Wilt Chamberlain

Basketball, Philadelphia, San Francisco and Los Angeles. Chamberlain set records that still stand, including 100 points in a game and 50.4 points a game over the 1961–62 season, yet his teams lost to Bill Russell's Boston Celtics in seven of their eight playoff series. The contrast between Chamberlain's individual numbers and Russell's eleven titles shaped decades of argument about what makes a great player, and the two were friends off the court.