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Ford and his team conducted 44 interviews in total, 41 of which are used in the series. Those interviews include Chamberlain’s living sisters (Selina Chamberlain Gross and Barbara Lewis), longtime friends such as Sonny Hill, and basketball teammates and opponents including Billy Cunningham, Jerry West, Pat Riley, Rick Barry and Wali Jones. Chamberlain author Gary Pomerantz gets prominent time, as do longtime basketball journalists such as Bob Ryan and Jackie MacMullan, who have Boston ties and go deep on the Bill Russell-Chamberlain relationship. The filmmakers had hoped to get Russell for the project, but he was unable to do the interview for health reasons (Russell died in July 2022). There were other iconic figures the filmmakers attempted to get but were unsuccessful for multiple reasons, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Michael Jordan and Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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Retiring opened up other opportunities for Chamberlain. He bought real estate. He owned a club in Harlem, Big Wilt’s Smalls Paradise. He remained a visible icon in television ads and billboards. He ventured into cinema in the 1970s and ’80s and ultimately took on the role of Bombaata in the 1984 movie classic “Conan the Destroyer,” starring alongside Arnold Schwarzenegger. He was always in the news post-NBA, whether it involved his charisma or his famous (or infamous) claim to have slept with 20,000 women. Basketball wasn’t shelved, either. After playing for the Lakers, Chamberlain chose to sign with the San Diego Conquistadors of the American Basketball Association for the 1973-74 season. A lawsuit by the Lakers, however, blocked Chamberlain from playing, as he reportedly owed an option year on his NBA contract. A judge restricted him from playing for the Conquistadors, but he was allowed to coach the team that season.

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Instead, James tries to see each slight as an opportunity, to “let that give you drive and motivation.” He picks up his phone. “I like to write down quotes.” He scrolls through and finds one, from Arnold Schwarzenegger: “Everybody pities the weak. Jealousy, you have to earn.” For her part, Savannah is adamant about keeping perspective. “Of course Dad is wanting [Bronny] to play on the same court eventually, maybe on the same team. That would be the icing on the cake for his career, and probably [as] a father,” she says. “But for me, I just want [Bronny] to be happy. If you are happy playing in gaming competitions in Long Beach, then that’s what I want you to do. If you’re happy being a franchise player for an NBA team, that’s what I want you to do. . . . A lot of people are doing things and moving through life and aren’t necessarily happy.”

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Ladder co-founders LeBron James and Arnold Schwarzenegger are easily two of the most decorated sports figures in the world, but their bond came from a mutual dedication to philanthropy, rather than their physical achievements, Schwarzenegger says. "I got to know LeBron...not only the one that you see on television when he plays the game...but the character of the guy," Schwarzenegger tells PEOPLE.

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Schwarzenegger tells PEOPLE that James' commitment to transparency was part of the drive behind Ladder. "Why I got attracted to it was because LeBron cannot afford to have anything in a protein or in a food supplement that he takes that may have something that is enhancing, some drug of some sort," a discrepancy that Schwarzenegger says "a lot of companies" are opaque about. The Terminator star claims, "A lot of food supplement companies were busted on that. [James] cannot afford it, he gets tested and then he's out of the game."

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The sports nutrition company Ladder, which James started with Arnold Schwarzenegger as well as a host of other investors and athlete personalities, has been acquired by the digital fitness company Openfit to be the company’s official nutrition provider. Openfit announced the acquisition on Wednesday and LeBron James celebrated the news on social media on Wednesday morning as well. “After pushing my body to its limits season after season, I needed a different level of supplements that I could trust to complement my workouts and aid in the recovery process. With Ladder, we achieved that. We were able to work with experts to create an incredible line of certified, high caliber supplements for all athletes, but we always recognized that is just one part of the process,” said LeBron James, champion athlete and Ladder co-founder in a press release about the acqusition. “Now with the reach and resources of the Openfit platform, we’re excited about bringing this all together and creating a new level of training and nutrition that fits everyone’s individual needs.”

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James and Mancias relentlessly tinkered with the ratio. And in the 2017-18 season, James played all 82 games, plus heavy minutes in the playoffs, logging all 48 minutes in a Game 7 win at the Boston Celtics in the Eastern Conference finals. "Finally, we found a good recipe that actually worked -- not specifically just for cramping, just for overall supplementation," Mancias said. Now, they are taking that recipe to the masses, pairing up with the likes of Arnold Schwarzenegger, Lindsey Vonn and Cindy Crawford to launch Ladder, a health and wellness company that sells the same grass-fed whey, plant proteins and energy powders that James uses.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Congratulations to @LeBron James on passing Wilt for fifth on the all-time scoring list. What a champion. I’m proud of you.

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Arnold Schwarzenegger: Welcome, @LeBron James.

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But Jordan wasn't comfortable with the different drafts, and at that moment, he took matters into his own hands. He thought of a way to keep to his style of being simple and straight to the point: "I'm Back." "He felt that it didn't require an explanation or a justification," said Falk, who faxed the final press release to media outlets. "I thought I was a pretty good writer, written a lot of things, but he said, 'Let me do this.' So he sat down at the table and thought about it for a couple of minutes and he wrote, 'I'm Back.' He said, 'OK, that's it.' It was classic Michael Jordan. It was elegant in simplicity, it communicated how he felt, it said it all. "It was like Arnold Schwarzenegger in The Terminator, 'I'll be back.' Sometimes you don't have to be prosaic to be elegant in your expression. His two words expressed it all."

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The first thing we all should remember is LeBron James is a master manipulator. James had to know the questions were coming on Thursday when the Miami Heat were practicing at Quicken Loans Arena. He recently hired a new "strategist," a man who worked on Arnold Schwarzenegger's gubernatorial campaign, so for all we know, his answers could all have been planned.

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Paris Hilton and Charlie Sheen Most Unpopular Celebrities. At the other end of the spectrum, only two of the 100 celebrities asked about were viewed unfavorably by an outright majority of respondents: Paris Hilton (with 60% expressing an unfavorable opinion of her vs. only 12% a favorable one) and Charlie Sheen (52% vs. 22%). The next most unpopular personalities among those rated are: Britney Spears and Kanye West (each of whom is viewed unfavorably by 45%), Arnold Schwarzenegger (44%), Tiger Woods (42%), Kim Kardashian (38%), Mel Gibson (33%), Donald Trump (31%), and LeBron James (29%). Several of these 10 personalities – Tiger Woods, Charlie Sheen, Paris Hilton, Britney Spears – are more widely disliked by women than they are by men. The others show relatively comparable proportions of male and female detractors.

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Thursday Dwight Howard was a guest host on BET's 106 & Park and in between being his usual wacky self, Howard was asked to bust out a few impressions. He did LL Cool J, Biggie Smalls, Arnold Schwarzenegger and then busted out what I thought was a pretty terrific Charles Barkley. And while doing his best Chuck (points for not going the tired "That's turrible! Just turrible!" route), Howard made sure to make fun of LeBron's slowly retreating hairline.

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Our cameras were there when the 25-year-old center for the Orlando Magic did a little magic behind the mic. Dwight was recording voice-overs for Disney XD's cartoon "Kick Buttowski - Suburban Daredevil" The NBA star is playing a movie star in the animated series for season two known as "Rock Callahan." "Rock is like the ultimate Arnold Schwarzenegger. 'I'll be back.' He's like him like times a hundred million thousand even though that's not a number," said Howard in a one on one interview with the larger than life NBA star towers over me. Dwight was having a blast. "I'm like... I'm not in a basketball uniform so this is going to be very cool. I can not wait."

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