Jones Goes Against the Stilt

At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, K.C. Jones could out-muscle most guards of his day, but the story was always a little different when challenging big men like Wilt Chamberlain. Jones once said of Chamberlain giving him a hard foul: “He stopped me dead in my tracks with his arm, hugged me and lifted me off the floor with my feet dangling. It scared the hell out of me. When I went to the free-throw line, my legs were still shaking.” Jones and the Celtics frequently battled Chamberlain and the Philadelphia Warriors during the 1960s.