Wilt allegedly lifted NBA PR Directors car to change a flat tire

[CavaliersFTW]

So this one time, NBA Public Relations Director Haskell Cohen's (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haskell_Cohen) car tire needed changed and he didn't have a jack and a 17 year old Wilt Chamberlain lifted the car so the guy could change it. Cohen told him to put the car down.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9bNaIeqaHmU/VQklVKbua-I/AAAAAAAAFzU/5PZl2J68Xgw/s0/Wilt%2520lifted%2520a%2520car%2520story.jpg

Here's a completely different story, this time Billy Cunningham claims he saw Wilt, by that time he'd be about 28 years old, lift the back end of a Volkswagon with not both arms but rather just one hand, and set it down in a different spot.

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CgxyoryvNA0/VSdrtMEUxGI/AAAAAAAAGDk/geuDBeZa9Do/s0/Wilt%25201000%2520pound%2520deadlifer%2520lifts%25 20a%2520volkswagon%2520with%2520one%2520hand%25201 966%2520wtf.jpg

[dubeta]

The car



http://www.miniguy.com/files/2012/04/6851.jpg

[J Shuttlesworth]

:roll: :roll:
The car



http://www.miniguy.com/files/2012/04/6851.jpg

[iamgine]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bhWtZzgvgoE

[Cocaine80s]

he didn't have a jack and a 17 year old Wilt Chamberlain lifted the car so the guy could change it. Cohen told him to put the car down.
i smell bullshit


also, didnt read

[CavaliersFTW]

Got another. Milton Kutsher also claims Wilt was involved in a car accident where the car rolled, and the only part of the roof of the car that wasn't crumpled was the spot Wilt was sitting. Could have been a lucky roll but he believes Wilt's strength is what prevented that part of the car from getting crushed.

[CavaliersFTW]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-9bNaIeqaHmU/VQklVKbua-I/AAAAAAAAFzU/5PZl2J68Xgw/s0/Wilt%2520lifted%2520a%2520car%2520story.jpg

[ImKobe]

http://i.minus.com/ivDgOHN9zcOeg.gif

[CavaliersFTW]

Wilt fan haters fuming right now. The audacity for me to even post this. The audacity for writers to have written it. And the audacity of someone to have given the writers the information to write it.

I expect this thread to be blown up with arguments and naysayers by tomorrow afternoon.

:cheers:

[dubeta]

https://nbccollegebasketballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/slideshow-most-memorable-march-madness-wilt-chamberlain.jpg


Dem 23 inch biceps :bowdown: :bowdown:

[J Shuttlesworth]

Wilt fan haters fuming right now. The audacity for me to even post this. The audacity for writers to have written it. And the audacity of someone to have given the writers the information to write it.

I expect this thread to be blown up with arguments and naysayers by tomorrow afternoon.

:cheers:
Fuming? :biggums: I think outside of you, maybe 8 words have been posted in here. Nobody is fuming but you

[CavaliersFTW]

Fuming? :biggums: I think outside of you, maybe 8 words have been posted in here. Nobody is fuming but you
They will be, this is ISH :lol

[dubeta]

This is how big Cavsftw thinks Wilt's arms were

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/reform1cbig.jpg











http://protista.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Wilt-Chamberlain.jpg

Dat resemblence

[BigNBAfan]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs

[JimmyMcAdocious]

Wilt allegedly broke down the Berlin Wall by himself.

[BasedTom]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs
Instead he wilted under the bright lights

[warriorfan]

to be honest I think the mountain lion story is real this ***** was for real

[YouGotServed]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs

http://img.pandawhale.com/post-26056-Antonio-Banderas-reaction-gif-RNWc.gif

[imnew09]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs


http://gifrific.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/04/kevin-garnett-reaction.gif

[Uncle Drew]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs
http://i.imgur.com/59euYWL.gif

[Trollsmasher]

Got another. Milton Kutsher also claims Wilt was involved in a car accident where the car rolled, and the only part of the roof of the car that wasn't crumpled was the spot Wilt was sitting. Could have been a lucky roll but he believes Wilt's strength is what prevented that part of the car from getting crushed.
:biggums:

[Jameerthefear]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs
:roll:

[Marchesk]

Wilt is the greatest physical specimen the NBA has ever seen, Shaq included.

[LosBulls]

According to CavsFTW, Wilt beat Chuck Norris in a fight to the death.

[Asukal]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs

Slayed. :oldlol:

[HomieWeMajor]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs
http://www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/awsome/grand/295pzif.gif

[Marchesk]

http://www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/awsome/grand/295pzif.gif

Ironic Lebron gif?

[dunksby]

Wilt def would have been part of a carnivale if not for basketball.

[coin24]

where is Lazeruss to tell us the story is true and post a 10,000 word essay full of copy and pasted bullshit..

Wilt was a scrawny gay man who shrivelled on the big stage, why OP and lonely laz obsess over the guy is beyond me:oldlol:

[sd3035]

where is Lazeruss to tell us the story is true and post a 10,000 word essay full of copy and pasted bullshit..

Wilt was a scrawny gay man who shrivelled on the big stage, why OP and lonely laz obsess over the guy is beyond me:oldlol:

:roll: :roll: :roll:

[AirFederer]

Two great players and teammates of Wilt.

Jerry West:

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah267/espelid/E8663806-7B00-43FC-8B04-7B337EABEC1B_zpswcpy4t5k.png (http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/espelid/media/E8663806-7B00-43FC-8B04-7B337EABEC1B_zpswcpy4t5k.png.html)

Chet Walker:
http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah267/espelid/B60A0784-F831-4524-83A9-01EAD10C9B63_zpsehp5w8tc.png (http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/espelid/media/B60A0784-F831-4524-83A9-01EAD10C9B63_zpsehp5w8tc.png.html)

[Psileas]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs

Yeah, if anyone would have needed to lift his performance in the playoffs, that would be Wilt. :oldlol: :facepalm

[gts]

:lol CavsFTW tosses out the bait and within minutes half of ISH is doing backflips making themselves look like saps....

[Im Still Ballin]

Wilt is a God
https://s.yimg.com/bt/api/res/1.2/e3e76QyvPT9F4WlzkYqzSg--/YXBwaWQ9eW5ld3M7cT04NTt3PTYzMA--/http://l.yimg.com/os/publish-images/omg/2015-02-25/9c1d14c0-bd37-11e4-b0cb-67b64c27e492_lionel-ritchie-brits.jpg

[coin24]

:lol CavsFTW tosses out the bait and within minutes half of ISH is doing backflips making themselves look like saps....

But wilt had 23" biceps:lol

[Bodhi]

If Wilt was so tough, why did he die at only 63?

You'd think someone with a body like that would live to be at least 80, but nope, in typical Wilt fashion he bitched out early

[Helix]

where is Lazeruss to tell us the story is true and post a 10,000 word essay full of copy and pasted bullshit..

Wilt was a scrawny gay man who shrivelled on the big stage, why OP and lonely laz obsess over the guy is beyond me:oldlol:


Seems to me it's you and your fellow trolls who are most obsessed with Wilt. Cavs and Laz and a few other good posters post a lot of good, factual info about Wilt, and you guys, because of your obsession, just can't seem to stay away.

[inclinerator]

If Wilt was so tough, why did he die at only 63?

You'd think someone with a body like that would live to be at least 80, but nope, in typical Wilt fashion he bitched out early

he choked

[ButterFace]

The car



http://www.miniguy.com/files/2012/04/6851.jpg

:roll:

[BigNBAfan]

If Wilt was so tough, why did he die at only 63?

You'd think someone with a body like that would live to be at least 80, but nope, in typical Wilt fashion he bitched out early

He neared the final quarter of his life.

[jongib369]

I believe lifting a car for sure... but that other story sounds like complete nonsense :lol

His neck would of broke had it been put under pressure like that. Let alone his head likely popping like a pimple. At least you'd think that would happen, not trying to act like I know everything.

[FireDavidKahn]

Don't forget to tell about how he did it when a mountain lion on his back and a girl sucking his ****.

[j3lademaster]

Once a month Wilt would have sex with every woman in the world, causing them to bleed for a week.

[CavaliersFTW]

I believe lifting a car for sure... but that other story sounds like complete nonsense :lol

His neck would of broke had it been put under pressure like that. Let alone his head likely popping like a pimple. At least you'd think that would happen, not trying to act like I know everything.
Story A is first hand account. "My car had a flat tire and Wilt began lifting it up to help me change the tire"

Story B is seeing the aftermath of an event (Wilt's rolled car with a crushed roof in all spots but his drivers seat area) and speculating how it happened. "I saw the wrecked car (but not the accident itself) and it was crushed everywhere but where Wilt sat, speculation: it must have been his immense strength as to why that area was not crushed"

So story A is definitely more credible, the event was actually witnessed first hand, story B is someone's speculation the only thing that was seen first hand in story B is the description of the crumpled car, the aftermath of the accident in question.

[Deuce Bigalow]

17 yo Wilt

http://i.imgur.com/HUOc8Pw.jpg

Was the dude wearing boxers?

[riseagainst]

I heard through the grapevines that Wilt was gay. Is this true?

[stalkerforlife]

I heard through the grapevines that Wilt was gay. Is this true?

Were you one of the 20,000?

[gts]

Dem 23 inch biceps :bowdown: :bowdown:

stfu little man... Wilt has muscles in places you ain't even got places

[sd3035]

here is the scrawny wimp in college, imagine how much of a twig he was at 17 when he supposedly lifted a car lol

http://goldenrankings.com/Basketball%20Pictures/Basketball%20Snapshots/RedBillWilt/WiltAfterNCAAFinals.jpg

[sd3035]

500 pound raw bench press seems legit

https://daeandwrite.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/wilt.jpg

[RoundMoundOfReb]

The car:
http://www.lovethispic.com/uploaded_images/23294-Old-Antique-Carriage.jpg

[ILLsmak]

500 pound raw bench press seems legit

https://daeandwrite.files.wordpress.com/2014/04/wilt.jpg

lol that woman about to tie Wilt up.

-Smak

[kennethgriffin]

is there a single thing about wilts life that WASN'T ......"allegedly"


?

allegedly faught a lion

allegedly could beat up muhammad ali

allegedly scored 100

allegedly lifted a car

allegedly ****ed 20,000 women

allegedly blocked 10 shots a game

allegedly could dunk from the free throw line

allegedly could dunk the top of the backboard

allegedly could average 50ppg in any era

allegedly would have won 11 titles in place of bill russell

allegedly could bench press 500 pounds




blah blah blah

[SaltyMeatballs]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs
:lol

[CavaliersFTW]

https://lh4.googleusercontent.com/-CgxyoryvNA0/VSdrtMEUxGI/AAAAAAAAGDk/geuDBeZa9Do/s0/Wilt%25201000%2520pound%2520deadlifer%2520lifts%25 20a%2520volkswagon%2520with%2520one%2520hand%25201 966%2520wtf.jpg

Here we go guys, a second, completely different story about Wilt lifting the back end of a car.

This time his teammate Billy Cunningham is the eyewitness and he claims Wilt - probably around 28 years old at this time - lifted the back end of a Volkswagon, rotated the car into facing a different spot, and set it back down all with only one hand.

Inb4 shitstorm :lol

[dubeta]

Was this before or after he lost in the Finals?

[aj1987]

The smallest car that Volkswagen made AFAIK is the Beetle. The '60's one probably weighed ~2,000 lbs. Wilt lifted a 2,000 lb car with one arm?

Lets summarize, shall we?

Can lift a car with 1 arm, GOAT, scorer, GOAT defender, GOAT passing C, could bench 500, could leap higher than LeBron, could touch the back of the backboard, could run a sub 4.3 40, etc. etc..

He could do all those, but managed to win 3 rings less than Timmy, who's an average athlete at best? :oldlol:

[CavaliersFTW]

The smallest car that Volkswagen made AFAIK is the Beetle. The '60's one probably weighed ~2,000 lbs. Wilt lifted a 2,000 lb car with one arm?

Lets summarize, shall we?

Can lift a car with 1 arm, GOAT, scorer, GOAT defender, GOAT passing C, could bench 500, could leap higher than LeBron, could touch the back of the backboard, could run a sub 4.3 40, etc. etc..

He could do all those, but managed to win 3 rings less than Timmy, who's an average athlete at best? :oldlol:
Which proves beyond shadow of a doubt that you've got to have a healthy team, superior to the other great healthy teams in a given season, to win a title. Nothing new. Team sport, in team sports, the best teams win. :cheers:

Most dominant individual player ever though. Timmy D for example, has 0 NBA records AFAIK. Wilt on the other hand...

[aj1987]

Which proves beyond shadow of a doubt that you've got to have a healthy team, superior to the other great healthy teams in a given season, to win a title. Nothing new. Team sport, in team sports, the best teams win. :cheers:

Most dominant individual player ever though. Timmy D for example, has 0 NBA records AFAIK. Wilt on the other hand...
Are you trying to imply that Wilt didn't lose with very good teammates, or that physically inferior (compared to the alleged prowess of Wilt) players won with less help that what Wilt lost with?

Do you wake up at 4 in the morning, BTW?

[CavaliersFTW]

Are you trying to imply that Wilt didn't lose with very good teammates, or that physically inferior (compared to the alleged prowess of Wilt) players won with less help that what Wilt lost with?

Do you wake up at 4 in the morning, BTW?
I never said anything bad about his teammates. I said in order to win your great team that was good enough to make it to the finals, has to be healthy, and better than the other great team you're matched up against. Of course, sometimes games/series are closely matched so you also have to execute too. If two teams are close in capability, the team that executes better wins. If it's really really close sometimes there's also a small element of luck, sometimes a team can have a guy hit a buzzer beater. But, like I said, I never said anything about Wilt's teammates. His teams weren't always bad. Boston was almost always better though. 1960's Boston is the GOAT dynasty team. I have the 1967 Sixers in the mix as the GOAT peak/individual season teams though (along with the '72 Lakers, '71 Bucks '86 Celtics, '96 Bulls, etc).

I hardly ever sleep. I've got to be up at 8 for work. Just worked out. Got a basketball game tomorrow night at 9:00. I'll prob catch up on sleep on the weekend. Unless the weather is nice.

[Im Still Ballin]

rent free

[dubeta]

free rent

[AirFederer]

Should have used his strengths to lift the team to success :cheers:

[JerrySeinfeld]

This is how big Cavsftw thinks Wilt's arms were

http://www.bodybuilding.com/fun/reform1cbig.jpg











http://protista.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/10/Wilt-Chamberlain.jpg

Dat resemblence

that guys wingspan looks like half of what wilts was

[AirFederer]

Wilt's insecurity had led him to make some controversial quotes and moves while having a different perspective about things at times. In an interview on 1996, for example, Wilt gave the modern NBA a good highlights by saying that current NBA gave the team a much better rest time by not playing the game in the same day as the away team arrived and ended the league in June instead of March. But on the other occasions, he bashed it for having players that afraid to defend around the rim and didn't have the gut to charging players anymore, thus making the league had a much better Shooting Percentage. He also exaggerated thing to make his point, like saying that Russell's only having 2 points in his last game. Of course, the 2 number is true had Wilt's saying that Russell's only made 2 field goal, instead. What Wilt's trying to say is that Russell's not close to his best form anymore in his last year, and his title came out of luck that's also came from effort to keep getting luck.

Some best Quotes about this puzzling side:

There was also an enigmatic side to Wilt. The next season, the Sixers lost to the Celtics in the Eastern Division finals in seven games after leading three games to one. In the decisive Game 7, Wilt did not take a shot from the field in the entire second half and the Sixers lost a close, crucial game. When the media asked him about it, Wilt replied that the coach (Hannum) hadn't told him to shoot! -Jack Ramsay, a former 76 owner.



Wilt Chamberlain did nothing in a small way. He stood 7-feet-1. He boasted that he made love with 20,000 women. He told teammate Joe Rucklik that he drove from Los Angeles to Philadelphia in 20 hours, meaning he averaged 119 mph, nonstop.

[CavaliersFTW]

Wilt's insecurity had led him to make some controversial quotes and moves while having a different perspective about things at times.
What does anything Wilt said have to do with Haskell Cohen and Billy Cunningham claiming to have seen Wilt lift up the back ends of cars?

[SpanishACB]

Story A is first hand account. "My car had a flat tire and Wilt began lifting it up to help me change the tire"

Story B is seeing the aftermath of an event (Wilt's rolled car with a crushed roof in all spots but his drivers seat area) and speculating how it happened. "I saw the wrecked car (but not the accident itself) and it was crushed everywhere but where Wilt sat, speculation: it must have been his immense strength as to why that area was not crushed"

So story A is definitely more credible, the event was actually witnessed first hand, story B is someone's speculation the only thing that was seen first hand in story B is the description of the crumpled car, the aftermath of the accident in question.

Have you ever read a tabloid from the 60s? Please do. And then come back and defend the veracity of those stories.

Also you're right. The first hand source only claims Wilt began to lift his car.

[AirFederer]

What does anything Wilt said have to do with Haskell Cohen and Billy Cunningham claiming to have seen Wilt lift up the back ends of cars?

I think the article gives som background to that claim, if not directly linked to the "lift". IMHO it`s fair to have both "sides" when there`s so many myths about the man. I also enjoy the stories. Larger than life figure if there ever was one :cheers:

[LAZERUSS]

Chamberlain could have picked that car above his head, and then jumped over the top of the backboard with it, on national television,...

and the Wilt-bashers would claim...

"weak era", and "short white guys."

[SpanishACB]

Chamberlain could have picked that car above his head, and then jumped over the top of the backboard with it, on national television,...

and the Wilt-bashers would claim...

"weak era", and "short white guys."

you're telling me there's actual footage of any of Wilt's feats?

thought so

[LAZERUSS]

you're telling me there's actual footage of any of Wilt's feats?

thought so

It is pretty amazing that their were dozens of coaches, hundreds-to-perhaps-thousands of players, thousands of members of the media, and perhaps as many as millions of fans...

all in on the "Wilt Conspiracy."

[Jameerthefear]

Lazzerus is an old senile fool.

[warriorfan]

Lazzerus is an old senile fool.

shouldnt you be busy jerkin it to some pokemon or something?

[Haymaker]

Is it me or are these Wilt stories reaching Chuck Norris type hilarity?

[sd3035]

Chuck Norris has millions of accounts of heroic acts that far outshine Wilt's

[LAZERUSS]

you're telling me there's actual footage of any of Wilt's feats?

thought so

Do we have footage of the actual signing of the Declaration of Independence?

How about the Battle of Little Big Horn?

Hell, how about Wilt's 100 point game?


And I watched the actual landing on the moon in 1969...and I'm not going to lie to you...that was a big sham pulled over the public. Anyone could tell that it was a low budget "B" movie filmed on some Hollywood back lot.


To be honest, I don't believe Wilt even existed. The Easter Bunny is more believable.

[Spurs5Rings2014]

Which proves beyond shadow of a doubt that you've got to have a healthy team, superior to the other great healthy teams in a given season, to win a title. Nothing new. Team sport, in team sports, the best teams win. :cheers:

Most dominant individual player ever though. Timmy D for example, has 0 NBA records AFAIK. Wilt on the other hand...

Duncan's 2003 Spurs' team was superior to the other great healthy teams that season?

:facepalm

And you act as if only Wilt had to face all time great dynasties. Do you forget Duncan had to take on the 3peat Lakers with PEAK Shaq and prime Kobe? And during this time Robinson was a corpse, Parker/Ginobili weren't on the team or were rookies/second year players? Duncan also has the most/longest stretch of 50 win seasons of all time. Say what you want about Timmy, but he is one of the greatest winners of all time and has won it all with some of the least amount of help any player has ever had. You really can't take anything away from the man.

He's just as much of a GOAT as Wilt is, if not more so.

[CavaliersFTW]

you're telling me there's actual footage of any of Wilt's feats?

thought so
*"Once while setting a screen for teammate Elgin Baylor, 235lb Gus Johnson touted as one of the strongest forwards in the 60's tried to get by. Wilt grabbed Gus by the arm with one hand like a mother would grab their child. Gus not only stopped in his tracks while chasing Baylor, but was flung back several feet in the opposite direction. I couldn't believe it."

*"On a free throw by teammate Luke Jackson Wilt went for a rebound against Nate Thurmond, one of the NBA's 50 greatest centers and greatest rebounders to ever play. Nate beat Wilt to the rebound but Wilt was so strong he just continued forward into the rebound as if Nate wasn't even there and Nate went sailing out of bounds and Wilt got the rebound. Those who've seen Nate know he was an imposing player in his own right. Wilt made him look like a ragdoll."

*"Wilt could not only block peoples shots, he could go up in the air and catch shots with one hand. I know, I've seen it happen several times."

*"Wilt was strong enough to block the dunks of opposing centers. Players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, and Walt Bellamy."

*"Wilt was a Track and Field Triple Jumper and Conference Title High-Jumper at KU."

*"Wilt played semi-professional volleyball after his NBA career."

*"Wilt was so powerful players who drove on him would sometimes not only get their shots blocked, but they themselves would go crashing into the floorboards with the ball. "I've seen it happen to 220lb Oscar Robertson, one of the strongest backccourt players in the league, and 230lb Chet Walker"

Not like any of that BS exists on film. Am I right?

[jongib369]

*"Once while setting a screen for teammate Elgin Baylor, 235lb Gus Johnson touted as one of the strongest forwards in the 60's tried to get by. Wilt grabbed Gus by the arm with one hand like a mother would grab their child. Gus not only stopped in his tracks while chasing Baylor, but was flung back several feet in the opposite direction. I couldn't believe it."

*"On a free throw by teammate Luke Jackson Wilt went for a rebound against Nate Thurmond, one of the NBA's 50 greatest centers and greatest rebounders to ever play. Nate beat Wilt to the rebound but Wilt was so strong he just continued forward into the rebound as if Nate wasn't even there and Nate went sailing out of bounds and Wilt got the rebound. Those who've seen Nate know he was an imposing player in his own right. Wilt made him look like a ragdoll."

*"Wilt could not only block peoples shots, he could go up in the air and catch shots with one hand. I know, I've seen it happen several times."

*"Wilt was strong enough to block the dunks of opposing centers. Players like Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Bill Russell, and Walt Bellamy."

*"Wilt was a Track and Field Triple Jumper and Conference Title High-Jumper at KU."

*"Wilt played semi-professional volleyball after his NBA career."

*"Wilt was so powerful players who drove on him would sometimes not only get their shots blocked, but they themselves would go crashing into the floorboards with the ball. "I've seen it happen to 220lb Oscar Robertson, one of the strongest backccourt players in the league, and 230lb Chet Walker"

Not like any of that BS exists on film. Am I right?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNAKxZPpIA

Where did you find the Knicks at Bullets 1973 game? Found it in Spanish on YouTube but I can't stand watching it lol

[MJistheGOAT]

Why ruin the reputation of one of the GOAT players (3rd-4th in my list) with hyperbolic mythology and yihadist level worshipping???

What

[CavaliersFTW]

[QUOTE=MJistheGOAT]Why ruin the reputation of one of the GOAT players (3rd-4th in my list) with hyperbolic mythology and yihadist level worshipping???

What

[CavaliersFTW]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWNAKxZPpIA

Where did you find the Knicks at Bullets 1973 game? Found it in Spanish on YouTube but I can't stand watching it lol
It's available for purchase from itunes.

[jongib369]

It's available for purchase from itunes.

:biggums:

I'd like to watch it with one of my friends, but I might have to stick with the Spanish version :lol

[CavaliersFTW]

:biggums:

I'd like to watch it with one of my friends, but I might have to stick with the Spanish version :lol
No itunes account? It's only like 2.99$

I guess maybe not worth it for just "watching" but since I'm in the business of "mixing" I needed that shit. Heck I buy DVD sets to get old basketball film so to me that itunes game was a bargain :oldlol:

[jongib369]

No itunes account? It's only like 2.99$

I guess maybe not worth it for just "watching" but since I'm in the business of "mixing" I needed that shit. Heck I buy DVD sets to get old basketball film so to me that itunes game was a bargain :oldlol:
I do, just not sure if I want to drop money on it lol...If I can watch it from multiple locations I'll consider.

Looks to be a great game, just couldn't last with the commentary.

[ArbitraryWater]

http://www.gifsforum.com/images/gif/awsome/grand/295pzif.gif

fresh never seen that one before

[LAZERUSS]

I find it fascinating that Wilt was able to convince the likes of Arnold and Tex to contribute to the "Wilt Conspiracy", as well. Hell, even Auerbach, who obviously hated Wilt for shunning his attempts to draft him.

Even the legendary Wilt-hater, Bill Simmons has acknowledged that Wilt was the strongest man to have ever played the game.

And player-after-player that played with Wilt, or saw him play live...just awe-struck. Or at least they will say they were.

All in on the "Wilt Conspiracy."

[jongib369]

No itunes account? It's only like 2.99$

I guess maybe not worth it for just "watching" but since I'm in the business of "mixing" I needed that shit. Heck I buy DVD sets to get old basketball film so to me that itunes game was a bargain :oldlol:
Ended up buying it, now I just need to convert it to a file that can be played on his playstation. Thanks for telling me where you got it

[SpanishACB]

so how much did the car weight?

[LAZERUSS]

so how much did the car weight?

12,000 pounds.

[LAZERUSS]

More Wilt myth's...


Former Celtics guard K.C. Jones remembered his casual run-in with Wilt. "He stopped me dead in my tracks with his arm, hugged me and lifted me off the floor with my feet dangling," Jones said. "It scared the hell out of me. When I went to the free-throw line, my legs were still shaking. Wilt was the strongest guy and best athlete ever to play the game."
Goliath's Wonderful Life, Hoop Magazine; May 1999; Chris Ekstrand

Several years after Wilt stopped playing, he toyed with the idea of a comeback. On the day he visited the Knicks' offices in Madison Square Garden, he talked to Red Holzman, then strode out to the elevator. When it opened, two deliverymen were struggling with a dolly piled high with boxes of office supplies, mostly letterheads and envelopes. The load was so heavy, the elevator had stopped maybe four inches below the floor level and now the deliverymen were huffing and puffing, but they couldn't raise the dolly high enough to get it on the floor level. After maybe two minutes of the deliverymen's huffing and puffing, Wilt, his biceps bulging in a tank top, peered down at them and intoned, "Gentlemen, maybe I can help." They stepped back, he stepped into the elevator, grabbed each end of the rope slung under the dolly and without much exertion, quickly lifted the dolly onto the floor level. Looking up in awe, the deliverymen said, "Thank you." Wilt said, "You're welcome." Wilt stepped into the elevator and rode down to the street level as another witness followed the two deliverymen toward the Knick offices and asked, "How much does all this weigh?" They quickly surveyed the stack of big boxes of office supplies. "Close to 600 pounds," one said.
The Good Natured Giant Wasn't Belligerent, Sports of the Times; Oct 13, 1999; Dave Anderson

"One time, when I was with Boston and he was with the Lakers, Happy Hairston and I were about to get in a scrape," said Charlotte Hornets coach Paul Silas, who was a rugged, no-nonsense enforcer. "All of a sudden, I felt an enormous vise around me. I was 6-7, 235, and Wilt had picked me up and turned me around. He said, 'We're not going to have that stuff.' I said, 'Yes sir.'"
Goliath's Wonderful Life, Hoop Magazine; May 1999; Chris Ekstrand

"On the trip to Russia with the Harlem Globetrotters, we were in Lenin Stadium, and they assigned a dressing room to the team. The players were getting dressed for one of their games. They were in rather close quarters. Remember, these were young kids-Wilt was 23. The others were his age. They were like kittens. You bump me, i'll bump you back. And before you know it, two of the guys set on Wilt. They started playfully pushing and shoving him. And finally one of his teammates hit Wilt a little too hard. He took these two guys, twisted each of their shirts, and lifted both of them off the ground. Each of these guys weighed over 200 pounds. It looked like he had two little crackers in his hands. I thought he was going to hit their heads together. It was an amazing demonstration of strength".
Dr. Stan Lorber, team doctor on the Globetrotters' Russian trip[

[KobesFinger]

12,000 pounds.

The deadlift world record is 1018.5lbs, set this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95Yi9HcQ7s) by 380lb professional powerlifter Eddie Hall (https://www.google.com/search?q=eddie+hall&biw=1366&bih=657&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=PWUpVYPbLYjTaNz0gNAH&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ). Wilt was 17 and around 225 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95Yi9HcQ7s)(?), so I really don't think this happened.

[Jameerthefear]

The deadlift world record is 1018.5lbs, set this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95Yi9HcQ7s) by 380lb professional powerlifter Eddie Hall (https://www.google.com/search?q=eddie+hall&biw=1366&bih=657&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=PWUpVYPbLYjTaNz0gNAH&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ). Wilt was 17 and around 225 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95Yi9HcQ7s)(?), so I really don't think this happened.
He's too far gone. Dude is a ****ing maniac

[LAZERUSS]

The deadlift world record is 1018.5lbs, set this year (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95Yi9HcQ7s) by 380lb professional powerlifter Eddie Hall (https://www.google.com/search?q=eddie+hall&biw=1366&bih=657&source=lnms&tbm=isch&sa=X&ei=PWUpVYPbLYjTaNz0gNAH&ved=0CAYQ_AUoAQ). Wilt was 17 and around 225 (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w95Yi9HcQ7s)(?), so I really don't think this happened.

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Like it makes any difference you idiot.

Chamberlain picked up a CAR.

Go outside and pick up a CAR, and get back to me.

[LAZERUSS]

He's too far gone. Dude is a ****ing maniac

I guess they must be running re-runs of Pokemon right now. You have time to pop in and make a fool out of yourself.

[KobesFinger]

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Like it makes any difference you idiot.

Chamberlain picked up a CAR.

Go outside and pick up a CAR, and get back to me.

It makes a huge difference, what the hell are you talking about?

One of them dedicates his life to lifting heavy weights and is in the peak of his life at age 27. The other was an extremely tall (which is disadvantageous in the deadlift, more distance to lift) 17 year old basketball player.

In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrAMZyxsEMU), it takes two men to pick up the front of a Smart car. Not just any men, but two bodybuilders. A Smart car weighs 1800lbs, and it took two guys who are dedicated to being big and strong to move it. Now think about when Wilt was 17, in 1953. Cars back then were made of heavy metals like steel and iron. But Wilt who wasn't a lifter or strongman, with no warm-up, just picked it up?

[LAZERUSS]

It makes a huge difference, what the hell are you talking about?

One of them dedicates his life to lifting heavy weights and is in the peak of his life at age 27. The other was an extremely tall (which is disadvantageous in the deadlift, more distance to lift) 17 year old basketball player.

In this video (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrAMZyxsEMU), it takes two men to pick up the front of a Smart car. Not just any men, but two bodybuilders. A Smart car weighs 1800lbs, and it took two guys who are dedicated to being big and strong to move it. Now think about when Wilt was 17, in 1953. Cars back then were made of heavy metals like steel and iron. But Wilt who wasn't a lifter or strongman, with no warm-up, just picked it up?

Yep.

And in fact, above his head.

[KobesFinger]

Yep.

And in fact, above his head.

Obviously you're being sarcastic, but do you (Or Cavs or any other Wilt stan) believe he did this?

[7secondsorless]

Only thing above his head was how to win in the playoffs.

[LAZERUSS]

Obviously you're being sarcastic, but do you (Or Cavs or any other Wilt stan) believe he did this?

Here is what I believe...

The Internet is PLASTERED with articles on Wilt's STRENGTH and POWER. There are first hand accounts of an old Chamberlain benching 465 lbs. There are SI articles in which a mid-60's Wilt was benching 400 lbs (a Wilt who was nowhere near his peak in strength.) There is a first hand account by none other than Arnold, himself, awe-struck by Wilt's weight-lifting. In Robert Cherry's book he intrviewed a well-known weight lifter who was stunned by Wilt's strength, including "curling a 100 lb dumb-bell like you or I would pick up a telephone.'

There are COUNTLESS first hand accounts of Wilt doing amazing physical feats, including lifting, sprinting, and jumping. Hell, the dunking of FTs was banned by an organization headed by none other than Tex Winter because of Wilt's "freaksih activilty."

Bob Lanier, who was 6-11 and 265 lbs, claimed that Wilt "picked me up and moved me like a cup of coffee." And no one, at the time, would have claimed that Artis Gilmore was stronger than Wilt...and yet, Robert Parish, who faced both Gilmore and Shaq, claimed that Gilmore was stronger than Shaq.

I could go on...but this I KNOW... Wilt was one of the strongest athletes in the world, and virtually all evidence suggests that he was the strongest basketball player of all-time.

Now, whether he could pick up a 5000 lb car, or jump over a building...I don't care. What we KNOW is that he was a man of staggering size, strength, power, stamina, speed, and pure athleticism. And the "Wilt-bashers" are deluding themselves if they claim otherwise.

[CavaliersFTW]

Obviously you're being sarcastic, but do you (Or Cavs or any other Wilt stan) believe he did this?
Yep. One of the World's strongest man competitions was flipping cars, bigger than that dinky little thing in your video, and not just once, but three times in a row followed by a sprint. Not just lifting them a little bit on one end either, but full out flipping them all on your own. Those guys are all about the same size as Wilt in weight, some are even lighter actually. The body builders in your video, are bulky in appearance, but they're not giants nor strongmen - athletes who train strictly for functional strength. They're athletes that train for size and definition if they are body builders.

Wilt was one of the strongest people in the world when he was alive. He trained is strength for sure but he was also very obviously born with a body that for some reason generated immense strength that pretty much was unrivaled by anyone who's ever met him. Be it the giant thrower at KU Al Oerter, or body builders like Arnold, or other incredibly "strong" players like Willis Reed, Artis Gilmore, Bob Lanier, Wes Unseld. Yes he probably could, and did lift the back ends of cars if two people have come forward and described two completely different scenarios of him doing so, completely independent of one another, 11 years apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_dLXKpf9c

Yeah. Wilt lifting a volkswagon would probably be pretty easy to him. Wilt made a body builder that would have literally shamed the bodybuilders in your video, marvel in his strength. Arnold. Watch that video and expand your knowledge of what elite giant/gifted humans are capable of doing with their strength. Your example, was not a good example.

[LAZERUSS]

I mentioned it earlier, but these Wilt-bashers are hilarious.

For years they demanded video footage. Now because of CavsFTW, and other's, they have pretty much resigned themselves to these three arguments...

"Two rings", "Weak Era", or "Short White Guys."

If CavsFTW released documented footage of Chamberlain picking up the team bus above his head, and then without a running start, jumped over the top of the backboard...

"weak era" and "short white guys"...

[upside24]

Only thing above his head was how to win in the playoffs.
Damn.:bowdown:

[aj1987]

Yep. One of the World's strongest man competitions was flipping cars, bigger than that dinky little thing in your video, and not just once, but three times in a row followed by a sprint. Not just lifting them a little bit on one end either, but full out flipping them all on your own. Those guys are all about the same size as Wilt in weight, some are even lighter actually. The body builders in your video, are bulky in appearance, but they're not giants nor strongmen - athletes who train strictly for functional strength. They're athletes that train for size and definition if they are body builders.

Wilt was one of the strongest people in the world when he was alive. He trained is strength for sure but he was also very obviously born with a body that for some reason generated immense strength that pretty much was unrivaled by anyone who's ever met him. Be it the giant thrower at KU Al Oerter, or body builders like Arnold, or other incredibly "strong" players like Willis Reed, Artis Gilmore, Bob Lanier, Wes Unseld. Yes he probably could, and did lift the back ends of cars if two people have come forward and described two completely different scenarios of him doing so, completely independent of one another, 11 years apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_dLXKpf9c

Yeah. Wilt lifting a volkswagon would probably be pretty easy to him. Wilt made a body builder that would have literally shamed the bodybuilders in your video, marvel in his strength. Arnold. Watch that video and expand your knowledge of what elite giant/gifted humans are capable of doing with their strength. Your example, was not a good example.
You do know those cars are just shells without the engines and all that shit, right?

Even one of the smaller cars (the Beetle) was around 2,000 lbs. Doubt anyone in the world can lift that. Let alone with one hand.

[CavaliersFTW]

You do know those cars are just shells without the engines and all that shit, right?

Even one of the smaller cars (the Beetle) was around 2,000 lbs. Doubt anyone in the world can lift that. Let alone with one hand.
You do know they stated the weight of the cars being flipped, 700 kilos which is about 1,550 pounds, still heavier than the smart car video posted, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPMwWX8I9po

Hell I've got a picture of my dad and his friends lifting the end of one too. Back in the day young guys with their friends probably lifted those things all the time. Wilt is described doing it with one hand, and rotating the end to face a different direction. He was about 300 pounds at the time.

You guys think all the stuff people claim they saw him do was impossible. Most of the stories I've uncovered are not impossible. It's rare to see people with that kind of strength it's certainly world class strength, but he's got the size to make it all plausible. The kinds of things he would be seen doing are very typical strongman feats that have in many ended up in strong man competitions as they are sort of a universal sign of strength (picking up a car, etc) - heck stories about things he's done have even been exceeded in competitions like the video of flipping cars I posted. I recently spent a few weeks watching the entire 1980's and early 90's decade of "World's strongest man" competitions. Those guys are doing things you all would think was impossible, one of the competitors was also a 7 footer. "tall people can't lift" ... yeah he won one of the worlds stongest man competitions, at a body weight identical to Wilt's

[LAZERUSS]

You do know they stated the weight of the cars being flipped, 700 kilos which is about 1,550 pounds, still heavier than the smart car video posted, right?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iPMwWX8I9po

Hell I've got a picture of my dad and his friends lifting the end of one too. Back in the day young guys with their friends probably lifted those things all the time. Wilt is described doing it with one hand, and rotating the end to face a different direction. He was about 300 pounds at the time.

You guys think all the stuff people claim they saw him do was impossible. Most of the stories I've uncovered are not impossible. It's rare to see people with that kind of strength it's certainly world class strength but at his size, but he's got the size to make it all plausible. The kinds of things he would be seen doing are very typical strongman feats that have in many ended up in strong man competitions as they are sort of a universal sign of strength (picking up a car, etc) - heck stories about things he's done have even been exceeded in competitions like the video of flipping cars I posted. I recently spent a few weeks watching the entire 1980's and early 90's decade of "World's strongest man" competitions. Those guys are doing things you all would think was impossible, one of the competitors was also a 7 footer. "tall people can't lift" ... yeah he won one of the worlds stongest man competitions, at a body weight identical to Wilt's

I applaud your efforts, but these Wilt discussions are so one-sided. You and other's have provided a TON of video footage, video interviews with more than just credible eye-witnesses, newspaper articles at the time, quotes from peers, etc., etc, etc...

The nay-sayers never provide a shred of evidence to the contrary. Their only response is..."it's impossible"...

which is what the world would have proclaimed in 1959, had someone suggested a seven-footer would come along and just obliterate the NBA Record Book, most of which still stand some 40-50 years later.

[ImKobe]

he could lift a car but couldnt lift his performance in the nba playoffs

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[LAZERUSS]

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A Kobe fan laughing at Wilt's "drop" in the post-season...


99-00
Regular season 22.5 ppg .468 FG%
Finals 15.6 ppg .367 FG%
Last Game of Series .296 FG%

00-01
Regular season 28.5 ppg .464 FG%
Finals 24.6 ppg .415 FG%
Last Game of Series .389 FG%

01-02
Regular season 25.2 ppg .469
Finals 26.8 ppg .514 FG%
Last Game of Series .438 FG%

03-04
Regular season 24.0 ppg .438 FG%
Finals 22.6 ppg .381 FG%
Last Game of Series .333 FG%

07-08
Regular season 28.3 ppg .459 FG%
Finals 25.7 ppg .405 FG%
Last Game of Series .318 FG%

08-09
Regular season 26.8 ppg .467 FG%
Finals 32.4 ppg .430 FG%
Last Game of Series .435 FG%

09-10
Regular season 27.0 ppg .456 FG%
Finals 28.6 ppg .405 FG%
Last Game of Series .250 FG%


Other noteables:


97-98
Swept by Utah 4-0.
Kobe averages 10.0 ppg on a .367 FG%

98-99
Swept by San Antonio 4-0
Last game of the series : Kobe 16 points on a .438 FG%

02-03
Lose to Spurs in WCF's, 4-2.
Last game loss by a score of 110-82 (Kobe with 20 points in a season in which he averaged 30 ppg)

03-04 Finals
Heavily favored Lakers lose to Pistons, 4-1.
In the clinching game five loss Kobe shoots .333 in a 100-87 loss (and LA was down 23 going into 4th quarter)

04-05
Team goes 34-48 and misses playoffs

05-06
Regular season 35.4 ppg .450
Playoffs 27.9 ppg .497
Last game (7) 24 points in a 121-90 loss (after blowing a 3-1 series lead)

06-07
Team goes 42-40
Loses in first round to Suns, 4-1.
Last game of that series, Kobe shoots .394 from the floor

07-08
Lakers are blown out by Celts in Finals.
In game four the Lakers blow a 23 point lead, and lose, in a game in which Kobe shot .316 from the field.
In the clinching game six loss, the Lakers lose by a Finals record margin of 131-92. Kobe shoots .318 from the floor.

10-11
Lakers with HCA are swept by the Mavs, 4-0.
In the clinching game four loss, LA loses 122-86. Kobe shoots .389 from the field.

Without a doubt...Kobe is the worst Top-10 player in NBA Finals history.

[jongib369]

Yep. One of the World's strongest man competitions was flipping cars, bigger than that dinky little thing in your video, and not just once, but three times in a row followed by a sprint. Not just lifting them a little bit on one end either, but full out flipping them all on your own. Those guys are all about the same size as Wilt in weight, some are even lighter actually. The body builders in your video, are bulky in appearance, but they're not giants nor strongmen - athletes who train strictly for functional strength. They're athletes that train for size and definition if they are body builders.

Wilt was one of the strongest people in the world when he was alive. He trained is strength for sure but he was also very obviously born with a body that for some reason generated immense strength that pretty much was unrivaled by anyone who's ever met him. Be it the giant thrower at KU Al Oerter, or body builders like Arnold, or other incredibly "strong" players like Willis Reed, Artis Gilmore, Bob Lanier, Wes Unseld. Yes he probably could, and did lift the back ends of cars if two people have come forward and described two completely different scenarios of him doing so, completely independent of one another, 11 years apart.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oM_dLXKpf9c

Yeah. Wilt lifting a volkswagon would probably be pretty easy to him. Wilt made a body builder that would have literally shamed the bodybuilders in your video, marvel in his strength. Arnold. Watch that video and expand your knowledge of what elite giant/gifted humans are capable of doing with their strength. Your example, was not a good example.

Arnold wasn't just a bodybuilder, he strength trained beforehand. And maintained a lot of it even when he went for hypertrophy. He wasn't just a balloon...So Arnold commenting on his strength says a lot.

http://tnation.t-nation.com/forum_images/2/d/2dcc1-attachmentthe.jpg

http://zacheven-esh.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/07/Arnold-Deadlift.jpg


I hate to bring this up because of his bodies disadvantages for benching, but for something like deadlifts he's a bit of a freak. Even I'm a bit skeptical he could at that age, but I don't think it's IMPOSSIBLE like a lot of people here

"Deadlifts: short torso and long arms/legs are an advantage"


https://nbccollegebasketballtalk.files.wordpress.com/2013/07/slideshow-most-memorable-march-madness-wilt-chamberlain.jpg

"If you

[CelticBaller]

Two great players and teammates of Wilt.

Jerry West:

http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah267/espelid/E8663806-7B00-43FC-8B04-7B337EABEC1B_zpswcpy4t5k.png (http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/espelid/media/E8663806-7B00-43FC-8B04-7B337EABEC1B_zpswcpy4t5k.png.html)

Chet Walker:
http://i1382.photobucket.com/albums/ah267/espelid/B60A0784-F831-4524-83A9-01EAD10C9B63_zpsehp5w8tc.png (http://s1382.photobucket.com/user/espelid/media/B60A0784-F831-4524-83A9-01EAD10C9B63_zpsehp5w8tc.png.html)
http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130927203704/survivor-org/images/3/34/L.jpg
hold this, op :oldlol:

[CavaliersFTW]

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130927203704/survivor-org/images/3/34/L.jpg
hold this, op :oldlol:
That might apply if Wilt was telling a story here. But he isn't. So nah, you keep it.

[LAZERUSS]

http://img3.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20130927203704/survivor-org/images/3/34/L.jpg
hold this, op :oldlol:

This is literally a worthless post.

But, thanks for the non-information.

[LAZERUSS]

I can understand someone not believing everything Wilt, himself, claimed...

but how do you explain the "stories" by literally hundreds (if not thousands) of other writers, peers, rivals, coaches, fans, etc? Even some by his detractors?

[Asukal]

I can understand someone not believing everything Wilt, himself, claimed...

but how do you explain the "stories" by literally hundreds (if not thousands) of other writers, peers, rivals, coaches, fans, etc? Even some by his detractors?

That's pretty easy to explain. 2 rings. Get it? :oldlol:

[jongib369]

https://farm1.staticflickr.com/201/516677268_fa5235bb30_o.jpg


https://youtu.be/LpaFNY8CCXE?t=3m11s

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