100 Points and 20,000 Women
On the 35th anniversary of Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points a game, it is only right that we give him a shout out. To some the 100 points may not be his greatest achievement. Some may say that it falls far short of the 20,000 women that he claimed to have slept with. Either one still has an aura of maginificence for me.
First let us start with the 20,000 women. If he slept with one woman a night, it would take 54.79 years. So automatically, you have to think that this guy was handling two women a day at least. The thing that always got me about this, was I am sure that he slept with some of these women more than once. The man must have done nothing but play basketball, hit that booty and star in Conan movies. No wonder he died of a heart attack.
Then there is the 100 points. The first challenge in getting 100 points is having your teammates pass you the ball enough times to make that many shots. It would take at least 50 shots, if he made them all. Kobe Bryant, today version of a shot hog, gets 25 to 35 shots a night. Even if he made all his shots, that would only be 70 points at the most. We do have to consider free throws. Usually a guy like Kobe gets at the most half as many free throws as he takes shots. So then the most he could put up is 87. Mind you that is if he was perfect from the field and the free throw line. Then there are defenses. Back in the day, there was not the double-teams, triple-teams and quadruple-teams that we see nowadays. It was mano a mano. Wilt was dominant against whoever he was playing against, except Bill Russell. Defenses today won't give any one guy 50 shots at the basket, unless he missed the first 49.
All the more reason to give a big shout to the Big Dipper.