PHILADELPHIA — Olin Chamberlain called his uncle during the NBA playoffs in the early 1990s as Michael Jordan was making another run toward a championship. Chamberlain, then a teenage basketball player in Los Angeles, couldn’t call M.J., but he could get Wilt on the horn.
Except the phone line was busy again and again.
“I finally got him,” said Chamberlain, one of Wilt’s nephews. “I said ‘Come on, Uncle Dip. I know you’re better than this. You have to have call waiting.’ He said ‘Hey, if you weren’t the first person to call then it wasn’t meant for us to talk.’ He was laid back. He didn’t even have call waiting. He lived his own life.”
