NBA legend Wilt 'The Stilt' Chamberlain dies at 63 in 1999

[jstern]

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NEW YORK DAILY NEWS
Wednesday, October 12, 2016, 1:55 PM

(Originally published by the Daily News on Oct. 13, 1999. This was written by Dave Goldiner.)

Wilt (The Stilt) Chamberlain, a basketball legend and American icon who scored a record-setting 100 points in a single game, died yesterday. He was 63.

Paramedics found the 7-foot-1 Chamberlain at his mansion in suburban Los Angeles around noon.

A Los Angeles Fire Department spokesman said Chamberlain, who had been treated for an irregular heartbeat, apparently died of a heart attack.

"Wilt was one of the greatest ever, and we will never see another one like him,”" said fellow basketball great Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.

Chamberlain had lost nearly 50 pounds in recent weeks, was scheduled to undergo hip surgery and had been in excruciating pain from a tooth extraction last week, relatives said.

It was not clear whether other medical problems could have contributed to the heart ailment.

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[Lebron23]

It's been 17 years ago. Time really flies.

[SouBeachTalents]

I feel like his death didn't get the publicity I thought it would. Walter Payton & Joe DiMaggio died the same year and I felt like their deaths got a lot more coverage and attention

[Lebron23]

I feel like his death didn't get the publicity I thought it would. Walter Payton & Joe DiMaggio died the same year and I felt like their deaths got a lot more coverage and attention

Only reason why I knew wilt was because my mom gave me a Compton Encyclopedia.

And he passed the same time as Payton and Maggio.

[HenryGarfunkle]

Who cares

[Jasper]

http://www.nydailynews.com/sports/ba...ticle-1.848053

Amazing 10,000 woman , heart attack and pxnis falls off after losing 50 lbs.

NBA where Amazing happens

[jstern]

Time does fly. It feels like yesterday, yet that 27 year old in the article is 44 now, and the 38 year old 55. Wilt would've been 80. 63 seems so young, yet back then Wilt to me was the equivalent of an 80 year old man now.

Anyway, I think I read from jlauber or someone that Wilt got hid hard, which messed up a molar, and that it could have contributed to his death 30 something years later.

[swagga]

Who cares

some dude with an nba channel and 50 alts ..