Wilt a Giant of Record Proportions

Wilt Chamberlain was huge.

He stood 7 feet 1 inch and weighed upward of 300 pounds.

Hence his nicknames:

The Stilt.

The Big Dipper.

He was even bigger on the court.

"Simply put, nobody dominated every facet of the game the way Chamberlain did," Jim Flannery of BleacherReport.com told IBD. "He was a better shooter than everyone else, he was a better rebounder than everyone else. He could pass the ball like a point guard. And he did it all while putting in crazy amounts of time on the floor without ever resorting to goonery."

Flannery is a true believer, to the point of writing a piece titled "The Case for Wilt Chamberlain as the Best Ever."

 

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