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re: Do you believe these Wilt Chamberlain numbers?
Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:25 am to bakersman
Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:25 am to bakersman
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500lb bench isn’t kinda hard to believe with someone with such long arms.
EDIT*****
misread "isn't" for is. You have ZERO idea what you are talking about.
This post was edited on 4/16/20 at 9:28 am
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 9:31 am to 91TIGER
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Yeah, I don't think the downvoters here understand this or how much 500 lbs is to bench press.
Yeah my brother did it competitively, he is 4’ 11”. That’s a HUGE advantage, he can lock out the weight like a foot from his body. I’m 6’ with orangutan arms when I lock out I’m like 3 feet from my body.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:10 am to PhillyFan1994
All except the 500 lb bench. Didn’t they make the rule you couldn’t cross the free throw line as a shooter until after the ball hit the rim during free throws because he could broad jump dunk from the free throw line?
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:15 am to PhillyFan1994
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Had a 6'6 high jump
Was a long jump champ
He had a 6'6.75 high jump as a junior at Kansas in a recorded meet. I believe that and the long jump one just because you can be a champion at a lot of small meets.
The rest are BS.
This post was edited on 4/16/20 at 10:16 am
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:16 am to cssamerican
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Yeah my brother did it competitively, he is 4’ 11”. That’s a HUGE advantage, he can lock out the weight like a foot from his body. I’m 6’
Why is your brother 4' 11" and you're 6'? Your mom needs to explain what was going on at the Super 8 a few decades ago.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:17 am to PhillyFan1994
Had a 48 inch vertical - no
Ran a 4.5 40 - no
Benched 500 lbs - no
Had a 6'6 high jump - absolutely
Was a long jump champ - absolutely
Slept with 20K women (0 kids and STDs) seems unrealistic considering he played professional basketball and assumably slept.
Ran a 4.5 40 - no
Benched 500 lbs - no
Had a 6'6 high jump - absolutely
Was a long jump champ - absolutely
Slept with 20K women (0 kids and STDs) seems unrealistic considering he played professional basketball and assumably slept.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:35 am to SammyTiger
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assumably slep
Wilt was a serious insomniac.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 10:54 am to PhillyFan1994
Had a 48 inch vertical
Id believe it if it said 38 in
Ran a 4.5 40
Nope, maybe a 4.7 though.
Benched 500 lbs
Absolutely not. I'd potentially believe 300 maybe. Even that is a stretch
Had a 6'6 high jump
Can't comment, I dont know much about high jumping
Was a long jump champ
Absolutely, he was an NBA player, not only that, one of the best to ever live. It's not a stretch of the imagination at all to say he won a championship in high school.
Slept with 20K women (0 kids and STDs)
Definitely not. He probably did get 2,000, which is still a hell of a lot of women.
Id believe it if it said 38 in
Ran a 4.5 40
Nope, maybe a 4.7 though.
Benched 500 lbs
Absolutely not. I'd potentially believe 300 maybe. Even that is a stretch
Had a 6'6 high jump
Can't comment, I dont know much about high jumping
Was a long jump champ
Absolutely, he was an NBA player, not only that, one of the best to ever live. It's not a stretch of the imagination at all to say he won a championship in high school.
Slept with 20K women (0 kids and STDs)
Definitely not. He probably did get 2,000, which is still a hell of a lot of women. Posted on 4/16/20 at 11:29 am to Ed Osteen
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Found the guy who's never benched
Yep. Makes about as much sense as saying he could limbo under a bar set at 30 inches.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 11:42 am to Bench McElroy
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I don't believe the 48 inch vertical number at all.
Wilt was a great athlete, but the all time NBA combine vert record is 46 inches. His head being at 11'1, that just isn't happening.
I believe the track stuff. OP didn't list it, but one of the other stories was he ran a hand times 100 in under 11 seconds. That stuff sounds like it could be true.
The 500 bench is a joke.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 1:56 pm to PhillyFan1994
avg best season 50 pts and 26 rebounds.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 4:38 pm to CelticDog
There were reports that he ran the quarter mile in 49 seconds and the 1/2 mile in 1:58 in high school. Not world class times but fast enough to win most meets he entered and probably fast enough to place at states. Not bad for a basketball player.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 4:42 pm to PhillyFan1994
Not sure of those #s, but Wilt the Stilt was an incredible athlete.
Scoring 100 points in an NBA game is a record that may never be matched. He also played briefly with the Harlem Globetrotters.
His biggest weakness, like many centers even today, was free throw shooting. As I recall, he shot free throws under handed or "granny style."
Scoring 100 points in an NBA game is a record that may never be matched. He also played briefly with the Harlem Globetrotters.
His biggest weakness, like many centers even today, was free throw shooting. As I recall, he shot free throws under handed or "granny style."
Posted on 4/16/20 at 4:42 pm to PSU2LSU
Speaking of Wilt and track, this photo is actually real, despite how much it seems photoshopped.
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Posted on 4/16/20 at 4:50 pm to tzimme4
Most overrated player in sports history. Not just the NBA. Sports.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 4:51 pm to Rep520
As a resident shorter guy, the argument about bench pressing more weight is definitely true. I was about 5'5" as a soph in high school, and was a receiver. I worked out with the linemen in my grade since we were both around a 230-240 max. And I weighed about a buck 60. There was a guy a few inches shorter than me that could lift mid 200s as a 15 year old, and max closer to 275-285. He had this stocky little body and short arms and could throw the weight around. It always bothered one of my good friends that I could outsquat and outbench him, but he was 8 inches taller and lanky.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 5:11 pm to Rep520
Big 8 high jump champ three years in a row. Also a 56-foot shot putter.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 5:37 pm to PhillyFan1994
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Ran a 4.5 40
I don't believe any old hand-timed 40's. Especially H.S. or College ones.
And no one knows his vertical.
He claimed anywhere from 46-48 inches.
He also claimed he slept with all those women and his teammates say they rarely saw him with women.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 6:04 pm to PhillyFan1994
Wilt’s one of those mythical athletes who possessed magnificent attributes that would’ve enabled him to dominate whatever sport he tried but didn’t have winner’s intangibles to win a bunch of titles commensurate with his abilities. He’s an all-time great by any objective measure but not the GOAT.
Posted on 4/16/20 at 6:07 pm to PhillyFan1994
The 20k women thing appears incredibly far-fetched and I think it’s been since debunked just the media didn’t make a big deal about it compared to their reaction to his claim and therefore people continue to peddle the myth
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