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  1.                                  the Year and Most
  2.                                  Valuable Player. Wes and
  3.                                  Wilt Chamberlain are the
  4.                                  only NBA players to receive
  5.                                  those two honors in the 
  6.                                  same season.  
  7.  
  8. Before Wes joined the Bullets, the team had 
  9. never had a winning season. He played 13 
  10. years for the Bullets (first in Baltimore then in 
  11. Washington) and the team reached the 
  12. playoffs 12 straight times. The Bullets won
  13. the 1978 NBA championship and Wes was
  14. voted the MVP of the Finals. 
  15.  
  16. WesΓÇÖs 13,769 career rebounds ranks him 
  17. eighth on the all-time list. He was coach
  18. of his old team from 1987 to 1994 
  19. and was elected to the Naismith
  20.