Nickname:	The Big Dipper / "Wilt the Stilt"
Known for:	Wilt, Conan the Destroyer, The Grizzly Six
Birth name:	Wilton Norman Chamberlain
Birthday:	21 August 1936, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
Height:	7' 1" (2.16 m)

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Free Image Hosting - Upload your favorite celebrity pictures. Hated the nickname 'Wilt the Stilt.' Only player to ever score 100 points in a pro game (1962). Never married. Spent one year with the Harlem Globetrooters, for salary of $65,000 Enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1979. University of Kansas (1955-58). The Sporting News First Team All-America (1958). All-Big Seven (1957, 1958). NBA Rookie of the Year (1960). All-NBA First Team (1960-62, 1964-68). NBA All-Defensive First Team (1972, 1973). NBA All-Star Game MVP (1960), after scoring 23 points with 25 rebounds. NBA 35th Anniversary All-Time Team (1980) and 50th Anniversary All-Time Team (1996). Chamberlain and Bill Russell were known as fierce competitors on the court, but they were also good friends Never fouled out of a game in his NBA career. Biography in: "American National Biography". Supplement 1, pp. 106-109. New York: Oxford University Press, 2002. At his athletic peak, he was said to have been measured with a vertical jump of 48-50 inches. Is a member of Kappa Alpha Psi Fraternity Inc. Only player in NBA history to lead the league in scoring average and rebounding average in the same season, which he accomplished five times. Four of the five seasons were his first four NBA seasons.

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