Wilt Chamberlain explains why he's better than Michael Jordan

He asked Michael Jordan a few months ago, he said, Michael, now don't be, you know, shy and don't be this and don't be that. Are you the best basketball player to ever play? And Michael said, yes, I am. Michael Jordan and you, for a while, went back and forth. He's at a different level of celebrity, isn't he? Only because of the different kinds of media exposure that he's been given. If the two of you were in a room together, where do you think your Well, well, you know, first, you know, we're at the NBA's all time team celebration, Cleveland, 1997. And over in the corner is Wilton and Michael Jordan. And they're sitting at a table arguing vociferously as to who the greatest player of all time was. And they're really looking for it. And just it just intense as can be. It doesn't steam you that Michael Jordan gets paid so much. And you were 10 times the player he is. And you never got that kind of big money. Do you ever say to yourself, am I better than do you consider yourself? Yeah, is he better than you were? It bothers you when people talk about him as being the greatest player of all time. Well, it bothers me because we all have our opinions. And I don't think that, you know, commensurate with what he's doing, what he's done, and that and how the game is going today, that he he's better than a number of people. I contend Michael Jordan is the greatest basketball player who ever lived. I would put you number two only because you only won two championships. Now people are going to say, well, you know what, he had a lot of stats and this and that. You won two world championships. Okay. I have a friend of mine who I talked to about once a week. You know what he says about Michael's four championships? He doesn't say anything about it. Because he has 11. I don't think, you know, you can predicate how great a guy really is or because he has championships and a lot of guys on those championship teams who've done nothing. The greatest scorer of all time? Not even, would you even give him that? Well, you know, you see what people don't remember was that my 47 years, I scored a lot of points. Then I stopped scoring on my own volition. I tried to do other things. I was asked to do other things. And that's what I did. So if I had continued to score, I would probably be averaging 40 points for my whole, my whole lifetime. Does that make me the best scorer? I really don't know. But one thing I do know that all the years while I was usually scoring all those points, I was leading the league in percentile street. And that's also important because if you take all the shots, then you should be making the highest percentage. So when they compare me with Michael, Michael's averaging 31 points for his lifetime. I average about 30 points for a lifetime, but I stopped scoring. I know that basketball is a team game, right? And you've already made Michael number one. But if you had to have Will against Michael, my prime and his prime, how much money would you be willing to bet? He's six foot seven and he's like 197 pounds. Coming into what we call our domain, the pyramid for us big guys, would not have been very wise of Michael, you know, if he was playing during our time. So we would say, Michael, you know, as long as you do all those fancy things outside of where we are, that's fine. You think you could have beaten Michael in your prime? He would take you outside. He shoots on the three point arc. Then you try to come on, get him. He's right. He dribble around. I run a hundred, nine, five hundred meters around ten, ten, two, and then in that area, 52 vertical, a 50 inch vertical jump. By the way, what's what's Michael Jordan's vertical jump? Do we know? I don't think it's quite that high. Not as high. Michael would probably be going, wait a minute, 600 pounds, 600 pounds. You think he'd have been crushed is what you're saying? I don't think I know you've been crushed. So it wouldn't, it wouldn't have been good for Michael. I came into the NBA and destroyed it. My tools were so dominant that they frightened people. You were Jordan before Jordan. Yes. Yeah. Well, you know, I don't even like to say Jordan before Jordan because Jordan, you know, Jordan's come behind a whole lot of us as far as I'm concerned. Wilt, who always has the last word in everything. Wilt, look down at Michael and say, Michael, until you are so great that they start changing the game to stop your greatness, then I don't think you have a right to make that accolades in that particular way.