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...mother, two feet shorter than Wilt Chamberlain [April 1] and 40 years his senior, discovered that they lived at the same address when he permitted her to hold the front door open for himself and his dogs. Intrigued with this bit of noblesse oblige, I inquired if he had rewarded her in the customary fashion with "thank you." "I don't recall that he did," my mother replied. Only sportsmen will understand my profound sense of relief for that answer. No irrational, misguided sentimentality shall befog my firm conviction that Bob Cousy, while still at Holy Cross, retired...
...chances for still another (its ninth) world championship; at the Boston Garden. Trailing the Royals 1-0 and 2-1 in the best-of-five series, the Celtics rebounded to win the last two games on the shooting of Sam Jones and John Havlicek, now take on Wilt Chamberlain and the Philadelphia 76ers in the Eastern Division finals...
...dress. Back in 1955, when he was a freshman at the University of Kansas, he was reported to be 7 ft. 2 in. The National Basketball Association's 1966 record book gives him an inch less than that. All of this amuses rival players, whose estimates of Chamberlain's true altitude range...
Never Stop There. Chamberlain is as defiant about his playing abilities as about his size. "I am," he maintains, "the greatest basketball player in the world." Everyone might have agreed with him long ago if only he had stopped right there. Who else, after all, has ever scored 100 points in a single night or averaged 39.5 points per game throughout a seven-year pro career? Wilt never stops there. "I am also the greatest boxer and the greatest miler and the greatest weight lifter and the greatest shotputter and the greatest bowler and the greatest cook and the greatest...
They really did not have much choice. Critics used to accuse Chamberlain of being strictly a goon and a "gunner"-a glory hound who was more interested in pouring in points and setting scoring records than in winning games. This season Chamberlain surprised them. As usual, he led the league in scoring (with 2,649 points, an average of 33.5 per game) and in rebounds (1,943). His proudest accomplishment, though, was ranking seventh in the league in assists; every other player among the top ten was a guard. "Everybody knows I can score 100 points a game if need...