Nickname: ‘Wilt the Stilt’ / ‘The Big Dipper’ / ‘The Load’

NBA Straya Nickame: ‘Shagger’

Teams:
Philadelphia / San Francisco #Warriors (’59-’65)
Philadelphia 76ers (’65-’68)
Los Angeles Lakers (’68-’73)

Career Stats (per game):
30.1 pts // 22.9 rebs // 4.4 asts // 54.0 FG% // 51.1 FT% // 20,000 hn (Hotties Nailed)

BEST KNOWN FOR:
– playing with the Harlem Globetrotters instead of his final year of college
– led the NBA in scoring as a rookie… with 37.6 points a game
– scoring 100 points in a game
– once had 55 rebounds in a game
– averaging 50 pts & 25 rebs in one season
– once leading the league in assists just because he could
– winning a crap-ton of scoring and rebounding titles
– being the only bloke to average over 30 & 20 for their career
– always getting beaten by Bill Russell
– winning two NBA titles
– backing out of a boxing match with Muhammad Ali, proving that even if he was a coward, he wasn’t stupid
– holding SEVENTY-TWO NBA records
– never fouling out of a game – in high school, college OR the NBA
– starring in ‘Conan the Destroyer’ with Arnie & Andre the Giant
– retiring from the NBA and picking up volleyball, and making the Volleyball Hall of Fame…
– causing people to discover there’s a Volleyball Hall of Fame
– loving a root

DEAD-SET LEDGE STATUS:
Fully Assured!! Mate: Wilt claimed to have slept with 20,000 women, averaged 50/25, was in a movie with Arnie, was the flyest damn dresser this side of Walt Frazier AND he scored 100 points in a single game. I mean, c’mon: just look at his stats and all the bloody records he set! Wilt was the epitome of a dead-set ledge!

#ONYA Wilt the Stilt!

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