Wilt Chamberlain

CTL-E-5907 · Person · other · 1936–1999

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Combined Graph record U-07152 · provenance: build store (JSON graph), record CTL-E-5907.

Wilt Chamberlain, born Wilton Norman Chamberlain on 21 August 1936 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, was an American center whose records still define basketball's outer limits. A star at Philadelphia's Overbrook High School and at the University of Kansas, where he reached the 1957 NCAA final, he spent a season with the Harlem Globetrotters before joining the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959 and winning both Rookie of the Year and Most Valuable Player in his first season. On 2 March 1962 he scored 100 points in a single game, a record that still stands, and that season he averaged 50.4 points per game. He is the only player to average at least 30 points and 20 rebounds over an entire career, finishing with 31,419 points and an NBA-record 23,924 rebounds. Traded to the Philadelphia 76ers, he won his first championship in 1967, then moved to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1968, won a second title in 1972 and earned Finals MVP. A four-time league MVP and 13-time All-Star, he was enshrined in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1978. He died on 12 October 1999 in Los Angeles, California, at age 63.

The record

• Also known as: Wilton Norman Chamberlain, Wilt the Stilt, The Big Dipper

Notes

Staged 2026-10-16 under CTL-GOV-006 (Census Intake Wave 3 — 747 Program, Wave 9; 40-record packet). Gate A (2026-10-16): no Wilt Chamberlain entity in the live graph at 3,603 entities (exact / normalized / alias + token containment); ID CTL-E-5907 free. Supply: 747 Supply Ledger, Tier 3 — Famous Birthdays ABSENT census, readiness rank 1034 (Basketball Players list). The census supplied the NAME ONLY; no fact in this record is sourced to it (CTL-GOV-004). SCOPE GATE: PASS — Black American recording figure of the court — Philadelphia-born center; Lakers tenure (1968-1973) is the staged edge. Vital status: DECEASED — 12 October 1999, Los Angeles, California, age 63 (Penn State / Pennsylvania Center for the Book; Infoplease). Tribute treatment in the draft judgment. STATISTICS (sourced, dated): 31,419 career points (30.1 per game) and 23,924 rebounds (22.9 per game); the only 100-point game in NBA history (2 March 1962); seven scoring titles and eleven rebounding titles (Wikipedia) — accessed 2026-10-16. MEDIA: photo HELD (Library of Congress and Wikimedia Commons portraiture of Chamberlain from 1959-1973 press and game photography; a CTL-created graphic is the cleared alternative.); chart FILLED (charts/chart-ctl-e-5907-wilt-chamberlain.svg); video HELD (the Shorts Link Map catalog was checked by name and variants — no matching-entity CTL Short exists for this subject); audio HELD (no CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio). MEDIA LAYER (staged 2026-10-16; full per-asset PHOTO-001 records + embed specs in the packet's staged JSON, Drive packet folder): map = N/A (Person records carry no map slot under the media-layer rule; maps attach to places and institutions.) | visual_assets = HELD: | chart = FILLED (CTL-created SVG (black / deep red / gold) built only from this record's sourced facts) | video = HELD (No matching-entity CTL Short in the Shorts Link Map catalog (checked by name and variants), and no official/em) | audio = HELD (No CTL-owned or rights-cleared matching-entity audio at staging; the subject's own recordings/appearances are )

Relationships

• Harlem Globetrotters — played for
  Wilt Chamberlain began his professional career with the Harlem Globetrotters, signing a one-year contract after leaving the University of Kansas in 1958 and playing the 1958–59 season, including the team's historic 1959 tour of the Soviet Union, before joining the Philadelphia Warriors in 1959 — a season his existing graph record (CTL-E-5907) also documents.
• Los Angeles Lakers — played for
  Wilt Chamberlain was traded from Philadelphia to the Los Angeles Lakers in 1968 and played for the Lakers from 1968 to 1973, winning the 1972 championship and Finals MVP with the club.

Sources

• Pennsylvania Center for the Book (Penn State), "Wilt Chamberlain" — born 21 August 1936, Philadelphia; died 12 October 1999, Los Angeles; first player named MVP and Rookie of the Year in the same season; Kansas and the 1957 NCAA final — https://pabook.libraries.psu.edu/node/26487 (primary source · build store)
• Wikipedia, "Wilt Chamberlain" — 7 ft 1 in center; Warriors, 76ers and Lakers (1968-1973); 31,419 points (30.1 per game), 23,924 rebounds (22.9 per game); two championships (1967, 1972), four MVPs, 13 All-Star selections; Hall of Fame enshrinement in 1978 — https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain (build store)
• Infoplease, "Wilton Norman (Wilt) Chamberlain Biography" — 100-point game on 2 March 1962; 50.4 points per game in 1961-62; all-time rebounding leader; died of congestive heart failure in Bel Air, California, on 12 October — http://www.infoplease.com/biographies/deaths/1999/wilton-norman-wilt-chamberlain (build store)

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