You aren't old enough to remember Wilt. In addition to basketball, in college, he ran the then 100 yards and maybe a shorter sprint-but he was just off the 1956 Olympic numbers, high jumped, threw the shot. For college workouts he would wrestle Kansas grapplers and, once in the NBA club boxed for cardio. After he retired from BBall he became the best beach volleyballer, probably ever.
The autobiographies of the guys that played with and against Wilt are just filled with these stunning stories of the shit Wilt would do. When I was a lad I subscribed to Por Basketball Weekly, a little 5x6 magazine and Pro Football Weekly. We packed about 12 years of those little mags in the same chronological order as they were in my parents' basement when we cleaned out the house. Stored 'em at my brothers and his new house blew up and they were destroyed.
A Tom Meschery story. Tom and Wilt liked to hang around the Eagles (a Philly boy) and came to a lot of practices in the NBA off season. So one day Wilt shows up in a sweat suit and a new pair of spikes at a no pads offensive practice. Went up to the coach and said he wanted to "try out". Coach says sure, what position. Wilt says receiver. So they line up and Wilt was outside and just supposed to run "a long one". Sunny Jurgensen underthrows by about 10 yards. They do a few more routes and Sunny tells Wilt to run straight and when get got behind the defense to cut toward the middle. So Wilt grabs TDS for 20 minutes.
Of course everyone was impressed. Wilt asked if he played well enough to play on Sundays. The coach, can't remember name, said "Yeah, you can play on Sunday Big Man but you'd be taking a hell of a pay cut." They got in the car and Wilt said it would be fun but he didn't think they paid those guys much money. Meschery said that was the end of Wilt's football career, but they still liked hanging around the team.
I remember reading that more than 50 years ago. Can't remember all the bullshit I was supposed to do today.