The stories about Wilt Chamberlain are insane. He had a 50” vertical, could bench press 500 lbs. according to Arnold Schwarzenegger and in college, in addition to basketball, competed in gymnastics (the rings) and track and field where he high jumped 6 feet, 6 inches, ran the 440 yards in 49.0 seconds, the 880 yards in 1:58.3, got 53 feet, 4 inches in the shot put, and long jumped 22 feet.
He is also one of the very few who blocked a sky hook by Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and, when he retired from basketball, started playing professional volleyball.
Recency bias suggests that he could not have competed in today’s game, that Shaquille O’Neal would have killed him, blah, blah, blah.