This week's episode is about wilt chamberlain's most famous game, ve got the ballo. Chamberlain makes his first five shots and has 23 points at the end of the first quarter. At half time, he has forty one points. But then by the end of a third quarter, he has 69 points. And he keeps going and going and goinga hundred points,. The most anyone has ever scored in the professional basketball game. He shot brilliantly from the foul line. Twardewit 80, may 28 atetheres therty or 32. That's rickbarry speaking. I met him at his home in south carolina, where he lives part of the year so
Wilt Chamberlain’s brilliant career was marred by one, deeply inexplicable decision: He chose a shooting technique that made him one of the worst foul shooters in basketball—even though he had tried a better alternative. Why do smart people do dumb things?
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