There are five status levels to complete before gamers are playing with the likes of Dr J, Wilt Chamberlain and Larry Bird.
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North Carolina beat Wilt Chamberlain's Kansas for an unbeaten season in 1957.
Johnny Unitas, Mickey Mantle and Wilt Chamberlain were acknowledged as iconic sports figures, but the country still had its priorities fixed where they counted most.
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Five players on the court that day are now in the Hall of Fame: Wilt Chamberlain, Rick Barry, Billy Cunningham, Nate Thurmond and Hal Greer.
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A. legends like Wilt Chamberlain, and gorge on all-you-can-eat kosher cuisine.
Over the course of his career, Mr. Bloom has owned the Los Angeles Sharks hockey team and the San Diego Conquistadors basketball team with Wilt Chamberlain.
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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) Kobe Bryant passed Wilt Chamberlain for fourth place on the NBA's scoring list, then put on one of the best passing performances of his storied career.
Durant is leading the league with 28.2 points per game as he tries to join Wilt Chamberlain and Michael Jordan as the only players to win four straight scoring titles.
Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in the era of Bill Russell is different from Chamberlain having a 100-point game in the era of Patrick Ewing, David Robinson and Shaquille O'Neal.
In basketball lore the greatest offensive player was Wilt Chamberlain who averaged an astounding 50.4 points a game one year, but the defensive-minded Boston Celtics won 11 championships in 13 years.
The shopping mall, located in a growing entertainment district that draws an estimated 10 million visitors annually, has fountains, outdoor fireplaces and walking tours highlighting legends such as basketball great Wilt Chamberlain.
Jerry West, Wilt Chamberlain and Goodrich were a Big Three to rival what Miami has, the core of a team that racked up routs on the way to an NBA-record 33 straight victories.
Their numbers and their performances are so out of kilter with what the game is used to that they are the soccer equivalent of Wilt Chamberlain and Wayne Gretzky players whose domination of the sport is so thorough that it's difficult to digest.
Kobe Bryant became the youngest player to reach 30, 000 points in an NBA career on Wednesday night, though it took him more games played to reach this feat compared to the other 4 men over the 30, 000 benchmark (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Karl Malone, Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlain).
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Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), Michael Jordan (five), Bill Russell (five) and Wilt Chamberlain (four) have as many MVP awards, only Russell won four in a five-year span, and only Abdul-Jabbar went back-to-back twice, like James did with trophies in 2009 and 2010 and now again in 2012 and 2013.
Neiman "has the journalistic talent, as well as the artistic ability, to convey the essence of a game or contestant with great impact, from the Kentucky Derby to Wilt Chamberlain, from the America's Cup to Muhammad Ali, from the Super Bowl to Bobby Hull, " sports writer Nick Seitz said.
In this recent Jordan re-appreciation, sports fans did what sports fans do, which was argue about where Jordan ranks among the all-time best, and in a lot of those conversations Michael Jordan was fixed at No. 1, ahead of legendary names like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell and Magic and Larry.
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