Gentle giants; celebrity big men with soft hearts

Gentle giants; celebrity big men with soft hearts

Wilt Chamberlain:

Wilt “the Stilt” always bemoaned that “no one ever roots for Goliath.” Being a 7-foot black man in the 1960s was not an enviable position to be in and Chamberlain overcompensated for his height by being extra nice to people and never dominating consistently on the court the way he could have.

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