[PhillyFlyers]

Game 7 tonight. Perfect time for an all-time match-up scenario between these two legendary teams.

Centers

Sixers

Wilt Chamberlain
Moses Malone

Celtics

Bill Russell
Robert Parish

Edge: Sixers

Wilt was arguably the greatest player ever to set foot on a basketball court. Russell is considered by many basketball experts to have been the greatest defensive player in the history of the NBA.

That makes Wilt's accomplishments against Russell all the more impressive.

Wilt and Russell played against each other 142 times over a 10 year period. In those games, Wilt averaged 28.7 points and 28.7 rebounds per game vs. Russell.

Russell averaged 14.5 points and 23.7 rebounds per game vs. Wilt. Wilt's game-high vs. Russell was 62 points and he had 6 other 50+ point games vs. Russell. Conversely, Russell's game-high vs. Wilt was 37 points and he had only 2 other 30+ point games vs. Wilt.

In addition, Wilt set the still-standing NBA record of 55 rebounds in one game vs. Russell and he had 6 other 40+ rebound games vs. Russell. Conversely, Russell had only 1 40+ rebound night vs. Wilt.

It doesn't stop there, either.

In the passing department, Wilt averaged 7.8 assists per game and is still the only center in the history of the NBA to lead the league in assists. Conversely, Russell averaged 5.3 assists per game.

Additionally, Wilt basically swept Russell on rebounding titles winning in 9 of the 11 years they were both active.

The bottom line is Russell was severely limited and Wilt was as limitless as it was humanly possible to be.

to be continued.............

[MC PICKS]

Game 7 is saturday night, biggest game for the sixers in 11 years, cant wait.