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Tarzanrock

(686 posts)
9. But for sportswriter bias and hatred of Goliath ...
Sun Oct 13, 2024, 07:49 PM
Oct 2024

... Wilt Chamberlain deserved to win the National Basketball League's MVP award and the subsequent NBA MVP award in each of those 10 seasons, from 1959 through 1969. Most fantastic superstars in the sport world put together 3 or 4 truly great seasons in their respective sports where they dominate the other players -- Wilt Chamberlain did it for more than 10 years where no one was ever even close to the stratospheric accomplishments he had in professional basketball and that was before he was traded to the Lakers where (even after his debilitating knee injuries) he still utterly dominated the game of professional basketball. Think back and remember that playoff game with the Milwaukee Bucks, when Chamberlain, then an old man in basketball years and hobbling on his bad arthritic knees, still blocked Lew Alcindor's famous shot a whopping six (6) times in that playoff game and the Milwaukee home crowd gave Wilt a long standing ovation for his marvelous defensive play.

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Disagree on the big Aviation Pro Oct 2024 #1
Arvydas Sabonis underpants Oct 2024 #5
thing about wilt Mosby Oct 2024 #11
He played against Kareem Aviation Pro Oct 2024 #13
Head to head stats. Mosby Oct 2024 #14
I'm a Larry Bird guy. LuvLoogie Oct 2024 #2
Big has to be Bill Russell or Kareem NewHendoLib Oct 2024 #3
So it begins. Magic was the best point guard. Period. underpants Oct 2024 #4
Magic wasn't a point guard Mosby Oct 2024 #12
That's some recency bias. LisaM Oct 2024 #6
Recency bias there... JT45242 Oct 2024 #7
Larry Bird said "Look at the record book." Tarzanrock Oct 2024 #8
It's Ridiculous, Isn't It? ProfessorGAC Oct 2024 #10
But for sportswriter bias and hatred of Goliath ... Tarzanrock Oct 2024 #9
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