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Originally Posted by antgirl1
Wilt is 31.
Wilt claimed that he and his boy (Jordan) went on for a whole year, undefeated. Then Larry says it's been 30 years since that big showdown, in 1976. So, subtract that "whole year undefeated" thing from that and BINGO! You get 1975.
So yes, he's 31 years old.  |
Wilt said that he and his boy were UNDEFEATED for a whole year, BUT, as I pointed out in my post above, it would have taken time after he was created to teach Jordan how to play basketball AND to build up his confidence to the point where the two of them could even START winning in the first place. We do not know how long that learning period was before they became good enough to actually start taking on rival teams and hit upon that year-long winning streak, but it would not have happened overnight. Jordan not only lacked the skills, but he didn't believe in himself, and Wilt would have had his work cut out for him. Wilt would not have simply done all the work in the competition himself, although he was certainly capable of beating probably any two-man team on the block, without Jordan. He'd been created to help make Jordan a better player, and the only way to do that would have been to let Jordan get out there and experience competition himself and score points on his own merits. To even bring him to that point would have taken a lot of time and effort on Wilt's part, though. I think that the two of them would have had to have spent more than a year together before Jordan was even ready to take on competitors.
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