Per Game: 30.1 points, 22.9 rebounds, 4.4 assists

Per 75 Possessions: 19.5 points, 14.8 rebounds, 2.9 assists

Relative True Shooting Percentage: +5.5

Net Rating Swing: N/A

Box Plus/Minus: N/A

When asked about the debate many have over Michael Jordan and LeBron James, Scottie Pippen threw a curveball, saying, "In my eye, Wilt Chamberlain is the greatest basketball player."

In terms of basic numbers, that's a tough position to argue against.

Everyone knows about the 100-point game and the 1961-62 campaign in which Wilt averaged 50.4 points and 25.7 rebounds.

But for six years, Wilt averaged over 40 points per game. His exact numbers from 1959-60 to 1964-65? 40.6 points, 24.9 rebounds and 3.1 assists.

Of course, the question with all the legends from the '50s and '60s applies here: How much do we account for the evolution of basketball over the decades? What kind of numbers would Wilt put up in today's league? What if he had access to modern knowledge and technology concerning training and nutrition? What would someone like Shaquille O'Neal have done in the '60s?

Ultimately, these questions are probably impossible to answer but nevertheless worth considering.

What's less debatable, though, is how much deeper and more talented the league is now. In the '60s, a total of 138 players logged at least 5,000 minutes. The number of players who hit that mark within the last 10 seasons is 402.

And it's not just the fact that the league is up to 30 teams. Opening up the talent pool to include the entire world has done wonders for the game.

So while Chamberlain's numbers are certainly eye-popping, they need to be read in context.

Still, 50 points per game is 50 points per game. Regardless of era, that's wild. And while he may not have scored quite that much in today's league, rest assured he'd still be phenomenal.

"If you define athleticism as a combination of size, speed, strength and agility," Gary M. Pomerantz wrote for The Post Game, "the young Dipper, a decathlete and basketball star who at full speed covered nearly eight feet of hardwood with each elongated stride, might have been the greatest pure athlete of the 20th century, there with Jim Thorpe, Muhammad Ali and Jim Brown."