Sixers legend Wilt Chamberlain immortalized on stamp

A hometown hero and former 76er Wilt Chamberlain is being commemorated.

The U.S. Postal service now has Chamberlain stamps, showing him as a young man and a pro.

Those at his alma mater, Overbrook High School, celebrated Wednesday.

The stamps showed the young player, a Philadelphia Warrior, and the veteran LA Laker.

"He is the first basketball player in the NBA that is honored on the US postage stamp," collector Donald Conway said.

Chamberlain holds countless records. He is the only NBA player to score one hundred points in a single game.

He was so dominate the league had to change some rules to try to keep the big man from the basket.

"He is the only player in the history of basketball to dominate the game to the point that they had to change the rules to combat him" friend Sonny Hill said.

"They had to widen the lanes, a number of different things, and that really speaks to the impact he had on the game," Donald Hunt of the Chamberlain Postal Stamp Committee said.

The 7'1 Chamberlain died in 1999. He grew up in West Philadelphia by leaps and bounds.

His sister recalled when he returned after spending the summer at their grandfather's farm.

"He went away in junior high 6'4 and when he came back he was 6'9, all in one summer," Barbara Lewis said.

The Wilt Stamps are now on sale; they are forever stamps that currently cost 49 cents apiece.

The plan is to print 50 million of them.