Wilt Chamberlain (1936-99) was considered one of the world's all-time greatest professional basketball players. Wilt Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia and was one of nine children. His father lived in a racially-mixed middle class neighborhood, and...

On the basketball court, Wilt Chamberlain was one of the most dominating players of his day. His intimidating stature (7' 1" and 265 pounds) and his ability to score at will made him one of professional basketball's most popular...

Wilton Norman "Wilt" Chamberlain (August 21, 1936–October 12, 1999), nicknamed Wilt the Stilt and The Big Dipper, was an American professional National Basketball Association (NBA) basketball player for the Philadelphia / San Francisco Warriors,...

FEW YOUNG basketball fans know it, but there was a time when the rules of the game allowed an in-bounds pass to be thrown over the top of the backboard. That ended in the late 1950s, when a player named Wilt Chamberlain came to...

SOME SPORTS records last. Others don't. Almost never though does the prowess of a single player force a sport to change its rules. And that perhaps, more even than the dozens of times his name crops up in the statistical annals of the National...

Vince Carter put on a long-range show and set a New Jersey Nets' single-game record with nine 3-pointers in a 105-92 victory over the struggling Memphis Grizzlies on Monday night.Carter finished with 37 points and Jason Kidd moved into sole possession of third place ahead...

Kobe Bryant scored 50 points and the Los Angeles Lakers beat the Seattle SuperSonics 109-98 to clinch a playoff berth Sunday night.The Lakers, who have one regular-season game remaining, at Sacramento on Wednesday night, will finish seventh or eighth in the Western Conference and face...