Showtime Sports has announced that a new documentary series featuring Wilt Chamberlain will premiere soon. This news was made on Thursday. “Goliath,” a three-part documentary series, aims to explore Wilt Chamberlain’s impact, career, and productive life. As stated in the description, “Brash and self-assured, Chamberlain altered the course of the game, shattered records and racial barriers and questioned the unwritten rules for all athletes, especially black basketball players, adhering to his own standards on or off the court.”
The Hall of Famer will narrate his own tale alongside archive film provided by the Wilt Chamberlain Estate, using artificial intelligence (AI) to mimic Wilt Chamberlain’s voice. Starting from Chamberlain’s introduction to the public eye as a high school student in the 1950s and tracing his life story until his passing in 1999, each episode will delve into a different aspect of Chamberlain’s cultural influence, with an emphasis on power, wealth, race, sex, politics, and celebrity.
Showtime Sports President Stephen Espinoza stated, “We are thrilled to collaborate with this group of gifted filmmakers to share the underappreciated tale of Wilt Chamberlain’s complicated life with a wider audience. “There’s so much more to Wilt than just his numbers. Everyone knows him for his legendary feats on the basketball court, like scoring 100 points in a game or averaging 50 points and 25 rebounds in a season. He was decades ahead of his time in a plethora of ways that will never fade, much like the numbers on a scoreboard.
