(RARE) Kansas Jayhawks WILT CHAMBERLAIN jersey 4XL white 1958 MINT CONDITION 🏀

Description: 1958 University of Kansas Jayhawks Basketball WILT CHAMBERLAIN white (home) jersey, double stitched, mesh polyply, sized 4XL, MINT CONDITION, virtually Brand New from Chamberlain’s final collegiate season. Private Collection. In Chamberlain's junior season of 1957–58, the Jayhawks' matches were increasingly frustrating for him. Knowing how good he was, opponents resorted to freeze-ball tactics and routinely used three or more players to guard him. Teammate Bob Billings commented, "It was not fun basketball ... we were just out chasing people throwing the basketball back and forth". Chamberlain averaged 30.1 points for the season and led the Jayhawks to an 18–5 record—three of the losses came while he was out with a urinary infection. The Jayhawks' season ended because KU came second in the league and only conference winners were invited to the NCAA tournament. Chaimberlain was again named an All-American, along with future NBA Hall-of-Famers Elgin Baylor of Seattle University, Oscar Robertson of Cincinnati, and Guy Rodgers, who was now playing for Temple University. Having lost the enjoyment from NCAA basketball and wanting to earn money, Chamberlain left college and sold a story titled "Why I Am Leaving College" to Look magazine for $10,000, a large sum when NBA players earned $9,000 in a season. In two seasons at KU, he averaged 29.9 points and 18.3 rebounds per game while totaling 1,433 points and 877 rebounds. By the time Chamberlain was 21 and not yet a professional, he had been featured in Time, Life, Look, and Newsweek. After his frustrating junior year, Chamberlain wanted to become a professional player. At that time, the NBA did not accept players until after their college graduating class had been completed; Chamberlain decided to play for the Harlem Globetrotters in 1958 for $50,000.

Price: 2149 USD

Location: Valley Forge, Pennsylvania

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