Cecil Mosenson, a former basketball coach at Upper Moreland High School who also coached one of the best players of all times, Wilt Chamberlain, at Overbrook High, has died aged 90, writes Mike Jensen for The Philadelphia Inquirer.

Mosenson got a job at Overbrook High right after graduating from Temple University. The team already featured Chamberlain in its roster. Over the years, the two men became friends and Mosenson remained Chamberlain’s mentor even after leaving high school.

In fact their relationship over the years is one of the subjects of Mosenson’s book, It All Began with Wilt.

In addition to coaching, Mosenson also served as principal at several schools. When he retired from that position, he became the head coach at William Tennent High School, where he stayed for ten years.

Later in his life, Mosenson found joy in asking basketball aficionados if they were Chamberlain fans and then telling them he was the coach.

And when younger people would ask him if Chamberlain was as good as Shaquille O’Neal, he had a simple answer.

“Shaquille couldn’t come close to him,” he would say.

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