Wilt Chamberlain on his expected average of points per game…
One of the most effective scorers in NBA history was Wilt Chamberlain. A record-setting 100 points he scored in a single game may never be topped. Some people make assumptions about how he would perform in a different period given his reputation as a monster scorer. Chamberlain gave his own prediction, and he was reasonably optimistic about his performance.
When Chamberlain sat down with Ahmad Rashad and Bill Russell in 1997, he was approximately sixty years old. The three discussed everything and anything related to basketball. They wondered, of course, what it would be like if Chamberlain had been a player in the late nineties.
Chamberlain had not exaggerated this point wildly. He scored 50.4 points a game on average for the Philadelphia Warriors (now the Golden State Warriors) in the 1961–1962 NBA season. He scored 44.8 points per game on average the next season.
In the 90s, big men like Hakeem Olajuwon, Shaquille O’Neal, David Robinson, and Patrick Ewing were at the center of his team’s attack. Chamberlain recognized, that if he played under a far more advanced offensive plan, then he would’ve wrecked greater devastation on his adversaries.
In the end, it is impossible to predict how Chamberlain would have performed in the 1990s or even now. We can only speculate as to his potential as a player and whether or not he will mesh well with the current style of basketball.
Videos appear to show that he was not your usual huge man—he was not heavy and stiff. He appeared to be tempted at moments to raise the ball himself. It is simple to picture Chamberlain performing in a Giannis Antetokounmpo fashion.
Although he is most known for making baskets, statistics and video highlights show that he was also a superb playmaker. Throughout his career, Wilt the Stilt actually averaged up to 8.6 assists. We may compare these abilities and numbers to those of Nikola Jokic, who is currently regarded as the greatest passing center in NBA history.
