YouTube Gold: A Classic Wilt Chamberlain Story

UNITED STATES - MAY 03: Basketball: finals, Los Angeles Lakers Wilt Chamberlain (13) in action, making dunk vs New York Knicks, Inglewood, CA 4/30/1973—5/3/1973The stories about Wilt Chamberlain are insane. He had a 50” vertical, could bench press 500 lbs. according to Arnold Schwarzenegger and in college, in addition to basketball, competed in gymnastics (the rings) and track and field where he high jumped 6 feet, 6 inches, ran the 440 yards in 49.0 seconds, the 880 yards in 1:58.3, got 53 feet, 4 inches in the shot put, and long jumped 22 feet.

He is also one of the very few who blocked a sky hook by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and, when he retired from basketball, started playing professional…