The rivalry between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain was transformative for the NBA in the 1960s. Everyone was aware that ...

Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and LeBron James were overlapping NBA rivals, but there was nothing like Bill Russell-Wilt ...

Wilt Chamberlain was known for his larger-than-life presence and is still today considered one of the most unique physical ...

Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain were the two superstar big men of their generation. The fact that they played for the fiercest of rivals in the Boston Celtics and Los Angeles Lakers only served ...

Wilt Chamberlain was a giant of a man ... grabbing 55 rebounds in a game (against Bill Russell and the Boston Celtics); never fouling out of a game at any level of play. These are marks that ...

Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell fought over contract sizes. Baseball helped lead the way with the largest single-season contracts. All major sports teams compensated their biggest names.

Bill Russell -- the prototypical defensive center ... His 21,620 rebounds (22.5 per game) are second all-time to Wilt Chamberlain's 23,924 (22.9 average). Relying on his left-handed hook ...

In this interview from the 1997 show Giants of the Game, rivals and friends Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell describe their unique friendship during their playing days.

Let's take a journey through NBA history to find out the first players who reached major salary milestones. Starting in the ...

Chamberlain, a force unlike any other in NBA history, was so dominant it was hard to put his accomplishments in a context ...

19.1: Russell's average PER and playoff PER ... His only career playoff losses came against Bob Pettit and Wilt Chamberlain — two of the 11 players ever to meet all nine of the above criteria.