Unforeseen circumstances often pave the way to greatness — and in Wilt Chamberlain's case, they helped shape the very fabric of basketball history. As detailed in Robert Cherry's acclaimed biography ...

“The Basketball 100” is the definitive ranking of the 100 greatest NBA players of all time from The Athletic’s team of award-winning writers and analysts, including veteran columnists David Aldridge ...

Wilt Chamberlain’s 100-point game was not just a scoring explosion but a bizarre night of missed sleep, a tiny crowd, no television cameras, and a league still fighting to matter. As the points piled ...

Wilt Chamberlain was a polarizing athlete for the better part of three decades, from his days at West Philly's Overbrook High School in the mid-1950s to his NBA retirement in 1973, and is renowned ...

The stories about Wilt Chamberlain always seem larger-than-life. He once scored 100 points in a NBA game? And pulled down 55 rebounds in another? Yup, those are in the record books. Did he really play ...

Every sport has strong discussions about who is the Greatest Of All Time. In hockey, you can make the argument that it’s Wayne Gretzky, Gordie Howe or Mario Lemieux. What about the man who had the ...

This puts Victor Wembanyama in a tough spot.

PHILADELPHIA — Olin Chamberlain will have the Oklahoma City Thunder game on TV and his phone nearby, just as he does any time one of his uncle’s NBA records is getting challenged. The family group ...

New documentaries explore the star-crossed careers and delicate spirits of Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Walton, two of basketball’s greatest. By Mike Hale The Lakers star broke Kareem Abdul-Jabbar’s ...

The old saying goes something like this: The thrill of the chase exceeds the satisfaction when the treasure hunt is over. Such is this corner’s near five-year long journey to amass what many will see ...

It is far easier to argue with the construction of this documentary series, and whether Chamberlain is a household name anymore, except among basketball fans. Directors Rob Ford and Christopher Dillon ...