Wilt Chamberlain and his house

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It has been 10 years since basketball great Wilt Chamberlain died. Times sports columnist Jerry Crowe visited the mansion the former Lakers star center built in Bel-Air and found that Chamberlain’s memory has been respectfully preserved even though there have been changes to the house’s interior. You can read his column here.

Among his many accomplishments, Chamberlain holds the single-game scoring record with 100 points, set while playing for the Philadelphia Warriors before a small crowd in Hershey, Pa.

‘When people tell me they were there,’ Chamberlain once said, a story recounted in his 1999 obituary, ‘I never correct ‘em. I always let ‘em feel like they saw it. I just say, ‘So you saw it? Hey, well good, I was there too.’ ‘

--Keith Thursby