000 women. When criticized about this claim Chamberlainsaid, "I was just doing what was natural—chasing good-looking ladies, whoever they were and wherever they were available." We can't be mad at that. So, in honor of the legend and the playboy lifestyle he led, here's agallery of ...
The personal life of former NBA star Wilt Chamberlain has drawn scrutiny and interest, especially in light of Chamberlain's claim to have slept with over 20,000 women in his lifetime.Wilt Chamberlain was the first big earner of professional basketball: his 1959 $30,000 rookie contract was $...
After retiring from basketball, Chamberlain became an active booster for the sport of volleyball and went into business backing restaurants and other investments. A lifelong bachelor, Chamberlain made headlines in the early 1990s for his claim that he’d had more than 20,000 women sex partners.Ext...
The women loved Wilt, of course. As preposterous as his claim of 20,000 female conquests sounds, his mammoth appetites in those days -- for points, food and women--made almost anything seem attainable. The thing is, we Kansans can't avoid having intimate relations, literal and otherwise,...
actually lived in the city and commuted to Philadelphia while playing for the Sixers (he also owned a club in the Harlem called Big Wilt’s Smalls Paradise). He had a fondness for the ladies and made the audacious claim that he had slept with more than 20,000 women during his lifetime...
the NBA decided his professional future. In an unprecedented move, the league allowed the Warriors to claim him as a territorial pick. The logic was he was a resident of Philadelphia. (Until then, territorial picks were devoted solely to college players.) Chamberlain would be eligible to play...
33. A Very Bold Claim As a lifelong bachelor and infamous ladies man, Chamberlain became well known for a particular off-court statistic. In his 1991 autobiography, A View From Above, Chamberlain made the startling claim that he had had sexual relations with 20,000 women. Chamberlain’s claim...
But it was the claim that he had slept with twenty thousand women that landed him in the celebrity spotlight and in the public hot seat. Reflecting upon this claim, Chamberlain regretted the way he discussed sex in the book and became a champion of safe sex. In 1997 Chamberlain published ...