
… practicing on the rims, Wilt was able to use his God-given talent and dunk the basketball on those rims. To put that into perspective, if you go to an NBA game right now, you’re not going to see twelve f…
Wilt also claimed to have been able to snatch change off of the top of the backboard. (I’m 99% sure he meant backboards for a ten foot rim) That height is about 13.5 feet from the ground and Wilt could clear it.
Wilt’s coach at Kansas, Dr. Phog Allen, was advocating for twelve foot rims while Wilt was in college. Since they were practicing on the rims, Wilt was able to use his God-given talent and dunk the basketball on those rims. To put that into perspective, if you go to an NBA game right now, you’re not going to see twelve foot rims, you’re going to see ten foot rims. Wilt could dunk on rims that are 1.2 size the height of what rims are today.