More memories of ‘The Stilt’
The NBA was an eight-team league with a 75-game regular season schedule in 1959-60. Wilt Chamberlain, advertised then as 7-2, was a rookie with the Philadelphia Warriors who became that season’s MVP and Rookie of the Year. The Lakers were in their final season in Minneapolis before announcing a move to Los Angeles in April 1960. The Warriors and the Lakers played nine games that season, with only two of those games in the Twin Cities. The Lakers won both of those, and lost the other seven to Wilt and the Warriors.