Wilt Chamberlain
Chronology
| 1936 | Born August 21 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to William and Olivia Chamberlain |
| 1955 | Finishes high school career with a total of 2,252 points scored in four years, joins the University of Kansas Jayhawks freshman team |
| 1957 | Leads Kansas in the NCAA championships against North Carolina, and earns the title of MVP for the tournament |
| 1958 | Leaves Kansas in his junior year, and begins a season with the Harlem Globetrotters, earning a then-unheard of $50,000 a year |
| 1959 | Begins his professional career with the Philadelphia Warriors |
| 1960 | Engages in the first of eight different NBA championship playoffs against Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics |
| 1961 | Begins the season in which he becomes the only player in NBA history to score more than 4,000 points in a single season |
| 1962 | Scores 100 points, setting an NBA record for the most points by a single player in a single game, against the New York Knicks on March 2 |
| 1962 | Moves with the Warriors to San Francisco |
| 1965 | Two days after the NBA All-Star Game, is traded to the new Philadelphia 76ers |
| 1966 | Leads the Sixers to the best record in the league (55-25) |
| 1967 | Capping off a year in which the Philadelphia 76ers set a new league record with a 68-13 season, leads the team to victory over Boston in division finals, and over the San Francisco Warriors in the championships |
| 1968 | Traded to Los Angeles Lakers |
| 1972 | Leads the Lakers to a season record better than that of Philadelphia in 1966-67 (69-13), and to the second of two NBA championship victories, against the Knicks |
| 1973 | Retires with what were then all-time records for total points scored (31,419) and average points per game (30.1), as well as number of rebounds (23,924) and average rebounds per game (22.9) |
| 1991 | Publishes second autobiography, A View from Above, containing controversial boast of 20,000 sexual conquests |
| 1999 | Dies of heart attack in his sleep at his home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles on October 12 |
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