PRINTER'S NO. 1522
No. 116 Session of 1999
INTRODUCED BY HUGHES, STAPLETON, EARLL, DENT, TARTAGLIONE,
MADIGAN, THOMPSON, CONTI, WAGNER, KITCHEN, MURPHY, STOUT,
MELLOW, PUNT, JUBELIRER, BELAN, FUMO, TOMLINSON, MUSTO,
GERLACH, O'PAKE, BODACK, WHITE, SALVATORE, RHOADES AND
SCHWARTZ, NOVEMBER 16, 1999
INTRODUCED AND ADOPTED, NOVEMBER 16, 1999
A RESOLUTION
1 Honoring the career accomplishments of basketball champion Wilt
2 Chamberlain, who died on October 12, 1999.
3 WHEREAS, Wilton Norman Chamberlain was born in Philadelphia
4 on August 21, 1936; and
5 WHEREAS, Wilt Chamberlain received his childhood education in
6 Philadelphia and attended the University of Kansas; and
7 WHEREAS, Wilt Chamberlain was one of the greatest offensive
8 basketball players the game has ever seen; and
9 WHEREAS, Wilt Chamberlain was drafted by the Philadelphia
10 Warriors in 1959, followed the franchise to San Francisco in
11 1962 and returned to Pennsylvania to play with the Philadelphia
12 76ers halfway through the 1964-1965 basketball season until his
13 retirement from the National Basketball Association (NBA) at the
14 end of the 1972-1973 season; and
15 WHEREAS, Wilt Chamberlain is the only NBA player to have
16 scored 4,000 points in a season, and he set the following NBA
1 single-game records: most points (100), most consecutive field
2 goals (18) and most rebounds (55); and
3 WHEREAS, Wilt Chamberlain is the second all-time NBA scorer
4 in career points with 31,419, is first in the league with 23,924
5 rebounds and led the NBA in scoring for seven consecutive years;
6 and
7 WHEREAS, In 1978, the first year of eligibility, Wilt
8 Chamberlain was elected to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall
9 of Fame, and in 1996-1997 he was selected to the NBA's 50th
10 Anniversary All-Time Team; and
11 WHEREAS, Wilt Chamberlain died on October 12, 1999, in Bel
12 Air, California, at 63 years of age after leading a
13 distinguished professional basketball career; therefore be it
14 RESOLVED, That the Senate honor the career accomplishments of
15 basketball champion Wilt Chamberlain, who died on October 12,
16 1999.
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