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Originally Posted by kflo
point being, there's alot of different versions of much of what wilt did / didn't do. and it all gets repeated back and forth. and wilt's insecurity was such that he fueled every exaggeration.
and claims of a 48-50 inch vertical are ridiculous. you draw nothing from ridiculous claims. you dismiss them. 48-50 would place him possibly as the greatest leaper in nba history, at any height.
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You're right kflo, Wilt's the king of exaggeration. I don't believe he had a 48" vertical, although he's not the only one to state it. It sounds more like his 1.2 women per day numbers. I do believe it was around the 40" mark though. I don't see how that's so insane. Dwight Howard's vertical as it stands now is somewhere around 38". Not impossible by far.
About the 12' baskets, from the very site that you got your information: "To make a point, Phog Allen once set up 12-foot goals in old Robinson Gym, where KU practiced, but they were never used in Hoch Auditorium where this game is being played." I find it hard to believe that, seeing as they were set up, Wilt wasn't dunking on them. Do you seriously believe that these baskets were set up, but nobody was ever playing around on them?
His arms are freakishly long in the pictures from that site. They're also seriously skinny.