Which record will last longest?

[NZStreetBaller]

55 rebounds. there would have to be 55 missed shots and you would have to get em all.

Q. whats the average missed shots per game in todays game?

[RoundMoundOfReb]

Mikan's 83.3% will never be beaten.

[Deuce Bigalow]

Mikan's 83.3% will never be beaten.

Perhaps the greatest record of them all.

[NZStreetBaller]

I think durant has the ability to beat wilts 100 if he went for it. had a hot night against a poor defensive team and decided to chuck like hell.

[NZStreetBaller]

Mikan's 83.3% will never be beaten.

what was his ppg??

[Psileas]

55 rebounds among these 3, definitely.
In the end, the one Wilt record that will never go away is the one of most NBA records broken and owned by a single player.

what was his ppg??

His point total that game was 15.

[swagga]

55 rebounds is impossible today.

put rodman in the 50s/60s and he breaks 60.

[imdaman99]

You would need a run and gun brickfest to ever get that many rebounds. And you would have to be missing your shots as well, because no way does anyone in the NBA continue running up the score after up 30.

[La Frescobaldi]

Deceiving angle unless you think the players next to Wilt who were not even jumping are 7'5".

yeah angles can be deceptive. Nevertheless, Deuce, you & I have an urgent sense of inquiry, so let's examine it more closely.

Celtics #14, of course, is Mr. Basketball, who stood 6'1" tho not standing straight in this picture.
Even allowing for angles (and in fact they are actually a distinct disadvantage from this perspective), Chamberlain's belt buckle is 5 or 6 inches above the top of Cousy's head... using Russell's arm as a kind of a reference, in a way, see?
Chamberlain was 7'1" so standing his belt would have been about 42" off the floor (~ 3 1/2 feet).
So 79" - 42" ~ 37" vertical here, very roughly estimating of course.
He's about 4 or 5 inches shy of the top in that picture.... or about the highest Dwight Howard got.... by sprinting on an empty court.
Of course it's not just the vertical that gets him so high but the arm span and reach also.
And of course we've seen him get higher vertical than this in a game clip, haven't we Deuce?

[LAZERUSS]

yeah angles can be deceptive. Nevertheless, Deuce, you & I have an urgent sense of inquiry, so let's examine it more closely.

Celtics #14, of course, is Mr. Basketball, who stood 6'1" tho not standing straight in this picture.
Even allowing for angles (and in fact they are actually a distinct disadvantage from this perspective), Chamberlain's belt buckle is 5 or 6 inches above the top of Cousy's head... using Russell's arm as a kind of a reference, in a way, see?
Chamberlain was 7'1" so standing his belt would have been about 42" off the floor (~ 3 1/2 feet).
So 79" - 42" ~ 37" vertical here, very roughly estimating of course.
He's about 4 or 5 inches shy of the top in that picture.... or about the highest Dwight Howard got.... by sprinting on an empty court.
Of course it's not just the vertical that gets him so high but the arm span and reach also.
And of course we've seen him get higher vertical than this in a game clip, haven't we Deuce?

There have been EYE-WITNESS accounts of Wilt touching the top of the back-board (Sonny Hill and longtime Sixer Trainer, Al Domenico.)

Furthermore, Wilt was dunking basketballs on a 12 ft rim in college. Just using basic math for that achievement...

Wilt had a standing reach of 9'6". Dunking on a 12 ft rim with a 10" diameter basketball, and allowing for at least 1-2" over the rim...or about 13 ft....

13' - 9'6" = 42 inches.

Of course, we KNOW that Wilt was a college HIGH-JUMP champion, (part-time and with poor technique)...so a 42" vertical was very possible.

[La Frescobaldi]

9 triple doubles in a row is another prolly unbreakable record, as is .73% from the field for the season... or 227 double double games in a row


but what about 35 field goals in a row? That's just taking drastic action right into the face of the enemy because they knew what he was doing and couldn't even foul him to find their way out of that devastation

[LAZERUSS]

yeah angles can be deceptive. Nevertheless, Deuce, you & I have an urgent sense of inquiry, so let's examine it more closely.

Celtics #14, of course, is Mr. Basketball, who stood 6'1" tho not standing straight in this picture.
Even allowing for angles (and in fact they are actually a distinct disadvantage from this perspective), Chamberlain's belt buckle is 5 or 6 inches above the top of Cousy's head... using Russell's arm as a kind of a reference, in a way, see?
Chamberlain was 7'1" so standing his belt would have been about 42" off the floor (~ 3 1/2 feet).
So 79" - 42" ~ 37" vertical here, very roughly estimating of course.
He's about 4 or 5 inches shy of the top in that picture.... or about the highest Dwight Howard got.... by sprinting on an empty court.
Of course it's not just the vertical that gets him so high but the arm span and reach also.
And of course we've seen him get higher vertical than this in a game clip, haven't we Deuce?

BTW...this is a great reply.

And kudos to DaRkJaWs who came up with that photograph.

The "Wilt-bashers" go out of their way to disparage ANY of Chamberlain's physical or statistical feats.

I have long said that if there was actual footage of Chamberlain doing a back-flip over the top of the back-board, that the "bashers" would claim it was in a "weak-era" and against "6-5 white guys."

[LAZERUSS]

Well-respected sports-writer George Kiseda...

http://articles.latimes.com/2006/aug...rts/sp-dwyre22

Kiseda cites Chamberlain's incredible athleticism.

"I saw him palm a bowling ball," he says. "I also saw him go up for a jump ball against K.C. Jones and tip it in. I saw him standing in a hospital gown, in a room with a high ceiling, and jump at least 42 inches straight up and palm the ceiling."

And how about a Tex Winter interview...(starting at the 3:15 mark)...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fyz-FhP2ONk


He legislated the banning of dunking of FT's BECAUSE of WILT.

[HomieWeMajor]

Of the three, probably the 55 rebounds. But his record in playing 48.5 minutes per game one season is as impressive as any.


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This only means that he was so concerned with padding his stats that he played every minute during blow outs.

[G0ATbe]

81. Never will we see a scoring outburst like that again. Unless it's by Godbe. Or the league somehow goes back to 1900s rules and weak player calibre.