The All Oft-Injured Team

During the 1961-62 baseball season, the great Wilt Chamberlain averaged, AVERAGED, 48.5 minutes per game while playing in a league leading 80 games. Since an NBA game is only 48 minutes long, you must be asking if this is a misprint. No, it is not. Wilt played every minute of every game, plus most of the overtime minutes. In fact, the Big Dipper led the league in minutes played nine of his first twelve seasons (the three seasons he didn’t lead the league, he still averaged a healthy 45.2 minutes per game in the games he played). Over his 14-year career, Wilt averaged 45.8 minutes per game, a still standing NBA record (which will probably never be broken), while still finding time to roll through thousands of admiring female fans like a combine harvesting the summer wheat.

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