#1: Wilt Chamberlain
Resume: 2 X NBA Champion, 4 X NBA MVP, 13 X NBA All-Star, 7 X All-NBA First Team, 3 X All-NBA Second Team
The most dominant player of all time. Maybe in all of sports.
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No single individual has touched the numbers Wilt ever did. Forget about touching, they have not even come close.
Whether it is dropping 100 points or grabbing 55 rebounds in a single game, Wilt has all of them covered. In the 1961-62 season, the great man averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds for a whole season. That is not a typo, you read that correctly.
The leader for the most points scored in a single season belongs to Wilt when he totaled a staggering 4,029 points in the aforementioned season. Number 2 on that list? Wilt the Stilt with 3,586 points in the 1962-63 season.
He also has the most 50 points game in the season when he accumulated 45 of them in the 1961-62 season. No other player has 45 in their entire career.
And he was a rebounding machine too, with career averages of 22.9 rebounds per game, the highest in league history and a career total of 23,924 rebounds, also an NBA record. Not only that, he also has the most number of seasons with 1000 rebounds or more, with 13.
We can go on and on, but the point is simple: the history of the game has never seen someone dominating the game with utter ease. Eye-popping and jaw-dropping numbers. A true giant of the game. Records that make him sound like a myth.
For such reasons and many more: Wilt Chamberlain is the most dominant player in the history of the NBA.
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