Why Wilt Chamberlain is the Greatest There have been many greats to play the game basketball, but we have never, and maybe never again, see the likes of Wilt Chamberlain. His entire life Wilt Chamberlain made the improbable look routine. No professional athlete in any team sport combined the size, strength, and fluidity of movement that Wilt Chamberlain brought into the sleepy, dimly lit NBA arenas of 1959. I¹ll go one step further: No one …showed first 75 words of 491 total…

…showed last 75 words of 491 total…all-time single-season records for average points, rebounds, and field goal percentage. Wilt¹s second-best season in each of those categories is better than any other player¹s best through all of NBA history. Some day, perhaps, everyone will be talking about a player who is the Next Jordan, or the Next Magic, and maybe even the Next Russell. But I do not expect we will ever see anyone that we will call the Next Wilt.