,493 --> 00:24:13,036 And there was nothing you could do 513 00:24:13,077 --> 00:24:14,537 one on one with them. 514 00:24:18,583 --> 00:24:21,252 Yeah, I think Wilt was stronger than Shaq. 515 00:24:21,294 --> 00:24:24,547 I think he had a more powerful upper body. 516 00:24:24,589 --> 00:24:26,883 I played against Shaq 517 00:24:26,925 --> 00:24:29,594 and I firsthand know what that power is like. 518 00:24:29,636 --> 00:24:32,680 And I'm, like, damn. 519 00:24:32,722 --> 00:24:33,848 Wilt was stronger than Shaq? 520 00:24:35,892 --> 00:24:39,103 He was afraid sometimes guys trying to block his dunks, 521 00:24:39,145 --> 00:24:40,939 he'd break somebody's wrist up on the top of the rim. 522 00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:44,275 Size, speed, 523 00:24:44,317 --> 00:24:46,861 strength, and agility. 524 00:24:46,903 --> 00:24:49,197 Young Wilt Chamberlain might have been 525 00:24:49,239 --> 00:24:52,075 the greatest pure athlete of the 20th century. 526 00:24:55,578 --> 00:24:58,206 I believe Wilt had three distinct phases of his career. 527 00:24:58,248 --> 00:25:00,208 This is the first stage of Wilt's career. 528 00:25:00,250 --> 00:25:02,168 It was the "I'm going to lead the league in scoring 529 00:25:02,210 --> 00:25:04,462 and maybe set a record" phase. 530 00:25:04,504 --> 00:25:09,092 Wilt comes in, averages about 38 points per game. 531 00:25:09,133 --> 00:25:11,970 That is the all time single season scoring record. 532 00:25:12,011 --> 00:25:15,139 He not only wins Rookie of the Year in 1960, 533 00:25:15,181 --> 00:25:17,267 he's voted the most valuable player. 534 00:25:17,308 --> 00:25:18,768 The year before, 535 00:25:18,810 --> 00:25:19,936 they played at about a 35-win pace. 536 00:25:19,978 --> 00:25:21,729 Not a playoff team. 537 00:25:21,771 --> 00:25:23,773 They have one of the worst offenses in the league. 538 00:25:23,815 --> 00:25:26,067 They jump up to a 50-win pace, 539 00:25:26,109 --> 00:25:28,778 and they now have an average offense 540 00:25:28,820 --> 00:25:32,198 behind this mega scoring presence in the paint. 541 00:25:32,240 --> 00:25:35,410 And then the defense, he inhaled defensive rebounds, 542 00:25:35,451 --> 00:25:38,621 a tremendous defensive presence and shot blocker. 543 00:25:40,123 --> 00:25:41,791 Ooh! 544 00:25:41,833 --> 00:25:43,710 The universal language, you know what I'm saying? 545 00:25:43,751 --> 00:25:45,920 And they make the playoffs. 546 00:25:45,962 --> 00:25:48,172 My father, Paul Arizin, 547 00:25:48,214 --> 00:25:50,508 played with Wilt for three years. 548 00:25:50,550 --> 00:25:52,093 If the Warriors won, 549 00:25:52,135 --> 00:25:54,345 my father would let me in the locker room. 550 00:25:54,387 --> 00:25:56,931 And Wilt sat in front of his locker, 551 00:25:56,973 --> 00:26:01,269 and he would eat two full-size hoagies or subs. 552 00:26:01,311 --> 00:26:03,104 We call them hoagies in Philadelphia. 553 00:26:03,146 --> 00:26:05,648 And then after that, he would top it off with a pie. 554 00:26:05,690 --> 00:26:07,317 And you add to that 555 00:26:07,358 --> 00:26:10,945 this infectious from-the-soul laugh. 556 00:26:10,987 --> 00:26:15,783 I was just in awe of this almost god. 557 00:26:17,994 --> 00:26:19,621 He was just that much better 558 00:26:19,662 --> 00:26:21,039 than the rest of the league at that time. 559 00:26:21,080 --> 00:26:23,958 But Wilt had to get past the Celtics 560 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:25,585 and Bill Russell. 561 00:26:25,627 --> 00:26:29,172 Bill Russell was nobody's favorite choice. 562 00:26:29,213 --> 00:26:31,549 He didn't have a lot of scholarship offers. 563 00:26:31,591 --> 00:26:33,301 He played in San Francisco. 564 00:26:33,343 --> 00:26:35,136 He was a different kind of player. 565 00:26:35,178 --> 00:26:37,805 He didn't have the stature that Wilt Chamberlain had. 566 00:26:37,847 --> 00:26:40,516 Bill Russell was 6-10 maybe. 567 00:26:40,558 --> 00:26:42,268 We know famously that Red Auerbach 568 00:26:42,310 --> 00:26:43,895 was trying to rig the system 569 00:26:43,936 --> 00:26:45,730 so that Wilt Chamberlain went to school at Harvard 570 00:26:45,772 --> 00:26:47,398 so he could be his territorial pick 571 00:26:47,440 --> 00:26:48,650 with the Boston Celtics. 572 00:26:48,691 --> 00:26:50,318 In the early fifties, 573 00:26:50,360 --> 00:26:52,945 Kutsher's hired Red Auerbach 574 00:26:52,987 --> 00:26:55,323 as their summer basketball coach. 575 00:26:55,365 --> 00:26:57,659 Pretty good hire, if you think about it. 576 00:26:57,700 --> 00:26:59,952 And Red would teach Wilt something, 577 00:26:59,994 --> 00:27:01,579 say, try to do this, try to do, 578 00:27:01,621 --> 00:27:04,374 and Wilt would say, Dipper got it, Red. 579 00:27:04,415 --> 00:27:06,876 Red didn't like that. [laughs] 580 00:27:06,918 --> 00:27:09,671 But Red loved Wilt. 581 00:27:09,712 --> 00:27:11,381 Red Auerbach wanted Wilt Chamberlain 582 00:27:11,422 --> 00:27:12,590 over Bill Russell. 583 00:27:12,632 --> 00:27:14,759 Red saw what he would become, 584 00:27:14,801 --> 00:27:18,179 and that's when I think he got the idea 585 00:27:18,221 --> 00:27:23,393 that he needed a top-flight center to compete. 586 00:27:23,434 --> 00:27:25,478 [Announcer] It's a 5-5 game. 587 00:27:25,520 --> 00:27:27,980 West again blocked by Russell. 588 00:27:29,941 --> 00:27:33,444 There was Russell blocking the shot by West. 589 00:27:33,486 --> 00:27:35,405 Bill was an elite defender, 590 00:27:35,446 --> 00:27:37,615 disrupting teams with his defensive play. 591 00:27:37,657 --> 00:27:39,200 Great rebounder. 592 00:27:39,242 --> 00:27:41,744 He just had a great nose for rebounding the ball. 593 00:27:41,786 --> 00:27:43,246 He could have played successfully 594 00:27:43,287 --> 00:27:45,456 in this league today. Very. 595 00:27:45,498 --> 00:27:47,166 I used to break it down, like, 596 00:27:47,208 --> 00:27:49,460 make sure that they only get one shot 597 00:27:49,502 --> 00:27:53,047 and no offensive rebounds. 598 00:27:53,089 --> 00:27:56,551 But Bill Russell was not a great offensive force. 599 00:27:58,511 --> 00:28:00,722 In fact, his teammate, Satch Sanders, 600 00:28:00,763 --> 00:28:02,181 famously said once, 601 00:28:02,223 --> 00:28:03,891 if he's 12 feet from the basket 602 00:28:03,933 --> 00:28:05,309 when he turns around and sees it, 603 00:28:05,351 --> 00:28:07,395 he looks at it like it's a snake. 604 00:28:07,437 --> 00:28:10,857 Russell maintained that he could have scored more points, 605 00:28:10,898 --> 00:28:12,483 but they might have lost 606 00:28:12,525 --> 00:28:14,402 because he had disrupted the balance of the team. 607 00:28:14,444 --> 00:28:18,197 See, I can't be a star that always has to have the ball. 608 00:28:18,239 --> 00:28:20,199 I have to be a star 609 00:28:20,241 --> 00:28:23,745 in a way that my teammates can do what they do. 610 00:28:25,496 --> 00:28:28,583 If I'm getting the rebound and outlet pass, 611 00:28:28,624 --> 00:28:30,460 we'd have this fast break going. 612 00:28:30,501 --> 00:28:32,545 In five seconds we got a basket. 613 00:28:32,587 --> 00:28:34,338 I'm out of the picture. 614 00:28:34,380 --> 00:28:37,258 Russell's measurement was the success of the team. 615 00:28:37,300 --> 00:28:39,635 How well do you set picks? 616 00:28:42,346 --> 00:28:44,140 How well do you pass the ball 617 00:28:44,182 --> 00:28:45,558 that makes it an easy shot? 618 00:28:45,600 --> 00:28:47,977 I tried to put them in a place 619 00:28:48,019 --> 00:28:50,104 where they could do their best. 620 00:28:52,023 --> 00:28:54,817 [Wilt] On the basketball court, Russell is my sworn enemy, 621 00:28:54,859 --> 00:28:56,903 which is the way it ought to be. 622 00:28:56,944 --> 00:28:59,322 But in private life, he is the greatest 623 00:28:59,363 --> 00:29:01,824 and one of my closest friends. 624 00:29:03,159 --> 00:29:05,953 Wilt and Russ were close. 625 00:29:05,995 --> 00:29:10,166 In those days, the NBA was really an extended family. 626 00:29:10,208 --> 00:29:12,043 I mean, he'd come past my house on Thanksgiving, 627 00:29:12,084 --> 00:29:13,669 eat the food, sleep in my bed, 628 00:29:13,711 --> 00:29:15,671 and go out there and whip my butt, you understand? 629 00:29:15,713 --> 00:29:17,298 And my mother would say, now, Wilt, 630 00:29:17,340 --> 00:29:19,425 we shouldn't feed Bill so well next time. 631 00:29:19,467 --> 00:29:20,968 [both laugh] 632 00:29:22,970 --> 00:29:24,847 [Wilt] The White media was always building up Blacks 633 00:29:24,889 --> 00:29:26,641 to go against each other, 634 00:29:26,682 --> 00:29:31,270 sort of, okay, niggas, let's see who can fight. 635 00:29:31,312 --> 00:29:33,272 Blacks constantly have to demonstrate 636 00:29:33,314 --> 00:29:35,566 superiority against each other. 637 00:29:35,608 --> 00:29:38,027 That left only one Black superstar 638 00:29:38,069 --> 00:29:40,738 to challenge the White superstars. 639 00:29:40,780 --> 00:29:42,448 The league they entered into, 640 00:29:42,490 --> 00:29:44,033 Russell was one of the very few Black players 641 00:29:44,075 --> 00:29:46,035 at all in the NBA in 1956, 642 00:29:46,077 --> 00:29:48,538 and one of the reasons that he was available to the Celtics 643 00:29:48,579 --> 00:29:51,249 as the third pick in the draft is that the St. Louis Hawks 644 00:29:51,290 --> 00:29:53,501 were not going to have a Black player period. 645 00:29:53,543 --> 00:29:56,587 The NBA started in 1947. 646 00:29:56,629 --> 00:29:58,923 It was a segregated league. 647 00:29:58,965 --> 00:30:02,718 1950, they bring in three guys: 648 00:30:02,760 --> 00:30:05,638 the great Earl Lloyd, Chuck Cooper, 649 00:30:05,680 --> 00:30:07,098 and Sweetwater Clifton. 650 00:30:07,139 --> 00:30:09,684 These three guys in this eight team league 651 00:30:09,725 --> 00:30:12,311 of about 80, 85, 90 guys. 652 00:30:12,353 --> 00:30:15,356 You can't take Wilt out of his era. 653 00:30:15,398 --> 00:30:17,316 Wilt's not just a basketball player 654 00:30:17,358 --> 00:30:19,360 in the way we might think of LeBron James or Kevin Durant. 655 00:30:19,402 --> 00:30:21,028 He is trying to navigate 656 00:30:21,070 --> 00:30:24,198 an actively hostile structure and system. 657 00:30:26,033 --> 00:30:30,538 100% they changed the rules in college and the pros 658 00:30:30,580 --> 00:30:33,374 to target and limit Wilt Chamberlain. 659 00:30:33,416 --> 00:30:36,544 At that time, the lane area was six feet, 660 00:30:36,586 --> 00:30:39,171 and they adjusted it to 12 feet 661 00:30:39,213 --> 00:30:42,800 to at least get him a little further away from the basket. 662 00:30:42,842 --> 00:30:45,553 Back then, the rule was 663 00:30:45,595 --> 00:30:49,056 you just had to start from behind the free throw line. 664 00:30:49,098 --> 00:30:51,392 So Wilt would take a running start 665 00:30:51,434 --> 00:30:54,270 and slam dunk his free throws. 666 00:30:54,312 --> 00:30:56,063 Well, the NCAA changed that rule. 667 00:30:56,105 --> 00:30:57,899 Said you have to release the ball 668 00:30:57,940 --> 00:31:00,109 behind the free throw line. 669 00:31:00,151 --> 00:31:03,487 I saw the rule change as, okay, you're at this level. 670 00:31:03,529 --> 00:31:06,115 In order for everybody else to catch up, 671 00:31:06,157 --> 00:31:07,783 we need to slow something down. 672 00:31:07,825 --> 00:31:09,702 So that the game can be more fun 673 00:31:09,744 --> 00:31:12,455 for these short White guys. 674 00:31:12,496 --> 00:31:15,666 Also more fun for the White guys in the audience to watch. 675 00:31:15,708 --> 00:31:19,754 In 1958, a former colleague of mine, 676 00:31:19,795 --> 00:31:22,089 Shirley Povich, wrote for   Sports Illustrated, 677 00:31:22,131 --> 00:31:26,177 "The game lost this particular patron years back 678 00:31:26,218 --> 00:31:27,720 "when it went vertical 679 00:31:27,762 --> 00:31:30,181 "and put the accent on carnival freaks 680 00:31:30,222 --> 00:31:33,935 "who achieved upper space by growing into it. 681 00:31:33,976 --> 00:31:37,021 "Who can applaud Wilt the Stilt or his ilk 682 00:31:37,063 --> 00:31:39,523 "when they outflank the basket from above 683 00:31:39,565 --> 00:31:41,943 "and pelt it like an open city? 684 00:31:41,984 --> 00:31:45,279 "These fellows are biological accidents 685 00:31:45,321 --> 00:31:47,448 "who ought to be more usefully employed, 686 00:31:47,490 --> 00:31:50,451 "like hiring out as rainmakers 687 00:31:50,493 --> 00:31:55,122 and going to sow a few clouds." 688 00:31:55,164 --> 00:31:57,625 It was a vastly different world. 689 00:31:57,667 --> 00:32:01,837 When Wilt came into the NBA in 1959, 690 00:32:01,879 --> 00:32:03,756 NBA owners felt 691 00:32:03,798 --> 00:32:06,550 that if there were too many Black players on the roster, 692 00:32:06,592 --> 00:32:09,637 White fans would not come to the game. 693 00:32:09,679 --> 00:32:12,765 For years, the attendance was so poor. 694 00:32:12,807 --> 00:32:16,560 But when Bill and Wilt started playing each other, 695 00:32:16,602 --> 00:32:18,229 those were the games that would sell out. 696 00:32:18,270 --> 00:32:21,649 The league didn't matter until Wilt came along. 697 00:32:21,691 --> 00:32:24,694 It's Wilt that put the fannies in the seats. 698 00:32:24,735 --> 00:32:27,780 People were mesmerized by him. 699 00:32:27,822 --> 00:32:34,620 Wilt was this genius of marketing...for Wilt. 700 00:32:34,662 --> 00:32:36,330 That was always there. 701 00:32:38,165 --> 00:32:40,334 In the field of professional basketball, 702 00:32:40,376 --> 00:32:42,920 one man is virtually the unanimous choice. 703 00:32:42,962 --> 00:32:45,339 Here he is, the star of the Philadelphia Warriors, 704 00:32:45,381 --> 00:32:46,674 Wilt Chamberlain right here. 705 00:32:46,716 --> 00:32:49,927 [applause] 706 00:32:54,724 --> 00:32:57,852 [audience laughs] 707 00:33:01,605 --> 00:33:05,901 He was the first rock and roll superstar in basketball. 708 00:33:05,943 --> 00:33:07,486 What one thing would you say 709 00:33:07,528 --> 00:33:09,989 has helped you to reach the heights? 710 00:33:10,031 --> 00:33:11,657 My appetite. 711 00:33:11,699 --> 00:33:13,242 [audience laughs] 712 00:33:13,284 --> 00:33:16,620 Wilt Chamberlain was living in New York City 713 00:33:16,662 --> 00:33:19,290 and would commute to play in Philadelphia. 714 00:33:19,331 --> 00:33:22,877 He's the one that showed up half an hour before the game, 715 00:33:22,918 --> 00:33:25,921 ate three hot dogs and went out and scored 70 points. 716 00:33:25,963 --> 00:33:29,759 He was a fast driver to put it real nice. 717 00:33:29,800 --> 00:33:31,427 Lived in New York because he liked the buzz. 718 00:33:37,058 --> 00:33:39,852 He was this larger than life personality 719 00:33:39,894 --> 00:33:42,897 who was walking into clubs with two women on his arm. 720 00:33:42,938 --> 00:33:45,691 He played the ponies 721 00:33:45,733 --> 00:33:48,652 and purchased a pony, Spooky Cadet. 722 00:33:48,694 --> 00:33:51,030 He cut a record. 723 00:33:51,072 --> 00:33:53,491 By the river 724 00:33:53,532 --> 00:33:55,576 'Neath the shady trees 725 00:33:55,618 --> 00:33:57,161 Just my baby 726 00:33:57,203 --> 00:33:59,538 That was one of the funnier parts. 727 00:33:59,580 --> 00:34:01,749 A lot of my family were singers. 728 00:34:01,791 --> 00:34:05,086 Wilt was not. Of course, he thought he was. 729 00:34:05,127 --> 00:34:07,421 He was okay in the church choir 730 00:34:07,463 --> 00:34:08,881 because you know how they take anybody 731 00:34:08,923 --> 00:34:11,175 in the church choir almost. 732 00:34:11,217 --> 00:34:14,303 But he just felt like he could do anything. 733 00:34:14,345 --> 00:34:16,305 He liked people. 734 00:34:16,347 --> 00:34:18,182 He liked meeting people, talking to people. 735 00:34:18,224 --> 00:34:20,184 But there was a flip side to it, 736 00:34:20,226 --> 00:34:21,852 because it was unrelenting. 737 00:34:21,894 --> 00:34:23,896 Fans would often come up to Wilt 738 00:34:23,938 --> 00:34:25,689 and say, how's the weather up there? 739 00:34:25,731 --> 00:34:28,526 Wilt's response was usually I got a phone in my ass. 740 00:34:28,567 --> 00:34:30,444 Why don't you call and find out? 741 00:34:30,486 --> 00:34:36,367 So there was all these different kinds of people that he was. 742 00:34:36,408 --> 00:34:41,080 On one hand, Wilt wanted to be like everybody else. 743 00:34:41,122 --> 00:34:43,415 On the other hand, I think he liked the idea 744 00:34:43,457 --> 00:34:46,919 that he was a bon vivant. 745 00:34:46,961 --> 00:34:48,963 I think he liked the idea 746 00:34:49,004 --> 00:34:53,134 that he was an owner of a very important nightclub. 747 00:34:55,678 --> 00:34:59,431 Smalls Paradise was considered a big thing in New York. 748 00:34:59,473 --> 00:35:04,603 Smalls was a great place for dancing, dinner, jazz, 749 00:35:04,645 --> 00:35:10,151 and some of the hottest foxes in Harlem. 750 00:35:10,192 --> 00:35:12,570 He liked to dress cool. 751 00:35:12,611 --> 00:35:14,155 He had a rap, 752 00:35:14,196 --> 00:35:15,781 and you could tell when he got excited 753 00:35:15,823 --> 00:35:18,075 because he'd stutter every once in a while. 754 00:35:18,117 --> 00:35:21,120 And then one of the things 755 00:35:21,162 --> 00:35:23,038 that he'd say when he leaves you, 756 00:35:23,080 --> 00:35:24,748 he said, I'll dig you later. 757 00:35:24,790 --> 00:35:27,626 [laughs] 758 00:35:27,668 --> 00:35:31,630 And Wilt would have in this club a young Cassius Clay, 759 00:35:31,672 --> 00:35:33,090 Muhammad Ali. 760 00:35:33,132 --> 00:35:36,510 He'd have Langston Hughes, the poet. 761 00:35:36,552 --> 00:35:41,849 He'd have Willie Mays, Sammy Davis, Jr., 762 00:35:41,891 --> 00:35:45,060 and they'd party till 6:00 in the morning. 763 00:35:47,021 --> 00:35:50,816 Everything about Wilt was excessive. 764 00:35:50,858 --> 00:35:53,277 His personality, the way he played the game, 765 00:35:53,319 --> 00:35:54,987 the statistics he put up, 766 00:35:55,029 --> 00:35:57,156 the amount of women 767 00:35:57,198 --> 00:36:00,367 that he may or may not have bedded. 768 00:36:00,409 --> 00:36:04,705 Wilt embraced this bachelor's philosophy. 769 00:36:04,747 --> 00:36:07,041 I mean, that's Hugh Hefner, that's Jim Brown. 770 00:36:07,082 --> 00:36:11,295 A lot of well-known men during that period of time 771 00:36:11,337 --> 00:36:13,881 were doing their version of the same thing, 772 00:36:13,923 --> 00:36:16,258 and a lot of men are looking at that, 773 00:36:16,300 --> 00:36:19,220 wishing that they could do the same thing. 774 00:36:19,261 --> 00:36:20,888 He was a womanizer. 775 00:36:20,930 --> 00:36:23,349 The more money you have, the more women you have, 776 00:36:23,390 --> 00:36:25,809 especially when you're looking at a high-priced athlete. 777 00:36:25,851 --> 00:36:27,436 It comes with the territory. 778 00:36:27,478 --> 00:36:30,147 Women would walk up and they'd look down, 779 00:36:30,189 --> 00:36:32,942 they'd look up, and they'd have that smile on their face. 780 00:36:32,983 --> 00:36:34,526 [laughs] 781 00:36:34,568 --> 00:36:36,820 That's how life went with Wilt. 782 00:36:36,862 --> 00:36:39,531 There were women who kind of threw themselves at him. 783 00:36:39,573 --> 00:36:42,993 I chose Wilt. 784 00:36:43,035 --> 00:36:46,372 I chose him, and I went to go be with him. 785 00:36:48,082 --> 00:36:50,000 I grew up in San Jose. 786 00:36:50,042 --> 00:36:52,002 I was at San Jose State, 787 00:36:52,044 --> 00:36:54,880 and I heard a rumbling on the beach one day 788 00:36:54,922 --> 00:36:56,590 that Wilt Chamberlain was there, 789 00:36:56,632 --> 00:36:58,092 so I went down. 790 00:36:58,133 --> 00:37:00,552 Totally not connected to him. 791 00:37:00,594 --> 00:37:02,012 Had never met him before. 792 00:37:02,054 --> 00:37:03,806 Saw where he was sitting. I looked around, 793 00:37:03,847 --> 00:37:05,015 I looked for an approach angle 794 00:37:05,057 --> 00:37:06,809 so I could go up and meet him. 795 00:37:06,850 --> 00:37:08,602 I was figuring out what I was going to say to him, 796 00:37:08,644 --> 00:37:11,105 and before I could do that, he read my T-shirt. 797 00:37:11,146 --> 00:37:12,731 It said "San Jose" on it. 798 00:37:12,773 --> 00:37:15,567 He said, "Hey, San Jose, come here, sit down." 799 00:37:15,609 --> 00:37:17,444 [laughs] 800 00:37:17,486 --> 00:37:21,115 And we talked, and already we were bantering and bickering. 801 00:37:21,156 --> 00:37:23,867 Track and field was a connection 802 00:37:23,909 --> 00:37:25,995 because he loved track and field, 803 00:37:26,036 --> 00:37:27,079 and I didn't know that. 804 00:37:27,121 --> 00:37:29,832 I ran the 100 yards 805 00:37:29,873 --> 00:37:32,501 and 220 yards at San Jose State, 806 00:37:32,543 --> 00:37:35,004 and he said, you want to run with me? 807 00:37:35,045 --> 00:37:37,256 You want to see the prettiest runner? 808 00:37:37,298 --> 00:37:38,841 [laughs] 809 00:37:38,882 --> 00:37:42,052 Of course, I wanted to be able to say, yeah. 810 00:37:42,094 --> 00:37:44,305 I was with Wilt. 811 00:37:44,346 --> 00:37:45,764 Not only did we have great sex, 812 00:37:45,806 --> 00:37:47,391 but we slept really well together. 813 00:37:47,433 --> 00:37:49,518 And that to me was an indicator 814 00:37:49,560 --> 00:37:52,229 that that might be fun to keep doing. 815 00:37:52,271 --> 00:37:53,689 I knew he was a player. 816 00:37:53,731 --> 00:37:56,859 It's the sex in the sports world game. 817 00:37:59,695 --> 00:38:02,906 I had the sense the more of his teammates I talked to 818 00:38:02,948 --> 00:38:06,994 that Wilt absolutely loved basketball, 819 00:38:07,036 --> 00:38:10,956 he loved his women, and he loved himself. 820 00:38:10,998 --> 00:38:15,044 He was gonna do what he wanted to do. 821 00:38:15,085 --> 00:38:19,840 Wilt could be difficult to coach certainly. 822 00:38:19,882 --> 00:38:21,717 There's a moment early in his career 823 00:38:21,759 --> 00:38:23,635 when Wilt is coached for the Warriors 824 00:38:23,677 --> 00:38:25,095 by Neil Johnston. 825 00:38:25,137 --> 00:38:28,682 And at halftime, Johnston says, "Wilt, 826 00:38:28,724 --> 00:38:31,352 there's a guy out in the corner making all these shots." 827 00:38:31,393 --> 00:38:35,105 And Wilt said, "Well, I'm not gonna be covering him. 828 00:38:35,147 --> 00:38:38,108 You know, I'm going to be the guy in the middle." 829 00:38:38,150 --> 00:38:42,071 And it was Wilt saying, "You're the coach, but I'm the man." 830 00:38:42,112 --> 00:38:44,365 [Wilt] I know basketball, too. 831 00:38:44,406 --> 00:38:47,159 If a coach told me to do something I knew was stupid, 832 00:38:47,201 --> 00:38:49,745 I wasn't gonna do it. 833 00:38:49,787 --> 00:38:56,085 Quite frankly, while you have to be honest with your superstar, 834 00:38:56,126 --> 00:38:58,879 you can't be over-judgmental. 835 00:38:58,921 --> 00:39:00,130 You just can't. 836 00:39:00,172 --> 00:39:02,132 And you as a coach 837 00:39:02,174 --> 00:39:04,593 have to find your way around that. 838 00:39:07,012 --> 00:39:09,306 In 1961-62, 839 00:39:09,348 --> 00:39:11,100 Eddie Gottlieb hires a new coach. 840 00:39:11,141 --> 00:39:12,935 His name is Frank McGuire. 841 00:39:12,976 --> 00:39:15,396 Frank McGuire coached against Wilt 842 00:39:15,437 --> 00:39:17,523 in the famous triple overtime game. 843 00:39:17,564 --> 00:39:19,733 Who knew that Frank McGuire and Wilt would rendezvous 844 00:39:19,775 --> 00:39:23,153 in a much more interesting capacity in Philadelphia? 845 00:39:23,195 --> 00:39:26,323 And McGuire told his players, 846 00:39:26,365 --> 00:39:29,201 we're going to get the ball into Wilt two thirds of the time. 847 00:39:29,243 --> 00:39:32,162 [Wilt] He actually put me in a position 848 00:39:32,204 --> 00:39:36,041 to have maybe the greatest single season 849 00:39:36,083 --> 00:39:37,668 that I think a basketball player 850 00:39:37,709 --> 00:39:39,920 could possibly ever have. 851 00:39:43,006 --> 00:39:46,135 We had no one that could bother him. No one. 852 00:39:46,176 --> 00:39:50,639 In 1961, Wilt averaged 50 points a game. 853 00:39:50,681 --> 00:39:53,183 50 points a game. 854 00:39:53,225 --> 00:39:55,978 And these are double and triple teams. 855 00:39:56,019 --> 00:39:58,188 That's video game shit, man. 856 00:39:58,230 --> 00:40:01,483 There's always the statements that are made 857 00:40:01,525 --> 00:40:03,902 in terms of, well, Wilt never played against anybody. 858 00:40:03,944 --> 00:40:07,823 They were all six-foot-five White boys that couldn't jump. 859 00:40:07,865 --> 00:40:10,993 That's what they say, and that's not true. 860 00:40:11,034 --> 00:40:12,870 Can you imagine if he could shoot foul shots 861 00:40:12,911 --> 00:40:14,288 what he would have averaged? 862 00:40:17,291 --> 00:40:22,212 They would hard foul him because he couldn't make a free throw. 863 00:40:22,254 --> 00:40:23,630 That's the only weakness that Wilt had. 864 00:40:23,672 --> 00:40:25,132 He tried to do the Rick Barry way, 865 00:40:25,174 --> 00:40:26,633 you know, underhanded. 866 00:40:26,675 --> 00:40:28,218 But he still was better 867 00:40:28,260 --> 00:40:30,095 than he was shooting it the other way. 868 00:40:30,137 --> 00:40:31,805 [Wilt] I'm a psychic. 869 00:40:31,847 --> 00:40:33,307 I'm a head case when it comes to the foul line. 870 00:40:33,348 --> 00:40:35,642 It was a sad sight. 871 00:40:37,019 --> 00:40:38,979 So if you have a weakness in your game, 872 00:40:39,021 --> 00:40:40,898 you got to be smart and play around it. 873 00:40:43,358 --> 00:40:47,654 Wilt came up with this unstoppable fallaway jump shot. 874 00:40:47,696 --> 00:40:50,199 The man worked on his game. 875 00:40:50,240 --> 00:40:51,950 There is nobody better in the league 876 00:40:51,992 --> 00:40:54,870 with that fade away jumper than Dirk Nowitzki. 877 00:40:54,912 --> 00:40:57,372 Dip had that shot before Dirk Nowitzki. 878 00:40:57,414 --> 00:41:00,667 Wilt said that he never wanted to come out of a game, 879 00:41:00,709 --> 00:41:04,171 so McGuire played him every minute of every game. 880 00:41:04,213 --> 00:41:06,590 The fun trivia is that he averaged 881 00:41:06,632 --> 00:41:09,510 more than 48 minutes a game thanks to overtimes. 882 00:41:09,551 --> 00:41:12,804 It's astounding that Wilt could, in the same body, 883 00:41:12,846 --> 00:41:15,098 have inexhaustible stamina. 884 00:41:15,140 --> 00:41:16,725 Never fouled out of a game. 885 00:41:16,767 --> 00:41:20,103 I mean, it was a remarkable accomplishment. 886 00:41:20,145 --> 00:41:23,190 And we should give him credit for providing that value 887 00:41:23,232 --> 00:41:24,525 throughout the whole game. 888 00:41:24,566 --> 00:41:27,027 But pace is a huge deal 889 00:41:27,069 --> 00:41:29,363 when we compare numbers across era. 890 00:41:29,404 --> 00:41:32,658 And the short of it is they just took way more shots 891 00:41:32,699 --> 00:41:34,535 than we would see today 892 00:41:34,576 --> 00:41:36,620 because they weren't as careful about being efficient. 893 00:41:36,662 --> 00:41:40,457 But when you account for pace, you actually start to see 894 00:41:40,499 --> 00:41:43,293 that it's very close to the mega scoring seasons 895 00:41:43,335 --> 00:41:45,963 of the 1980s, of the 1990s, 896 00:41:46,004 --> 00:41:47,881 of the 2000s. 897 00:41:47,923 --> 00:41:52,219 They're usually around 35 points every 75 possessions. 898 00:41:52,261 --> 00:41:55,889 Wilt still looks like one of the greatest scorers ever. 899 00:41:55,931 --> 00:41:57,516 He just doesn't look like 900 00:41:57,558 --> 00:42:00,269 this complete video game outlier anymore. 901 00:42:00,310 --> 00:42:01,687 You just don't show up and do that if you're not phenomenal. 902 00:42:01,728 --> 00:42:03,355 Let's face it. 903 00:42:03,397 --> 00:42:04,773 I don't care how many times they throw him the ball. 904 00:42:08,735 --> 00:42:13,699 Wilt's signature night happens on March 2, 1962. 905 00:42:13,740 --> 00:42:17,369 Game 75 out of 80 at the Hershey Arena 906 00:42:17,411 --> 00:42:20,080 in Hershey, Pennsylvania, the famed chocolate town. 907 00:42:20,122 --> 00:42:21,331 And they're playing the New York Knicks, 908 00:42:21,373 --> 00:42:23,083 a last-place team. 909 00:42:23,125 --> 00:42:25,627 They had teams play 910 00:42:25,669 --> 00:42:29,006 some of their home games in nearby arenas 911 00:42:29,047 --> 00:42:31,091 trying to grow new fans all across America. 912 00:42:31,133 --> 00:42:34,052 There's no footage 913 00:42:34,094 --> 00:42:36,722 because nobody deemed the game worthy enough to cover. 914 00:42:36,763 --> 00:42:38,265 The rebound, Luckenbill. 915 00:42:38,307 --> 00:42:40,183 Back to Ruklick, in the Chamberlain. 916 00:42:40,225 --> 00:42:42,436 He got it! He got it! 917 00:42:42,477 --> 00:42:45,856 He got it! The tip is good. He made it! 918 00:42:45,897 --> 00:42:50,235 He scores the 100-point basket with 46 seconds left to play. 919 00:42:50,277 --> 00:42:52,237 And all the kids of Hershey, 920 00:42:52,279 --> 00:42:54,906 the sons and daughters of chocolate factory workers, 921 00:42:54,948 --> 00:42:56,366 storm the court. 922 00:42:56,408 --> 00:42:58,118 They say records are made to be broken. 923 00:42:58,160 --> 00:42:59,786 There's not a chance in the world 924 00:42:59,828 --> 00:43:02,414 that anybody will even come close to doing that. 925 00:43:02,456 --> 00:43:07,461 He was Paul Bunyan from a basketball point of view. 926 00:43:07,502 --> 00:43:10,005 But to Wilt, the 100-point game 927 00:43:10,047 --> 00:43:13,008 symbolized that he was a gunner 928 00:43:13,050 --> 00:43:15,802 and that he cared only about his own statistics. 929 00:43:22,184 --> 00:43:25,228 In the '62 season, Wilt scored 4,000 points. 930 00:43:25,270 --> 00:43:26,855 Nobody's done that since. 931 00:43:26,897 --> 00:43:29,816 But he got crushed in the MVP by Bill Russell. 932 00:43:29,858 --> 00:43:31,526 How do you explain this? 933 00:43:31,568 --> 00:43:33,987 It's easy. The players voted for it back then. 934 00:43:34,029 --> 00:43:35,614 The players voted for Russell, 935 00:43:35,656 --> 00:43:37,491 and they knew that Wilt was chasing stats 936 00:43:37,532 --> 00:43:39,159 and wasn't fun to play with. 937 00:43:39,201 --> 00:43:42,162 All them would rather have played with Russell. 938 00:43:42,204 --> 00:43:45,082 Tom Gola was the golden boy. 939 00:43:45,123 --> 00:43:47,417 He'd been a star at La Salle in the NCAA tournament, 940 00:43:47,459 --> 00:43:51,922 and he didn't like having Wilt on his team that much. 941 00:43:51,963 --> 00:43:54,341 He told one player from another team, 942 00:43:54,383 --> 00:43:56,593 he was just bouncing the ball against the wall. 943 00:43:56,635 --> 00:43:58,428 Ball would ricochet back to him. 944 00:43:58,470 --> 00:43:59,846 Somebody said, "What are you doing?" 945 00:43:59,888 --> 00:44:01,515 He said, "I'm practicing our offense. 946 00:44:01,556 --> 00:44:05,644 Pass the ball to Wilt and just stand there." 947 00:44:05,686 --> 00:44:07,688 Was he selfish? I don't think he was selfish. 948 00:44:07,729 --> 00:44:09,856 I think he had to shoot as much as he could 949 00:44:09,898 --> 00:44:11,817 for his team to win. 950 00:44:11,858 --> 00:44:14,736 The more we got him the ball, the more games we would win. 951 00:44:14,778 --> 00:44:17,280 So we tried to get the ball to him as much as we could. 952 00:44:17,322 --> 00:44:21,410 And if the team doesn't win, then he gets blamed for it. 953 00:44:21,451 --> 00:44:23,245 But he was a team player. 954 00:44:23,286 --> 00:44:26,873 I never felt like I was giving up my shots for Wilt. 955 00:44:26,915 --> 00:44:28,792 The best basketball player on the team 956 00:44:28,834 --> 00:44:30,585 should have the ball. 957 00:44:30,627 --> 00:44:33,588 And I think a lot of players were jealous, frankly. 958 00:44:33,630 --> 00:44:38,176 And I am reasonably sure 959 00:44:38,218 --> 00:44:42,431 that some of the anger and the jealousy 960 00:44:42,472 --> 00:44:45,726 that was directed at Wilt had to do with this, 961 00:44:45,767 --> 00:44:50,230 you know, the fact that he dated White women. 962 00:44:50,272 --> 00:44:55,652 Wilt and I were chatting up a couple of stewardesses, 963 00:44:55,694 --> 00:44:59,906 and we were gonna double date two White women. 964 00:44:59,948 --> 00:45:02,033 When we were getting off the plane, 965 00:45:02,075 --> 00:45:03,869 some of the White guys on the team 966 00:45:03,910 --> 00:45:08,248 were giving me a hard time for pimping for Wilt. 967 00:45:08,290 --> 00:45:14,629 I was not a racist, but I wanted to fit in. 968 00:45:14,671 --> 00:45:17,090 I wanted the guys to like me. 969 00:45:17,132 --> 00:45:21,094 That's a very immigrant kind of mentality, 970 00:45:21,136 --> 00:45:22,721 and I was an immigrant. 971 00:45:22,763 --> 00:45:25,974 So I went against my better self. 972 00:45:26,016 --> 00:45:27,684 I called Wilt, 973 00:45:27,726 --> 00:45:31,188 and I said I was sick and I couldn't make it. 974 00:45:31,229 --> 00:45:33,523 To make the story worse, of course, 975 00:45:33,565 --> 00:45:35,650 I decided, that stewardess, 976 00:45:35,692 --> 00:45:38,779 maybe I could talk her into going out with me anyway. 977 00:45:38,820 --> 00:45:43,450 Well, I walked in the back door of the hotel, 978 00:45:43,492 --> 00:45:48,038 and sure enough, as the gods of justice would have it, 979 00:45:48,079 --> 00:45:51,792 Wilt Chamberlain was walking in the front door, and he saw me. 980 00:45:51,833 --> 00:45:53,960 And I turned around. 981 00:45:54,002 --> 00:45:57,422 I scurried like the rat I felt like out the back. 982 00:45:57,464 --> 00:45:59,132 The next day at practice, 983 00:45:59,174 --> 00:46:01,259 we're walking out of the locker room, 984 00:46:01,301 --> 00:46:04,221 and Wilt pulls me back. 985 00:46:04,262 --> 00:46:09,684 He took his finger and he said, I'm Black, you're White, 986 00:46:09,726 --> 00:46:13,647 Tom, You got to make some decisions. 987 00:46:13,688 --> 00:46:16,358 It was just simple kindness. 988 00:46:16,399 --> 00:46:17,984 I'll never forget that. 989 00:46:18,026 --> 00:46:19,528 Through Wilt's kindness, 990 00:46:19,569 --> 00:46:24,282 I learned to be a better human being. 991 00:46:24,324 --> 00:46:27,410 I mean, honestly, I think when you talk about the history 992 00:46:27,452 --> 00:46:30,831 of Black athletes in the twentieth century, 993 00:46:30,872 --> 00:46:33,542 we celebrate and we praise those individuals 994 00:46:33,583 --> 00:46:37,921 who used their platform to advocate for social justice. 995 00:46:37,963 --> 00:46:43,760 Jackie Robinson, Muhammad Ali, Bill Russell. 996 00:46:43,802 --> 00:46:47,138 Wilt Chamberlain comes from a very different tradition. 997 00:46:47,180 --> 00:46:52,060 Jack Johnson, in the early part of the twentieth century, 998 00:46:52,102 --> 00:46:55,188 would become the first Black heavyweight champion 999 00:46:55,230 --> 00:46:58,984 and a threat to dominant White society. 1000 00:46:59,025 --> 00:47:01,695 Jack Johnson was about the individual. 1001 00:47:01,736 --> 00:47:03,780 I'm not trying to appeal to White people. 1002 00:47:03,822 --> 00:47:05,574 I'm not trying to appeal to Black people. 1003 00:47:05,615 --> 00:47:07,075 I'm my own man. 1004 00:47:07,117 --> 00:47:09,536 Down the line, you get Wilt Chamberlain, 1005 00:47:09,578 --> 00:47:11,955 who was basically about individuality, 1006 00:47:11,997 --> 00:47:14,082 which is eminently American. 1007 00:47:14,124 --> 00:47:16,126 And even though in today's society 1008 00:47:16,167 --> 00:47:18,461 that might sound selfish, 1009 00:47:18,503 --> 00:47:23,133 that was a radical position for a Black man to take. 1010 00:47:23,174 --> 00:47:24,676 Sure, he had an ego, 1011 00:47:24,718 --> 00:47:28,013 but so did Monet, so did Einstein. 1012 00:47:28,054 --> 00:47:31,683 We're talking about incredible talent. 1013 00:47:31,725 --> 00:47:34,269 I'll guarantee you some guys on a few teams 1014 00:47:34,311 --> 00:47:37,689 would have been very happy to be on Wilt's team. 1015 00:47:37,731 --> 00:47:39,566 We were always in the playoffs. 1016 00:47:41,151 --> 00:47:45,864 1962, the Warriors are competitive enough 1017 00:47:45,906 --> 00:47:48,533 to take on as an underdog 1018 00:47:48,575 --> 00:47:50,702 Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics 1019 00:47:50,744 --> 00:47:54,080 with the winner going to the NBA Finals. 1020 00:47:57,876 --> 00:48:00,128 It was his best supporting cast up to that time. 1021 00:48:00,170 --> 00:48:02,631 Paul Arizin was still viable. Gola. 1022 00:48:02,672 --> 00:48:05,175 Guy Rodgers, a terrific Hall of Fame-bound point guard. 1023 00:48:05,216 --> 00:48:08,553 Tom Meschery. 1024 00:48:08,595 --> 00:48:10,347 But it wasn't the equal of the Celtics. 1025 00:48:10,388 --> 00:48:13,224 This is a team that had won the world championship 1026 00:48:13,266 --> 00:48:16,686 in 1957, '59, '60, '61. 1027 00:48:16,728 --> 00:48:20,565 They had the best record in the league in 1962 by a mile. 1028 00:48:20,607 --> 00:48:23,443 This is a Celtic team that in those years 1029 00:48:23,485 --> 00:48:26,279 had upwards of eight Hall of Famers on the team. 1030 00:48:27,822 --> 00:48:29,991 You know, I've heard that argument before, 1031 00:48:30,033 --> 00:48:31,576 but it's more than that. 1032 00:48:31,618 --> 00:48:35,080 Bill Russell had a mental tenacity 1033 00:48:35,121 --> 00:48:38,625 that I'm going to argue Wilt Chamberlain did not. 1034 00:48:38,667 --> 00:48:41,419 I never tried to stop him from scoring. 1035 00:48:41,461 --> 00:48:44,422 That would be doomed to failure. 1036 00:48:44,464 --> 00:48:46,967 What I would do sometimes is push him 1037 00:48:47,008 --> 00:48:49,886 another two inches away from the basket. 1038 00:48:49,928 --> 00:48:54,766 That changes the angle to make him less efficient. 1039 00:48:56,726 --> 00:48:58,603 Basically, his strategy 1040 00:48:58,645 --> 00:49:00,230 was to try to make Wilt move laterally 1041 00:49:00,271 --> 00:49:01,439 more than he wanted to. 1042 00:49:01,481 --> 00:49:02,983 There was no doubt 1043 00:49:03,024 --> 00:49:05,026 that Russell had greater lateral mobility always. 1044 00:49:05,068 --> 00:49:07,862 In the series, 1045 00:49:07,904 --> 00:49:09,531 Wilt only averaged 37 points per game, 1046 00:49:09,572 --> 00:49:12,826 13 points below the regular season. 1047 00:49:12,867 --> 00:49:15,328 Wilt played for a coach that didn't utilize him 1048 00:49:15,370 --> 00:49:16,454 as effectively as he should have been utilized. 1049 00:49:16,496 --> 00:49:18,081 How do you say that? 1050 00:49:18,123 --> 00:49:19,749 Look at all the points and stuff he scored. 1051 00:49:19,791 --> 00:49:22,627 Well, yeah, but it wasn't good team basketball. 1052 00:49:22,669 --> 00:49:24,170 In the playoffs, 1053 00:49:24,212 --> 00:49:25,922 when one player is doing all the shooting 1054 00:49:25,964 --> 00:49:28,174 without passing and setting up your teammates, 1055 00:49:28,216 --> 00:49:30,677 defenses overload on Wilt. 1056 00:49:30,719 --> 00:49:33,430 It becomes less efficient to score. 1057 00:49:33,471 --> 00:49:35,932 Meanwhile, the other guys aren't going to be as effective 1058 00:49:35,974 --> 00:49:38,560 because you're not creating any shots for them. 1059 00:49:38,601 --> 00:49:42,522 But the fact is that they were in it because of Wilt. 1060 00:49:42,564 --> 00:49:44,190 This is the series 1061 00:49:44,232 --> 00:49:45,734 in which he had a 40-point, 30-rebound game. 1062 00:49:45,775 --> 00:49:47,444 That series was tremendous. 1063 00:49:47,485 --> 00:49:49,529 [Announcer] Bob Cousy and Sam Jones, 1064 00:49:49,571 --> 00:49:50,989 who's had a great series. 1065 00:49:51,031 --> 00:49:53,116 Back and forth. 1066 00:49:53,158 --> 00:49:55,535 [Announcer] This is Al Attles. 1067 00:50:03,126 --> 00:50:06,546 The Warriors take it to game seven. 1068 00:50:12,677 --> 00:50:14,929 [Announcer] A big play by Bill Russell. 1069 00:50:14,971 --> 00:50:18,725 Chamberlain gets the score. 1070 00:50:18,767 --> 00:50:20,727 Heinsohn. 1071 00:50:22,937 --> 00:50:26,566 He's gotta be 12 and a half, 13 feet off the ground 1072 00:50:26,608 --> 00:50:28,109 reaching for this ball. 1073 00:50:29,569 --> 00:50:31,237 It's called a goaltend 1074 00:50:31,279 --> 00:50:34,699 to put the Celtics up five in the final minutes. 1075 00:50:34,741 --> 00:50:37,077 It's controversial. 1076 00:50:37,118 --> 00:50:38,244 I think it's a goaltend. 1077 00:50:38,286 --> 00:50:39,829 They don't call them every time, 1078 00:50:39,871 --> 00:50:41,498 but at that point in the game 1079 00:50:41,539 --> 00:50:43,416 it could have gone either way. 1080 00:50:43,458 --> 00:50:46,920 Wilt makes two free throws the next time down the court 1081 00:50:46,961 --> 00:50:49,130 to cut it to three. 1082 00:50:50,924 --> 00:50:54,636 It's a turnover for the Celtics. 1083 00:50:54,677 --> 00:50:58,264 And then with only a few seconds left... 1084 00:51:01,810 --> 00:51:04,938 Just a ridiculous offensive rebound. 1085 00:51:07,732 --> 00:51:12,278 He scored five points in the final minute. 1086 00:51:13,696 --> 00:51:16,616 Russell isn't a scorer. 1087 00:51:16,658 --> 00:51:19,119 He's not gonna be taking the shot 1088 00:51:19,160 --> 00:51:20,745 down the stretch of a key game. 1089 00:51:20,787 --> 00:51:24,499 Russell can help the team by setting screens, 1090 00:51:24,541 --> 00:51:27,961 opening up pathways for his teammates to score. 1091 00:51:34,092 --> 00:51:37,720 [Announcer] Russell and Sam Jones. 1092 00:51:37,762 --> 00:51:39,973 [crowd cheers] 1093 00:51:40,014 --> 00:51:43,810 And Sam Jones hits a shot 1094 00:51:43,852 --> 00:51:46,896 to just knock off Philadelphia. 1095 00:52:00,410 --> 00:52:04,372 [Wilt] No one is as lonely as the loser. 1096 00:52:04,414 --> 00:52:07,917 It doesn't matter to me whether I score at all 1097 00:52:07,959 --> 00:52:10,336 as long as we win. 1098 00:52:10,378 --> 00:52:12,881 There's not anything that is beyond me 1099 00:52:12,922 --> 00:52:14,966 if I dedicate myself to it. 1100 00:52:15,008 --> 00:52:18,678 And I like a challenge. 1100 00:52:19,305 --> 00:53:19,849 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/f6zsd Help other users to choose the best subtitles 90702

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