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The End of a Basketball Legend
LOS A N G ELES- Wilt Chamber-
lain, one o f the m ost dominant play
ers in the history o f basketball and
the only one to score 100 points in an
NBA game, died Tuesday at 63.
Cham berlain’s body was found by
authorities who w ere called to his
Bel-A ir home shortly after noon PT,
said John Black, a Los Angeles Lak
ers spokesman.
A fire departm ent spokesman, Jim
W ells, said there w ere signs C ham
berlain might have had a heart attack.
Cham berlain was hospitalized with
an irregular heart beat in 1992.
Known as “W ilt the Stilt’ ’ and “The
Big D ipper,” the 7-foot-l Chamber-
lain dom inated the NBA from 1959
through 1973, w hen he played for the
Philadelphia (later the San Francisco)
W arriors, the 76ers and the Lakers.
He scored 31,419 points during
his career, a record until Kareem
Abdul-Jabbar broke it in 1984.C ham
berlain, w ho never fouled out in a
1,205 regular-season and p la y o ff
gam es, holds the record for career
rebounding with 23,924.
“ W ilt was one o f the greatest ever,
and w e will never see another one
like him ,” Abdul-Jabbar said.
Cham berlain, who began his pro
fessional career w ith the H arlem
G lobetrotters in 1958, was one o f
only two men to win the M VP and
rookie o f the year awards in the same
season (1959). H e was also M VP in
1966 through 1968. He led the N BA
in scoring seven straight seasons,
1960-66, and led the league in re
bounding 11 o f his 14 seasons.
O ne o f his most famous records is
the 100 points he scored in a single
game in the Philadelphia W arriors’
169-147 defeat o f the N ew York
K nicksonM arch2,1962,inH ershey,
Pa.
In the 1961-62 season with Phila
delphia, he averaged a record 50.4
points a game, and averaged 30.1 for
his career. H e also was one o f the
m ost versatile big men ever, leading
the league in assists with 702 in 1967-
68.
Cham berlain led his team into the
playoffs 13 times, winning two world
cham pionships. The first cam e in
1966-67 with the Philadelphia 76ers,
the second in 1971-72 with the Los
Angeles Lakers.
His teams lost in the final four
other times and were beaten in the
conference final six times.
Bill Russell and the Boston C eltics’
alm ost always seemed to be the nem
esis o f Cham berlain-led teams, b eat-'
ing them twice in the cham pionship'
series and five times in the confer
ence finals. Three times, a series was
decided by a seventh gam e that Bos
ton w on by either one or two points.
Extremely agile for his size, Cham
berlain ran cross-country in high
school in Philadelphia and was an
outstanding high jumper and shot-putter
at the University o f Kansas. He had
remained active since his NBA career
ended and was considered an outstand
ing volleyball player. He also ran in the
Honolulu marathon recently and com
peted in a 50-mile race in
Canada
A lifelong bachelor,
Chamberlain made news
after his basketball ca
reer by claiming in an au
tobiography that he had
m ade love to 20,000
women.
“The women who I
have been the most at
tracted to, the most in
love with. I’ve pushed
aw ay th e stro n g est,”
Chamberlain said in a
1991 interview with The
Associated Press. “There
are about five women I
can think o f I could have
married. I cared for them
a lot, but not enough to
make a commitment. ’ ’ In
January 1998, Chamber-
lain made his first offi
cial visit to Kansas since
his abbreviated college
career ended in 1958. His jersey was
raised to the rafters o f Allen Fieldhouse,
where Cham berlain starred for the
Jayhawks. He led the 1957 team to the
NCAA tournament finals, where Kan
sas lost to unbeaten North Carolina in
triple overtime.
“I’ve learned in life that you have to
take the bitter with the sweet, and how
sweet this is,’ ’ Chamberlain said at the
ceremony.
He seemed genuinely surprised at
how much he was loved by the rabid
Kansas fans, especially after staying
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“Forty years ago I lost a heartbreak
ing battle, losing to North Carolina by
one point in triple overtime,” he told
the crowd, referring to the NCAA title
game his sophomore season in 1957.
“It was a devastating thing for me be
cause I felt like I let the university
down, I let KU down. ’ ’
The crowd interrupted, yelling, “No,
no,’ ’ before resuming another standing
ovation. His huge hand brushed his
cheek as he paused again, drow ned
out by m ore applause.
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“T he w eight o f the w orld was on
m y shoulders,” said the 129-pound
M acG regor. “ I hope I’ve done good
for boxing.”
A sked w hat she thinks she proved,
she responded: “Just that I ’m a w in
ner.”
Chow, w ho weighed 128 and wore
a w elt on his forehead, answ ered the
same question w ith a cryptic sm ile
and a hollow boast, saying, “It proves
a w om an cannot hurt a m an.”
M acG regor certainly show ed she
had the m oxie to stand up to a man,
even w ith a dozen television cam
eras and reporters from around the
w orld recording every move. She
flicked light jab s, landed a few com
binations to the head and body,
slipped o r blocked punches nicely,
and generally com ported h erself in
1999 Mqjor League
Baseball Calendar
October 12 — National League Championship Series -
Game One
“14 Slinky Hair
(Boston/Cleveland at New York Yankees)
October 23 — World Series begins,
city ofNational League champion
October-November — Free agent filing, 15 days following
end of World Series
December 7— Last day for teams to offer salary arbitration
to their former players who became free agents
December 10-14 — Winter meetings, Anaheim, California
December 19 — Last day for free agents offered salary
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C h o w (0 -3 ) in sisted he w a sn ’t
afraid . A n x io u s, p erh ap s. O v e r
w helm ed by the o ccasio n , p ro b
ably. W h atev er it w as, he said he
to o k som e m ed icin e to bring dow n
his b lo o d p ressu re, relax ed a bit,
and passed the d o c to r’s second test.
W hen C how en tered the rin g , he
held his red gloves high and con
torted his face in the fiercest expres
sion he could summ on - a cross b e
tw een a grimace and a frown. It was as
bad as he would get all night.
T he sellout crow d o f 2,768 at
M e rc e r A re n a , w h ic h p a id
$75,705 for the second largest
boxing gross in N orthwest his
tory, cheered Chow, from nearby
Vancouver, British Columbia, with
a blend o f respect and pity. Here,
they all knew, was a man who
co uldn’t win even if he won. If he
defeated M acGregor, he w ould
be taunted as a w oman beater. Ifhe
lost, he would be ridiculed as a
w im p. As C how , him self, d e
scribed it, he was in a “lose-lose
situation.”
a m anner befitting a m iddle-aged
fighter w ith a 4-0 record. In other
w ords, she d id n ’t stink up the joint.
C how , on the other hand, did.
T he ju m p y little jo ck ey - h e ’s
listed as 5-foot-2 but barely cam e
up to the 5-4 M acG regor’s chin -
bounced around the ring as if he
w ere looking for an exit. H e d id n ’t
fight so m uch as cover up. T he few
looping punches he threw seem ed
designed for effect rather than dam
age, as if he learned his new trade by
w atching o ld W esterns.
W hen the ju d g e s’ cards were an
nounced - each scored it 40-36 for
M acG regor - and C how fled w ith a
final w ave, th e cro w d show ered
him w ith boos.
C h o w h ad an ex cu se, though:
H is b lo o d p ressu re zo o m ed to 185
o v er 1 1 5 a few hours b efo re the
bout.
“ I d id n ’t feel rig h t,” C h o w said.
“ H e lo o k e d scared o u t o f his
w its,” said B ob Jarvis, a form er
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I f n o th in g e ls e , M a c G re g o r
proved Saturday n ight that a w om an
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