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Wilt Chamberlain comments about John Stockton

Kyoto

Kyoto

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I was just watching a bunch of old school basketball videos and I saw one that had Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Lanier giving an interview during the finals with Detroit and Lakers (1988/89?). The interview was actually pretty entertaining to watch, but if you fast forward to the 4:20 spot Wilt surprisingly comments about "Johhny Stockton" kind of out of the blue on national television.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEHdZkyQ04
 
Where in the Sam fritz is all the Gail Goodrich, AD, Bernard King, Pistole Pete, Spencer's "The Real" Haywood HOF mentions? You kids may not knot no Jazz is more than the statues.
 
Kyoto said:
I was just watching a bunch of old school basketball videos and I saw one that had Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Lanier giving an interview during the finals with Detroit and Lakers (1988/89?). The interview was actually pretty entertaining to watch, but if you fast forward to the 4:20 spot Wilt surprisingly comments about "Johhny Stockton" kind of out of the blue on national television.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEHdZkyQ04
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I've always said Stockton is the greatest pure pg of all time
 
Boris said:
Where in the Sam fritz is all the Gail Goodrich, AD, Bernard King, Pistole Pete, Spencer's "The Real" Haywood HOF mentions? You kids may not knot no Jazz is more than the statues.
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Without freakin' Gail Goodrich we could have had Stockton AND Magic Johnson. . .
 
Kyoto said:
but if you fast forward to the 4:20 spot Wilt surprisingly comments about "Johhny Stockton" kind of out of the blue on national television.
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The long time play-by-play guy for The Lakers, Chick Hearn, always referred to Stockton as "Johnny". I'm sure that's where he got it from.
 
framer said:
Without freakin' Gail Goodrich we could have had Stockton AND Magic Johnson. . .
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Maybe wilkins would have stayed with Utah also.

Magic Johnson
Dominique Wilkins
Thurl Bailey
Mark Eaton
John Stockton
Darrell Griffiths
ADrian Dantley

That is a potential team by 1985
 
That video brought back memories.

Back then, I was such a hopeless homer that I would watch the sports segment on Headline News, just to see if Karl got mentioned after he had another great game.
 
Yeah I remember when Chamberlain first rolled that out. He caught a lot of flack and derision from the black basketball community of the time. In retrospect, Wilt was ahead of his time in his ability to see things clearly without a skin color bias. And this was just an eye test, before Stock set the heretofore unbroken records for steals and assists. Things have gotten a lot better in that regard (objective assessments), which could have something to do with the ascendance of mixed race players like Curry and Griffin or mixed race relations in general. Obviously as a society we still have a ways to go in terms of race relations, but it's nothing like the segregation days (which Wilt lived through). Which makes his comments all the much more remarkable.
 
Kyoto said:
I was just watching a bunch of old school basketball videos and I saw one that had Wilt Chamberlain and Bob Lanier giving an interview during the finals with Detroit and Lakers (1988/89?). The interview was actually pretty entertaining to watch, but if you fast forward to the 4:20 spot Wilt surprisingly comments about "Johhny Stockton" kind of out of the blue on national television.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=adEHdZkyQ04
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Nice find. I remember watching this live when I was a kid. The most impressive thing about it is that Wilt made this comment when Stockton was relatively a "nobody" in the NBA at that time. It was his first season where he was playing major minutes (not playing as Ricky Green's backup). It's not like Wilt said this after Stock established himself as perenial all-star, all-NBA player...

Wilt was probably thinking..."****, if the guy was my point guard during my prime, I would've AVERAGED 100 points per game".
 
akirac73 said:
Nice find. I remember watching this live when I was a kid. The most impressive thing about it is that Wilt made this comment when Stockton was relatively a "nobody" in the NBA at that time. It was his first season where he was playing major minutes (not playing as Ricky Green's backup). It's not like Wilt said this after Stock established himself as perenial all-star, all-NBA player...

Wilt was probably thinking..."****, if the guy was my point guard during my prime, I would've AVERAGED 100 points per game".
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Thanks man, I was kind of shocked when I stumbled across it too haha.
 
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