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You Tube Gold: The Incredible Strength Of Wilt Chamberlain

When you talk about legendary athletes, myth inevitably enters the conversation. We’ve talked a bit about Wilt Chamberlain, largely because a lot of people now question whether he could play today.

We point out that he was 7-1 and had sprinter’s speed and a 50” vertical and in our book, that means you can play in any era.

He had one other phenomenal quality too though and that was his strength.

In these two videos you see a number of stories, but most of them are by people who were involved.

So you see Red Kerr saying Wilt dunked so hard that he broke Kerr’s toe - with the ball.