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Originally Posted by pitbulllady
I haven't noticed the trophy, so I will have to go back and watch it on YouTube again, IF it's still up, that is. Wilt drops a subtle hint that he DID once play basketball, seriously and competitively, though, in the pilot, and no longer can after losing his arm and eye, so it's possible that he was at one time some team's MVP, to the extent that a trophy was named after him!
pitbulllady
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Yeah, I remember him making a reference to his possible competitive sports playing, but the only two things that I don't get are: 1) The trophy appears to have been made to look like him AFTER the injuries (I'm not absolutely 100% positive on this, though, because the quality of the video might have fuzzed it a little). Since he makes is relatively clear that he couldn't play
professionally after his injuries occured, perhaps he might have won it in a tournament for people/IFs with handicaps? Of course, Wilt never treats his missing arm like a handicap, so maybe that's why he was so good at it and won a trophy of his likeness? and 2) if it IS of him with both arms and eyes and from a time whenever he played competitively, why would he be selling it? I know he probably has a lot of bad memories, so why would he sell something that is seemingly from a high point in his life? The only way I could see that happening is if it accidentally got put in there by someone who didn't talk to him that much and thought "He probably has hundreds of these."