Wilt Chamberlain slept with 20,000 women over his NBA career: Fact or Fiction?

​In regards to the aforementioned Wilt Chamberlain and his 20,000 women claim, despite the prodigious declaration he made in his autobiography ‘A View From Above’, I suspect the number to be somehow inflated. Don’t get me wrong, I’m sure the ‘once-in-a-generation’ player (not just on the court) experienced a lot of success, but let’s face it - 20,000 women over a lifespan of 63 years? Despite the per year number (which comes to 416.6 per year - whilst subtracting fifteen years for the ‘no-one-has-sex-with-a-child’ rule), the key thing to leap off the page to me is that there were a supposed twenty thousand encounters with... wait for it... ZERO pregnancies. I mean, sure, the Big Dipper could have been super, super cautious, but let’s remember, in today’s world, where 1% of condoms will break (#We’veAllBeenThere), back in Wilt’s basketball prime (1958-1973), that figure would have surely been higher. Let’s be generous and say that only 5% broke - in which case, that would mean there would be... hold on while I get a calculator... 1,000 pregnancies! And, since he had no reported kids and there are only a handful of legitimate seven-footers who play in today’s NBA, we can only assume that he either didn’t sleep with 20,000 women, he was infertile, or... he was super convincing when chatting to his women about the idea of an abortion.

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