{"id":1547591,"date":"2023-01-25T12:50:30","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T17:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1547591"},"modified":"2023-02-21T16:53:40","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T21:53:40","slug":"a-frustrated-wilt-chamberlain-took-a-mid-game-swing-at-tom-heinsohn-who-got-the-last-laugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/a-frustrated-wilt-chamberlain-took-a-mid-game-swing-at-tom-heinsohn-who-got-the-last-laugh\/","title":{"rendered":"A Frustrated Wilt Chamberlain Took a Mid-Game Swing at Tom Heinsohn, Who Got the Last Laugh"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There's nobody in NBA history who could put up numbers like Wilt Chamberlain<\/a>. Michael Jordan, LeBron James, and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar weren't even close to Chamberlain when it came to stuffing the stat sheet. Boston Celtics<\/a> legend Bill Russell had plenty of battles with Chamberlain<\/a> and often used mind games when competing against him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Russell wasn't the only Celtics player to use that tactic. Hall of Famer Tom Heinsohn<\/a> also played some mind games with the Hall of Fame center, especially after Chamberlain took a swing at Heinsohn during a game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Wilt Chamberlain is the king of stats but only won two titles<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Wilt “The Stilt” Chamberlain, twice All-American at the University of Kansas, bedazzles Harlem Globetrotters' boss Abe Saperstein with his basketball palming technique. | Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

If Fantasy Basketball were around during the Chamberlain days, there's no doubt “Wilt the Stilt” would be the consensus No. 1 pick. For the first four years of his NBA career, Chamberlain led the league in both scoring and rebounding. As a rookie, he averaged 37.6 points and 27.0 rebounds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

His streak of leading the league in scoring reached seven seasons, highlighted by the 1961-62 season with the Philadelphia Warriors when he put up 50.4 points per game while averaging a league-high 48.5 minutes. How can someone average 48.5 minutes<\/a> when an NBA game is only 48 minutes, you ask? <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chamberlain played all but 8:33 of the entire season. He never fouled out of a game. Seven games that year went into overtime, accounting for the extra half-minute of his average per game. One game went into double overtime and another went three overtimes. Chamberlain led the league in rebounding 11 times. He was All-NBA 10 times and a four-time champion. Despite all the individual accolades, he finished with just two championships. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chamberlain had the reputation of getting lazy on the court, and the Celtics, led by Bill Russell and Tom Heinsohn, always found a way to take advantage.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

“Wilt was a force to be reckoned with, and he took an immediate dislike to me during his rookie year in the league,” Heinsohn once told Michael D. McClellan of Celtic Nation.<\/a> “He ripped off my jersey during one game in which we had a little altercation. We had a little play that we used to help us beat Philadelphia all the time because Wilt got a little lazy at times.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Chamberlain took a swing at Heinsohn during a game and got the worst of it<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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OTD (1961) Wilt Chamberlain almost had a 50\/50 game vs the Lakers:

56 Points
25\/46 Shooting
45 Rebounds
0 Assists
https:\/\/t.co\/AWI1gF60UY<\/a><\/p>— Ballislife.com (@Ballislife) January 21, 2023<\/a><\/blockquote>