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Wilt Chamberlain is the 7’1, 275 Pound Center of the NBA from 1960-1973. He was born into a large middle-class family on August 21st, 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. At birth, Wilt was 9 inches longer then the national average and it seemed that he was destined to reach great heights. People would always bug him about his height. Sometimes if he was in a good mood, he’d joke around with it. It’s funny how gullible some people are. And people always ask if he played basketball. “What else can a group of tall black guys walking around the streets be doing?” He says. Besides being a basketball star, he was also a track star. When he went to Kansas University, he excelled in track before he excelled in Basketball. Wilt Chamberlain loves joking around. People don’t call him Wilt, his friends and family starte