6 ft eleven in (2.11 m) when he entered Philadelphia's Overbrook High School. He was a frail little one, nearly dying of pneumonia in his early many years and lacking a total yr of university as a consequence. For many yrs adhering to Chamberlain's departure from KU, critics said that he possibly preferred to go away the pretty white Midwest or was ashamed by not becoming able to convey home the NCAA basketball tournament victory.