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These are the user uploaded subtitles that are being translated: 1 00:00:06,000 --> 00:00:12,074 Support us and become VIP member to remove all ads from www.OpenSubtitles.org 2 00:00:26,652 --> 00:00:31,407 David and Goliath, this famous biblical story. 3 00:00:31,449 --> 00:00:35,078 Goliath is the giant, you know. 4 00:00:35,119 --> 00:00:36,537 David, you know, 5 00:00:36,579 --> 00:00:38,706 slayed him with a stone. 6 00:00:38,748 --> 00:00:40,541 I ain't been to church in a long time, 7 00:00:40,583 --> 00:00:43,419 so my explanation might be a little off. 8 00:00:43,461 --> 00:00:45,129 But it might be on point, I don't know. 9 00:00:45,171 --> 00:00:46,589 But the point is, 10 00:00:46,631 --> 00:00:50,593 the giant, who looks unbeatable, 11 00:00:50,635 --> 00:00:55,223 but somehow David prevails, right? 12 00:00:55,264 --> 00:00:58,142 When you think about Russell and Chamberlain, 13 00:00:58,184 --> 00:01:01,562 Russell had a lot more help. 14 00:01:01,604 --> 00:01:04,232 So you can be the baddest motherfucker in the world. 15 00:01:04,273 --> 00:01:07,777 It's real hard for one to beat five. 16 00:01:07,819 --> 00:01:11,572 So who's David and who's Goliath? 17 00:01:23,167 --> 00:01:26,045 Billionaire mortgage lender Mat Ishbia 18 00:01:26,087 --> 00:01:28,381 is planning to buy the Phoenix Suns. 19 00:01:28,422 --> 00:01:30,049 The deal expected to be completed 20 00:01:30,091 --> 00:01:32,468 in the near future, according to the report, 21 00:01:32,510 --> 00:01:37,473 and could close at an NBA record $4 billion. 22 00:01:37,515 --> 00:01:40,476 Back in 1951, 23 00:01:40,518 --> 00:01:43,896 Eddie Gottlieb paid $25,000 24 00:01:43,938 --> 00:01:46,983 for the Philadelphia Warriors. 25 00:01:47,024 --> 00:01:50,069 At the end of the 1962 season, 26 00:01:50,111 --> 00:01:51,445 he had a golden opportunity. 27 00:01:51,487 --> 00:01:55,032 He sold the team for $850,000, 28 00:01:55,074 --> 00:01:59,829 then the most ever paid for an NBA franchise. 29 00:01:59,871 --> 00:02:02,582 [Wilt Chamberlain] Naturally, I was the key to the deal. 30 00:02:02,623 --> 00:02:05,376 I was damn near the whole Philadelphia franchise. 31 00:02:05,418 --> 00:02:07,211 I stood out literally and figuratively 32 00:02:07,253 --> 00:02:09,839 in an era when sports were beginning to make 33 00:02:09,881 --> 00:02:12,341 a tremendous impact in society. 34 00:02:12,383 --> 00:02:13,843 For better or for worse, 35 00:02:13,885 --> 00:02:15,261 I had a strong influence 36 00:02:15,303 --> 00:02:18,598 on how things played out in the sports world. 37 00:02:18,639 --> 00:02:25,980 The Warriors had a 3,000% increase in value 38 00:02:26,022 --> 00:02:28,941 after Wilt Chamberlain played for them. 39 00:02:28,983 --> 00:02:31,986 [Cherry] So at age 25, 40 00:02:32,028 --> 00:02:36,365 Wilt Chamberlain found himself moving to San Francisco. 41 00:02:36,407 --> 00:02:39,994 [Wilt] San Francisco is a sensational city, 42 00:02:40,036 --> 00:02:42,788 a beautiful city, a different town. 43 00:02:42,830 --> 00:02:45,875 Sophisticated people, lovely ladies, 44 00:02:45,917 --> 00:02:48,836 a romantic town fit for romanticists, 45 00:02:48,878 --> 00:02:52,632 the best in food and drink for a man of taste, 46 00:02:52,673 --> 00:02:56,219 European charm and California tradition, 47 00:02:56,260 --> 00:02:58,721 but no place for basketball. 48 00:02:58,763 --> 00:03:02,058 We played our games in a place called the Cow Palace, 49 00:03:02,099 --> 00:03:04,644 and that's just what it was. 50 00:03:04,685 --> 00:03:06,437 The damn roof leaked so badly 51 00:03:06,479 --> 00:03:08,105 that when it rained, 52 00:03:08,147 --> 00:03:10,274 I'd get half a dozen drops of water in my eye 53 00:03:10,316 --> 00:03:12,360 every time I looked up for the center jump. 54 00:03:15,738 --> 00:03:17,698 They have a few changes with the team, 55 00:03:17,740 --> 00:03:21,577 notably coach Frank McGuire and Tom Gola, 56 00:03:21,619 --> 00:03:23,412 who was a great all-around player 57 00:03:23,454 --> 00:03:26,332 staying behind basically on the East Coast. 58 00:03:26,374 --> 00:03:27,917 And then Paul Arizin, 59 00:03:27,959 --> 00:03:30,002 another Hall of Fame teammate of Wilt at the time 60 00:03:30,044 --> 00:03:32,255 who had been around forever, he retired. 61 00:03:32,296 --> 00:03:34,590 My father, he didn't really have much desire 62 00:03:34,632 --> 00:03:36,676 to move to San Francisco. 63 00:03:36,717 --> 00:03:38,594 The money wasn't compelling enough 64 00:03:38,636 --> 00:03:41,264 for him to extend his career. 65 00:03:41,305 --> 00:03:44,100 The fact is, these great athletes and players 66 00:03:44,141 --> 00:03:46,560 weren't being paid enough money. 67 00:03:46,602 --> 00:03:48,521 They all had to work in the offseason. 68 00:03:48,562 --> 00:03:51,774 [Announcer]   Chamberlain is the greatest scoring machine 69 00:03:51,816 --> 00:03:53,526 the game has ever known. 70 00:03:53,567 --> 00:03:57,947 Chamberlain still is scoring at these incredible rates, 71 00:03:57,989 --> 00:04:00,992 but the Warriors really struggle. 72 00:04:01,033 --> 00:04:03,911 The part where people start to care 73 00:04:03,953 --> 00:04:06,080 is like, okay, so you do all those things, 74 00:04:06,122 --> 00:04:07,081 but you're not winning. 75 00:04:07,123 --> 00:04:08,749 Can you do those things and win? 76 00:04:08,791 --> 00:04:12,253 They finished second to last place in the West, 77 00:04:12,295 --> 00:04:14,255 and this is the first time 78 00:04:14,297 --> 00:04:16,841 Wilt's team doesn't make the playoffs. 79 00:04:16,882 --> 00:04:19,302 [Wilt]   I never played before 80 00:04:19,343 --> 00:04:22,722 for a team which lost more games than it won, 81 00:04:22,763 --> 00:04:28,686 and it was the most miserable season of my career. 82 00:04:28,728 --> 00:04:31,689 To have the expectation for yourself 83 00:04:31,731 --> 00:04:34,275 of winning a championship, 84 00:04:34,317 --> 00:04:36,193 those losses and those setbacks 85 00:04:36,235 --> 00:04:39,947 probably felt that much more disappointing. 86 00:04:39,989 --> 00:04:41,157 They probably hurt more. 87 00:04:41,198 --> 00:04:43,993 Goliath is not supposed to lose. 88 00:04:45,619 --> 00:04:47,663 [Announcer]   Meet the most colorful comedy act 89 00:04:47,705 --> 00:04:50,124 in present-day sport: the Harlem Globetrotters, 90 00:04:50,166 --> 00:04:53,419 idolized by 20 million basketball fans in the USA. 91 00:04:53,461 --> 00:04:55,504 Now matched against a team of white athletes, 92 00:04:55,546 --> 00:04:57,506 they show England a trick or two. 93 00:05:01,927 --> 00:05:05,139 The Globetrotters were an all-Black team 94 00:05:05,181 --> 00:05:08,142 founded by a man named Abe Saperstein. 95 00:05:08,184 --> 00:05:12,813 That summer, after the San Francisco Warriors 96 00:05:12,855 --> 00:05:14,315 had a losing season, 97 00:05:14,357 --> 00:05:17,526 Wilt chose to join the Globetrotters 98 00:05:17,568 --> 00:05:19,612 in Western Europe and play with them. 99 00:05:19,653 --> 00:05:23,366 You know, when you're a young Black kid 100 00:05:23,407 --> 00:05:26,035 in America in the forties, 101 00:05:26,077 --> 00:05:30,498 you loved Joe Louis 102 00:05:30,539 --> 00:05:33,000 and the Harlem Globetrotters. 103 00:05:33,042 --> 00:05:34,210 [Announcer] But for really tricky work, 104 00:05:34,251 --> 00:05:35,753 just watch Haynes, the Harlem star, 105 00:05:35,795 --> 00:05:37,797 going into a kind of Stanley Matthews act 106 00:05:37,838 --> 00:05:40,925 that delights the crowd and drives the opposition daft. 107 00:05:42,051 --> 00:05:46,347 I wanted to be Marques Haynes, 108 00:05:46,389 --> 00:05:49,975 the greatest dribbler ever. 109 00:05:50,017 --> 00:05:51,519 [Announcer] Yes, that Harlem rhythm 110 00:05:51,560 --> 00:05:53,646 has certainly got something. 111 00:05:58,192 --> 00:05:59,318 As people know, 112 00:05:59,360 --> 00:06:01,237 back in 1958, 113 00:06:01,278 --> 00:06:03,489 after his junior year at Kansas, 114 00:06:03,531 --> 00:06:07,243 Wilt decided he had had his fill with college. 115 00:06:07,284 --> 00:06:08,953 But he couldn't go to the NBA yet 116 00:06:08,994 --> 00:06:10,830 because the rules at the time said 117 00:06:10,871 --> 00:06:12,790 that you had to do four years of college. 118 00:06:12,832 --> 00:06:14,458 This is like a decade before Spencer Haywood 119 00:06:14,500 --> 00:06:16,293 helped get the rules changed, 120 00:06:16,335 --> 00:06:19,213 and you could go straight into the league if you were ready. 121 00:06:19,255 --> 00:06:21,090 So Wilt Chamberlain, in his senior year, 122 00:06:21,132 --> 00:06:22,925 instead of letting the university 123 00:06:22,967 --> 00:06:24,552 and the NCAA more broadly 124 00:06:24,593 --> 00:06:26,887 exploit his talent and his services, 125 00:06:26,929 --> 00:06:28,848 said, why would I stay in college 126 00:06:28,889 --> 00:06:31,392 when I can play for the greatest basketball show on earth 127 00:06:31,434 --> 00:06:34,061 at the time, the Harlem Globetrotters? 128 00:06:34,103 --> 00:06:35,271 Probably the best time of my life? 129 00:06:35,312 --> 00:06:37,440 The Harlem Globetrotters, 130 00:06:37,481 --> 00:06:41,819 which I played for for about 17 years on and off. 131 00:06:41,861 --> 00:06:44,238 A little known fact 132 00:06:44,280 --> 00:06:47,867 was that he would go play for the Globetrotters 133 00:06:47,908 --> 00:06:50,870 even after he played in the NBA. 134 00:06:50,911 --> 00:06:52,371 Why did he do it? 135 00:06:52,413 --> 00:06:54,457 He loved the experience. 136 00:06:54,498 --> 00:06:56,750 [Announcer]   Purists say they make a mockery of the game. 137 00:06:56,792 --> 00:06:59,044 They clown, they juggle, they fool. 138 00:06:59,086 --> 00:07:00,629 Number 50 is Goose Tatum, 139 00:07:00,671 --> 00:07:03,048 the clown with the longest arms in the sport. 140 00:07:03,090 --> 00:07:06,051 Wilt Chamberlain wanted to imitate Goose Tatum. 141 00:07:06,093 --> 00:07:08,762 That means palming the ball, 142 00:07:08,804 --> 00:07:12,808 fake passing, and laughing. 143 00:07:14,351 --> 00:07:16,854 I first met Wilt in Italy 144 00:07:16,896 --> 00:07:18,397 playing against him. 145 00:07:18,439 --> 00:07:20,733 He'd be dribbling behind the back. 146 00:07:20,774 --> 00:07:23,402 He had all the trick stuff, passing. 147 00:07:23,444 --> 00:07:26,864 [Wilt] I was a young, naive, unsophisticated boy 148 00:07:26,906 --> 00:07:28,908 during my year with the Globies, 149 00:07:28,949 --> 00:07:31,076 but I fell in love with Europe, 150 00:07:31,118 --> 00:07:33,245 and hardly a summer would pass after that 151 00:07:33,287 --> 00:07:35,247 without my returning to Europe. 152 00:07:35,289 --> 00:07:38,250 In time, I come to know the best restaurants 153 00:07:38,292 --> 00:07:39,460 and the best hotels. 154 00:07:39,502 --> 00:07:41,128 I learned my way around the cities 155 00:07:41,170 --> 00:07:45,382 like Paris and Rome and Milan and Copenhagen. 156 00:07:45,424 --> 00:07:46,300 [Announcer] Last year in Europe, 157 00:07:46,342 --> 00:07:47,843 they played 73 games 158 00:07:47,885 --> 00:07:49,762 in nine different countries, and lost only one. 159 00:07:49,803 --> 00:07:53,265 The fans didn't want to see the Globetrotters lose, 160 00:07:53,307 --> 00:07:54,767 so the script was 161 00:07:54,808 --> 00:07:57,311 that the Globetrotters would win. 162 00:07:57,353 --> 00:08:00,105 I think he realized that this is a good thing to do 163 00:08:00,147 --> 00:08:01,815 to see the world and didn't have to win. 164 00:08:01,857 --> 00:08:03,108 no pressure, 165 00:08:03,150 --> 00:08:06,028 and naturally, everybody loved him. 166 00:08:06,070 --> 00:08:07,363 I wouldn't be surprised 167 00:08:07,404 --> 00:08:09,615 if Wilt just enjoyed it so much 168 00:08:09,657 --> 00:08:13,035 because of people were always applauding him 169 00:08:13,077 --> 00:08:15,454 for things that he was able to do, 170 00:08:15,496 --> 00:08:18,499 you know, instead of the intensity 171 00:08:18,541 --> 00:08:20,793 of trying to win a championship. 172 00:08:25,631 --> 00:08:30,302 In 1964, Alex Hannum takes over 173 00:08:30,344 --> 00:08:32,763 as Wilt's coach in San Francisco. 174 00:08:32,805 --> 00:08:34,807 Yeah, Alex was a very interesting guy. 175 00:08:34,848 --> 00:08:37,309 Tough-nosed guy, you know, military guy. 176 00:08:37,351 --> 00:08:38,644 I can still hear him. 177 00:08:38,686 --> 00:08:39,770 It's crazy that I even remember this. 178 00:08:39,812 --> 00:08:40,980 Stand on the sidelines 179 00:08:41,021 --> 00:08:42,439 and stick his chest out and going, 180 00:08:42,481 --> 00:08:43,983 Hum-diddy-diddy. You got him. We need him. 181 00:08:44,024 --> 00:08:45,109 How about a loaf of bread and a pound of meat 182 00:08:45,150 --> 00:08:46,569 and all mustard you can eat? 183 00:08:46,610 --> 00:08:48,195 And he'd come up with crazy things like that, 184 00:08:48,237 --> 00:08:49,613 but that's the way he was. 185 00:08:49,655 --> 00:08:51,949 [Wilt] I really wasn't all that excited 186 00:08:51,991 --> 00:08:53,951 about playing for Alex at first. 187 00:08:53,993 --> 00:08:55,619 When he coached at Syracuse, 188 00:08:55,661 --> 00:08:57,371 he was always baiting me 189 00:08:57,413 --> 00:08:59,748 and telling his players to push me around 190 00:08:59,790 --> 00:09:01,750 and yelling about me to the referees. 191 00:09:01,792 --> 00:09:03,669 He was my fourth coach in five years, 192 00:09:03,711 --> 00:09:05,671 and sportswriters started blaming me 193 00:09:05,713 --> 00:09:07,089 for the quick turnover. 194 00:09:07,131 --> 00:09:09,967 That was preposterous, of course. 195 00:09:10,009 --> 00:09:12,803 I think that his previous coaches, 196 00:09:12,845 --> 00:09:14,471 to me, the idea was 197 00:09:14,513 --> 00:09:17,725 that he would score as much as he possibly could. 198 00:09:17,766 --> 00:09:22,021 My idea was to spread that wealth around a little bit. 199 00:09:22,062 --> 00:09:24,023 He comes in and he says, Wilt, 200 00:09:24,064 --> 00:09:26,692 I want you to pass a little bit more. 201 00:09:26,734 --> 00:09:29,403 I want you to get the team more involved. 202 00:09:29,445 --> 00:09:31,905 He was asking Wilt Chamberlain, 203 00:09:31,947 --> 00:09:33,657 one of the greatest scorers ever, 204 00:09:33,699 --> 00:09:36,118 to score a little less. 205 00:09:36,160 --> 00:09:38,162 [Wilt] My last season in Philadelphia, 206 00:09:38,203 --> 00:09:40,581 we won 80% of the games 207 00:09:40,623 --> 00:09:43,292 in which I scored 50 or more points. 208 00:09:43,334 --> 00:09:46,462 I'm not sure my shooting less will make us win more. 209 00:09:46,503 --> 00:09:48,297 When I did not score as well as usual, 210 00:09:48,339 --> 00:09:49,882 we did not win. 211 00:09:49,923 --> 00:09:52,968 Coaching Wilt Chamberlain was certainly not easy. 212 00:09:53,010 --> 00:09:55,387 It all comes down to how best to win a championship. 213 00:09:55,429 --> 00:09:56,805 Alex stood up to him. 214 00:09:56,847 --> 00:09:58,515 You know, Alex challenged him to a fight. 215 00:09:58,557 --> 00:10:01,602 You can't help but respect the guy 216 00:10:01,644 --> 00:10:03,145 who's willing to stand up to you 217 00:10:03,187 --> 00:10:05,606 knowing full well that you could break him in half. 218 00:10:05,648 --> 00:10:12,446 Alex Hannum was trying to impose his will on Wilt. 219 00:10:12,488 --> 00:10:14,740 Hannum knew how far to push. 220 00:10:14,782 --> 00:10:18,285 That was an essential element to coaching him successfully. 221 00:10:18,327 --> 00:10:20,829 [Wilt] If a coach could show me the sense in something, 222 00:10:20,871 --> 00:10:24,917 I was always willing to try something different. 223 00:10:24,958 --> 00:10:27,503 Alex knew basketball, and he knew men. 224 00:10:27,544 --> 00:10:30,130 If the man doesn't want me to shoot, 225 00:10:30,172 --> 00:10:32,007 I won't shoot. 226 00:10:34,218 --> 00:10:35,969 [Announcer] That's Rogers from Chamberlain. 227 00:10:36,011 --> 00:10:39,515 Everything really starts to change. 228 00:10:39,556 --> 00:10:41,642 Double-teaming Wilt 229 00:10:41,684 --> 00:10:46,313 is actually opening up pathways for his teammates to score. 230 00:10:46,355 --> 00:10:48,732 His assist numbers start to go up. 231 00:10:48,774 --> 00:10:50,150 Playing with the Globetrotters, you know, 232 00:10:50,192 --> 00:10:51,985 they're throwing it behind their head, 233 00:10:52,027 --> 00:10:54,905 and I'm sure that helped his passing. 234 00:10:54,947 --> 00:10:58,826 [Ryan] This is what I call the second stage of Wilt's career, 235 00:10:58,867 --> 00:11:01,120 the well-balanced, middle of the road days 236 00:11:01,161 --> 00:11:03,789 when he'd seen the virtue of passing. 237 00:11:03,831 --> 00:11:05,040 [Announcer] A dunk by Nate Thurmond, 238 00:11:05,082 --> 00:11:07,668 6-11 rookie for San Francisco. 239 00:11:07,710 --> 00:11:11,630 That team also had a rookie join them named Nate Thurmond, 240 00:11:11,672 --> 00:11:14,675 one of the great defensive players in league history. 241 00:11:14,717 --> 00:11:16,719 [Wilt] I was still scoring a lot, 242 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:20,848 but Alex had us moving more and looking for the open man. 243 00:11:20,889 --> 00:11:23,851 We were really playing good team ball. 244 00:11:23,892 --> 00:11:26,019 [Taylor] This first year with Hannum, 245 00:11:26,061 --> 00:11:28,313 they make it all the way to the NBA Finals. 246 00:11:28,355 --> 00:11:30,649 [Announcer]   On the rebound, Bill Russell scores, 247 00:11:30,691 --> 00:11:34,027 [Taylor] Only to lose to the Celtics. 248 00:11:34,069 --> 00:11:39,324 And yet they improved by a huge margin, 249 00:11:39,366 --> 00:11:40,743 moving the needle in a way 250 00:11:40,784 --> 00:11:43,495 that shifts the entire landscape of the league. 251 00:11:44,580 --> 00:11:47,750 But Wilt has these health issues 252 00:11:47,791 --> 00:11:49,334 in the offseason. 253 00:11:49,376 --> 00:11:52,546 The San Francisco owner and their doctor 254 00:11:52,588 --> 00:11:54,923 thought that Wilt had a heart condition. 255 00:11:54,965 --> 00:11:58,469 Wilt's personal physician and friend of 40 years, 256 00:11:58,510 --> 00:12:00,471 Dr. Stan Lorber, 257 00:12:00,512 --> 00:12:03,015 he concluded that it was pancreatitis. 258 00:12:03,056 --> 00:12:04,683 The indestructible man 259 00:12:04,725 --> 00:12:08,145 missed a lot of games at the beginning of the season. 260 00:12:08,187 --> 00:12:11,064 [Taylor] The team struggles immensely. 261 00:12:11,106 --> 00:12:13,192 The team isn't happy because they're not winning 262 00:12:13,233 --> 00:12:15,235 and they're paying Wilt a whole bunch of money, 263 00:12:15,277 --> 00:12:17,613 so they decide they gotta trade the Big Dipper. 264 00:12:20,073 --> 00:12:22,409 They decide, of all places, 265 00:12:22,451 --> 00:12:25,621 to send Wilt Chamberlain back to Philadelphia, 266 00:12:25,662 --> 00:12:28,123 now the Philadelphia 76ers, 267 00:12:28,165 --> 00:12:31,126 a team that was formerly the Syracuse Nationals. 268 00:12:31,168 --> 00:12:32,294 One reason why they were willing to trade Wilt 269 00:12:32,336 --> 00:12:33,754 is they had Nate Thurmond, 270 00:12:33,796 --> 00:12:35,798 a top 10 all-time center, in my opinion. 271 00:12:35,839 --> 00:12:39,051 $150,000 and some players for Wilt Chamberlain. 272 00:12:39,092 --> 00:12:40,928 The players really didn't matter. 273 00:12:40,969 --> 00:12:43,222 It was the $150,000 274 00:12:43,263 --> 00:12:46,308 that helped the Sixers to secure their star. 275 00:12:48,685 --> 00:12:50,646 He wasn't thrilled about it. 276 00:12:50,687 --> 00:12:55,317 [Wilt] It's a hurting thing to leave the city you love. 277 00:12:55,359 --> 00:12:56,985 I guess it was the money. 278 00:12:57,027 --> 00:12:58,654 I really don't know for sure, 279 00:12:58,695 --> 00:13:01,573 but that must have been why they did it. 280 00:13:01,615 --> 00:13:04,117 I'm sorry some hold me responsible for what happened, 281 00:13:04,159 --> 00:13:08,247 well, as if I had anything to do about the move. 282 00:13:08,288 --> 00:13:10,791 We understand the owners have to deal, 283 00:13:10,833 --> 00:13:14,002 but it doesn't have to be this bush. 284 00:13:14,044 --> 00:13:15,546 They could call the players in 285 00:13:15,587 --> 00:13:17,923 and let them know what's cooking. 286 00:13:17,965 --> 00:13:20,884 I don't mean ask the players' opinion, 287 00:13:20,926 --> 00:13:23,846 but at least let them know. 288 00:13:26,139 --> 00:13:29,685 Ike Richman along with Irv Kosloff 289 00:13:29,726 --> 00:13:32,980 were the new owners of the Philadelphia 76ers. 290 00:13:33,021 --> 00:13:35,983 Ike Richman was Wilt Chamberlain's attorney 291 00:13:36,024 --> 00:13:37,860 and I think advisor 292 00:13:37,901 --> 00:13:40,988 and probably partner in different business ventures. 293 00:13:41,029 --> 00:13:42,447 And that's the reason 294 00:13:42,489 --> 00:13:44,533 Wilt ended up coming back to Philadelphia. 295 00:13:44,575 --> 00:13:47,369 Ike Richman was a wonderful, creative man. 296 00:13:48,996 --> 00:13:51,039 Wilt's first game back as a 76er, 297 00:13:51,081 --> 00:13:56,378 Ike arranges for 1,500 children to be in the stands 298 00:13:56,420 --> 00:13:59,840 when they announce number 13, Wilt Chamberlain. 299 00:13:59,882 --> 00:14:02,467 [Announcer]   Welcome back Wilt Chamberlain! 300 00:14:02,509 --> 00:14:05,012 [cheers and applause] 301 00:14:05,053 --> 00:14:07,347 The kids go bananas. 302 00:14:07,389 --> 00:14:11,268 Wilt is really moved by it and tears up 303 00:14:11,310 --> 00:14:15,939 and says later that it was the most amazing thing 304 00:14:15,981 --> 00:14:19,318 that ever happened to him in his sporting career. 305 00:14:19,359 --> 00:14:22,195 I know they were very close. 306 00:14:22,237 --> 00:14:25,282 I think Wilt fully trusted him. 307 00:14:25,324 --> 00:14:28,201 And Wilt, you know, Wilt didn't trust everybody. 308 00:14:28,243 --> 00:14:31,330 In fact, it'd be closer to say he didn't trust anybody. 309 00:14:31,371 --> 00:14:36,001 Ike Richman and his family, in many ways, 310 00:14:36,043 --> 00:14:39,338 were very similar to our family 311 00:14:39,379 --> 00:14:42,925 and their relationship with Wilt. 312 00:14:42,966 --> 00:14:47,596 One year he came up and my father yells out, Wilton! 313 00:14:47,638 --> 00:14:50,390 And Wilt goes right back, Milton! 314 00:14:50,432 --> 00:14:52,351 It was priceless. 315 00:14:52,392 --> 00:14:55,103 Wilt absolutely loved my parents, 316 00:14:55,145 --> 00:14:57,522 and they loved him as we did 317 00:14:57,564 --> 00:15:00,901 over the next almost 50 years. 318 00:15:03,487 --> 00:15:08,617 Wilt decided he wanted Jewish lawyers and Jewish attorneys. 319 00:15:08,659 --> 00:15:10,619 He chose a man named Sy Goldberg, 320 00:15:10,661 --> 00:15:12,454 Seymour Goldberg. 321 00:15:12,496 --> 00:15:15,248 [Wilt] My attorney and my accountant 322 00:15:15,290 --> 00:15:16,750 and my doctor 323 00:15:16,792 --> 00:15:21,546 are all Jewish and all very dear friends. 324 00:15:21,588 --> 00:15:23,882 I'd grown up in an ethnic neighborhood, 325 00:15:23,924 --> 00:15:26,969 Black, Jewish, and Italian, 326 00:15:27,010 --> 00:15:33,392 and I'd never really seen much discrimination as a kid. 327 00:15:33,433 --> 00:15:35,310 The composition of the students at Overbrook 328 00:15:35,352 --> 00:15:38,730 was African American, half Jewish American, 329 00:15:38,772 --> 00:15:43,986 so we shared a sort of camaraderie or fellowship. 330 00:15:44,027 --> 00:15:47,614 Zelda Spoelstra, she was in the NBA office. 331 00:15:47,656 --> 00:15:50,659 She had worked for us when she was younger, 332 00:15:50,701 --> 00:15:54,079 and she was very close to Wilt. 333 00:15:54,121 --> 00:15:57,582 [Wilt] I pick my friends by their character, 334 00:15:57,624 --> 00:15:58,959 not their color. 335 00:15:59,001 --> 00:16:02,754 And I haven't found that any one race 336 00:16:02,796 --> 00:16:05,882 has a monopoly on good or evil. 337 00:16:05,924 --> 00:16:09,636 I want good friends, warm friends, 338 00:16:09,678 --> 00:16:13,181 caring, loving, human friends, 339 00:16:13,223 --> 00:16:18,186 and I don't think I have to apologize to anyone for that. 340 00:16:22,858 --> 00:16:24,484 [Announcer] The Boston Celtics, 341 00:16:24,526 --> 00:16:26,403 shooting for an unprecedented 342 00:16:26,445 --> 00:16:29,114 seventh straight National Basketball Association title, 343 00:16:29,156 --> 00:16:30,699 meet the Philadelphia 76ers 344 00:16:30,741 --> 00:16:32,492 in the Eastern Division playoffs. 345 00:16:32,534 --> 00:16:35,245 You can expect another classic rebounding duel 346 00:16:35,287 --> 00:16:36,830 between Boston's ace Bill Russell 347 00:16:36,872 --> 00:16:38,749 and Wilt Chamberlain of Philadelphia. 348 00:16:38,790 --> 00:16:41,752 Chamberlain is intense in his desire to win. 349 00:16:41,793 --> 00:16:43,170 The 76ers superstar 350 00:16:43,211 --> 00:16:45,839 has yet to play on a championship team. 351 00:16:45,881 --> 00:16:48,592 The Sixers look better with him, 352 00:16:48,633 --> 00:16:50,302 and they get to the postseason. 353 00:16:50,343 --> 00:16:52,971 They make a run through the playoffs. 354 00:16:53,013 --> 00:16:56,725 Who's waiting for them but the Boston Celtics? 355 00:16:56,767 --> 00:16:58,810 Wilt with the 76ers, 356 00:16:58,852 --> 00:17:00,520 now we got a whole new cast of characters. 357 00:17:00,562 --> 00:17:02,439 It's Chet Walker, 358 00:17:02,481 --> 00:17:04,232 Lucious Jackson, 359 00:17:04,274 --> 00:17:05,901 Hal Greer. 360 00:17:05,942 --> 00:17:07,277 This is a damn good ball club, 361 00:17:07,319 --> 00:17:09,404 but they are the clear underdogs still. 362 00:17:12,824 --> 00:17:16,161 It was a tremendous series. 363 00:17:18,830 --> 00:17:21,666 They take the Celtics seven games. 364 00:17:28,548 --> 00:17:30,926 [Taylor] And in game seven... 365 00:17:34,387 --> 00:17:38,058 The Celtics are up five in the final minute of the game, 366 00:17:38,100 --> 00:17:41,269 so it seems like this one is all over. 367 00:17:42,312 --> 00:17:43,939 [whistle blows] 368 00:17:45,440 --> 00:17:46,775 But they call a foul. 369 00:17:49,402 --> 00:17:53,698 Wilt makes two free throws to cut it to three. 370 00:17:53,740 --> 00:17:56,618 And then on the next possession, with only a few seconds left... 371 00:17:58,954 --> 00:18:02,207 The Sixers are able to get the ball back. 372 00:18:03,875 --> 00:18:05,627 [Announcer] It goes into Chamberlain. 373 00:18:05,669 --> 00:18:08,088 Chamberlain turns and stuffs the ball. 374 00:18:08,130 --> 00:18:09,506 There are five seconds left. 375 00:18:09,548 --> 00:18:12,676 Wilt dunks the ball to cut the lead to one. 376 00:18:12,717 --> 00:18:15,887 The score was 110-109. 377 00:18:15,929 --> 00:18:17,764 The baskets at the old Boston Garden 378 00:18:17,806 --> 00:18:19,891 were uniquely attached. 379 00:18:19,933 --> 00:18:22,477 There were what they called guide wires. 380 00:18:22,519 --> 00:18:25,981 There were long cable cords tied up to the balcony. 381 00:18:26,022 --> 00:18:29,234 Bill Russell takes the ball out of bounds and throws it in. 382 00:18:31,820 --> 00:18:34,030 Russell's inbounds pass 383 00:18:34,072 --> 00:18:36,366 hit the guide wire near the Celtic bench. 384 00:18:36,408 --> 00:18:37,576 That's a violation. 385 00:18:37,617 --> 00:18:39,911 The ball goes back to Philadelphia 386 00:18:39,953 --> 00:18:43,790 with a chance to knock off the Celtics. 387 00:18:46,168 --> 00:18:49,588 And there's timeout. 388 00:18:49,629 --> 00:18:52,215 Classic Russell, he takes the blame. 389 00:18:52,257 --> 00:18:54,259 Says, who's going to bail me out? 390 00:18:54,301 --> 00:18:57,053 Setting up one of the most famous plays 391 00:18:57,095 --> 00:18:58,889 in NBA history. 392 00:18:58,930 --> 00:19:02,392 Play resumes, and Hal Greer is taking the ball out of bounds. 393 00:19:02,434 --> 00:19:04,769 So the theory was throw it to Chet Walker. 394 00:19:04,811 --> 00:19:06,396 If he misses, they have a very good chance 395 00:19:06,438 --> 00:19:08,190 of an offensive rebound with Wilt crashing the boards. 396 00:19:08,231 --> 00:19:09,941 [Announcer]   Johnny? 397 00:19:09,983 --> 00:19:11,985 [2nd Announcer]   Greer's putting the ball into play. 398 00:19:12,027 --> 00:19:14,613 He gets it out. Havlicek steals it! 399 00:19:14,654 --> 00:19:16,239 Over to Sam Jones. 400 00:19:16,281 --> 00:19:18,450 Havlicek stole the ball! 401 00:19:18,491 --> 00:19:19,826 It's all over! 402 00:19:19,868 --> 00:19:22,954 It's all over! It's all over! 403 00:19:27,459 --> 00:19:30,253 [Wilt] Sure, we had to make the shot, 404 00:19:30,295 --> 00:19:31,630 but there was no doubt in our minds 405 00:19:31,671 --> 00:19:33,298 that it would go in. 406 00:19:33,340 --> 00:19:35,050 We were meant to win this one. 407 00:19:35,091 --> 00:19:38,053 I could feel it in my bones. 408 00:19:38,094 --> 00:19:40,680 I can't describe how I feel, 409 00:19:40,722 --> 00:19:43,850 all empty and sick to see it all end like this. 410 00:19:43,892 --> 00:19:47,145 I'm beginning to think that I'm snake bit 411 00:19:47,187 --> 00:19:51,107 losing out to Boston so many times. 412 00:19:51,149 --> 00:19:54,778 As throughout his career, Wilt was blamed for the loss. 413 00:19:54,819 --> 00:19:57,781 The narrative about this game, 414 00:19:57,822 --> 00:19:59,032 I think this is a good example 415 00:19:59,074 --> 00:20:02,202 of this idea called winning bias. 416 00:20:02,244 --> 00:20:04,663 The field of study is cognitive science. 417 00:20:04,704 --> 00:20:08,917 When a team wins, we start to look subconsciously 418 00:20:08,959 --> 00:20:12,671 for all of the explanations for why the team won. 419 00:20:12,712 --> 00:20:16,716 With Russell, you focus on the key block that he had 420 00:20:16,758 --> 00:20:18,593 and the great rebound. 421 00:20:18,635 --> 00:20:21,096 When a team loses, we do the same thing. 422 00:20:21,137 --> 00:20:22,889 Let's go back over the course of the game 423 00:20:22,931 --> 00:20:25,433 and say Wilt was at fault for the goaltender. 424 00:20:25,475 --> 00:20:28,103 Wilt was at fault for missing his free throws. 425 00:20:28,144 --> 00:20:30,272 It's based on this idea of heuristics. 426 00:20:30,313 --> 00:20:36,444 A heuristic is a term for shortcut basically. 427 00:20:36,486 --> 00:20:38,697 As humans, the way our mind works, 428 00:20:38,738 --> 00:20:42,742 we can't sit around like some perfect supercomputer 429 00:20:42,784 --> 00:20:45,120 and calculate all the options. 430 00:20:45,161 --> 00:20:48,957 I'm gonna draw on some handful of past experiences 431 00:20:48,999 --> 00:20:52,085 that help us tell a story that makes sense. 432 00:20:52,127 --> 00:20:54,129 We're boiling down the complexity 433 00:20:54,170 --> 00:20:56,965 into these bite-sized digestible pieces, 434 00:20:57,007 --> 00:20:59,801 and it turns out that sometimes the stories that we tell 435 00:20:59,843 --> 00:21:01,511 may not be that accurate. 436 00:21:01,553 --> 00:21:05,348 So in this case, Havlicek steals the ball, 437 00:21:05,390 --> 00:21:08,059 Russell gets off the hook. 438 00:21:08,101 --> 00:21:10,603 You forget that Russell threw the ball 439 00:21:10,645 --> 00:21:12,147 into the basket stanchion, 440 00:21:12,188 --> 00:21:15,108 and instead Russell wins yet another game seven. 441 00:21:15,150 --> 00:21:17,068 He wins another elimination game. 442 00:21:17,110 --> 00:21:19,738 Now with Wilt, despite the fact 443 00:21:19,779 --> 00:21:21,489 that at the end of this particular game, 444 00:21:21,531 --> 00:21:22,991 he scored four points 445 00:21:23,033 --> 00:21:25,410 just to put them in a position to win the game. 446 00:21:25,452 --> 00:21:26,911 Even though that last play 447 00:21:26,953 --> 00:21:29,331 had nothing to do with Wilt Chamberlain, 448 00:21:29,372 --> 00:21:30,999 you're adding more to the fire 449 00:21:31,041 --> 00:21:32,334 for that narrative that, you know, 450 00:21:32,375 --> 00:21:33,793 he can't win the big one, 451 00:21:33,835 --> 00:21:36,171 he can't win close games, he's a choker. 452 00:21:36,212 --> 00:21:38,423 So this narrative emerges, right? 453 00:21:38,465 --> 00:21:40,800 I guess the narrative was selfish, individual guy 454 00:21:40,842 --> 00:21:44,095 versus ultimate team player. 455 00:21:44,137 --> 00:21:48,183 The idea to have the giant to be beaten each time, 456 00:21:48,224 --> 00:21:49,809 a lot of people loved that. 457 00:21:49,851 --> 00:21:52,729 [Cherry] Wilt in his day was so domineering 458 00:21:52,771 --> 00:21:55,899 and such a force in the game of basketball 459 00:21:55,940 --> 00:21:59,361 that he was almost disliked in some respect. 460 00:21:59,402 --> 00:22:01,237 He was always on trial. 461 00:22:01,279 --> 00:22:03,323 I like to use the expression, 462 00:22:03,365 --> 00:22:05,658 you know, no one loved Goliath. 463 00:22:07,744 --> 00:22:10,872 People very easily were able to root against Wilt 464 00:22:10,914 --> 00:22:12,916 because of the media. 465 00:22:12,957 --> 00:22:15,043 That's where the Goliath came along. 466 00:22:15,085 --> 00:22:19,589 Wilt was always Goliath, and Bill Russell was David. 467 00:22:19,631 --> 00:22:23,385 Wilt was bigger and taller and stronger than everybody, 468 00:22:23,426 --> 00:22:25,720 so why doesn't he just completely dominate 469 00:22:25,762 --> 00:22:28,681 and win the championship every year? 470 00:22:28,723 --> 00:22:33,228 Media people projected that out to the public. 471 00:22:33,269 --> 00:22:35,313 One of the things about Bill Russell, 472 00:22:35,355 --> 00:22:37,816 where he profited from Chamberlain's size, 473 00:22:37,857 --> 00:22:41,903 is Bill Russell looked to be the underdog. 474 00:22:43,446 --> 00:22:47,826 They were marketed, you know, and unfairly so, 475 00:22:47,867 --> 00:22:49,327 as, you know, Russell being the good guy 476 00:22:49,369 --> 00:22:50,995 and Wilt being the villain, 477 00:22:51,037 --> 00:22:55,250 [Wilt] I feel like I've been chased my whole life. 478 00:22:55,291 --> 00:23:00,296 I've been cast as the superstar you love to hate. 479 00:23:00,338 --> 00:23:03,716 Bill Russell very famously didn't sign autographs. 480 00:23:03,758 --> 00:23:05,135 He did not care if you liked him. 481 00:23:05,176 --> 00:23:07,303 He didn't know you. You don't know him. 482 00:23:07,345 --> 00:23:09,264 He did not care what you thought. 483 00:23:09,305 --> 00:23:11,599 I think Wilt did care. 484 00:23:15,019 --> 00:23:17,564 What they're doing is they're setting in motion 485 00:23:17,605 --> 00:23:22,944 a certain way of thinking about basketball as a team game, 486 00:23:22,986 --> 00:23:27,824 but featuring these prominent individuals leading their teams. 487 00:23:27,866 --> 00:23:29,784 [Bill Russell] I was defense and he was offense, 488 00:23:29,826 --> 00:23:33,746 And this was the greatest competitive thing, 489 00:23:33,788 --> 00:23:36,082 I think, in the history of American sport. 490 00:23:36,124 --> 00:23:40,128 They had two players that were a marketer's dream. 491 00:23:40,170 --> 00:23:42,297 Little did anybody know then 492 00:23:42,338 --> 00:23:43,715 that this would become the blueprint 493 00:23:43,756 --> 00:23:47,218 that led the NBA to unprecedented success. 494 00:23:47,260 --> 00:23:49,471 [Announcer]   The NBA game of the week 495 00:23:49,512 --> 00:23:52,765 brought to national television audiences. 496 00:23:52,807 --> 00:23:55,477 Back in 1964, 497 00:23:55,518 --> 00:23:59,314 the NBA signed a national television contract 498 00:23:59,355 --> 00:24:01,232 with the ABC network. 499 00:24:01,274 --> 00:24:03,485 The NBA was about to lose its television contract, 500 00:24:03,526 --> 00:24:05,487 its small television contract. 501 00:24:05,528 --> 00:24:07,030 Here came the Dipper. 502 00:24:07,071 --> 00:24:08,490 [Announcer]   Bill Russell 503 00:24:08,531 --> 00:24:10,408 jumping against Wilt Chamberlain. 504 00:24:10,450 --> 00:24:15,371 I must have heard it without exaggeration 50,000 times 505 00:24:15,413 --> 00:24:19,083 that I used to watch you and Wilt on Sunday television, 506 00:24:19,125 --> 00:24:20,543 and people make judgment 507 00:24:20,585 --> 00:24:22,212 on which one they thought was the best. 508 00:24:22,253 --> 00:24:27,509 I'm not sure that even someone like Michael Jordan 509 00:24:27,550 --> 00:24:31,804 can be seen as historically important as Wilt Chamberlain, 510 00:24:31,846 --> 00:24:34,933 because by the time Jordan came into the league, 511 00:24:34,974 --> 00:24:36,518 the league was already on sound footing. 512 00:24:36,559 --> 00:24:39,812 When Wilt came into the league, it wasn't. 513 00:24:39,854 --> 00:24:44,526 So the league needed Wilt in a way that Wilt understood. 514 00:24:50,240 --> 00:24:52,283 In 1965, 515 00:24:52,325 --> 00:24:58,540 Wilt signs a contract with the 76ers for $100,000. 516 00:24:58,581 --> 00:25:00,708 From the time I was, like, four years old, 517 00:25:00,750 --> 00:25:02,710 I always thought there was a great need 518 00:25:02,752 --> 00:25:05,338 to go out and work and to make money. 519 00:25:06,589 --> 00:25:08,591 [Barbara Lewis] The milkman used to come 520 00:25:08,633 --> 00:25:10,718 at 4:30 and 5:00 in the morning. 521 00:25:10,760 --> 00:25:13,513 So Dip said, I'm gonna start going down 522 00:25:13,555 --> 00:25:15,098 and working for the milkman. 523 00:25:15,139 --> 00:25:17,767 And I said, how you gonna work for the milkman? 524 00:25:17,809 --> 00:25:19,561 He said, watch me. 525 00:25:19,602 --> 00:25:21,729 He would say, my mother told me 526 00:25:21,771 --> 00:25:23,815 that I could help you deliver the milk, 527 00:25:23,856 --> 00:25:26,067 which, of course, my mother did not tell him. 528 00:25:26,109 --> 00:25:28,903 That was his way of making some change. 529 00:25:31,656 --> 00:25:33,116 In the NBA, 530 00:25:33,157 --> 00:25:35,702 where no player's making the money he was making. 531 00:25:35,743 --> 00:25:37,954 Wilt Chamberlain was ahead of his time 532 00:25:37,996 --> 00:25:40,373 not just athletically, 533 00:25:40,415 --> 00:25:43,835 but also in terms of how he handled his business. 534 00:25:43,876 --> 00:25:45,920 Even when he didn't have the option of free agency, 535 00:25:45,962 --> 00:25:48,506 he could still take over the levers of power 536 00:25:48,548 --> 00:25:50,592 with the threat of retirement. 537 00:25:50,633 --> 00:25:55,263 I'll just go do the decathlon or I'll go play volleyball. 538 00:25:55,305 --> 00:25:56,889 I'll join the Globetrotters again. 539 00:25:56,931 --> 00:26:00,268 [Wilt] Money, I had it, 540 00:26:00,310 --> 00:26:02,604 I demanded it, and I commanded it. 541 00:26:02,645 --> 00:26:06,482 Yes, I was the father of the big dollar. 542 00:26:06,524 --> 00:26:11,070 I had lawyers and accountants and business managers, 543 00:26:11,112 --> 00:26:12,697 but I make my own deals 544 00:26:12,739 --> 00:26:16,367 because I am the best businessman I know. 545 00:26:16,409 --> 00:26:20,997 At one point, Wilt signed a series of one year deals 546 00:26:21,039 --> 00:26:23,958 so that each season they would reassess his value 547 00:26:24,000 --> 00:26:26,419 to make sure that he maximized his worth. 548 00:26:26,461 --> 00:26:27,837 Breaking news. 549 00:26:27,879 --> 00:26:30,131 LeBron James will not pick up the option 550 00:26:30,173 --> 00:26:32,425 on the final year of his contract with the Cavaliers 551 00:26:32,467 --> 00:26:34,719 and will become an unrestricted free agent. 552 00:26:34,761 --> 00:26:37,513 What LeBron was doing with his one year deals 553 00:26:37,555 --> 00:26:40,850 was showing everybody that you have the value and the leverage, 554 00:26:40,892 --> 00:26:43,770 and Wilt was doing that 50 years earlier. 555 00:26:43,811 --> 00:26:45,021 There's a way that Wilt Chamberlain 556 00:26:45,063 --> 00:26:47,482 always gets seen as individualistic, 557 00:26:47,523 --> 00:26:49,651 that he wasn't out there 558 00:26:49,692 --> 00:26:52,654 advocating for all the players at the same time 559 00:26:52,695 --> 00:26:54,656 the way an Oscar Robertson would 560 00:26:54,697 --> 00:26:56,324 or the way a Bill Russell would, 561 00:26:56,366 --> 00:26:57,617 and that's true to some extent. 562 00:26:57,659 --> 00:27:00,286 Wilt was very much a solo artist. 563 00:27:00,328 --> 00:27:05,541 But the impact of his efforts still benefited everybody. 564 00:27:05,583 --> 00:27:09,504 As soon as Wilt Chamberlain got his $100,000 salary, 565 00:27:09,545 --> 00:27:11,255 Bill Russell said to the Celtics, 566 00:27:11,297 --> 00:27:13,800 y'all got to pay me more than that. 567 00:27:13,841 --> 00:27:17,887 Wilt Chamberlain raised the salaries of all of us. 568 00:27:17,929 --> 00:27:20,014 Wilt had such an impact 569 00:27:20,056 --> 00:27:21,849 on the salary structure in the NBA, 570 00:27:21,891 --> 00:27:25,019 we all were indebted to what he was able to do 571 00:27:25,061 --> 00:27:28,064 when he negotiated for contracts. 572 00:27:28,106 --> 00:27:31,901 But Wilt Chamberlain told his teammates and his friends, 573 00:27:31,943 --> 00:27:34,612 don't believe for a minute that I'm getting paid 100,000. 574 00:27:34,654 --> 00:27:36,030 I'm getting paid more. 575 00:27:36,072 --> 00:27:38,408 They just don't want everyone to know it. 576 00:27:38,449 --> 00:27:40,368 Bill Russell was the champion, 577 00:27:40,410 --> 00:27:42,495 but Wilt Chamberlain was the draw. 578 00:27:42,537 --> 00:27:45,832 He had that effect on people on and off the court. 579 00:27:49,127 --> 00:27:50,628 [Wilt] I've always believed 580 00:27:50,670 --> 00:27:52,880 that one should sow his wild oats 581 00:27:52,922 --> 00:27:54,424 before settling down. 582 00:27:54,465 --> 00:27:58,219 Apparently, by being a little larger than most, 583 00:27:58,261 --> 00:28:00,722 I've got more oats to sow. 584 00:28:00,763 --> 00:28:05,351 I believe in fidelity where marriage is concerned, 585 00:28:05,393 --> 00:28:10,231 and my sexual appetite has not come close 586 00:28:10,273 --> 00:28:12,775 to allowing me to think about settling down. 587 00:28:12,817 --> 00:28:14,861 He did have a lot of girls. 588 00:28:14,902 --> 00:28:17,113 They were models, 589 00:28:17,155 --> 00:28:19,240 and a lot of them sent their pictures and stuff like that. 590 00:28:21,993 --> 00:28:24,120 He comes into the locker room one day 591 00:28:24,162 --> 00:28:27,457 and he said, I see this gorgeous girl 592 00:28:27,498 --> 00:28:30,376 in this green Corvette. 593 00:28:30,418 --> 00:28:32,086 She drives by me 594 00:28:32,128 --> 00:28:34,297 and she waves at me like she knows me. 595 00:28:34,338 --> 00:28:36,132 I got to get to meet this lady. 596 00:28:36,174 --> 00:28:40,011 And I know exactly who it is, 597 00:28:40,052 --> 00:28:41,471 but I don't want to say anything 598 00:28:41,512 --> 00:28:43,765 because I don't want to get cut, you know. 599 00:28:43,806 --> 00:28:46,601 So after the game, Wilt walks over to where we're standing, 600 00:28:46,642 --> 00:28:49,020 and he, like, smiles at me like I'm doing him a good deed. 601 00:28:49,061 --> 00:28:50,813 I found out who this person was, 602 00:28:50,855 --> 00:28:54,275 and I'm gonna bring her to you, you know. 603 00:28:54,317 --> 00:28:56,652 I said, Wilt, sorry, 604 00:28:56,694 --> 00:28:58,988 but I want you to introduce you to my wife Chris. 605 00:28:59,030 --> 00:29:02,492 And he, like, goes, oh, okay. 606 00:29:02,533 --> 00:29:04,994 If that's the way it's gonna be, okay. 607 00:29:05,036 --> 00:29:08,122 He was with a lot of women. 608 00:29:08,164 --> 00:29:10,500 Just part of his life. 609 00:29:10,541 --> 00:29:14,462 Fast forward 30 years... 610 00:29:17,799 --> 00:29:20,927 It was still like that. 611 00:29:20,968 --> 00:29:23,304 There's something compulsive 612 00:29:23,346 --> 00:29:27,809 about so many sexual experiences. 613 00:29:27,850 --> 00:29:31,187 It's about like a very powerful, immediate experience 614 00:29:31,229 --> 00:29:34,023 that takes you into another realm, 615 00:29:34,065 --> 00:29:36,776 some kind of altered state of mind. 616 00:29:36,818 --> 00:29:41,447 And sex certainly does that, especially sex with new people. 617 00:29:41,489 --> 00:29:43,616 [Wilt] I've always believed that lust 618 00:29:43,658 --> 00:29:46,661 is a more natural part of us than love, 619 00:29:46,702 --> 00:29:49,997 and that one can spend every waking moment 620 00:29:50,039 --> 00:29:53,876 falling in and out of lust. 621 00:29:53,918 --> 00:30:00,091 When he was on, when he was having a great time, 622 00:30:00,132 --> 00:30:03,094 you were so blinded by the light. 623 00:30:03,135 --> 00:30:06,055 He was just bigger than life. 624 00:30:06,097 --> 00:30:08,182 He was something so amazing. 625 00:30:08,224 --> 00:30:10,601 It was like you were watching a supernova 626 00:30:10,643 --> 00:30:12,019 or something, you know? 627 00:30:12,061 --> 00:30:14,522 And then when he would just slam the door shut, 628 00:30:14,564 --> 00:30:16,190 it was like, oh, crash. 629 00:30:16,232 --> 00:30:17,984 You would crash down. 630 00:30:18,025 --> 00:30:20,862 You had to get used to it. It was like a drug. 631 00:30:20,903 --> 00:30:22,864 You had to go off cold turkey. 632 00:30:22,905 --> 00:30:25,366 He would just not call. 633 00:30:28,411 --> 00:30:30,621 There was this quote that I read from him 634 00:30:30,663 --> 00:30:34,166 that people don't understand 635 00:30:34,208 --> 00:30:36,210 that it's so much easier 636 00:30:36,252 --> 00:30:38,462 to sleep with a thousand different women 637 00:30:38,504 --> 00:30:42,925 than to spend a thousand nights with one woman. 638 00:30:42,967 --> 00:30:45,094 Because a thousand nights with one woman 639 00:30:45,136 --> 00:30:49,932 would require a depth of familiarity, intimacy, 640 00:30:49,974 --> 00:30:53,019 going deeper and deeper into getting to know each other, 641 00:30:53,060 --> 00:30:55,354 enjoying that, knowing how to do that. 642 00:30:55,396 --> 00:31:00,902 Which is why I think he had so many relationships 643 00:31:00,943 --> 00:31:03,029 that could only develop this far. 644 00:31:03,070 --> 00:31:05,781 A night, a few nights. 645 00:31:05,823 --> 00:31:09,744 Great, with the great attitude, respect, pleasure, all of that. 646 00:31:09,785 --> 00:31:12,246 But there's nowhere for it to go. 647 00:31:14,123 --> 00:31:15,499 We had to stop being lovers 648 00:31:15,541 --> 00:31:17,543 once we realized that we loved each other. 649 00:31:17,585 --> 00:31:20,212 He couldn't have sex with somebody he loved. 650 00:31:20,254 --> 00:31:25,051 They had to be just... sexual objects. 651 00:31:25,092 --> 00:31:28,262 That's who he was. 652 00:31:28,304 --> 00:31:32,600 People don't believe that I didn't sleep with him. 653 00:31:32,642 --> 00:31:34,268 What other reason would there be 654 00:31:34,310 --> 00:31:36,604 to have this relationship with Wilt Chamberlain? 655 00:31:36,646 --> 00:31:37,939 He just touched me. 656 00:31:37,980 --> 00:31:39,106 There was something about the fact 657 00:31:39,148 --> 00:31:41,192 that he was so interested 658 00:31:41,233 --> 00:31:42,944 in being my friend no matter what. 659 00:31:42,985 --> 00:31:45,738 I'm a photographer. 660 00:31:45,780 --> 00:31:48,240 I met Wilt on a photography assignment 661 00:31:48,282 --> 00:31:52,954 in 1977 in Vienna, Austria. 662 00:31:52,995 --> 00:31:55,289 I was working on a film called   Holocaust. 663 00:31:55,331 --> 00:31:58,292 I had been in the bar with some of the producers 664 00:31:58,334 --> 00:32:00,086 and some of the actors, 665 00:32:00,127 --> 00:32:03,381 and I hear a voice saying to me, you look like a little doll. 666 00:32:03,422 --> 00:32:05,633 And I look up, and it's Wilt Chamberlain. 667 00:32:05,675 --> 00:32:09,679 And I said, everyone looks like a little doll to you. 668 00:32:09,720 --> 00:32:13,432 He came back to the table, and everybody was excited. 669 00:32:13,474 --> 00:32:18,062 He was really very smart, and he amused everybody there. 670 00:32:18,104 --> 00:32:20,022 Then I found him in front of my door one night, 671 00:32:20,064 --> 00:32:22,400 and that's when he made a move. 672 00:32:22,441 --> 00:32:23,651 And I said, you know, Wilt, 673 00:32:23,693 --> 00:32:24,902 you just have to forget about that. 674 00:32:24,944 --> 00:32:26,821 We can be friends. 675 00:32:26,862 --> 00:32:29,281 He was really pushy, you know. 676 00:32:29,323 --> 00:32:31,993 Wilt, you know, got what he wanted pretty much, 677 00:32:32,034 --> 00:32:34,078 and I just yelled at him. 678 00:32:34,120 --> 00:32:35,329 And everybody...in those days, 679 00:32:35,371 --> 00:32:36,330 people, they thought it was funny. 680 00:32:36,372 --> 00:32:37,999 It really wasn't fun... 681 00:32:38,040 --> 00:32:39,959 But anyway but besides that, he shouldn't have done it. 682 00:32:40,001 --> 00:32:42,461 Never did anything like that again ever. 683 00:32:42,503 --> 00:32:45,965 So he decided that it was okay 684 00:32:46,007 --> 00:32:50,261 to keep me as his friend because I told him the truth. 685 00:32:50,302 --> 00:32:52,346 I think there was something about that, too. 686 00:32:52,388 --> 00:32:54,849 I mean, I was a woman who was not... 687 00:32:54,890 --> 00:32:57,393 I wasn't looking for anything from him. 688 00:32:57,435 --> 00:32:58,978 That helped the friendship. 689 00:32:59,020 --> 00:33:01,939 So he continued to call me. 690 00:33:01,981 --> 00:33:04,775 You know, this was an extraordinary human being, 691 00:33:04,817 --> 00:33:06,318 incredibly smart. 692 00:33:06,360 --> 00:33:09,071 I found him very sweet. 693 00:33:09,113 --> 00:33:10,156 He liked to tell me things, 694 00:33:10,197 --> 00:33:12,491 talk to me, ask my opinion. 695 00:33:12,533 --> 00:33:14,618 He knew I wasn't a bullshitter. 696 00:33:14,660 --> 00:33:17,872 He could tell me anything, and I could tell him anything. 697 00:33:17,913 --> 00:33:20,624 He was just a very complicated person. 698 00:33:20,666 --> 00:33:23,544 When I met Wilt, he was in Vienna 699 00:33:23,586 --> 00:33:28,716 because he was coaching a female volleyball team, 700 00:33:28,758 --> 00:33:32,678 which I found really interesting. 701 00:33:32,720 --> 00:33:34,805 He was familiar with all of these women athletes 702 00:33:34,847 --> 00:33:37,058 way back in the seventies when no one even knew them, 703 00:33:37,099 --> 00:33:38,809 and he was going to their games. 704 00:33:38,851 --> 00:33:43,814 I met Wilt in 1974 through Lynda Huey. 705 00:33:43,856 --> 00:33:45,900 That summer, they decided that Wilt 706 00:33:45,941 --> 00:33:48,235 was going to sponsor our track club. 707 00:33:48,277 --> 00:33:50,529 He definitely brought some attention 708 00:33:50,571 --> 00:33:52,865 to women's track at that time. 709 00:33:52,907 --> 00:33:55,534 You know, he created his own women's track team 710 00:33:55,576 --> 00:33:56,911 just because he wanted to make sure 711 00:33:56,952 --> 00:34:00,081 they had support financially, you know, 712 00:34:00,122 --> 00:34:02,458 had, you know, structure and things like that. 713 00:34:02,500 --> 00:34:06,087 He treated us like daughters. 714 00:34:06,128 --> 00:34:09,632 He was very gentle and very soft spoken. 715 00:34:09,673 --> 00:34:12,343 I mean, he had a deep voice, but he was very genuine. 716 00:34:12,384 --> 00:34:16,680 His sister Barbara was a terrific athlete. 717 00:34:16,722 --> 00:34:19,016 He was doing this in honor of her, 718 00:34:19,058 --> 00:34:23,104 and we lucked out and got to be a part of that. 719 00:34:24,605 --> 00:34:27,817 [Lewis] Dip and I, we both love to do track. 720 00:34:27,858 --> 00:34:29,610 He would always try to make me 721 00:34:29,652 --> 00:34:31,195 the fastest on the girls team 722 00:34:31,237 --> 00:34:32,780 and just take my hand. 723 00:34:32,822 --> 00:34:34,615 Of course, he's taking these giant steps 724 00:34:34,657 --> 00:34:38,035 and just keep making me run around the track all the time. 725 00:34:38,077 --> 00:34:42,581 [Wilt] My sister Barbara was a great athlete. 726 00:34:42,623 --> 00:34:44,792 She was the fastest woman around school, 727 00:34:44,834 --> 00:34:47,878 but there was no place for her to compete, 728 00:34:47,920 --> 00:34:50,297 so she never developed like she could have. 729 00:34:50,339 --> 00:34:53,050 That's why Wilt's Wonder Women was formed, 730 00:34:53,092 --> 00:34:56,804 to give these women a chance. 731 00:34:56,846 --> 00:35:00,224 Jackie Joyner-Kersee, back in the Olympics, 732 00:35:00,266 --> 00:35:01,934 he sponsored her. 733 00:35:01,976 --> 00:35:04,270 She explained to me that without Wilt 734 00:35:04,311 --> 00:35:06,689 and the programs he had set up for women, 735 00:35:06,730 --> 00:35:10,192 she never would have become the great star she was 736 00:35:10,234 --> 00:35:11,318 in track and field. 737 00:35:11,360 --> 00:35:14,864 [Wilt] I want to make it clear 738 00:35:14,905 --> 00:35:20,369 that I appreciate women's unending campaign for respect. 739 00:35:20,411 --> 00:35:23,497 I want to see women have a fair chance 740 00:35:23,539 --> 00:35:26,041 to demonstrate their athletic talent 741 00:35:26,083 --> 00:35:29,086 and to get the recognition they deserve. 742 00:35:29,128 --> 00:35:32,590 Maybe I sound like a woman's libber. 743 00:35:32,631 --> 00:35:35,676 In a way, I am. 744 00:35:37,678 --> 00:35:39,388 Wilt supporting women's sports 745 00:35:39,430 --> 00:35:41,974 doesn't mean that he still wasn't a womanizer. 746 00:35:42,016 --> 00:35:43,350 Two things can be true. 747 00:35:43,392 --> 00:35:44,935 That does not mean he was not a nice guy. 748 00:35:44,977 --> 00:35:46,937 That does not mean he did not love his family. 749 00:35:46,979 --> 00:35:51,859 And I think that's where it's hard to reconcile 750 00:35:51,901 --> 00:35:54,361 who Wilt Chamberlain is for women. 751 00:36:11,712 --> 00:36:14,506 It was December of '65. 752 00:36:14,548 --> 00:36:17,259 It was a Friday night in Boston. 753 00:36:17,301 --> 00:36:19,386 The game was on television, 754 00:36:19,428 --> 00:36:23,098 and I remember hearing the score was actually 13-13, 755 00:36:23,140 --> 00:36:26,101 and Wilt's number was number 13. 756 00:36:26,143 --> 00:36:30,606 Ike Richman had a heart attack and died on the spot. 757 00:36:30,648 --> 00:36:32,274 It was terrible. 758 00:36:32,316 --> 00:36:35,236 He used to get very excited at the games. 759 00:36:35,277 --> 00:36:38,030 I mean, he used to really get worked up. 760 00:36:38,072 --> 00:36:40,950 He used to feud with the referees. 761 00:36:40,991 --> 00:36:42,701 When you think about it, it's not surprising 762 00:36:42,743 --> 00:36:44,495 that he had a heart attack at a game. 763 00:36:44,536 --> 00:36:48,165 [Wilt] We won the game for Ike, 764 00:36:48,207 --> 00:36:52,920 but Philadelphia was never the same for me again. 765 00:36:52,962 --> 00:36:54,755 Few events in my life 766 00:36:54,797 --> 00:36:58,384 have saddened me as much as his death. 767 00:36:58,425 --> 00:37:00,886 Wilt called me a couple days later, 768 00:37:00,928 --> 00:37:02,721 and he says, get dressed, you're coming with me. 769 00:37:02,763 --> 00:37:04,098 I said, where am I going? 770 00:37:04,139 --> 00:37:07,059 He says we're going to Ike's funeral. 771 00:37:07,101 --> 00:37:10,229 And that was so sad. 772 00:37:10,271 --> 00:37:13,524 Wilt was a very caring person, 773 00:37:13,565 --> 00:37:18,237 and, you know, there was irony 774 00:37:18,279 --> 00:37:21,699 because my dad and Ike Richman 775 00:37:21,740 --> 00:37:24,493 had been able to get the players, you know, 776 00:37:24,535 --> 00:37:26,954 with the ability to win the championship, 777 00:37:26,996 --> 00:37:31,333 but Ike never saw it. 778 00:37:34,086 --> 00:37:38,465 In 1965, I was drafted by Ike Richman 779 00:37:38,507 --> 00:37:41,302 and the Philadelphia 76ers. 780 00:37:41,343 --> 00:37:42,928 My first encounter with Wilt Chamberlain 781 00:37:42,970 --> 00:37:44,888 was at training camp. 782 00:37:44,930 --> 00:37:47,766 And I'm looking over the balcony, 783 00:37:47,808 --> 00:37:49,435 looking out at the ocean, 784 00:37:49,476 --> 00:37:52,604 and all of a sudden this purple Bentley pulls up, 785 00:37:52,646 --> 00:37:57,318 and this man unwinds out of the car, 786 00:37:57,359 --> 00:37:59,069 and I go, oh, my goodness. 787 00:37:59,111 --> 00:38:01,572 To say it was intimidating is an understatement. 788 00:38:01,613 --> 00:38:03,449 I knew Wilt had an apartment in New York, 789 00:38:03,490 --> 00:38:06,577 and I eventually got the opportunity 790 00:38:06,618 --> 00:38:09,288 to drive Wilt to New York 791 00:38:09,330 --> 00:38:11,457 because I'm originally from Brooklyn. 792 00:38:11,498 --> 00:38:16,170 And there I am in his purple Bentley 793 00:38:16,211 --> 00:38:17,671 where I can't touch the pedals. 794 00:38:17,713 --> 00:38:21,216 I have to move the seat up to touch. 795 00:38:21,258 --> 00:38:23,302 This is the only car I've ever been in my entire life 796 00:38:23,344 --> 00:38:25,262 where I couldn't touch. 797 00:38:25,304 --> 00:38:28,849 I'm 6-7, and I could not touch the pedal. 798 00:38:28,891 --> 00:38:34,146 I was traded to the Philadelphia 76ers 799 00:38:34,188 --> 00:38:35,856 from the Baltimore Bullets. 800 00:38:35,898 --> 00:38:37,941 I just made the NBA All Rookie team, 801 00:38:37,983 --> 00:38:40,527 and Ike Richman traded for me. 802 00:38:40,569 --> 00:38:44,114 I grew up right in the West Philadelphia area. 803 00:38:44,156 --> 00:38:47,701 I was playing in the middle school league there. 804 00:38:47,743 --> 00:38:49,453 So in our community, 805 00:38:49,495 --> 00:38:51,622 you would have professional athletes coming to view you, 806 00:38:51,663 --> 00:38:57,378 and Wilt came by and saw me play. 807 00:38:57,419 --> 00:39:01,632 A lot of the older ball players mentored us. 808 00:39:01,673 --> 00:39:03,717 You could go to his house. 809 00:39:03,759 --> 00:39:06,595 At times, we would come and have lunch there. 810 00:39:06,637 --> 00:39:09,973 His parents were welcoming. They were warm. 811 00:39:10,015 --> 00:39:11,725 So it's very personal to me 812 00:39:11,767 --> 00:39:15,813 about how Wilt has seen me as a little boy 813 00:39:15,854 --> 00:39:18,273 and I'm getting ready to be a man to play with him. 814 00:39:18,315 --> 00:39:21,568 He said, I expect a lot out of you. 815 00:39:21,610 --> 00:39:23,445 We need you. 816 00:39:23,487 --> 00:39:29,034 You could be the catalyst to make us reach another level, 817 00:39:29,076 --> 00:39:31,286 Because now we have a team 818 00:39:31,328 --> 00:39:34,123 where we have five defensive players. 819 00:39:34,164 --> 00:39:36,667 1967, Philadelphia, 820 00:39:36,708 --> 00:39:39,795 Alex Hannum is back for round two with Wilt. 821 00:39:39,837 --> 00:39:41,839 My teammates were ecstatic 822 00:39:41,880 --> 00:39:43,841 because they felt that respect factor 823 00:39:43,882 --> 00:39:47,594 between Wilt and Hannum was very good. 824 00:39:47,636 --> 00:39:49,513 Wilt did not live in Philadelphia. 825 00:39:49,555 --> 00:39:52,057 When Alex came, there was no divas. 826 00:39:52,099 --> 00:39:54,143 You will live in Philly. 827 00:39:54,184 --> 00:39:58,147 And this time he kind of ups the ante again. 828 00:39:58,188 --> 00:40:01,608 He says, Wilt, how about you score way less? 829 00:40:01,650 --> 00:40:05,654 The global offense of the team overall will be better. 830 00:40:05,696 --> 00:40:07,156 When he gets the ball, 831 00:40:07,197 --> 00:40:09,116 he's dishing it off to teammates. 832 00:40:09,158 --> 00:40:14,246 We would all be moving around the guy that has the ball. 833 00:40:14,288 --> 00:40:18,083 Wilt finally got the pieces that fit in 834 00:40:18,125 --> 00:40:20,711 that could eliminate him having to score that much. 835 00:40:20,752 --> 00:40:22,296 And then when the defense 836 00:40:22,337 --> 00:40:24,298 doesn't pay enough attention to him 837 00:40:24,339 --> 00:40:27,092 and you play him in single coverage, 838 00:40:27,134 --> 00:40:29,470 his scoring efficiency spikes, 839 00:40:29,511 --> 00:40:31,138 optimizing the offense. 840 00:40:31,180 --> 00:40:33,807 Wilt has reached a point in his life 841 00:40:33,849 --> 00:40:35,267 where I don't have to go out there and score 40, 842 00:40:35,309 --> 00:40:37,060 or are you going to go out there and score 30? 843 00:40:37,102 --> 00:40:39,229 Well, in fact, he scored 24 points a game. 844 00:40:39,271 --> 00:40:42,316 That was taking full advantage of what he had to offer 845 00:40:42,357 --> 00:40:44,109 to a team playing that way. 846 00:40:44,151 --> 00:40:45,360 There's no question. 847 00:40:45,402 --> 00:40:48,906 [Taylor] And this amazing thing happens. 848 00:40:50,657 --> 00:40:52,451 Philadelphia ends up producing 849 00:40:52,493 --> 00:40:55,454 the most efficient offense in NBA history 850 00:40:55,496 --> 00:40:57,164 up until that point. 851 00:40:57,206 --> 00:40:58,957 They also win 68 games, 852 00:40:58,999 --> 00:41:00,459 which is a record for victories, 853 00:41:00,501 --> 00:41:02,503 and just 13 losses. 854 00:41:02,544 --> 00:41:05,964 Wilt just wanted one thing, and that was to win. 855 00:41:07,591 --> 00:41:11,261 Guess who's waiting for them again in the playoffs? 856 00:41:11,303 --> 00:41:13,013 It's the Boston Celtics, 857 00:41:13,055 --> 00:41:16,099 who are now on championship eight in a row 858 00:41:16,141 --> 00:41:18,519 when they meet in 1967. 859 00:41:19,895 --> 00:41:23,857 But this time, with this quality offense, 860 00:41:23,899 --> 00:41:27,194 Philadelphia is just way too much, 861 00:41:27,236 --> 00:41:30,572 and they basically overwhelm the Celtics. 862 00:41:32,991 --> 00:41:36,161 The first team to really beat the Celtics 863 00:41:36,203 --> 00:41:38,872 with Bill Russell on the court. 864 00:41:38,914 --> 00:41:45,045 If you could see how he felt after we dethroned them. 865 00:41:45,087 --> 00:41:47,005 Finally I'm a winner. 866 00:41:47,047 --> 00:41:50,551 People had signs, Boston, you will die. 867 00:41:50,592 --> 00:41:56,515 People were blowing cigar smoke in Red Auerbach's face. 868 00:41:56,557 --> 00:41:59,184 Beating San Francisco 869 00:41:59,226 --> 00:42:02,187 was nowhere near as difficult as beating Boston. 870 00:42:02,229 --> 00:42:06,233 The Sixers played the San Francisco Warriors, 871 00:42:06,275 --> 00:42:09,278 led by Rick Barry. 872 00:42:09,319 --> 00:42:11,363 We just tried to play as good as we can, 873 00:42:11,405 --> 00:42:13,073 play good team defense, and we gave them a heck of a battle. 874 00:42:13,115 --> 00:42:16,201 So here we have the team Wilt left. 875 00:42:16,243 --> 00:42:18,620 We acquitted ourselves pretty well, 876 00:42:18,662 --> 00:42:20,247 but when Wilton was on a team 877 00:42:20,289 --> 00:42:24,042 with some really great players, he won a championship. 878 00:42:24,084 --> 00:42:25,752 They're mobbing Chamberlain. 879 00:42:25,794 --> 00:42:27,421 Hello, is he ever happy. 880 00:42:27,462 --> 00:42:30,048 Wilt has finally won the big one. 881 00:42:30,090 --> 00:42:32,342 That one team that he played on 882 00:42:32,384 --> 00:42:33,927 with Billy Cunningham, 883 00:42:33,969 --> 00:42:37,764 that team would have beaten a number of the teams 884 00:42:37,806 --> 00:42:40,017 that Bill Russell was on. 885 00:42:40,058 --> 00:42:42,936 They were a great basketball team. 886 00:42:45,147 --> 00:42:46,982 That was his crowning moment. 887 00:42:49,318 --> 00:42:51,445 [Wilt] When I was a little boy, 888 00:42:51,486 --> 00:42:54,781 I used to think of myself as climbing a high wall. 889 00:42:54,823 --> 00:42:57,909 People were helping me up, 890 00:42:57,951 --> 00:43:01,455 but a lot of others were holding me down. 891 00:43:01,496 --> 00:43:04,458 Sometimes I'd wonder if you'd make it all the way. 892 00:43:04,499 --> 00:43:09,963 In 1967, I guess I did. 893 00:43:10,005 --> 00:43:13,467 We had the better team, so we won. 894 00:43:13,508 --> 00:43:15,927 No, I am not surprised. 895 00:43:15,969 --> 00:43:19,640 The better team always wins. 896 00:43:25,103 --> 00:43:27,939 Gentlemen, would you join me here? 897 00:43:27,981 --> 00:43:29,900 Wilt, let me have your right hand. 898 00:43:29,941 --> 00:43:31,401 My right hand. 899 00:43:31,443 --> 00:43:33,487 Your right hand. Let's hold it up to this camera. 900 00:43:33,528 --> 00:43:34,780 Now your right hand. 901 00:43:34,821 --> 00:43:36,114 Man, this don't mean nothing. 902 00:43:36,156 --> 00:43:37,616 David slew Goliath. 903 00:43:37,658 --> 00:43:39,159 Well, why'd you throw... 904 00:43:39,201 --> 00:43:42,412 Wilt was approached by a group of businessmen 905 00:43:42,454 --> 00:43:47,084 who wanted Wilt to fight a guy named Muhammad Ali. 906 00:43:47,125 --> 00:43:48,335 Bill Russell and a few more players 907 00:43:48,377 --> 00:43:50,253 are gonna be my sparring partners 908 00:43:50,295 --> 00:43:51,338 to get ready. 909 00:43:51,380 --> 00:43:53,840 [Wilt] Fighting Muhammad Ali 910 00:43:53,882 --> 00:43:56,426 would combine the two kinds of challenges 911 00:43:56,468 --> 00:43:59,012 I had always responded to doing, 912 00:43:59,054 --> 00:44:01,473 something everyone said couldn't be done 913 00:44:01,515 --> 00:44:06,103 and beating another man at his game. 914 00:44:06,144 --> 00:44:09,106 When they announced that he was gonna fight Muhammad Ali, 915 00:44:09,147 --> 00:44:10,774 and that was like, 916 00:44:10,816 --> 00:44:12,776 first, I thought my father would never stop laughing, 917 00:44:12,818 --> 00:44:16,446 and he was not the type that laughed a lot. 918 00:44:16,488 --> 00:44:18,198 -Any predictions? -One prediction. 919 00:44:18,240 --> 00:44:20,409 Timber! 920 00:44:20,450 --> 00:44:21,702 [laughter] 921 00:44:21,743 --> 00:44:23,787 He thought it was crazy to even think 922 00:44:23,829 --> 00:44:25,664 about trying to fight Muhammad Ali 923 00:44:25,706 --> 00:44:26,707 or any other fighter. 924 00:44:26,748 --> 00:44:28,291 You're not a fighter. 925 00:44:28,333 --> 00:44:31,044 That's nice. You'll get what you want. 926 00:44:31,086 --> 00:44:33,755 And it was the fight that never came to be. 927 00:44:33,797 --> 00:44:37,718 [Wilt] At the last minute, I decided not to do it. 928 00:44:37,759 --> 00:44:39,845 I was like a groom who wasn't sure 929 00:44:39,886 --> 00:44:41,138 the night before his wedding. 930 00:44:41,179 --> 00:44:43,807 I would have had to give up basketball, 931 00:44:43,849 --> 00:44:46,518 which I wasn't ready to do. 932 00:44:46,560 --> 00:44:48,729 I've always been the kind of person 933 00:44:48,770 --> 00:44:53,734 who needs specific, concrete goals and challenges. 934 00:44:53,775 --> 00:44:56,153 What else was there to do? 935 00:44:56,194 --> 00:45:01,408 So I decided I had to lead the league in NBA assists. 936 00:45:01,450 --> 00:45:04,244 Wilt is passing even more, 937 00:45:04,286 --> 00:45:05,912 and some people think maybe too much. 938 00:45:05,954 --> 00:45:10,459 He leads the league in total assists that year. 939 00:45:10,500 --> 00:45:14,337 This prompted some critics to say Wilt 940 00:45:14,379 --> 00:45:17,883 just cared about stats and not the team. 941 00:45:17,924 --> 00:45:20,427 In interviewing and talking with people of that era, 942 00:45:20,469 --> 00:45:21,970 many of them felt 943 00:45:22,012 --> 00:45:24,765 he was much too concerned with the statistics. 944 00:45:24,806 --> 00:45:27,017 But imagine being talented enough, 945 00:45:27,058 --> 00:45:28,769 deciding one year, 946 00:45:28,810 --> 00:45:30,979 I think I'll lead the league in assists 947 00:45:31,021 --> 00:45:33,273 and then going out and doing it. 948 00:45:33,315 --> 00:45:34,691 Whether he was fixated 949 00:45:34,733 --> 00:45:36,109 on leading the league in assists or not, 950 00:45:36,151 --> 00:45:38,737 I don't know even how much that mattered, 951 00:45:38,779 --> 00:45:40,781 because they still finished first in the league. 952 00:45:40,822 --> 00:45:43,408 They still win 62 games. 953 00:45:43,450 --> 00:45:46,536 He could have gone too far with the passing 954 00:45:46,578 --> 00:45:49,456 and he could be the MVP of the league 955 00:45:49,498 --> 00:45:51,792 as he was again for the third consecutive year 956 00:45:51,833 --> 00:45:54,628 and put the team in a position to win a championship. 957 00:45:54,669 --> 00:45:56,296 Both of those things can be true. 958 00:45:56,338 --> 00:45:59,382 And once again, the Sixers 959 00:45:59,424 --> 00:46:02,219 meet our old friend the Boston Celtics. 960 00:46:02,260 --> 00:46:05,472 In '68, two things happened: I broke my wrist 961 00:46:05,514 --> 00:46:10,519 against the Knickerbockers in the series before that. 962 00:46:10,560 --> 00:46:14,397 But most importantly was before the game, 963 00:46:14,439 --> 00:46:17,234 Martin Luther King was assassinated. 964 00:46:17,275 --> 00:46:19,319 Good evening. 965 00:46:19,361 --> 00:46:21,238 The Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, 966 00:46:21,279 --> 00:46:24,032 39 years old and a Nobel Peace Prize winner 967 00:46:24,074 --> 00:46:26,535 and the leader of the nonviolent civil rights movement 968 00:46:26,576 --> 00:46:27,786 in the United States 969 00:46:27,828 --> 00:46:29,454 was assassinated in Memphis tonight. 970 00:46:29,496 --> 00:46:32,165 A sniper's bullet cut down Dr. King 971 00:46:32,207 --> 00:46:35,168 as he stood on a hotel balcony in Memphis. 972 00:46:37,754 --> 00:46:41,466 To say everyone was devastated was an understatement. 973 00:46:41,508 --> 00:46:43,885 We were just walking around in a fog. 974 00:46:43,927 --> 00:46:47,305 Russell knew Martin Luther King very well. 975 00:46:47,347 --> 00:46:50,100 He had been there for the I Have A Dream speech. 976 00:46:50,141 --> 00:46:52,310 So the two of them are with their respective teams, 977 00:46:52,352 --> 00:46:54,437 and they really felt like, we shouldn't play. 978 00:46:54,479 --> 00:46:56,439 It wouldn't be right to play. 979 00:46:56,481 --> 00:47:01,027 So both teams separately voted not to play. 980 00:47:01,069 --> 00:47:03,446 But then what happened was the Commissioner came in 981 00:47:03,488 --> 00:47:05,198 and the mayors from both cities 982 00:47:05,240 --> 00:47:06,908 contacted Wilt and Russ 983 00:47:06,950 --> 00:47:08,743 because they represented their teams, 984 00:47:08,785 --> 00:47:11,329 and said, listen, turn on your television set. 985 00:47:11,371 --> 00:47:14,165 There's rioting across our country. 986 00:47:14,207 --> 00:47:16,543 We really feel if you play this game, 987 00:47:16,585 --> 00:47:18,795 you'd give all these people something else to think about 988 00:47:18,837 --> 00:47:20,589 for this one evening. 989 00:47:20,630 --> 00:47:21,882 And so both of them went back 990 00:47:21,923 --> 00:47:25,176 and, you know, talked with their teams. 991 00:47:25,218 --> 00:47:27,345 The league wanted us to play, 992 00:47:27,387 --> 00:47:30,932 but I was very much against it. 993 00:47:30,974 --> 00:47:33,184 We really relied on Russell and Chamberlain 994 00:47:33,226 --> 00:47:34,936 to help make those decisions. 995 00:47:34,978 --> 00:47:38,231 So both teams voted. 996 00:47:38,273 --> 00:47:40,984 [MacMullan] Wilt still voted not to play, 997 00:47:41,026 --> 00:47:43,028 but his team as a whole voted to play, 998 00:47:43,069 --> 00:47:47,198 and he adhered to their wishes and so the game was played. 999 00:47:47,240 --> 00:47:49,284 That's the only thing that I regret 1000 00:47:49,326 --> 00:47:50,744 is that I played. 1001 00:47:50,785 --> 00:47:54,164 From my personal standpoint, it's difficult 1002 00:47:54,205 --> 00:47:57,500 because I was just emotionally drained. 1003 00:48:08,678 --> 00:48:10,472 [Wilt] I knew Dr. King, 1004 00:48:10,513 --> 00:48:13,558 but not as well as I would have liked to know him. 1005 00:48:13,600 --> 00:48:14,851 I respected the man 1006 00:48:14,893 --> 00:48:16,937 and I believed in what he believed in. 1007 00:48:16,978 --> 00:48:18,313 I've been thinking about it 1008 00:48:18,355 --> 00:48:21,274 ever since I heard about what happened. 1009 00:48:21,316 --> 00:48:23,610 Numb like, you know? 1010 00:48:23,652 --> 00:48:26,613 [MacMullan] In an unprecedented move, 1011 00:48:26,655 --> 00:48:29,783 the NBA paused its season after that game 1012 00:48:29,824 --> 00:48:31,785 so Wilt and Russ 1013 00:48:31,826 --> 00:48:34,454 could walk to the Ebenezer Church in Atlanta 1014 00:48:34,496 --> 00:48:36,957 along with Martin Luther King's family. 1015 00:48:44,923 --> 00:48:47,801 Wilt and Russell were the first guys 1016 00:48:47,842 --> 00:48:49,552 that really had the juice 1017 00:48:49,594 --> 00:48:54,099 to be able to say to the people that ran this NBA, 1018 00:48:54,140 --> 00:48:57,227 hey, this is important to us. 1019 00:48:57,268 --> 00:49:00,563 We need to respect the legacy of Martin Luther King 1020 00:49:00,605 --> 00:49:02,148 by doing this. 1021 00:49:05,694 --> 00:49:07,570 That was really the first hint 1022 00:49:07,612 --> 00:49:08,863 of playoff empowerment 1023 00:49:08,905 --> 00:49:10,824 all the way back then in the sixties. 1024 00:49:13,326 --> 00:49:17,539 Play resumes and they were up three to one 1025 00:49:17,580 --> 00:49:18,665 against the Celtics in the series. 1026 00:49:21,126 --> 00:49:23,962 No team at that point had come back from three one, 1027 00:49:24,004 --> 00:49:26,297 but you don't have Billy Cunningham 1028 00:49:26,339 --> 00:49:28,717 for the entire series. 1029 00:49:28,758 --> 00:49:31,177 The Celtics come back, they force a 7th game. 1030 00:49:31,219 --> 00:49:33,596 The Celtics win the game. 1031 00:49:35,390 --> 00:49:40,353 The Philly team is lambasted for blowing it and losing. 1032 00:49:42,105 --> 00:49:44,232 Wilt got heavily criticized. 1033 00:49:44,274 --> 00:49:45,859 I fell into it, 1034 00:49:45,900 --> 00:49:47,986 and probably one of the biggest regrets in my career, 1035 00:49:48,028 --> 00:49:49,904 dumbest things I ever said in my life 1036 00:49:49,946 --> 00:49:52,490 is when I called him a loser one time in a book. 1037 00:49:59,414 --> 00:50:01,708 And that was not deserving. 1038 00:50:01,750 --> 00:50:03,960 It was the team that failed, 1039 00:50:04,002 --> 00:50:05,754 because this is a team game. 1040 00:50:05,795 --> 00:50:08,339 Nothing got attached to Greer. 1041 00:50:08,381 --> 00:50:10,050 Nothing got attached to Wali. 1042 00:50:10,091 --> 00:50:11,551 Nothing got attached to Chet. 1043 00:50:11,593 --> 00:50:13,470 It all got attached to Wilt. 1044 00:50:13,511 --> 00:50:16,973 Because in this game seven, 1045 00:50:17,015 --> 00:50:21,019 Wilt only ends up taking two shots in the fourth quarter. 1046 00:50:21,061 --> 00:50:24,689 [Wilt] After the game, not one writer came up to me 1047 00:50:24,731 --> 00:50:27,567 and said, how come the ball didn't come to you? 1048 00:50:27,609 --> 00:50:28,985 Not one. 1049 00:50:29,027 --> 00:50:31,404 But all of them did come and ask me 1050 00:50:31,446 --> 00:50:33,990 how come you didn't shoot more? 1051 00:50:34,032 --> 00:50:37,410 In this series, we don't have a lot of footage. 1052 00:50:37,452 --> 00:50:40,371 We don't know why Wilt only took two shots. 1053 00:50:40,413 --> 00:50:42,082 He could have been passing too much, 1054 00:50:42,123 --> 00:50:44,876 but maybe they're getting open shots. 1055 00:50:44,918 --> 00:50:46,419 Without knowing anything more, 1056 00:50:46,461 --> 00:50:48,379 maybe that story sticks with Wilt 1057 00:50:48,421 --> 00:50:51,424 because it had been in so many people's minds 1058 00:50:51,466 --> 00:50:54,094 for such a long time. 1059 00:50:54,135 --> 00:50:56,096 The whole thing fell apart. 1060 00:50:56,137 --> 00:50:59,766 Alex Hannum was gone from a potential dynasty 1061 00:50:59,808 --> 00:51:02,602 or at least something that would compete 1062 00:51:02,644 --> 00:51:05,522 nose to nose every year against the Celtics. 1063 00:51:05,563 --> 00:51:07,649 It just dissipated. 1064 00:51:07,690 --> 00:51:10,068 It was just like that. 1065 00:51:12,487 --> 00:51:16,032 [Wilt] But I had more important things that the 76ers 1066 00:51:16,074 --> 00:51:18,451 to think about that summer of 1968. 1067 00:51:18,493 --> 00:51:21,788 For the first time in my life, I got involved in politics, 1068 00:51:21,830 --> 00:51:25,917 real politics at the highest level. 1069 00:51:25,959 --> 00:51:27,585 Wilt, one thing that I've been concerned about 1070 00:51:27,627 --> 00:51:29,129 is what's happening 1071 00:51:29,170 --> 00:51:31,131 to the young people of this country generally. 1072 00:51:31,172 --> 00:51:33,299 You know, there's a lot of unrest 1073 00:51:33,341 --> 00:51:35,093 among young people, all people, 1074 00:51:35,135 --> 00:51:39,931 and particularly the young people in the Black community. 1075 00:51:39,973 --> 00:51:42,142 Give me an idea as to what they really want. 1076 00:51:42,183 --> 00:51:45,603 What is it that we can do to give them more hope? 1077 00:51:45,645 --> 00:51:46,855 Actually, I feel as though 1078 00:51:46,896 --> 00:51:50,984 that there are many young Negroes 1079 00:51:51,025 --> 00:51:52,277 that are in a position 1080 00:51:52,318 --> 00:51:53,820 to go into business for themselves, 1081 00:51:53,862 --> 00:51:56,030 and they're definitely qualified. 1082 00:51:56,072 --> 00:51:58,867 What they need is some help, 1083 00:51:58,908 --> 00:52:02,662 some loans that maybe will stimulate their interest. 1084 00:52:02,704 --> 00:52:04,873 If you go looking forward 1085 00:52:04,914 --> 00:52:07,333 after Martin Luther King's assassination, 1086 00:52:07,375 --> 00:52:09,627 all of a sudden it wasn't just Bill Russell 1087 00:52:09,669 --> 00:52:12,589 talking about the civil rights of Black Americans. 1088 00:52:12,630 --> 00:52:15,633 I think Wilt realized I have some power here. 1089 00:52:15,675 --> 00:52:18,428 I can make a difference. I can have a voice in this. 1090 00:52:18,469 --> 00:52:22,307 When you think about the Republican Party now 1091 00:52:22,348 --> 00:52:24,976 and you hear that Wilt Chamberlain 1092 00:52:25,018 --> 00:52:26,352 was a Republican, 1093 00:52:26,394 --> 00:52:28,646 that sounds different 1094 00:52:28,688 --> 00:52:33,276 than to have heard that during the 1960s. 1095 00:52:33,318 --> 00:52:38,156 For a long time, Black people who could vote 1096 00:52:38,198 --> 00:52:40,867 favored the Republican Party 1097 00:52:40,909 --> 00:52:43,953 because Abraham Lincoln, a Republican, 1098 00:52:43,995 --> 00:52:46,623 was credited with freeing the slaves. 1099 00:52:46,664 --> 00:52:47,874 The Democratic Party 1100 00:52:47,916 --> 00:52:49,876 was the Southern segregationist party. 1101 00:52:49,918 --> 00:52:54,005 Wilt was a worldly person 1102 00:52:54,047 --> 00:52:57,258 that would always gather people to talk about community. 1103 00:52:57,300 --> 00:53:00,386 It's not given enough credit to how he was an activist. 1104 00:53:00,428 --> 00:53:03,681 Wilt believed that if Black people 1105 00:53:03,723 --> 00:53:06,059 could get the right access to capital 1106 00:53:06,100 --> 00:53:08,186 and invest in our communities 1107 00:53:08,228 --> 00:53:10,021 and have government support for those investments, 1108 00:53:10,063 --> 00:53:11,606 that we could thrive. 1109 00:53:11,648 --> 00:53:13,858 One of the things that Richard Nixon was pushing 1110 00:53:13,900 --> 00:53:16,736 was Black capitalism. 1111 00:53:16,778 --> 00:53:19,697 [Nixon] Not only have you been very successful 1112 00:53:19,739 --> 00:53:21,658 in the field of sports, 1113 00:53:21,699 --> 00:53:25,036 but you also have been successful in a business career. 1114 00:53:25,078 --> 00:53:28,498 Now, do you think a lot of these young Negroes 1115 00:53:28,539 --> 00:53:32,168 are gonna be able to make it if they get this chance? 1116 00:53:32,210 --> 00:53:34,254 If given a chance, I think that they're ready 1117 00:53:34,295 --> 00:53:36,756 to go out there and start their own businesses, you know, 1118 00:53:36,798 --> 00:53:40,927 and be bosses in their own business, so to speak. 1119 00:53:40,969 --> 00:53:44,222 He would say, well, if you met Richard Nixon, you'd like him. 1120 00:53:44,264 --> 00:53:45,390 He's a good guy. 1121 00:53:45,431 --> 00:53:47,433 I said, I don't know about that. 1122 00:53:47,475 --> 00:53:49,185 Richard Nixon comes along 1123 00:53:49,227 --> 00:53:52,272 and engages in what he calls the Southern Strategy, 1124 00:53:52,313 --> 00:53:55,024 which is basically, we are going to go after 1125 00:53:55,066 --> 00:53:59,988 what had previously been white Southern Democrats 1126 00:54:00,029 --> 00:54:02,782 who support segregation. 1127 00:54:02,824 --> 00:54:05,451 We're going to recruit the racists. 1128 00:54:05,493 --> 00:54:09,330 [Wilt] Does that mean he exploited me? Sure. 1129 00:54:09,372 --> 00:54:11,958 Richard and Republicans exploited me to get Black votes, 1130 00:54:12,000 --> 00:54:16,296 and I exploited them to provide Black input. 1131 00:54:16,337 --> 00:54:18,631 Looking back on it, I suspect 1132 00:54:18,673 --> 00:54:22,176 I was also subconsciously influenced to back Richard 1133 00:54:22,218 --> 00:54:24,846 by several things he and I had in common. 1134 00:54:24,887 --> 00:54:28,391 Throughout his political career, he'd been called a loser, 1135 00:54:28,433 --> 00:54:31,269 the guy who could never win the big one. 1136 00:54:31,311 --> 00:54:33,563 Me, too. 1137 00:54:33,604 --> 00:54:36,274 When you lose, you're forced to confront yourself 1138 00:54:36,316 --> 00:54:38,276 as you really are 1139 00:54:38,318 --> 00:54:41,821 way down deep inside. 1140 00:54:41,863 --> 00:54:45,491 You gain insight and perspective on yourself. 1141 00:54:45,533 --> 00:54:49,787 That a guy who always wins 1142 00:54:49,829 --> 00:54:52,040 just never gets. 1142 00:54:53,305 --> 00:55:53,213 Please rate this subtitle at www.osdb.link/f6zsg Help other users to choose the best subtitles 94344

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