Originally Posted by pitbulllady (Post 13900)

Yeah, me too! I know a lot of people find it hard to believe that someone as nice as Wilt could have EVER been an arrogant jerk, but I've lived long enough to have seen first-hand how much a person can change. Sometimes it just takes the effects of time, or the right role model(s), to mellow someone out, but with others, it DOES take that proverbial "Blinding flash of light on the road to Damasus" scenario, in which that jerk of a person experiences some horrific physical and/or emotional trauma, that shakes up their world so much, it changes them forever, for the better. I have no trouble believing that such a thing could have happened to Wilt, altering not only his physical appearance, but his entire outlook on life, and his treatment of others. It's easy for me to believe he might have been a walking, basketball-shootin' version of "Lightning McQueen"-loud-mouthed, self-centered, arrogant, all about win, win, WIN-until whatever happened to him, happened.

pitbulllady