To celebrate the return of America's greatest invention even if Dr. He'll be on the court here all month blowing the whistle on a lot of hoops hoodoo that may fool a lot of fans. Is your basketball knowledge a slam-dunk or an alley-oops? Not to mention that game in Hershey, Pennsylvania when he scored points, a record that nobody came within 20 points of for half a century.
Kobe had an point game in , and is currently in second place. But the amazing stat that people might think of first when it comes to "Wilt the Stilt" is the claim, in his memoir A View from Above, that he had slept with 20, different women over the course of his life. Now let me be clear: I have no way of providing an actual count here. I can't speak with every woman alive on earth from the early s up through and ask whether or not they would describe their relationship with Wilt Chamberlain as "sexual.
A legend both on and off the court, Chamberlain would have turned 76 yesterday. Even if he had lived that long, does his in famous claim add up? In his legendary career, Wilt scored 31, points, including the unbelievable time he actually scored points in one game.
He holds dozens of unbreakable basketball records. In addition to his accomplishments on the court, Wilt also authored four books. None of the others created nearly the stir and controversy as his book, A View From Above. In it, Wilt claimed to have slept with 20, different women in his life. A media firestorm erupted, and Wilt was attacked from all sides. He also came under fire in African-American circles for promoting black racial stereotypes. And feminists resented his blatant sexism for using women in such a manner.
To Wilt's credit I guess , he never backed down from his claim, never said he was just "bragging" or "stretching the truth. Wilt was emphatic that he never went to bed with a married woman. Let's analyze it. If Wilt started at the age of 15, from then up to the age of 55 when the book was published he would have had 40 years to sleep with 20, women, or different women a year-easy math.
A media firestorm erupted, and Chamberlain was attacked from all sides. He also came under fire in African-American circles for promoting Black racial stereotypes. Meanwhile, feminists resented his blatant sexism for using women in such a manner. Despite the backlash, Chamberlain never backed down from his claim. He simply stated: "I was just laying it out there for people who were curious. Chamberlain was emphatic that he never went to bed with a married woman.
Let's analyze it. If Chamberlain started having sex at the age of 15, from then up to the age of 55 when the book was published he would have had 40 years to sleep with 20, women, or different women a year—easy math. According to close friends, Wilt loved threesomes. According to legend, he was intimate with 23 different women on one day road trip.
Wilt was also a lifelong insomniac, sometimes just not sleeping at all. He probably would take a woman to bed any time he couldn't fall asleep.
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