Lou Williams doubts prolific Wilt Chamberlain stats

Wilt Chamberlain is one of the most prolific players in NBA history. But former NBA player and current co-host of Run it Back on FanDuel Lou Williams is skeptical about just how prolific Chamberlain was.

Williams doubts one of Chamberlain’s most famous stats in basketball and another non-basketball stat.

Calling him a “conspiracy theorist,” co-host Michelle Beadle said that Williams “Does not believe in the Wilt Chamberlain 100-point game.”

Williams took it from there.

“It’s two Wilt stats I want to take to the competition committee and we gotta audit the files. It’s two stats he got in his life that I want some proof of. One’s basketball related and one’s not basketball related,” Williams said.

After being asked what non-basketball stat he was talking about, Williams explained.

“Listen, Wilt didn’t get close to 25,000 nothing outside of points and rebounds,” Williams said. “I’m gonna leave it there.”

Lou Williams is a Wilt Chamberlain skeptic.

“Listen, Wilt didn’t get close to 25,000 nothing outside of points and rebounds. I’m gonna leave it there.”

He also doesn’t believe Wilt got 100 points in a game.pic.twitter.com/Bd3Fx0ucfz

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To be fair, in 1991 his book, A View from Above, Chamberlain claimed that he slept with 20,000 women, not 25,000. Williams is far from the only person to question that number.

Chamberlain’s 100-point game, which he achieved on March 2, 1962, is a different story. More than 60 years later, Chamberlain’s 100 points is still the single-game record. It’s never been seriously approached, as Kobe Bryant’s 81-point game in 2006 is No. 2 on the list. Despite that, Chamberlain’s record has generally been accepted by basketball fans.

Due to the lack of surviving video, it will be tough to audit either stat that Williams doubts.

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