The same could be said about his NBA career. Wilt Chamberlain unknowingly gave us the most interesting math problem ever posed. Naturally, readers worked out how many women Wilt Chamberlain needed to sleep with to reach 20, by the time his statement was published. Apparently, if Chamberlain started his count at the age of 15, he would have needed to sleep with 1. A freshman Wilt Chamberlain at the University of Kansas in Tom Fitzhugh says that Chamberlain had not started scoring when this photo was taken.
Source: thedelite. According to his close childhood friend Tom Fitzhugh , "I don't remember him having a date. He was probably a virgin when he left high school. Chamberlain loved owning records, more than even winning games. Source: twitter. However, for the most dominant basketball player ever, and one of the most dominant athletes in any sport ever , two championships feels low.
First of all, let's look at how Chamberlain came up with that number for his book. In his biography Wilt: Larger than Life, Robert Cherry quotes Chamberlain's friend Rod Roddewig as saying that he counted 23 women coming and going during a ten-day stay at Chamberlain's Honolulu penthouse.
Wilt used that 2. That's not exactly scientific. And is it realistic? A total of 20, women would mean that Chamberlain lost his virginity at age fifteen despite childhood friends opining that Chamberlain never had girlfriends in high school and then averaged 1. Every time he got sick, or got too tired on the road, or heaven forbid slept with the same woman two nights running, he would have to arrange 2. All without a single story ever getting out about an STD or a paternity suit.
At 7-foot-1, Chamberlain towered over the competition and dominated his opponents in every aspect. As a rookie, Chamberlain averaged As a rookie! Two seasons later, Chamberlain put together the most impressive statistical season in NBA history. Chamberlain scored Nowadays, the NBA world explodes when one player drops 50 points in a game. Chamberlain was doing it every night. He even scored points in a single game, the most in NBA history.
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