{"id":106086,"date":"2025-08-30T06:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106086\/"},"modified":"2025-08-30T06:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:09:07","slug":"nba-all-time-rank-no-9-wilt-chamberlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/106086\/","title":{"rendered":"NBA All-Time Rank No. 9: Wilt Chamberlain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ranking the top 50 players in NBA history\u2026<\/p>\n<p>9. Wilt Chamberlain<\/p>\n<p>Chamberlain was a physical and statistical colossus. What people don\u2019t realize about Wilt was that he wasn\u2019t just absurdly tall; he was also <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=8wfmTVyKgS0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">very fast<\/a>. Chamberlain was a track star before committing to basketball full-time.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWilt the Stilt\u201d was a freak athlete even by today\u2019s standards \u2014 you can only imagine what people in the 1950s and 60s thought of his stature and impossible athleticism.<\/p>\n<p>After playing for the Harlem Globetrotters, Chamberlain entered the NBA with the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959 and ended up playing 14 seasons for the Warriors\/76ers (1959-1968) and Los Angeles Lakers (1968-1973). <\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>He averaged a mind-boggling 30.1 points and 22.9 rebounds in his career. A 13-time All-Star, Chamberlain won two championships (1967 with 76ers, 1972 with Lakers) and NBA MVP four times (1960, 1966-1968). <\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>He led the league in scoring a laughable seven straight years (1960-1966), rebounds 11 times, and even assists once (1968). <\/p>\n<p>Famous for his 100-point game in 1962 (NBA record) and averaging 50.4 PPG that season, Chamberlain also had a 55-rebound game. He retired with 31,419 points and 23,924 rebounds (all-time leader). <\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Despite criticism for limited titles amid Bill Russell\u2019s dominance with the Boston Celtics, Chamberlain revolutionized the game, prompting rule changes like widening the lane. <\/p>\n<p>He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 1979. <\/p>\n<p>But who ranks ahead of Chamberlain at\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/nesn.com\/2025\/08\/nba-all-time-rank-no-8-tim-duncan\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">No. 8 all-time<\/a>?<\/p>\n<p class=\"nesn-in-content-ad__copy\">Story continues below advertisement<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ranking the top 50 players in NBA history\u2026 9. Wilt Chamberlain Chamberlain was a physical and statistical colossus.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":106087,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[557],"tags":[64,63,590,85],"class_list":["post-106086","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-nba","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-nba","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106086","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106086"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106086\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/106087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106086"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106086"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106086"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}