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After a visit to Madison Square Garden to meet with the Knicks' front office, he went out to the elevator and bumped into two deliverymen who were struggling with a giant dolly that was covered in boxes. Rather than make the two men deal with their problem alone, Chamberlain supposedly said, "Gentlemen, maybe I can help." Then he picked up the payload, lifted it out of the elevator, and went on with his business. When a witness at the office asked them how much the package weighed, the men noted that it was "close to 600 pounds."
According to Chamberlain's sister Barbara, the former NBA star was known to run across the roofs of Los Angeles on the hunt for a swimming pool in which he could soak his hulking frame. “He would jump off the roof on top of the garage, or jump from one barn across to another. He had no fear. When we lived in California, he had the highest apartment in the building he built. He would jump off that building and go into the pool.
Chamberlain stated that he was driving through Arizona one night after a game when he pulled over to stop for something. He said while he was stopped, a mountain lion pounced on his back and began to attack him. He said “I grabbed it by the tail, and flung it into the bushes”. Wilt also said he managed to kill the Lion saying, “I killed him with my bare hands”.
In an article written by the New York Times, former New York Knicks commentator/Announcer Cal Ramsey was asked about the incident. Here’s what he had to say…
“Well, I wasn’t there, but Wilt says it happened, and i’m not about to say it didn’t. Besides, he showed me these huge scratch marks on one shoulder. I don’t know any other way he could have got them”
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