62 Wilt at 60% or Curry for MVP this season?

[Marchesk]

Time travelling Wilt to today and adjusting his numbers for slower pace and less minutes, let's apply a 40% reduction across the board. His FG% would go up of course, but then that's offset by focus on 3pt shooting. So let's just say it cancels out. Assists can stay about the same.

30/15/2 with 4 blocks a game on 58% shooting. Let's say his team is a contender (50+ wins), like it was in 61/62, but not a great team, like the current Warriors.

Would Wilt make it a close race with those numbers?

[SouBeachTalents]

He might prevent Curry from being unanimous, but Curry would still beat him handily in the MVP voting

[LAZERUSS]

Time travelling Wilt to today and adjusting his numbers for slower pace and less minutes, let's apply a 40% reduction across the board. His FG% would go up of course, but then that's offset by focus on 3pt shooting. So let's just say it cancels out. Assists can stay about the same.

30/15/2 with 4 blocks a game on 58% shooting. Let's say his team is a contender (50+ wins), like it was in 61/62, but not a great team, like the current Warriors.

Would Wilt make it a close race with those numbers?

Wilt's '62 NBA averaged 118.8 ppg. Curry's '16 NBA is averaging 102.2 ppg. So a 40% decline in scoring is way too big a drop. And you are definitely right about Chamberlain's FG%. It would translate to a .594 in today's NBA.

Given all that, and a '62 Chamberlain would be averaging 43.4 ppg in '16. Of course, he would probably not play 48 mpg either. So let's reduce his mpg down to say, 42 mpg. An even 38 ppg.

38-15-4, and on a .593 FG%, and a TS% around .615.

[DMV2]

Even if Wilt wins in the regular season, he'll choke in playoffs as usual.

[LAZERUSS]

Even if Wilt wins in the regular season, he'll choke in playoffs as usual.

Yep. After all, he only averaged a 35-27 in the '62 playoffs. And single-handedly carried a roster, the core of which was the same last place roster he inherited his rookie season, but now older and even worse...to the EDF's, where they lost a game seven, by two points, to a HOF-laden 60-20 Celtics team. And did so with a 34-27 seven game series against Russell.

[senelcoolidge]

Wilt would just crush this era as well. Wilt had around a 15 ft jumper. So he could spread the floor as well since everything is so spaced out in today's era. He would also more than likely be the defensive player of the year.

[eeeeeebro]

show me a video to prove it

[theaussieguy]

wilt is the most overrated bum to ever play the game. Oh wow a 7 footer being able to drop a ball in the hoop over some 6'6 white guys. WOW SUCH TALENT.

[LAZERUSS]

show me a video to prove it

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rCWrGWuU2Ak

[Sarcastic]

Even if Wilt wins in the regular season, he'll choke in playoffs as usual.

What does that have to do with a regular season award?

[LAZERUSS]

wilt is the most overrated bum to ever play the game. Oh wow a 7 footer being able to drop a ball in the hoop over some 6'6 white guys. WOW SUCH TALENT.

Give us a list of these "6'6 white guys" that Chamberlain faced.

The 6-5 1/2 Chuck Hayes did not play in the 60's my friend...

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Chuck-Hayes-110/

BTW, Hayes was a starting center for all 82 games of the '09-10 season.

Incidently...

Bill Russell was one the shortest centers Chamberlain battled...at nearly 6-10. Or the same height as Demarcus Cousins, DeAndre Jordan, Andre Drummond, and Dwight Howard.

[4 Inches]

Give us a list of these "6'6 white guys" that Chamberlain faced.

The 6-5 1/2 Chuck Hayes did not play in the 60's my friend...

http://www.draftexpress.com/profile/Chuck-Hayes-110/

BTW, Hayes was a starting center for all 82 games of the '09-10 season.

Incidently...

Bill Russell was one the shortest centers Chamberlain battled...at nearly 6-10. Or the same height as Demarcus Cousins, DeAndre Jordan, Andre Drummond, and Dwight Howard.

Damn Chuck looked good in college no homo
He got fat in the NBA

[Kawhi]

Yep. After all, he only averaged a 35-27 in the '62 playoffs. And single-handedly carried a roster, the core of which was the same last place roster he inherited his rookie season, but now older and even worse...to the EDF's, where they lost a game seven, by two points, to a HOF-laden 60-20 Celtics team. And did so with a 34-27 seven game series against Russell.

That season he played along Paul Arizin (Hall of Famer, 10 time All-Star), Tom Gola (Hall of Famer, 5 time All-Star), and Guy Rodgers (Hall of Famer, 4 time All-Star)? The series in which his scoring average dropped from 50 to 34? The game 7 in which he scored just 22 points on less than 50% shooting?

[JohnMax]

Lebron and Wilt would face off in the ECF to see who goes 2/7.

[Deuce Bigalow]

Even if Wilt wins in the regular season, he'll choke in playoffs as usual.