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Wilt Chamberlain never married or had any children and so parents and siblings are his only family. He was born to William Chamberlain and Olivia Ruth Johnson. He had four sisters and two brothers.
"People came to see him play" - Oscar Robertson once explained how Wilt Chamberlain ‘saved the NBA’ originally appeared on ...
Our Take: There wasn’t a playbook for a life like Wilt Chamberlain’s. As a child, he towered over his classmates, his incredible height a source of embarrassment rather than pride.
Jun. 5—Barbara Lewis, sister of the late Wilt Chamberlain, ... He said he was very close to his uncle, who had no children, and that the Big Dipper treated him "like a son." ...
Sonny Hill recalls a time when he and his childhood friend, Wilt Chamberlain, would go to the movies to watch newsreels where the Harlem Globetrotters often appeared. Seeing players like Reece ...
New documentaries explore the star-crossed careers and delicate spirits of Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Walton, two of basketball’s greatest. By Mike Hale Pity the poor 7-footer. That’s the ...
Ford and Dillon’s film tracks Chamberlain’s life from his time as one of 11 children growing up financially strained in Philadelphia, focusing on his youthful stutter and extravagant height.