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id="toc-1956–1958:_Rookie_champion_and_early_years-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1958–1966:_Eight_straight_NBA_championships" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1958–1966:_Eight_straight_NBA_championships"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.2 1958–1966: Eight straight NBA championships </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1958–1966:_Eight_straight_NBA_championships-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-1966–1969:_Player-coach_champion_and_final_seasons" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-3"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#1966–1969:_Player-coach_champion_and_final_seasons"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.1.3 1966–1969: Player-coach champion and final seasons </div> </a> <ul id="toc-1966–1969:_Player-coach_champion_and_final_seasons-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Earnings" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Earnings"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.2 Earnings </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Earnings-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Russell–Chamberlain_relations" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Russell–Chamberlain_relations"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.3 Russell–Chamberlain relations </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Russell–Chamberlain_relations-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Racist_abuse,_controversy,_and_relationship_with_Boston_fans" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Racist_abuse,_controversy,_and_relationship_with_Boston_fans"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 4.4 Racist abuse, controversy, and relationship with Boston fans </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Racist_abuse,_controversy,_and_relationship_with_Boston_fans-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Post-playing_career_and_endeavors" class="vector-toc-list-item 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id="toc-West_Coast_Conference's_Russell_Rule" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#West_Coast_Conference's_Russell_Rule"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 6.2 West Coast Conference's Russell Rule </div> </a> <ul id="toc-West_Coast_Conference's_Russell_Rule-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-NBA_career_statistics" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#NBA_career_statistics"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7 NBA career statistics </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-NBA_career_statistics-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle NBA career statistics subsection </button> <ul id="toc-NBA_career_statistics-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> <li id="toc-Regular_season" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Regular_season"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.1 Regular season </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Regular_season-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Playoffs" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-2"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Playoffs"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 7.2 Playoffs </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Playoffs-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Head_coaching_record" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Head_coaching_record"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 8 Head coaching record </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Head_coaching_record-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Personal_life_and_death" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Personal_life_and_death"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 9 Personal life and death </div> </a> <button aria-controls="toc-Personal_life_and_death-sublist" class="cdx-button cdx-button--weight-quiet cdx-button--icon-only vector-toc-toggle"> Toggle Personal 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href="#Footnotes"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 12 Footnotes </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Footnotes-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-References" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#References"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 13 References </div> </a> <ul id="toc-References-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-Further_reading" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#Further_reading"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 14 Further reading </div> </a> <ul id="toc-Further_reading-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> <li id="toc-External_links" class="vector-toc-list-item vector-toc-level-1"> <a class="vector-toc-link" href="#External_links"> <div class="vector-toc-text"> 15 External links </div> </a> <ul id="toc-External_links-sublist" class="vector-toc-list"> </ul> </li> </ul> </div> </div> </nav> </div> </div> <div class="mw-content-container"> <main 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data-language-local-name="Asturian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Asturianu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-be mw-list-item"><a href="https://be.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D0%91%D1%96%D0%BB_%D0%A0%D0%B0%D1%81%D0%B5%D0%BB" title="Біл Расел – Belarusian" lang="be" hreflang="be" data-title="Біл Расел" data-language-autonym="Беларуская" data-language-local-name="Belarusian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Беларуская</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-bs mw-list-item"><a href="https://bs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Bosnian" lang="bs" hreflang="bs" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Bosanski" data-language-local-name="Bosnian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bosanski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ca mw-list-item"><a href="https://ca.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Catalan" lang="ca" hreflang="ca" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Català" data-language-local-name="Catalan" class="interlanguage-link-target">Català</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-cs mw-list-item"><a href="https://cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Czech" lang="cs" hreflang="cs" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Čeština" data-language-local-name="Czech" class="interlanguage-link-target">Čeština</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-da mw-list-item"><a href="https://da.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Danish" lang="da" hreflang="da" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Dansk" data-language-local-name="Danish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Dansk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-de mw-list-item"><a href="https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – German" lang="de" hreflang="de" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Deutsch" data-language-local-name="German" class="interlanguage-link-target">Deutsch</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-et mw-list-item"><a href="https://et.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Estonian" lang="et" hreflang="et" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Eesti" data-language-local-name="Estonian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Eesti</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-el mw-list-item"><a href="https://el.wikipedia.org/wiki/%CE%9C%CF%80%CE%B9%CE%BB_%CE%A1%CE%AC%CF%83%CE%B5%CE%BB" title="Μπιλ Ράσελ – Greek" lang="el" hreflang="el" data-title="Μπιλ Ράσελ" data-language-autonym="Ελληνικά" data-language-local-name="Greek" class="interlanguage-link-target">Ελληνικά</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-es badge-Q17437798 badge-goodarticle mw-list-item" title="good article badge"><a href="https://es.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Spanish" lang="es" hreflang="es" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Español" data-language-local-name="Spanish" class="interlanguage-link-target">Español</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-eu mw-list-item"><a href="https://eu.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Basque" lang="eu" hreflang="eu" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Euskara" data-language-local-name="Basque" class="interlanguage-link-target">Euskara</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fa mw-list-item"><a href="https://fa.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D8%A8%DB%8C%D9%84_%D8%B1%D8%A7%D8%B3%D9%84" title="بیل راسل – Persian" lang="fa" hreflang="fa" data-title="بیل راسل" data-language-autonym="فارسی" data-language-local-name="Persian" class="interlanguage-link-target">فارسی</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – French" lang="fr" hreflang="fr" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Français" data-language-local-name="French" class="interlanguage-link-target">Français</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-fy mw-list-item"><a href="https://fy.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Western Frisian" lang="fy" hreflang="fy" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Frysk" data-language-local-name="Western Frisian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Frysk</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-gl mw-list-item"><a href="https://gl.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Galician" lang="gl" hreflang="gl" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Galego" data-language-local-name="Galician" class="interlanguage-link-target">Galego</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ko mw-list-item"><a href="https://ko.wikipedia.org/wiki/%EB%B9%8C_%EB%9F%AC%EC%85%80" title="빌 러셀 – Korean" lang="ko" hreflang="ko" data-title="빌 러셀" data-language-autonym="한국어" data-language-local-name="Korean" class="interlanguage-link-target">한국어</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hy mw-list-item"><a href="https://hy.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D4%B2%D5%AB%D5%AC_%D5%8C%D5%A1%D5%BD%D5%A5%D5%AC" title="Բիլ Ռասել – Armenian" lang="hy" hreflang="hy" data-title="Բիլ Ռասել" data-language-autonym="Հայերեն" data-language-local-name="Armenian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Հայերեն</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-hr badge-Q17437796 badge-featuredarticle mw-list-item" title="featured article badge"><a href="https://hr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Croatian" lang="hr" hreflang="hr" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Hrvatski" data-language-local-name="Croatian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Hrvatski</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-id mw-list-item"><a href="https://id.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Indonesian" lang="id" hreflang="id" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Bahasa Indonesia" data-language-local-name="Indonesian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Bahasa Indonesia</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-is mw-list-item"><a href="https://is.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Icelandic" lang="is" hreflang="is" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Íslenska" data-language-local-name="Icelandic" class="interlanguage-link-target">Íslenska</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-it mw-list-item"><a href="https://it.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Italian" lang="it" hreflang="it" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Italiano" data-language-local-name="Italian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Italiano</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-he mw-list-item"><a href="https://he.wikipedia.org/wiki/%D7%91%D7%99%D7%9C_%D7%A8%D7%90%D7%A1%D7%9C" title="ביל ראסל – Hebrew" lang="he" hreflang="he" data-title="ביל ראסל" data-language-autonym="עברית" data-language-local-name="Hebrew" class="interlanguage-link-target">עברית</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-ka mw-list-item"><a href="https://ka.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E1%83%91%E1%83%98%E1%83%9A_%E1%83%A0%E1%83%90%E1%83%A1%E1%83%94%E1%83%9A%E1%83%98" title="ბილ რასელი – Georgian" lang="ka" hreflang="ka" data-title="ბილ რასელი" data-language-autonym="ქართული" data-language-local-name="Georgian" class="interlanguage-link-target">ქართული</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lv mw-list-item"><a href="https://lv.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bills_Rasels" title="Bills Rasels – Latvian" lang="lv" hreflang="lv" data-title="Bills Rasels" data-language-autonym="Latviešu" data-language-local-name="Latvian" class="interlanguage-link-target">Latviešu</a></li><li class="interlanguage-link interwiki-lt mw-list-item"><a href="https://lt.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Russell" title="Bill Russell – Lithuanian" lang="lt" hreflang="lt" data-title="Bill Russell" data-language-autonym="Lietuvių" 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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vcard" style="width:26em"><caption class="infobox-title fn summary">Bill Russell</caption><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-image"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_russell_dribbling_(cropped).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell dribbling a basketball" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bill_russell_dribbling_%28cropped%29.jpg/220px-Bill_russell_dribbling_%28cropped%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="249" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bill_russell_dribbling_%28cropped%29.jpg/330px-Bill_russell_dribbling_%28cropped%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d3/Bill_russell_dribbling_%28cropped%29.jpg/440px-Bill_russell_dribbling_%28cropped%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="691" data-file-height="783" /></a><div class="infobox-caption">Russell with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a>, <abbr title="circa">c.</abbr> 1960</div></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Personal information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Born</th><td class="infobox-data">(1934-02-12)February 12, 1934 <a href="/wiki/Monroe,_Louisiana" title="Monroe, Louisiana">Monroe, Louisiana</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Died</th><td class="infobox-data">July 31, 2022(2022-07-31) (aged 88) <a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island,_Washington" title="Mercer Island, Washington">Mercer Island, Washington</a>, U.S.</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Listed height</th><td class="infobox-data">6 ft 10 in (2.08 m)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Listed weight</th><td class="infobox-data">215 lb (98 kg)<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Career information</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">High school</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/McClymonds_High_School" title="McClymonds High School">McClymonds</a> (<a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a>)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">College</th><td class="infobox-data plainlist"><a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Dons_men%27s_basketball" title="San Francisco Dons men's basketball">San Francisco</a> (1953–1956)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/NBA_draft" title="NBA draft">NBA draft</a></th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/1956_NBA_draft" title="1956 NBA draft">1956</a>: 1st round, 2nd overall pick</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data">Selected by the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis Hawks">St. Louis Hawks</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Playing career</th><td class="infobox-data">1956–1969</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Position</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">Center</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Number</th><td class="infobox-data">6</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: left;">Coaching career</th><td class="infobox-data">1966–1988</td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;">Career history<link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;">As player:</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_NBA_season" title="1956–57 NBA season">1956</a>–<a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1969</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;">As coach:</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_NBA_season" title="1966–67 NBA season">1966</a>–<a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1969</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374_NBA_season" title="1973–74 NBA season">1973</a>–<a href="/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377_NBA_season" title="1976–77 NBA season">1977</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">Seattle SuperSonics</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="font-weight: normal;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season" title="1987–88 NBA season">1987–1988</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em;text-align: left;"><a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Career highlights and awards</th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="text-align: left;">As player: <ul><li>11× <a href="/wiki/NBA_champion" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA champion">NBA champion</a> (<a href="/wiki/1957_NBA_Finals" title="1957 NBA Finals">1957</a>, <a href="/wiki/1959_NBA_Finals" title="1959 NBA Finals">1959</a>–<a href="/wiki/1966_NBA_Finals" title="1966 NBA Finals">1966</a>, <a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">1969</a>)<a href="#cite_note-3">[a]</a></li> <li>5× <a href="/wiki/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Most Valuable Player Award">NBA Most Valuable Player</a> (<a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_NBA_season" title="1957–58 NBA season">1958</a>, <a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_NBA_season" title="1960–61 NBA season">1961</a>–<a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_NBA_season" title="1962–63 NBA season">1963</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_NBA_season" title="1964–65 NBA season">1965</a>)</li> <li>12× <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star">NBA All-Star</a> (<a href="/wiki/1958_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1958 NBA All-Star Game">1958</a>–<a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1969 NBA All-Star Game">1969</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Game_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star Game Most Valuable Player Award">NBA All-Star Game MVP</a> (<a href="/wiki/1963_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1963 NBA All-Star Game">1963</a>)</li> <li>3× <a href="/wiki/All-NBA_First_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="All-NBA First Team">All-NBA First Team</a> (<a href="/wiki/1958%E2%80%9359_NBA_season" title="1958–59 NBA season">1959</a>, <a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_NBA_season" title="1962–63 NBA season">1963</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_NBA_season" title="1964–65 NBA season">1965</a>)</li> <li>8× <a href="/wiki/All-NBA_Second_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="All-NBA Second Team">All-NBA Second Team</a> (<a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_NBA_season" title="1957–58 NBA season">1958</a>, <a href="/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_NBA_season" title="1959–60 NBA season">1960</a>–<a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_NBA_season" title="1961–62 NBA season">1962</a>, <a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_NBA_season" title="1963–64 NBA season">1964</a>, <a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_NBA_season" title="1965–66 NBA season">1966</a>–<a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_NBA_season" title="1967–68 NBA season">1968</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Defensive_First_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Defensive First Team">NBA All-Defensive First Team</a> (<a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1969</a>)</li> <li>4× <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association annual rebounding leaders">NBA rebounding champion</a> (<a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_NBA_season" title="1957–58 NBA season">1958</a>, <a href="/wiki/1958%E2%80%9359_NBA_season" title="1958–59 NBA season">1959</a>, <a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_NBA_season" title="1963–64 NBA season">1964</a>, <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_NBA_season" title="1964–65 NBA season">1965</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_anniversary_team" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA anniversary team">NBA anniversary team</a> (<a href="/wiki/NBA_25th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 25th Anniversary Team">25th</a>, <a href="/wiki/NBA_35th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 35th Anniversary Team">35th</a>, <a href="/wiki/50_Greatest_Players_in_NBA_History" title="50 Greatest Players in NBA History">50th</a>, <a href="/wiki/NBA_75th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 75th Anniversary Team">75th</a>)</li> <li>No. 6 <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics_retired_numbers" class="mw-redirect" title="Boston Celtics retired numbers">retired by Boston Celtics</a></li> <li>No. 6 <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_retired_numbers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association retired numbers">retired by NBA leaguewide</a></li> <li>2× <a href="/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Champions" class="mw-redirect" title="List of NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Champions">NCAA champion</a> (<a href="/wiki/1955_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="1955 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament">1955</a>, <a href="/wiki/1956_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="1956 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament">1956</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NCAA_basketball_tournament_Most_Outstanding_Player" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player">NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player</a> (<a href="/wiki/1955_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament" class="mw-redirect" title="1955 NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament">1955</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/UPI_College_Basketball_Player_of_the_Year" title="UPI College Basketball Player of the Year">UPI College Player of the Year</a> (1956)</li> <li>2× <a href="/wiki/Helms_Foundation_College_Basketball_Player_of_the_Year" title="Helms Foundation College Basketball Player of the Year">Helms Player of the Year</a> (1955, 1956)</li> <li>2× Consensus first-team <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans" title="NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans">All-American</a> (<a href="/wiki/1955_NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans" title="1955 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans">1955</a>, <a href="/wiki/1956_NCAA_Men%27s_Basketball_All-Americans" title="1956 NCAA Men's Basketball All-Americans">1956</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Conference_Men%27s_Basketball_Player_of_the_Year" title="West Coast Conference Men's Basketball Player of the Year">WCC Player of the Year</a> (1956)</li> <li>3× First-team All-<a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Conference" title="West Coast Conference">WCC</a> (1954–1956)</li> <li>No. 6 <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Dons_men%27s_basketball_retired_numbers" class="mw-redirect" title="San Francisco Dons men's basketball retired numbers">retired by San Francisco Dons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom_recipients" title="List of Presidential Medal of Freedom recipients">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> (2011)</li></ul> As coach: <ul><li>2× <a href="/wiki/NBA_champion" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA champion">NBA champion</a> (<a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">1968</a>, <a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">1969</a>)<a href="#cite_note-5">[b]</a></li></ul> </td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Career NBA playing statistics</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; line-height: 1.2em"><a href="/wiki/Point_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Point (basketball)">Points</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em">14,522 (15.1 ppg)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; line-height: 1.2em"><a href="/wiki/Rebound_(basketball)" title="Rebound (basketball)">Rebounds</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em">21,620 (22.5 rpg)</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; line-height: 1.2em"><a href="/wiki/Assist_(basketball)" title="Assist (basketball)">Assists</a></th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em">4,100 (4.3 apg)</td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nba.com/player/78049">Stats</a> at NBA.com <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242185#P3647" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/russebi01.html">Stats</a> at <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Reference" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball Reference">Basketball Reference</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242185#P2685" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></td></tr><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-header" style="background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important; border: 2.5px solid #DCDCDC !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546">Career coaching record</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="text-align: right; line-height: 1.2em">NBA</th><td class="infobox-data" style="line-height: 1.2em">341–290 (.540)</td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="line-height: 1.2em"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/coaches/russebi01c.html">Record</a> at <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Reference" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball Reference">Basketball Reference</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242185#P4718" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/15px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/20px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="20" data-file-height="20" /></a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><th colspan="2"> </th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1257001546"></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #DCDCDC !important;"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.fiba.basketball/hall-of-fame/Bill-Russell">FIBA Hall of Fame</a></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-full-data" style="font-weight:bold; background-color: #DCDCDC !important;"><a href="/wiki/Collegiate_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame">Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame</a></td></tr><tr style="display:none"><td colspan="2"> </td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="infobox-below"><div class="mw-collapsible" style="text-align:center; font-size:95%"> <div class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="line-height:1.6em; background-color:#ccf; font-size:105%; background-color: #DCDCDC !important; color: #000000 !important;"><div style="margin:0 4em;">Medals</div></div> <div class="mw-collapsible-content" style="font-size:105%"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1151960987">body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox table{display:table}body.skin-minerva .mw-parser-output .infobox caption{display:table-caption}</style> <table class="skin-nightmode-reset-color" style="width:100%; background-color:#f9f9f9; color:#000000; font-weight:normal"> <tbody><tr> <td colspan="2" style="padding:0"> </td></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Men%27s_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Men's basketball">Men's basketball</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#eeeeee;color:inherit;" class="adr">Representing the <img alt="" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/23px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="23" height="12" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/35px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/f/f5/Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg/46px-Flag_of_the_United_States_%281912-1959%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="1235" data-file-height="650" /> <a href="/wiki/United_States_men%27s_national_basketball_team" title="United States men's national basketball team">United States</a> </th></tr> <tr> <th colspan="3" style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;background-color:#cccccc;color:inherit;"><a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the Summer Olympics">Olympic Games</a> </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;color:inherit;"><img alt="Gold medal – first place" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/16px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png" decoding="async" width="16" height="16" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/24px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/d5/Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg/32px-Gold_medal_icon_%28G_initial%29.svg.png 2x" data-file-width="16" data-file-height="16" /></td> <td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics">1956 Melbourne</a></td> <td style="text-align:center;vertical-align:middle;"><a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team" title="1956 United States men's Olympic basketball team">Team competition</a> </td></tr></tbody></table> </div></div></td></tr></tbody></table> William Felton Russell (February 12, 1934 – July 31, 2022) was an American <a href="/wiki/Professional_basketball" class="mw-redirect" title="Professional basketball">professional basketball</a> player who played <a href="/wiki/Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">center</a> for the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> of the <a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association" title="National Basketball Association">National Basketball Association</a> (NBA) from 1956 to 1969. He was the centerpiece of the Celtics <a href="/wiki/Dynasty_(sports)" title="Dynasty (sports)">dynasty</a> that won 11 <a href="/wiki/NBA_championships" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA championships">NBA championships</a> during his 13-year career.<a href="#cite_note-6">[4]</a> Russell is widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time. At the University of San Francisco, Russell led the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Dons_men%27s_basketball" title="San Francisco Dons men's basketball">San Francisco Dons</a> to consecutive <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Men%27s_Division_I_Basketball_Championship" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship">NCAA championships</a> in <a href="/wiki/1955_NCAA_basketball_tournament" title="1955 NCAA basketball tournament">1955</a> and <a href="/wiki/1956_NCAA_basketball_tournament" title="1956 NCAA basketball tournament">1956</a>.<a href="#cite_note-usf-7">[5]</a> He was named <a href="/wiki/NCAA_basketball_tournament_Most_Outstanding_Player" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player">NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player</a>, and captained the gold medal-winning <a href="/wiki/U.S._national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="U.S. national basketball team">U.S. national basketball team</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics">1956 Summer Olympics</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> After being chosen by the <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis Hawks">St. Louis Hawks</a> with the second overall pick in the 1956 NBA draft, Russell was traded to the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> for Celtics center <a href="/wiki/Ed_Macauley" title="Ed Macauley">Ed Macauley</a> and small forward <a href="/wiki/Cliff_Hagan" title="Cliff Hagan">Cliff Hagan</a>. With Russell as their starting center and defensive anchor, the Celtics went on to win their first NBA championship in 1957 and won an NBA record eight consecutive championships from 1959 to 1966. A five-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player" title="NBA Most Valuable Player">NBA Most Valuable Player</a> (MVP) and a 12-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star">NBA All-Star</a>, Russell's rebounding, defense, and leadership made him one of the dominant players of his era.<a href="#cite_note-9">[7]</a><a href="#cite_note-10">[8]</a><a href="#cite_note-Gill_2010-11">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-12">[10]</a> Standing at 6 ft 10 in (2.08 m) tall, with a 7 ft 4 in (2.24 m) <a href="/wiki/Arm_span" title="Arm span">arm span</a>,<a href="#cite_note-13">[11]</a><a href="#cite_note-14">[12]</a> his <a href="/wiki/Shot-blocking" class="mw-redirect" title="Shot-blocking">shot-blocking</a> and <a href="/wiki/Man-to-man_defense" title="Man-to-man defense">man-to-man defense</a> were major reasons for the Celtics' dominance during his career. Russell also led the NBA in rebounds four times, had a dozen consecutive seasons of 1,000 or more rebounds,<a href="#cite_note-nbaplayoffeditionency-15">[13]</a> and remains second all-time in both <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_career_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association career rebounding leaders">total rebounds</a> and rebounds per game. Russell played in the wake of black pioneers <a href="/wiki/Earl_Lloyd" title="Earl Lloyd">Earl Lloyd</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(basketball)" title="Chuck Cooper (basketball)">Chuck Cooper</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Sweetwater_Clifton" class="mw-redirect" title="Sweetwater Clifton">Sweetwater Clifton</a>, and he was the first black player to achieve superstar status in the NBA. During the final three seasons of his career (1966–1969), he served as <a href="/wiki/Player-coach" title="Player-coach">player-coach</a> of the Celtics, becoming the first black NBA coach to win a championship.<a href="#cite_note-Goldstein_2022-16">[14]</a> Russell ended his playing career and left his position as Celtics coach after helping the Celtics win the 1969 NBA championship. Russell served as head coach and general manager of the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">Seattle SuperSonics</a> from 1973 to 1977. He also coached the <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a> from 1987 to 1988. Russell also worked as a <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> and authored several books. Russell was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a> in 1975, was one of the founding inductees into the <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame">National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame</a> in 2006 and was enshrined in the <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Hall_of_Fame" title="FIBA Hall of Fame">FIBA Hall of Fame</a> in 2007. He was selected into the <a href="/wiki/NBA_25th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 25th Anniversary Team">NBA 25th Anniversary Team</a> in 1971 and the <a href="/wiki/NBA_35th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 35th Anniversary Team">NBA 35th Anniversary Team</a> in 1980, was named as one of the <a href="/wiki/50_Greatest_Players_in_NBA_History" title="50 Greatest Players in NBA History">50 Greatest Players in NBA History</a> in 1996<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> (being one of only four players to receive all three honors), and was selected to the <a href="/wiki/NBA_75th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 75th Anniversary Team">NBA 75th Anniversary Team</a> in 2021. In 2009, the NBA renamed the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals_MVP_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Finals MVP Award">NBA Finals MVP Award</a> in his honor.<a href="#cite_note-17">[15]</a> In 2011, <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> awarded Russell the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> for his accomplishments on the court and in the <a href="/wiki/Civil_rights_movement" title="Civil rights movement">civil rights movement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-18">[16]</a> In 2021, Russell was inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame a second time in recognition of his coaching career.<a href="#cite_note-19">[17]</a> Shortly after his death in 2022, the NBA <a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_retired_numbers" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association retired numbers">retired</a> Russell's #6 <a href="/wiki/Jersey_number" class="mw-redirect" title="Jersey number">jersey</a> league-wide, making him the only player in NBA history to receive that honor,<a href="#cite_note-League-20">[18]</a> as well as the third person in <a href="/wiki/Major_professional_sports_leagues_in_the_United_States_and_Canada" title="Major professional sports leagues in the United States and Canada">North American major professional sports</a> to have their jersey number retired league-wide, behind <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky" title="Wayne Gretzky">Wayne Gretzky</a>.<a href="#cite_note-21">[19]</a> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Early_life">Early life</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Early life">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Family">Family</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Family">edit</a>]</div> William Felton Russell was born on February 12, 1934, to Charles Russell and Katie Russell in <a href="/wiki/West_Monroe,_Louisiana" title="West Monroe, Louisiana">West Monroe, Louisiana</a>. Like many Southern towns and cities of that time, Monroe was <a href="/wiki/Racial_segregation_in_the_United_States" title="Racial segregation in the United States">segregated</a> and the Russells often struggled with <a href="/wiki/Racism_in_the_United_States" title="Racism in the United States">racism</a> in their daily lives.<a href="#cite_note-Current-22">[20]</a> Russell's father was once refused service at a gas station until the staff had taken care of all the white customers first. When he attempted to leave and find a different station, the attendant stuck a shotgun in his face and threatened to kill him if he did not stay and wait his turn.<a href="#cite_note-Current-22">[20]</a> In another incident, Russell's mother was walking outside in a fancy dress when a white policeman accosted her. He told her to go home and remove the dress, which he described as "white woman's clothing".<a href="#cite_note-Current-22">[20]</a> During <a href="/wiki/World_War_II" title="World War II">World War II</a>, the <a href="/wiki/Second_Great_Migration_(African_American)" title="Second Great Migration (African American)">Second Great Migration</a> began, with large numbers of Black people leaving the South to find jobs in the rest of the U.S. When Russell was eight years old, his father moved the family to <a href="/wiki/Oakland,_California" title="Oakland, California">Oakland, California</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Current-22">[20]</a> While there, they fell into <a href="/wiki/Poverty_in_the_United_States" title="Poverty in the United States">poverty</a> and Russell spent his childhood living in a series of <a href="/wiki/Subsidized_housing_in_the_United_States" title="Subsidized housing in the United States">public housing</a> projects.<a href="#cite_note-Current-22">[20]</a> His father was said to be a "stern, hard man" who initially worked in a paper factory as a janitor, which was what sports journalist John Taylor called a typical "Negro Job"—low-paid and not intellectually challenging.<a href="#cite_note-taylor52_56-23">[21]</a> When World War II broke out, the elder Russell became a truck driver.<a href="#cite_note-taylor52_56-23">[21]</a> Russell was closer to his mother Katie than to his father,<a href="#cite_note-taylor52_56-23">[21]</a> and he received a major emotional blow when she suddenly died when he was 12 years old. His father gave up his trucking job and became a <a href="/wiki/Steelworker" class="mw-redirect" title="Steelworker">steelworker</a> in order to be closer to his children.<a href="#cite_note-taylor52_56-23">[21]</a> Russell stated that his father became his childhood hero, later followed up by <a href="/wiki/Minneapolis_Lakers" class="mw-redirect" title="Minneapolis Lakers">Minneapolis Lakers</a> superstar <a href="/wiki/George_Mikan" title="George Mikan">George Mikan</a>, whom he met when he was in high school.<a href="#cite_note-chat-24">[22]</a> Of Russell the college basketball player, Mikan said: "Let's face it, he's the best ever. He's so good, he scares you."<a href="#cite_note-25">[23]</a> Russell's older brother was playwright <a href="/wiki/Charlie_L._Russell" title="Charlie L. Russell">Charlie L. Russell</a>.<a href="#cite_note-26">[24]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Initial_exposure_to_basketball">Initial exposure to basketball</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Initial exposure to basketball">edit</a>]</div> During his early years Russell struggled to develop his skills as a basketball player. Although he was a good runner and jumper and had large hands,<a href="#cite_note-taylor52_56-23">[21]</a> he did not understand the game and was cut from the team at Herbert Hoover Junior High School. As a <a href="/wiki/Freshman" title="Freshman">freshman</a> at <a href="/wiki/McClymonds_High_School" title="McClymonds High School">McClymonds High School</a> in Oakland,<a href="#cite_note-27">[25]</a><a href="#cite_note-28">[26]</a> Russell was almost cut again;<a href="#cite_note-HS-29">[27]</a> as he saw Russell's raw athletic potential, coach George Powles encouraged him to work on his fundamentals.<a href="#cite_note-taylor52_56-23">[21]</a> After Russell was cut from the junior varsity basketball team as a junior in high school, Powles gave him a spot on the varsity team and bought him a yearlong community center membership.<a href="#cite_note-30">[28]</a> Since Russell's previous experiences with white authority figures were often negative, warm words from Powles reassured him. <a href="/wiki/Frank_Robinson" title="Frank Robinson">Frank Robinson</a>, a future member of the <a href="/wiki/National_Baseball_Hall_of_Fame_and_Museum" title="National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum">Baseball Hall of Fame</a>, was one of Russell's high school basketball teammates.<a href="#cite_note-31">[29]</a> Russell soon became noted for his unusual style of defense. He later recalled: "To play good defense ... it was told back then that you had to stay flatfooted at all times to react quickly. When I started to jump to make defensive plays and to <a href="/wiki/Block_shot" class="mw-redirect" title="Block shot">block shots</a>, I was initially corrected, but I stuck with it, and it paid off."<a href="#cite_note-32">[30]</a> In an autobiographical account, Russell said that while on a California High School All-Stars tour, he became obsessed with studying and memorizing other players' moves, e.g., footwork such as which foot they moved first on which play, as preparation for defending against them, which included practicing in front of a mirror at night. Russell described himself as an avid reader of <a href="/wiki/Dell_Magazines" title="Dell Magazines">Dell Magazines</a>' 1950s sports publications, which he used to scout opponents' moves for the purpose of defending against them.<a href="#cite_note-RussellSteinberg2009-33">[31]</a> Russell was ignored by college recruiters and did not receive an offer until recruiter Hal DeJulio from the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco" title="University of San Francisco">University of San Francisco</a> (USF) watched him play in a high school game. DeJulio was unimpressed by Russell's meager scoring and "atrocious fundamentals",<a href="#cite_note-taylor50_51-34">[32]</a> but he sensed that the young Russell had an extraordinary instinct for the game, especially in the <a href="/wiki/Clutch_(sports)" title="Clutch (sports)">clutch</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor50_51-34">[32]</a> Russell eagerly accepted the offer.<a href="#cite_note-HS-29">[27]</a> Sports journalist John Taylor described the scholarship offer as a watershed event in Russell's life because Russell realized that basketball was his chance to escape poverty and racism, and he swore to make the best of it.<a href="#cite_note-taylor52_56-23">[21]</a> Russell graduated from McClymonds in 1952.<a href="#cite_note-35">[33]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="College_career">College career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: College career">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="University_of_San_Francisco">University of San Francisco</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: University of San Francisco">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Basketball">Basketball</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=6" title="Edit section: Basketball">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_russell_usf.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell shooting" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Bill_russell_usf.jpg/180px-Bill_russell_usf.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="230" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Bill_russell_usf.jpg/270px-Bill_russell_usf.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/b/b9/Bill_russell_usf.jpg/360px-Bill_russell_usf.jpg 2x" data-file-width="760" data-file-height="970" /></a><figcaption>Russell practicing a free throw at the <a href="/wiki/University_of_San_Francisco" title="University of San Francisco">University of San Francisco</a>, c. 1953–56</figcaption></figure> Russell started college at USF in 1952.<a href="#cite_note-36">[34]</a> He averaged 20 points per game on the <a href="/wiki/San_Francisco_Dons_men%27s_basketball" title="San Francisco Dons men's basketball">Dons</a>’ freshman basketball team,<a href="#cite_note-37">[35]</a> and made his varsity debut on December 1, 1953.<a href="#cite_note-38">[36]</a> He became the starting <a href="/wiki/Center_(basketball)" title="Center (basketball)">center</a> for coach <a href="/wiki/Phil_Woolpert" title="Phil Woolpert">Phil Woolpert</a>, who emphasized defense and deliberate half-court play, which favored Russell's exceptional defensive skills.<a href="#cite_note-taylor57_67-39">[37]</a> Woolpert's choice of how to deploy his players was unaffected by their skin color. In 1954, he became the first coach of a major college basketball program to start three African-American players: <a href="/wiki/K._C._Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="K. C. Jones">K. C. Jones</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hal_Perry_(basketball)" title="Hal Perry (basketball)">Hal Perry</a>, and Russell.<a href="#cite_note-usf-7">[5]</a> In his USF years, Russell took advantage of his relative lack of bulk to guard other players than the opposing center: using his quickness and speed, he would double-up on <a href="/wiki/Forward_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Forward (basketball)">forwards</a> and aggressively challenge their shots.<a href="#cite_note-taylor57_67-39">[37]</a> Russell played on USF's varsity team from 1953 to 1956.<a href="#cite_note-40">[38]</a> Combining the stature and <a href="/wiki/Shot-blocking" class="mw-redirect" title="Shot-blocking">shot-blocking</a> skills of a center with the foot speed of a forward, Russell became the centerpiece of a USF team that soon became a force in college basketball. After USF kept <a href="/wiki/Holy_Cross_Crusaders_men%27s_basketball" title="Holy Cross Crusaders men's basketball">Holy Cross Crusaders</a> star <a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Tom Heinsohn</a> scoreless in an entire half,<a href="#cite_note-41">[39]</a> <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a> wrote: "If [Russell] ever learns to hit the basket, they're going to have to rewrite the rules."<a href="#cite_note-taylor57_67-39">[37]</a> The <a href="/wiki/NCAA" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA">NCAA</a> in fact did; the lane was widened for his junior year. After he graduated, the NCAA rules committee instituted a second new rule to counter the play of big men like Russell; <a href="/wiki/Basket_interference" title="Basket interference">basket interference</a> was now prohibited.<a href="#cite_note-DeCock2005-42">[40]</a> Russell became one of several big men who have brought about NCAA rule changes. The NCAA had previously prohibited goaltending in response to <a href="/wiki/George_Mikan" title="George Mikan">George Mikan</a> (1945) and later banned the <a href="/wiki/Slam_dunk" title="Slam dunk">dunk shot</a> due to <a href="/wiki/Lew_Alcindor" class="mw-redirect" title="Lew Alcindor">Lew Alcindor</a> (1967), although the latter rule was later repealed.<a href="#cite_note-43">[41]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Russell_University_of_San_Francisco.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell smiling" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bill_Russell_University_of_San_Francisco.jpeg/160px-Bill_Russell_University_of_San_Francisco.jpeg" decoding="async" width="160" height="253" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bill_Russell_University_of_San_Francisco.jpeg/240px-Bill_Russell_University_of_San_Francisco.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a8/Bill_Russell_University_of_San_Francisco.jpeg/320px-Bill_Russell_University_of_San_Francisco.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="789" data-file-height="1248" /></a><figcaption>Russell during his college career at USF</figcaption></figure> The games were often difficult for the USF squad, as Russell and his black teammates became targets of racist jeers, particularly on the road.<a href="#cite_note-jwr-44">[42]</a> In one incident, hotels in <a href="/wiki/Oklahoma_City" title="Oklahoma City">Oklahoma City</a> refused to admit Russell and his black teammates while they were in town for the 1954 All-College Tournament. In protest, the whole team decided to fend for themselves in a closed <a href="/wiki/College_dorm" class="mw-redirect" title="College dorm">college dorm</a>, which was later called an important bonding experience for the group.<a href="#cite_note-usf-7">[5]</a> Decades later, Russell explained that his experiences hardened him against abuse of all kinds,<a href="#cite_note-ConvSI-45">[43]</a> saying: "I never permitted myself to be a victim."<a href="#cite_note-ConvUSA-46">[44]</a> Racism shaped his lifelong paradigm as a team player, about which Russell said: "At that time it was never acceptable that a black player was the best. That did not happen ... My junior year in college, I had what I thought was the one of the best college seasons ever. We won 28 out of 29 games. We won the National Championship. I was the <a href="/wiki/Most_Valuable_Player" class="mw-redirect" title="Most Valuable Player">MVP</a> at the Final Four. I was first team All American. I averaged over 20 <a href="/wiki/Point_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Point (basketball)">points</a> and over 20 <a href="/wiki/Rebound_(basketball)" title="Rebound (basketball)">rebounds</a>, and I was the only guy in college blocking shots. So after the season was over, they had a Northern California banquet, and they picked another center as Player of the Year in Northern California. Well, that let me know that if I were to accept these as the final judges of my career I would die a bitter old man." He is said to have made a conscious decision to put the team first and foremost, and not worry about individual achievements.<a href="#cite_note-47">[45]</a> On the court, Russell's experiences were far more pleasant. He led USF to <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_tournament" title="NCAA Division I men's basketball tournament">NCAA championships</a> in <a href="/wiki/1955_NCAA_basketball_tournament" title="1955 NCAA basketball tournament">1955</a> and <a href="/wiki/1956_NCAA_basketball_tournament" title="1956 NCAA basketball tournament">1956</a>, including a string of 55 consecutive victories, and a 26-point, 27-rebound, 20-block performance in one game.<a href="#cite_note-Frey_2021-48">[46]</a> He became known for his strong defense and shot-blocking skills, once denying 13 shots in a game. <a href="/wiki/UCLA_Bruins_men%27s_basketball" title="UCLA Bruins men's basketball">UCLA Bruins</a> coach <a href="/wiki/John_Wooden" title="John Wooden">John Wooden</a> called Russell "the greatest defensive man I've ever seen".<a href="#cite_note-usf-7">[5]</a><a href="#cite_note-Gill_2010-11">[9]</a> While at USF, he and Jones helped pioneer a play that later became known as the <a href="/wiki/Alley-oop_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Alley-oop (basketball)">alley-oop</a>.<a href="#cite_note-johnson-49">[47]</a><a href="#cite_note-Paul-50">[48]</a> During his college career, Russell was the <a href="/wiki/NCAA_basketball_tournament_Most_Outstanding_Player" class="mw-redirect" title="NCAA basketball tournament Most Outstanding Player">NCAA Tournament Most Outstanding Player</a> in 1955, averaging 20.7 <a href="/wiki/Points_per_game" title="Points per game">points per game</a> and 20.3 <a href="/wiki/Rebounds_per_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Rebounds per game">rebounds per game</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Heery_2022-51">[49]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="Track_and_field">Track and field</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=7" title="Edit section: Track and field">edit</a>]</div> Besides basketball, Russell represented USF in track and field events. He was a standout in the <a href="/wiki/High_jump" title="High jump">high jump</a> and according to <a href="/wiki/Track_%26_Field_News" title="Track & Field News">Track & Field News</a> was ranked the seventh-best high-jumper in the world in 1956, his graduation year, despite not competing in Olympic high-jump competition.<a href="#cite_note-chat-24">[22]</a><a href="#cite_note-52">[50]</a> That year, Russell won high jump titles at the Central California <a href="/wiki/Amateur_Athletic_Union" title="Amateur Athletic Union">Amateur Athletic Union</a> (AAU) meet, the Pacific AAU meet, and the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Relays" title="West Coast Relays">West Coast Relays</a> (WCR). One of his highest jumps occurred at the WCR, where he achieved a mark of <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1154941027">.mw-parser-output .frac{white-space:nowrap}.mw-parser-output .frac .num,.mw-parser-output .frac .den{font-size:80%;line-height:0;vertical-align:super}.mw-parser-output .frac .den{vertical-align:sub}.mw-parser-output .sr-only{border:0;clip:rect(0,0,0,0);clip-path:polygon(0px 0px,0px 0px,0px 0px);height:1px;margin:-1px;overflow:hidden;padding:0;position:absolute;width:1px}</style>6 feet 9+1⁄4 inches (2.06 m);<a href="#cite_note-53">[51]</a> at the meet, Russell tied <a href="/wiki/Charlie_Dumas" class="mw-redirect" title="Charlie Dumas">Charlie Dumas</a>, who would later in the year win gold in the <a href="/wiki/1956_Summer_Olympics" title="1956 Summer Olympics">1956 Summer Olympics</a> in Melbourne, Australia for the United States and become the first person to high-jump 7 feet (2.13 m).<a href="#cite_note-54">[52]</a> this was all before the <a href="/wiki/Fosbury_Flop" class="mw-redirect" title="Fosbury Flop">Fosbury Flop</a> was introduced, with which all high jump world records after 1978 have been set.<a href="#cite_note-55">[53]</a><a href="#cite_note-56">[54]</a><a href="#cite_note-57">[55]</a> He also competed in the 440 yards (402.3 m) race, which he could complete in 49.6 seconds.<a href="#cite_note-58">[56]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="1956_Summer_Olympics">1956 Summer Olympics</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=8" title="Edit section: 1956 Summer Olympics">edit</a>]</div> Before his NBA rookie year, Russell was the captain of the <a href="/wiki/1956_U.S._men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="1956 U.S. men's Olympic basketball team">1956 U.S. men's Olympic basketball team</a> that competed at the <a href="/wiki/Basketball_at_the_1956_Summer_Olympics" title="Basketball at the 1956 Summer Olympics">1956 Summer Olympics</a>,<a href="#cite_note-59">[57]</a> which was held in November and December in <a href="/wiki/Melbourne" title="Melbourne">Melbourne</a>, Australia. <a href="/wiki/Avery_Brundage" title="Avery Brundage">Avery Brundage</a>, head of the <a href="/wiki/International_Olympic_Committee" title="International Olympic Committee">International Olympic Committee</a>, argued that Russell had already signed a professional contract and was no longer an <a href="/wiki/Amateur_sports" title="Amateur sports">amateur</a> (as nominally required at the time), but Russell prevailed.<a href="#cite_note-taylor67_74-60">[58]</a> He had the option to skip the tournament and play a full season for the Celtics, but he was determined to play in the Olympics. He later commented that he would have participated in the <a href="/wiki/High_jump" title="High jump">high jump</a> if he had been snubbed by the basketball team.<a href="#cite_note-chat-24">[22]</a> Under head coach <a href="/wiki/Gerald_Tucker" title="Gerald Tucker">Gerald Tucker</a>, Russell helped the <a href="/wiki/1956_United_States_men%27s_Olympic_basketball_team" title="1956 United States men's Olympic basketball team">U.S. national basketball team</a> win the <a href="/wiki/Gold_medal" title="Gold medal">gold medal</a> in Melbourne, defeating the <a href="/wiki/Soviet_Union_national_basketball_team" class="mw-redirect" title="Soviet Union national basketball team">Soviet Union national basketball team</a> 89–55 in the final game with an 8–0 undefeated run.<a href="#cite_note-Beslic_2020-61">[59]</a> The U.S. dominated the tournament, winning by an average of 53.5 points per game.<a href="#cite_note-Frey_2021-48">[46]</a> Russell led the team in scoring, averaging 14.1 points per game for the competition.<a href="#cite_note-62">[60]</a> His former USF and future Celtics teammate <a href="/wiki/K._C._Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="K. C. Jones">K. C. Jones</a> joined him on the Olympic squad and contributed 10.9 points per game,<a href="#cite_note-63">[61]</a> including a Russell–Jones combined 29 points in the finals.<a href="#cite_note-Beslic_2020-61">[59]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Professional_career">Professional career</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=9" title="Edit section: Professional career">edit</a>]</div> The <a href="/wiki/Harlem_Globetrotters" title="Harlem Globetrotters">Harlem Globetrotters</a> invited Russell to join their exhibition basketball squad, but Russell, who was sensitive to racial prejudice, was enraged by the fact that Globetrotters owner <a href="/wiki/Abe_Saperstein" title="Abe Saperstein">Abe Saperstein</a> would only discuss the matter with USF Coach Woolpert, and not Russell. While Saperstein spoke to Woolpert in a meeting, Globetrotters assistant coach Harry Hanna tried to entertain Russell with jokes, but he was livid after this snub and declined the offer. He reasoned that if Saperstein was too smart to speak with him, then he was too smart to play for Saperstein. Russell made himself eligible for the <a href="/wiki/1956_NBA_draft" title="1956 NBA draft">1956 NBA draft</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor66_71-64">[62]</a> In the draft, <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> coach <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a> set his sights on Russell, thinking his defensive toughness and rebounding prowess were the missing pieces the Celtics needed.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> Auerbach's thoughts were unorthodox, as in that period centers and forwards were defined by their offensive output, and their ability to play defense was secondary.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> Boston's chances of getting Russell seemed slim because they had finished second in the previous season and the worst teams had the highest draft picks, and the Celtics had slipped too low in the draft order to pick Russell. In addition, Auerbach had already used his <a href="/wiki/NBA_territorial_pick" title="NBA territorial pick">NBA territorial pick</a> to acquire talented forward <a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Tom Heinsohn</a>. Auerbach knew that the <a href="/wiki/Rochester_Royals" class="mw-redirect" title="Rochester Royals">Rochester Royals</a>, who owned the first draft pick, already had a strong rebounder in <a href="/wiki/Maurice_Stokes" title="Maurice Stokes">Maurice Stokes</a>, were looking for an outside shooting guard, and were unwilling to pay Russell the $25,000 signing bonus he requested. Celtics owner <a href="/wiki/Walter_A._Brown" title="Walter A. Brown">Walter A. Brown</a> contacted Rochester owner <a href="/wiki/Les_Harrison_(basketball)" title="Les Harrison (basketball)">Les Harrison</a> and received an assurance that the Royals could not afford Russell, and they would draft <a href="/wiki/Sihugo_Green" class="mw-redirect" title="Sihugo Green">Sihugo Green</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor67_74-60">[58]</a> Auerbach later said that Brown offered Harrison guaranteed performances of the <a href="/wiki/Ice_Capades" title="Ice Capades">Ice Capades</a> if they did not draft Russell; it is difficult to verify or disprove this, but it is clear that the Royals underrated Russell.<a href="#cite_note-taylor67_74-60">[58]</a> The <a href="/wiki/St._Louis_Hawks" class="mw-redirect" title="St. Louis Hawks">St. Louis Hawks</a>, who owned the second pick, drafted Russell but were vying for Celtics center <a href="/wiki/Ed_Macauley" title="Ed Macauley">Ed Macauley</a>, a six-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star">NBA All-Star</a> who had roots in <a href="/wiki/St._Louis" title="St. Louis">St. Louis</a>. Auerbach agreed to trade Macauley, who had previously asked to be traded to St. Louis in order to be with his sick son, if the Hawks gave up Russell. The owner of the Hawks called Auerbach later and demanded more in the trade. In addition to Macauley, who was the Celtics' premier player at the time, he wanted <a href="/wiki/Cliff_Hagan" title="Cliff Hagan">Cliff Hagan</a>, who had been serving in the military for three years and had not yet played for the Celtics. After much debate, Auerbach agreed to give up Hagan and the Hawks made the trade.<a href="#cite_note-66">[64]</a> During that same draft, Boston also drafted guard <a href="/wiki/K._C._Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="K. C. Jones">K. C. Jones</a>, Russell's former USF teammate; in total, the team drafted three future <a href="/wiki/Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball Hall of Fame">Basketball Hall of Famers</a> in 1956: Russell, Jones, and Heinsohn.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> The Russell draft-day trade was later called one of the most important trades in the history of North American sports.<a href="#cite_note-taylor67_74-60">[58]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Boston_Celtics_(1956–1969)">Boston Celtics (1956–1969)</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=10" title="Edit section: Boston Celtics (1956–1969)">edit</a>]</div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1956–1958:_Rookie_champion_and_early_years">1956–1958: Rookie champion and early years</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=11" title="Edit section: 1956–1958: Rookie champion and early years">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:BillRussellCeltics1.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell seated in a Celtics track suit" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/BillRussellCeltics1.jpg/170px-BillRussellCeltics1.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="226" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/BillRussellCeltics1.jpg/255px-BillRussellCeltics1.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/05/BillRussellCeltics1.jpg/340px-BillRussellCeltics1.jpg 2x" data-file-width="626" data-file-height="834" /></a><figcaption>Russell in 1957</figcaption></figure> Due to his Olympic commitment, Russell could not join the Celtics for the <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_NBA_season" title="1956–57 NBA season">1956–57 NBA season</a> until December.<a href="#cite_note-67">[65]</a> The <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1956–57 Boston Celtics season">1956–57 Boston Celtics season</a> saw the debut of a <a href="/wiki/Starting_lineup" title="Starting lineup">starting lineup</a> made up of five future Hall-of-Famers: center Russell, forwards Heinsohn and <a href="/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(basketball)" title="Frank Ramsey (basketball)">Frank Ramsey</a>, and guards <a href="/wiki/Bill_Sharman" title="Bill Sharman">Bill Sharman</a> and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Bob Cousy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-68">[66]</a> Russell's first Celtics game came on December 22, 1956, against the <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_St._Louis_Hawks_season" title="1956–57 St. Louis Hawks season">St. Louis Hawks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> Auerbach assigned him to shut down the Hawks' main scorer, <a href="/wiki/Bob_Pettit" title="Bob Pettit">Bob Pettit</a>, and Russell impressed the Boston crowd with his <a href="/wiki/Man-to-man_defense" title="Man-to-man defense">man-to-man defense</a> and shot-blocking.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> In previous years, the Celtics had been a high-scoring team but lacked the defensive presence needed to close out tight games. With the added defensive presence of Russell, the Celtics had laid the foundation for a dynasty, as the team utilized a strong defensive approach to the game, forcing opposing teams to commit many <a href="/wiki/Turnover_(basketball)" title="Turnover (basketball)">turnovers</a>, which led to many easy points on <a href="/wiki/Fast_break" title="Fast break">fast breaks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> Russell was an elite help defender who allowed the Celtics to play the "Hey, Bill" defense: whenever a Celtic requested additional defensive help, he would shout "Hey, Bill!" Russell was so quick that he could run over for a quick <a href="/wiki/Double_team" title="Double team">double team</a> and make it back in time if the opponents tried to find the open man.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> He also became famous for his shot-blocking skills and pundits called his blocks "Wilsonburgers", referring to the <a href="/wiki/Wilson_Sporting_Goods" title="Wilson Sporting Goods">Wilson</a> NBA basketballs he "shoved back into the faces of opposing shooters".<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> This skill allowed the other Celtics to play their men aggressively; if they were beaten, they knew that Russell was guarding the basket.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> Russell's defense was called into question by <a href="/wiki/Eddie_Gottlieb" title="Eddie Gottlieb">Eddie Gottlieb</a>, coach of the <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_Philadelphia_Warriors_season" title="1956–57 Philadelphia Warriors season">Philadelphia Warriors</a>, after the Warriors–Celtics game on January 1, 1957, in which he recorded 17 points and 25 rebounds, plus an assist.<a href="#cite_note-70">[68]</a> Gottlieb protested the next day, saying that Russell played a one-man zone and <a href="/wiki/Goaltending_(basketball)" title="Goaltending (basketball)">goaltended</a> numerous times, to only be called once. Auerbach replied that Gottlieb's statements were "absolutely ridiculous" and said any controversy was "a question of sour grapes".<a href="#cite_note-71">[69]</a> Constantly provoked by <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_New_York_Knicks_season" title="1956–57 New York Knicks season">New York Knicks</a> center <a href="/wiki/Ray_Felix" title="Ray Felix">Ray Felix</a> during a game, he complained to coach Auerbach, who told him to take matters into his own hands. After the next provocation, Russell pounded Felix to the point of unconsciousness, paid a modest $25 fine, and rarely was the target of cheap fouls thereafter.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> At that time, Russell received much negative publicity as a player. He was notorious for his public surliness. Because Russell ignored virtually any well-wisher who approached him home or away, as well as the vast majority of media, his autograph was among the most difficult to secure of any professional athlete of his time.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> Russell had a cordial relationship with many of his teammates, with the notable exception of Heinsohn, his old rival and fellow rookie. Russell ignored Heinsohn's request for an autograph on behalf of his cousin and openly said to Heinsohn that he deserved half of his $300 Rookie of the Year check. The relationship between the two was tenuous at best.<a href="#cite_note-taylor91_99-72">[70]</a> Despite their different ethnic backgrounds and lack of common off-court interests, his relationship with Cousy was amicable.<a href="#cite_note-taylor108_111-73">[71]</a> Russell played 48 games, averaging 14.7 points per game and a league-high 19.6 rebounds per game.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> The Celtics finished the 1956–57 regular season with a 44–28 record, the team's second-best record since beginning play in the <a href="/wiki/1946%E2%80%9347_BAA_season" title="1946–47 BAA season">1946–47 BAA season</a>, which guaranteed Russell his first <a href="/wiki/1957_NBA_playoffs" title="1957 NBA playoffs">NBA playoffs</a> appearance,<a href="#cite_note-brceltics-74">[72]</a> where the Celtics met with the <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_Syracuse_Nationals_season" title="1956–57 Syracuse Nationals season">Syracuse Nationals</a>, a team led by <a href="/wiki/Dolph_Schayes" title="Dolph Schayes">Dolph Schayes</a>, through the Eastern Division finals. In his first playoff game, Russell finished with 16 points and 31 rebounds, along with 7 reported blocks, which were not yet an officially registered statistic.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> After the Celtics' 108–89 victory, Schayes, who made <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Kerr" title="Johnny Kerr">Johnny Kerr</a> come off the bench because he struggled against Russell in the regular season, quipped: "How much does that guy make a year? It would be to our advantage if we paid him off for five years to get away from us in the rest of this series."<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> The next day, <a href="/wiki/The_Boston_Globe" title="The Boston Globe">The Boston Globe</a> read: "Russell's Reflexes Befuddles Visitors."<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> The Celtics swept the Nationals in three games to earn the franchise's first <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a> appearance in the <a href="/wiki/1957_NBA_Finals" title="1957 NBA Finals">1957 NBA Finals</a>,<a href="#cite_note-75">[73]</a> where they met the <a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_St._Louis_Hawks_season" title="1956–57 St. Louis Hawks season">St. Louis Hawks</a>, led by Pettit and former Celtic <a href="/wiki/Ed_Macauley" title="Ed Macauley">Ed Macauley</a>. As the teams split the first six games, the tension was so high that in Game 3 Celtics coach Auerbach punched his colleague <a href="/wiki/Ben_Kerner" title="Ben Kerner">Ben Kerner</a> and received a $300 fine.<a href="#cite_note-taylor91_99-72">[70]</a> In the highly-competitive Game 7, Russell tried his best to slow down Pettit, as Heinsohn scored 37 points and kept the Celtics alive;<a href="#cite_note-taylor91_99-72">[70]</a> Russell contributed by completing the famous "Coleman Play", as he ran down Hawks forward <a href="/wiki/Jack_Coleman_(basketball)" title="Jack Coleman (basketball)">Jack Coleman</a>, who had received an outlet pass at midcourt, and blocked his shot despite the fact that Russell had been standing at his own baseline when the ball was thrown to Coleman. The block preserved Boston's slim 103–102 lead with 40-odd seconds left to play in regulation, saving the game for the Celtics.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-76">[74]</a> In the second <a href="/wiki/Overtime_(sports)" title="Overtime (sports)">overtime</a>, both teams were in serious foul trouble: Heinsohn had fouled out, and the Hawks were so depleted that they had only seven players left.<a href="#cite_note-taylor91_99-72">[70]</a> With the Celtics leading 125–123 with one second left, the Hawks had the ball at their own baseline. Reserve forward <a href="/wiki/Alex_Hannum" title="Alex Hannum">Alex Hannum</a> threw a long <a href="/wiki/Alley-oop" title="Alley-oop">alley-oop</a> pass to Pettit and Pettit's tip-in rolled indecisively on the rim for several seconds before rolling out again. The Celtics won, earning their first <a href="/wiki/NBA_champions" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA champions">NBA championship</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor91_99-72">[70]</a> At the start of the <a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_NBA_season" title="1957–58 NBA season">1957–58 NBA season</a>, the Celtics won fourteen straight games and continued to succeed.<a href="#cite_note-nbaplayoffeditionency-15">[13]</a> Russell averaged 16.6 points per game and a league-record average of 22.7 rebounds per game.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> The NBA reasoned that other centers were better all-round players than Russell but no player was more valuable to his team. He was voted the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Most_Valuable_Player" title="NBA Most Valuable Player">NBA Most Valuable Player</a> but only named to the <a href="/wiki/All-NBA_Second_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="All-NBA Second Team">All-NBA Second Team</a>, something that would occur repeatedly throughout his career, as players voted for the MVP award, something that would last until the <a href="/wiki/1979%E2%80%9380_NBA_season" title="1979–80 NBA season">1979–80 NBA season</a>, while the media has always voted for the <a href="/wiki/All-NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="All-NBA">All-NBA</a> teams.<a href="#cite_note-77">[75]</a> The Celtics won 49 games and made the first berth in the <a href="/wiki/1958_NBA_playoffs" title="1958 NBA playoffs">1958 NBA playoffs</a>, where they met in the <a href="/wiki/1958_NBA_Finals" title="1958 NBA Finals">1958 NBA Finals</a> with their familiar rivals, the <a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_St._Louis_Hawks_season" title="1957–58 St. Louis Hawks season">St. Louis Hawks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-hawks58-78">[76]</a> The teams split the first two games, but Russell went down with a foot injury in Game 3 and only returned for Game 6. The Celtics won Game 4 in an upset, but the Hawks prevailed in Games 5 and 6, with Pettit scoring 50 points in the deciding Game 6.<a href="#cite_note-hawks58-78">[76]</a> Many observers thought that Boston could have won had Russell not been injured, but Auerbach commented: "You can always look for excuses ... We just got beat."<a href="#cite_note-hawks58-78">[76]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1958–1966:_Eight_straight_NBA_championships">1958–1966: Eight straight NBA championships</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=12" title="Edit section: 1958–1966: Eight straight NBA championships">edit</a>]</div> In the <a href="/wiki/1958%E2%80%9359_NBA_season" title="1958–59 NBA season">1958–59 NBA season</a>, Russell averaged 16.7 points per game and 23.0 rebounds per game.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> The Celtics broke a league record by winning 52 games and Russell's strong performance once again helped lead the Celtics through the <a href="/wiki/1959_NBA_playoffs" title="1959 NBA playoffs">1959 NBA playoffs</a>, as they returned to the NBA Finals. In the <a href="/wiki/1959_NBA_Finals" title="1959 NBA Finals">1959 NBA Finals</a>, the Celtics recaptured the NBA title, sweeping the <a href="/wiki/1958%E2%80%9359_Minneapolis_Lakers_season" title="1958–59 Minneapolis Lakers season">Minneapolis Lakers</a> 4–0.<a href="#cite_note-79">[77]</a> Lakers head coach <a href="/wiki/John_Kundla" title="John Kundla">John Kundla</a> praised Russell, stating: "We don't fear the Celtics without Bill Russell. Take him out and we can beat them ... He's the guy who whipped us psychologically."<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_NBA_season" title="1959–60 NBA season">1959–60 NBA season</a>, the NBA witnessed the debut of 7 ft 1 in (2.16 m) <a href="/wiki/Philadelphia_Warriors" class="mw-redirect" title="Philadelphia Warriors">Philadelphia Warriors</a> center <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a>, who averaged a record 37.6 points per game in his rookie year.<a href="#cite_note-wiltsummary-80">[78]</a> On November 7, 1959, Russell's Celtics hosted Chamberlain's Warriors and pundits called the matchup between the best offensive and defensive centers "The Big Collision" and "Battle of the Titans".<a href="#cite_note-taylor3_10-81">[79]</a> Both men awed onlookers with "nakedly awesome athleticism",<a href="#cite_note-taylor3_10-81">[79]</a> and while Chamberlain outscored Russell 30 to 22, the Celtics won 115–106, and the match was called a "new beginning of basketball".<a href="#cite_note-taylor3_10-81">[79]</a> The matchup between Russell and Chamberlain became one of basketball's greatest rivalries.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> On February 5, 1960, Russell had 23 points, 51 rebounds, and 5 assists in a 124–100 win over the <a href="/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_Syracuse_Nationals_season" title="1959–60 Syracuse Nationals season">Syracuse Nationals</a>.<a href="#cite_note-82">[80]</a> It was the record for most rebounds in a single game until November 24, 1960, when Chamberlain grabbed 55 rebounds against Russell,<a href="#cite_note-Schwartz_1999-83">[81]</a> who led the Celtics to a 132–129 win over the <a href="/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_Philadelphia_Warriors_season" title="1959–60 Philadelphia Warriors season">Philadelphia Warriors</a> with 18 points, 19 rebounds, and 5 assists.<a href="#cite_note-84">[82]</a> Boston won a then-record 59 regular-season games, including a then-record tying 17-game win streak. In the <a href="/wiki/1960_NBA_playoffs" title="1960 NBA playoffs">1960 NBA playoffs</a>, Russell's Celtics met Chamberlain's Warriors in the Eastern Division finals. Chamberlain outscored Russell by 81 points in the series, but the Celtics walked off with a 4–2 series win.<a href="#cite_note-85">[83]</a><a href="#cite_note-86">[84]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1960_NBA_Finals" title="1960 NBA Finals">1960 NBA Finals</a>, the Celtics outlasted the Hawks 4–3 in the series and won their third championship in four years.<a href="#cite_note-brceltics-74">[72]</a> Russell scored 21 points and grabbed an NBA Finals-record 40 rebounds, plus an assist, in a Game 2 loss,<a href="#cite_note-87">[85]</a> and he added 22 points and 35 rebounds, along with 4 assists,<a href="#cite_note-88">[86]</a> in the deciding Game 7, a 122–103 victory for Boston.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:1961_Chicago_Packers_vs._Boston_Celtics.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Two players jumping up to shoot and block with others around them" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/1961_Chicago_Packers_vs._Boston_Celtics.jpeg/170px-1961_Chicago_Packers_vs._Boston_Celtics.jpeg" decoding="async" width="170" height="247" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/1961_Chicago_Packers_vs._Boston_Celtics.jpeg/255px-1961_Chicago_Packers_vs._Boston_Celtics.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/06/1961_Chicago_Packers_vs._Boston_Celtics.jpeg/340px-1961_Chicago_Packers_vs._Boston_Celtics.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="1268" data-file-height="1844" /></a><figcaption>Russell (first from left) watches as <a href="/wiki/Chicago_Packers" class="mw-redirect" title="Chicago Packers">Chicago Packers</a> player <a href="/wiki/Walt_Bellamy" title="Walt Bellamy">Walt Bellamy</a> attempts to block Tommy Heinsohn in a 1961 game</figcaption></figure> In the <a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_NBA_season" title="1960–61 NBA season">1960–61 NBA season</a>, Russell averaged 16.9 points and 23.9 rebounds per game,<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> leading his team to a regular season mark of 57–22. In the <a href="/wiki/1961_NBA_playoffs" title="1961 NBA playoffs">1961 NBA playoffs</a>, the Celtics defeated the Syracuse Nationals 4–1 in the Eastern Division finals. The Celtics made good use of the fact that the <a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season" title="1960–61 Los Angeles Lakers season">Los Angeles Lakers</a> had exhausted the <a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_St._Louis_Hawks_season" title="1960–61 St. Louis Hawks season">St. Louis Hawks</a> in a long seven-game Western Conference finals,<a href="#cite_note-89">[87]</a> and Boston won the <a href="/wiki/1961_NBA_Finals" title="1961 NBA Finals">1961 NBA Finals</a> in five games.<a href="#cite_note-celtics61-90">[88]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_NBA_season" title="1961–62 NBA season">1961–62 NBA season</a>, Russell scored a career-high 18.9 points per game, accompanied by 23.6 rebounds per game.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> While his rival had a record-breaking season of 50.4 points per game, including <a href="/wiki/Chamberlain%27s_100-point_game" class="mw-redirect" title="Chamberlain's 100-point game">Chamberlain's 100-point game</a>,<a href="#cite_note-wiltsummary-80">[78]</a> the Celtics became the first team to win 60 games in a season and Russell was voted as the league's MVP. Both Cousy and Russell called it the greatest Celtics team of all time.<a href="#cite_note-Cherry_2004,_pp._115–116-91">[89]</a> In the Eastern Division championships of the <a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_playoffs" title="1962 NBA playoffs">1962 NBA playoffs</a>, the Celtics met the <a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_Philadelphia_Warriors_season" title="1961–62 Philadelphia Warriors season">Philadelphia Warriors</a> led by Chamberlain, who averaged 50 points per game that season, and Russell did his best to slow him down. In the pivotal Game 7, Russell managed to hold Chamberlain to 22 points, 28 points below his season average, while scoring 19 points. The game was tied with two seconds left when <a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(basketball,_born_1933)" title="Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)">Sam Jones</a> sank a <a href="/wiki/Clutch_(sports)" title="Clutch (sports)">clutch</a> shot that won the Celtics the series.<a href="#cite_note-Cherry_2004,_pp._115–116-91">[89]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bob_McNeill_and_Bill_Russell.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A player going up to shoot a contested shot" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bob_McNeill_and_Bill_Russell.jpg/170px-Bob_McNeill_and_Bill_Russell.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="254" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bob_McNeill_and_Bill_Russell.jpg/255px-Bob_McNeill_and_Bill_Russell.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/87/Bob_McNeill_and_Bill_Russell.jpg/340px-Bob_McNeill_and_Bill_Russell.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3035" data-file-height="4535" /></a><figcaption>Russell (left) defending vs <a href="/wiki/Bob_McNeill" title="Bob McNeill">Bob McNeill</a> during the <a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_Finals" title="1962 NBA Finals">1962 NBA Finals</a></figcaption></figure> In the <a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_Finals" title="1962 NBA Finals">1962 NBA Finals</a>, the Celtics met the <a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season" title="1961–62 Los Angeles Lakers season">Los Angeles Lakers</a> of forward <a href="/wiki/Elgin_Baylor" title="Elgin Baylor">Elgin Baylor</a> and guard <a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">Jerry West</a>. The teams split the first six games. In Game 6, Russell recorded his first career <a href="/wiki/Triple-double" class="mw-redirect" title="Triple-double">triple-double</a> with 19 points, 24 rebounds, and 10 assists as the Celtics won 119–105.<a href="#cite_note-92">[90]</a> At that time, he became the fourth player in Celtics history to have a triple-double, joining Macauley, Cousy, and K. C. Jones.<a href="#cite_note-93">[91]</a> Game 7 was tied one second before the end of regular time, when Lakers guard <a href="/wiki/Rod_Hundley" class="mw-redirect" title="Rod Hundley">Rod Hundley</a> faked a shot and passed out to <a href="/wiki/Frank_Selvy" title="Frank Selvy">Frank Selvy</a>, who missed an open eight-foot last-second shot that would have won Los Angeles the title.<a href="#cite_note-taylor167_170-94">[92]</a> As the game was tied, Russell had the daunting task of defending against Baylor with little frontline help: Loscutoff, Heinsohn, and <a href="/wiki/Satch_Sanders" title="Satch Sanders">Satch Sanders</a>, the three best Celtics forwards, had fouled out. In overtime, <a href="/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(basketball)" title="Frank Ramsey (basketball)">Frank Ramsey</a>, the fourth forward, fouled out trying to guard Baylor, so Russell was robbed of his usual four-men wing rotation; he and little-used fifth forward <a href="/wiki/Gene_Guarilia" title="Gene Guarilia">Gene Guarilia</a> successfully pressured Baylor into missed shots.<a href="#cite_note-taylor167_170-94">[92]</a><a href="#cite_note-95">[93]</a> Russell finished with a clutch performance, scoring 30 points, along with 4 assists,<a href="#cite_note-96">[94]</a> and tying his own NBA Finals record with 40 rebounds in a 110–107 overtime win.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> The Celtics lost Cousy to retirement after the <a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_NBA_season" title="1962–63 NBA season">1962–63 NBA season</a>, and they drafted <a href="/wiki/John_Havlicek" title="John Havlicek">John Havlicek</a> and were powered by Russell, who averaged 16.8 points and 23.6 rebounds per game, won his fourth regular-season MVP award, and earned the <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Game_MVP" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star Game MVP">NBA All-Star Game MVP</a> honors at the <a href="/wiki/1963_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1963 NBA All-Star Game">1963 NBA All-Star Game</a> following his 19-point, 24-rebound performance for the <a href="/wiki/Eastern_Conference_(NBA)" title="Eastern Conference (NBA)">Eastern Conference</a>'s All-Star team.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> Before the January 31, 1963, 18-point, 22-rebound performance in a 128–125 win against the <a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_Cincinnati_Royals_season" title="1962–63 Cincinnati Royals season">Cincinnati Royals</a> at <a href="/wiki/Cole_Field_House" class="mw-redirect" title="Cole Field House">Cole Field House</a> in <a href="/wiki/College_Park,_Maryland" title="College Park, Maryland">College Park, Maryland</a>,<a href="#cite_note-97">[95]</a> the Celtics were to tour the White House and Russell had a <a href="/wiki/%22Do_not_disturb%22_sign" class="mw-redirect" title=""Do not disturb" sign">"Do not disturb" sign</a> on his phone. Auerbach had informed his players to not endorse candidates or causes, as it would alienate fans; Cousy campaigned for <a href="/wiki/Ted_Kennedy" title="Ted Kennedy">Ted Kennedy</a> in 1962.<a href="#cite_note-Pomerantz167_169-98">[96]</a> President <a href="/wiki/John_F._Kennedy" title="John F. Kennedy">John F. Kennedy</a> posed for a picture with Auerbach and the nine Celtics but not Russell, who overslept because he thought it was just a tour of the White House and did not know President Kennedy would be meeting them.<a href="#cite_note-99">[97]</a> On February 10, 1963, Russell recorded his first regular season triple-double after putting up 17 points, 19 rebounds, and 10 assists in a 129–123 win over the <a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_New_York_Knicks_season" title="1962–63 New York Knicks season">New York Knicks</a>.<a href="#cite_note-100">[98]</a> The Celtics reached the <a href="/wiki/1963_NBA_Finals" title="1963 NBA Finals">1963 NBA Finals</a>,<a href="#cite_note-101">[99]</a> where they again defeated the <a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season" title="1962–63 Los Angeles Lakers season">Los Angeles Lakers</a>, this time in six games.<a href="#cite_note-102">[100]</a> In Game 3, Russell had 21 points, 38 rebounds, and 6 assists.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a><a href="#cite_note-103">[101]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_NBA_season" title="1963–64 NBA season">1963–64 NBA season</a>, the Celtics posted a league-best 58–22 record in the regular season. Russell scored 15.0 points per game and grabbed a career-high 24.7 rebounds per game, leading the NBA in rebounds for the first time since Chamberlain entered the league.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> Boston defeated the <a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_Cincinnati_Royals_season" title="1963–64 Cincinnati Royals season">Cincinnati Royals</a> 4–1 to earn another NBA Finals appearance and then won against Chamberlain's newly relocated <a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_San_Francisco_Warriors_season" title="1963–64 San Francisco Warriors season">San Francisco Warriors</a> 4–1.<a href="#cite_note-104">[102]</a><a href="#cite_note-105">[103]</a> It was their sixth consecutive and seventh title in Russell's eight years with the team, a streak unreached in any U.S. professional sports league. Russell later called it the best team of his era and the best defense of all time.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_NBA_season" title="1964–65 NBA season">1964–65 NBA season</a>, the Celtics won a league-record 62 games and Russell averaged 14.1 points and 24.1 rebounds per game, winning his second consecutive rebounding title and his fifth MVP award.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> On March 11, 1965, in a 112–100 win over the <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_Detroit_Pistons_season" title="1964–65 Detroit Pistons season">Detroit Pistons</a>, Russell grabbed 49 rebounds, which tied for the third-most in a single game in NBA history,<a href="#cite_note-106">[104]</a> along with 27 points and 6 assists.<a href="#cite_note-107">[105]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1965_NBA_playoffs" title="1965 NBA playoffs">1965 NBA playoffs</a>, the Celtics played the Eastern Division finals against the <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_Philadelphia_76ers_season" title="1964–65 Philadelphia 76ers season">Philadelphia 76ers</a>, a team that had traded for Chamberlain. Russell held Chamberlain to a pair of field goals in the first three quarters of Game 3.<a href="#cite_note-108">[106]</a> In Game 5, Russell contributed with 12 points, 28 rebounds, and 7 assists, plus 10 blocks and 6 steals; blocks and steals became officially recorded statistics in the <a href="/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374_NBA_season" title="1973–74 NBA season">1973–74 NBA season</a>. Schayes, who had become the 76ers coach, said: "The Celtics can thank the Good Lord for Bill Russell."<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> That playoff series ended in a dramatic Game 7, when the Sixers were trailing 110–109 five seconds before the end, but Russell turned over the ball. When the Sixers' Hall-of-Fame guard <a href="/wiki/Hal_Greer" title="Hal Greer">Hal Greer</a> inbounded, Havlicek stole the ball, causing Celtics commentator <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Most" title="Johnny Most">Johnny Most</a> to scream: "<a href="/wiki/Havlicek_stole_the_ball" title="Havlicek stole the ball">Havlicek stole the ball</a>! It's all over! Johnny Havlicek stole the ball!"<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> After the Division finals, the Celtics had an easier time in the NBA Finals,<a href="#cite_note-109">[107]</a> winning 4–1 against the <a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season" title="1964–65 Los Angeles Lakers season">Los Angeles Lakers</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Silverman_2013,_p._26-110">[108]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_NBA_season" title="1965–66 NBA season">1965–66 NBA season</a>, Russell contributed 12.9 points and 22.8 rebounds per game. This was the first time in seven years that he failed to average at least 23 rebounds a game.<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> The Celtics won the <a href="/wiki/1966_NBA_Finals" title="1966 NBA Finals">1966 NBA Finals</a> and their eighth consecutive title.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> Russell's team again beat Chamberlain's <a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_Philadelphia_76ers_season" title="1965–66 Philadelphia 76ers season">Philadelphia 76ers</a> 4–1 in the Eastern Division finals, proceeding to win the NBA Finals in a tight showdown against the <a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season" title="1965–66 Los Angeles Lakers season">Los Angeles Lakers</a>, with Russell scoring 25 points and grabbing 32 rebounds, plus giving out an assist,<a href="#cite_note-111">[109]</a> in a 95–93 win in Game 7.<a href="#cite_note-Silverman_2013,_p._26-110">[108]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading4"><h4 id="1966–1969:_Player-coach_champion_and_final_seasons">1966–1969: Player-coach champion and final seasons</h4>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=13" title="Edit section: 1966–1969: Player-coach champion and final seasons">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1966_Champions.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Auerbach leaning against Russell" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1966_Champions.jpg/200px-Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1966_Champions.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="159" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1966_Champions.jpg/300px-Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1966_Champions.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/cf/Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1966_Champions.jpg/400px-Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1966_Champions.jpg 2x" data-file-width="756" data-file-height="600" /></a><figcaption>Russell and coach <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a>, with his trademark victory cigar, after winning the 1966 NBA championship</figcaption></figure> Celtics coach <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a> retired before the <a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_NBA_season" title="1966–67 NBA season">1966–67 NBA season</a>. To coach the Celtics, he had initially wanted his old player <a href="/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(basketball)" title="Frank Ramsey (basketball)">Frank Ramsey</a>, who was too occupied running his three lucrative nursing homes.<a href="#cite_note-taylor264_272-112">[110]</a> His second choice was Cousy, who declined the invitation, stating that he did not want to coach his former teammates.<a href="#cite_note-taylor264_272-112">[110]</a> Third choice <a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Tom Heinsohn</a> also said no because he did not think he could handle the often surly Russell,<a href="#cite_note-taylor264_272-112">[110]</a> whom he proposed as a player-coach.<a href="#cite_note-taylor264_272-112">[110]</a> On April 16, 1966, Russell agreed to become head coach of the Celtics, and a public announcement was made two days later.<a href="#cite_note-White_1,_49-113">[111]</a> Russell became the first black head coach in NBA history,<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> and he commented to journalists: "I wasn't offered the job because I am a Negro, I was offered it because Red figured I could do it."<a href="#cite_note-taylor264_272-112">[110]</a> When he became player-coach, Russell bluntly said to his teammates that "he intended to cut all personal ties to other players" and seamlessly made the transition from their peer to their superior.<a href="#cite_note-taylor280-114">[112]</a> At the time his additional role of coach was announced, Russell publicly stated he believed <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a>'s impact as a coach confined every or almost every relationship with each Celtic player to a strictly professional one. Russell regarded Auerbach as "the greatest of all coaches".<a href="#cite_note-115">[113]</a> Boston's championship streak ended at eight in his first full season as head coach when Chamberlain's <a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_Philadelphia_76ers_season" title="1966–67 Philadelphia 76ers season">Philadelphia 76ers</a> won a record-breaking 68 regular-season games and were the favorites heading into the <a href="/wiki/1967_NBA_playoffs" title="1967 NBA playoffs">1967 NBA playoffs</a>, where they beat the Celtics 4–1 in the Eastern Division finals.<a href="#cite_note-116">[114]</a> During the series, Russell said: "Right now, he (Wilt) is playing like me [to win]."<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> The Sixers outpaced the Celtics when they shredded the famed Boston defense by scoring 140 points in the clinching Game 5 win.<a href="#cite_note-taylor292_299-117">[115]</a> Russell acknowledged the first real loss of his career, as he had been injured when the Celtics lost the 1958 NBA Finals, by visiting Chamberlain in the locker room, shaking his hand, and saying: "Great."<a href="#cite_note-taylor292_299-117">[115]</a> The game still ended on a high note for Russell. After the loss, he led his grandfather through the Celtics locker rooms and the two saw the white Celtic Havlicek taking a shower next to his black teammate <a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(basketball,_born_1933)" title="Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)">Sam Jones</a> and discussing the game. Suddenly, his grandfather broke down crying. Asked by Russell what was wrong, his grandfather replied how proud he was of him, being coach of an organization in which blacks and whites coexisted in harmony.<a href="#cite_note-taylor292_299-117">[115]</a> In the <a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_NBA_season" title="1967–68 NBA season">1967–68 NBA season</a>, the 34-year-old Russell averaged 12.5 points per game and 18.6 rebounds per game,<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> the latter of which was good enough for the third-highest average in the league.<a href="#cite_note-118">[116]</a> In the Eastern Division finals of the <a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_playoffs" title="1968 NBA playoffs">1968 NBA playoffs</a>, the <a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_Philadelphia_76ers_season" title="1967–68 Philadelphia 76ers season">Philadelphia 76ers</a> had the better record than Boston and were the favorites. National tragedy struck on April 4, day of the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Martin_Luther_King_Jr." title="Assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.">assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.</a> With eight of the ten starting players on Sixers and Celtics being black, both teams were in deep shock and there were calls to cancel the series. In a game called as "unreal" and "devoid of emotion", the Sixers lost 127–118 on April 5. In Game 2, Philadelphia evened the series with a 115–106 win and then went on to win Games 3 and 4. As Chamberlain was often defended by Celtics backup center <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Embry" title="Wayne Embry">Wayne Embry</a>, the press speculated that Russell was worn down. Prior to Game 5, no NBA team had ever come back from a 3–1 deficit. The Celtics rallied back, winning Game 5 122–104 and Game 6 114–106, powered by a spirited Havlicek and helped by a terrible Sixers shooting slump.<a href="#cite_note-119">[117]</a> In Game 7, 15,202 Philadelphia fans witnessed a home-team 100–96 defeat, making it the first time in NBA history a team lost a series after leading 3–1. Russell limited Chamberlain to only two shot attempts in the second half.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> Despite this, the Celtics were leading only 97–95 with 34 seconds left when Russell closed out the game with several consecutive clutch plays. He made a <a href="/wiki/Free_throw" title="Free throw">free throw</a>, blocked a shot by Sixers player <a href="/wiki/Chet_Walker" title="Chet Walker">Chet Walker</a>, grabbed a rebound off a miss by Greer, and passed the ball to teammate <a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(basketball,_born_1933)" title="Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)">Sam Jones</a>, who scored to clinch the win. Boston then beat the <a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season" title="1967–68 Los Angeles Lakers season">Los Angeles Lakers</a> 4–2 in the <a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">1968 NBA Finals</a>, giving Russell his tenth title in twelve years.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> For his efforts, Russell was named <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Sportsman_of_the_Year" class="mw-redirect" title="Sportsman of the Year">Sportsman of the Year</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Plimpton_1968-120">[118]</a> After losing for the fifth straight time against Russell and the Celtics, Hall-of-Fame Lakers guard <a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">Jerry West</a> stated: "If I had a choice of any basketball player in the league, my No. 1 choice has to be Bill Russell. Bill Russell never ceases to amaze me."<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> Duiring the <a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1968–69 NBA season</a>, Russell was shocked by the <a href="/wiki/Assassination_of_Robert_F._Kennedy" title="Assassination of Robert F. Kennedy">assassination of Robert F. Kennedy</a>, disillusioned by the <a href="/wiki/Vietnam_War" title="Vietnam War">Vietnam War</a>, and weary from his increasingly stale marriage to his wife Rose; the couple later divorced. He was convinced that the U.S. was a corrupt nation and that he was wasting his time playing something as superficial as basketball.<a href="#cite_note-taylor327_335-121">[119]</a> He was 15 pounds overweight, skipped mandatory NBA coach meetings, and was generally lacking energy; after a <a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_New_York_Knicks_season" title="1968–69 New York Knicks season">New York Knicks</a> game, he complained of intense pain and was diagnosed with acute <a href="/wiki/Fatigue" title="Fatigue">exhaustion</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor327_335-121">[119]</a> Russell pulled himself together and put up 9.9 points and 19.3 rebounds per game;<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> the aging Celtics stumbled through the regular season. Their 48–34 record was the team's worst since the <a href="/wiki/1955%E2%80%9356_NBA_season" title="1955–56 NBA season">1955–56 NBA season</a> and they entered the <a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_playoffs" title="1969 NBA playoffs">1969 NBA playoffs</a> as the fourth-seeded team in the East.<a href="#cite_note-122">[120]</a> Russell and the Celtics achieved upsets over the 76ers and the Knicks to earn a meeting with the <a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_Los_Angeles_Lakers_season" title="1968–69 Los Angeles Lakers season">Los Angeles Lakers</a> in the <a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">1969 NBA Finals</a>. The Lakers featured new recruit Chamberlain next to perennial stars Baylor and West, and were the favorites. In the first two games, Russell ordered his players not to double-team West, who used the freedom to score 53 and 41 points in the Game 1 and 2 Laker wins.<a href="#cite_note-taylor336_353-123">[121]</a> Russell then reversed himself and ordered his team to double-team West and Boston won Game 3. In Game 4, the Celtics were trailing by one point with seven seconds left and the Lakers had the ball until Baylor stepped out of bounds. In the last play, Sam Jones used a triple <a href="/wiki/Screen_(basketball)" class="mw-redirect" title="Screen (basketball)">screen</a> by <a href="/wiki/Bailey_Howell" title="Bailey Howell">Bailey Howell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Larry_Siegfried" title="Larry Siegfried">Larry Siegfried</a>, and Havlicek to hit a <a href="/wiki/Buzzer_beater" title="Buzzer beater">buzzer beater</a> that equalized the series.<a href="#cite_note-taylor336_353-123">[121]</a> The teams split the next two games and it all came down to Game 7 in Los Angeles, where Lakers owner <a href="/wiki/Jack_Kent_Cooke" title="Jack Kent Cooke">Jack Kent Cooke</a> angered and motivated the Celtics by putting "proceedings of Lakers victory ceremony" on the game leaflets. Russell used a copy as extra motivation and told his team to play a running game because in that case it was not the better but the more determined team that was going to win.<a href="#cite_note-taylor336_353-123">[121]</a> The Celtics were ahead by nine points with five minutes remaining; in addition, West was limping after a Game 5 thigh injury and Chamberlain had left the game with an injured leg.<a href="#cite_note-taylor336_353-123">[121]</a> West then hit one basket after the other and cut the lead to one, and Chamberlain asked to return to the game. Lakers coach <a href="/wiki/Bill_van_Breda_Kolff" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill van Breda Kolff">Bill van Breda Kolff</a> kept him on the bench until the end of the game, saying later that he wanted to stay with the lineup responsible for the comeback.<a href="#cite_note-wiltsummary-80">[78]</a><a href="#cite_note-124">[122]</a> The Celtics held on for a 108–106 victory and Russell claimed his eleventh championship in thirteen years. At age 35, Russell contributed with 6 points, 21 rebounds, and 6 assists in his last NBA game.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> After the game, Russell went over to the distraught West, who had scored 42 points and was named the only <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals_MVP" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Finals MVP">NBA Finals MVP</a> in history from the losing team, clasped his hand and tried to soothe him.<a href="#cite_note-taylor336_353-123">[121]</a> Days later, 30,000 Celtics fans cheered their returning heroes. Russell, who once said he owed the public nothing,<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> was not there; he ended his career and cut all ties to the Celtics.<a href="#cite_note-taylor336_353-123">[121]</a> It was so surprising that Auerbach was blindsided and made the mistake of drafting guard <a href="/wiki/Jo_Jo_White" title="Jo Jo White">Jo Jo White</a> instead of a center.<a href="#cite_note-taylor358_359-126">[124]</a> Although White became a standout Celtics player, Boston lacked an All-Star center, went 34–48 in the <a href="/wiki/1969%E2%80%9370_NBA_season" title="1969–70 NBA season">1969–70 NBA season</a>, and failed to make it to the <a href="/wiki/1970_NBA_playoffs" title="1970 NBA playoffs">1970 NBA playoffs</a>, marking the first time since 1950 that they did not make the playoffs.<a href="#cite_note-brceltics-74">[72]</a> In Boston, both fans and journalists felt betrayed because Russell left the Celtics without a coach and a center, and he sold his retirement story for $10,000 to <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a>. Russell was accused of selling out the future of the franchise for a month of his salary.<a href="#cite_note-taylor358_359-126">[124]</a> Russell notified Auerbach that he was resigning to join a career in television and movies "in order to find new sources of income for the future".<a href="#cite_note-127">[125]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Earnings">Earnings</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=14" title="Edit section: Earnings">edit</a>]</div> During his playing career, Russell was one of the first big earners in NBA basketball. His 1956 rookie contract was worth $24,000 (equivalent to $268,965 in 2023), only fractionally smaller than the $25,000 of top earner and teammate <a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Bob Cousy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor74_80-69">[67]</a> Russell never had to work part-time. This was in contrast to other Celtics who had to work during the offseason to maintain their standard of living; <a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Tom Heinsohn</a> sold insurance, <a href="/wiki/Gene_Guarilia" title="Gene Guarilia">Gene Guarilia</a> was a professional guitar player, Cousy ran a basketball camp, and <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a> invested in plastics and a Chinese restaurant.<a href="#cite_note-taylor174-128">[126]</a> When <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a> became the first NBA player to earn $100,000 in salary in 1965 (equivalent to $966,843 in 2023), Russell went to Auerbach and demanded a $100,001 salary, which he promptly received.<a href="#cite_note-129">[127]</a><a href="#cite_note-taylor258-130">[128]</a> For his promotion to coach, the Celtics paid Russell an annual salary of $25,000 which was in addition to his salary as a player. Although the salary was touted in the press as a record for an NBA coach, it is unclear whether Russell's continued $100,001 salary as a player was included in the calculation.<a href="#cite_note-131">[129]</a> Russell also had a shoe designed by Bristol Manufacturing Corporation in 1966, the Bill Russell Professional Basketball Shoe.<a href="#cite_note-132">[130]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Russell–Chamberlain_relations">Russell–Chamberlain relations</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=15" title="Edit section: Russell–Chamberlain relations">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell defending Chamberlain" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg/180px-Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg" decoding="async" width="180" height="244" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg/270px-Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/4/45/Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg/360px-Wilt_Chamberlain_Bill_Russell_2.jpg 2x" data-file-width="931" data-file-height="1263" /></a><figcaption>Russell defending <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a> in 1969</figcaption></figure> For most of his career, Russell and his perennial opponent <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a> were close friends. Chamberlain often invited Russell over for <a href="/wiki/Thanksgiving_(United_States)" title="Thanksgiving (United States)">Thanksgiving</a> dinner; at Russell's place, conversation mostly concerned Russell's electric trains.<a href="#cite_note-133">[131]</a> The close relationship ended after <a href="/wiki/Game_7_of_the_1969_NBA_Finals" class="mw-redirect" title="Game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals">Game 7 of the 1969 NBA Finals</a>, when Chamberlain injured his knee with six minutes left and was forced to leave the game. During a conversation with students, a reporter—unknown to Russell—heard Russell describe Chamberlain as a <a href="/wiki/Malingerer" class="mw-redirect" title="Malingerer">malingerer</a> and accused him of "copping out" of the game when it seemed that the Lakers would lose.<a href="#cite_note-taylor356_357-134">[132]</a> He was livid with Russell and saw him as a backstabber.<a href="#cite_note-taylor356_357-134">[132]</a> Chamberlain's knee was injured so badly that he could not play the entire offseason and he ruptured it the next season. The two men did not speak to each other for more than twenty years until Russell met with Chamberlain and personally apologized.<a href="#cite_note-taylor367_371-135">[133]</a> After that, the two were often seen together at various events and interviewed as friends. When Chamberlain died in 1999, Chamberlain's nephew said that Russell was the second person he was told to call.<a href="#cite_note-chat-24">[22]</a> In delivering a eulogy for Chamberlain, Russell stated that he did not consider them to be rivals, but rather to have a competition, and that the pair would "be friends through eternity".<a href="#cite_note-136">[134]</a> Chamberlain outscored Russell 30 to 14.2 and outrebounded him 28.2 to 22.9 in the regular season, and he also outscored him 25.7 to 14.9 and outrebounded him 28 to 24.7 in the playoffs. Russell's Celtics went 57–37 in the regular season against Chamberlain's teams and 29–20 in the playoffs, Chamberlain's losing seven of the eight series.<a href="#cite_note-Schwartz_1999-83">[81]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Racist_abuse,_controversy,_and_relationship_with_Boston_fans">Racist abuse, controversy, and relationship with Boston fans</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=16" title="Edit section: Racist abuse, controversy, and relationship with Boston fans">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1956.jpeg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="The Celtics seated on the bench, with Auerbach at the fore" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1956.jpeg/200px-Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1956.jpeg" decoding="async" width="200" height="195" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1956.jpeg/300px-Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1956.jpeg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/a/a7/Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1956.jpeg/400px-Bill_Russell_and_Red_Auerbach_1956.jpeg 2x" data-file-width="918" data-file-height="896" /></a><figcaption>Russell with coach <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a> in his rookie season, as they are seated on the sidelines. Auerbach refused to have a <a href="/wiki/Color_barrier" class="mw-redirect" title="Color barrier">color barrier</a> for the Celtics. Following his retirement in 1966, he handed off coaching duties to Russell as a <a href="/wiki/Player-coach" title="Player-coach">player-coach</a>.</figcaption></figure> Russell's life was marked by an uphill battle against racism and controversial actions and statements in response to racism. As a child, he witnessed how his parents were victims of racial abuse, and the family eventually moved into government <a href="/wiki/Housing_project" class="mw-redirect" title="Housing project">housing projects</a> to escape the daily torrent of bigotry.<a href="#cite_note-Current-22">[20]</a> When he later became a standout college player at USF, Russell recalled how he and his few fellow black teammates were jeered by white students.<a href="#cite_note-jwr-44">[42]</a> Even after he became a star with the Celtics, Russell was the victim of racial abuse. When the NBA All-Stars toured the U.S. in the 1958 offseason, white hotel owners in segregated North Carolina denied rooms to Russell and his black teammates, causing him to later write in his 1966 memoir Go Up for Glory: "It stood out, a wall which understanding cannot penetrate. You are a Negro. You are less. It covered every area. A living, smarting, hurting, smelling, greasy substance which covered you. A morass to fight from."<a href="#cite_note-taylor108_111-73">[71]</a> Before the 1961–62 season, Russell's team was scheduled to play in an exhibition game in <a href="/wiki/Lexington,_Kentucky" title="Lexington, Kentucky">Lexington, Kentucky</a>, when Russell and his black teammates were refused service at a local restaurant. As part of the <a href="/wiki/1961_Celtics_boycott" class="mw-redirect" title="1961 Celtics boycott">1961 Celtics boycott</a>, he and the other black teammates refused to play in the <a href="/wiki/Exhibition_game" title="Exhibition game">exhibition game</a> and flew home, drawing a great deal of controversy and publicity.<a href="#cite_note-Flatter_1999-137">[135]</a> As a consequence of his endured racist abuse, Russell was extremely sensitive to all racial prejudice. According to sportswriter Taylor, in a 2005 book, Russell often perceived insults even if others did not.<a href="#cite_note-taylor66_71-64">[62]</a> He was active in the <a href="/wiki/Black_Power" class="mw-redirect" title="Black Power">Black Power</a> movement and was among the African-American athletes and the one political leader who came together at the 1967 <a href="/wiki/Cleveland_Summit" title="Cleveland Summit">Cleveland Summit</a> to support <a href="/wiki/Muhammad_Ali" title="Muhammad Ali">Muhammad Ali</a> and his decision to refuse to be drafted.<a href="#cite_note-138">[136]</a> He was often called Felton X, presumably in the tradition of the <a href="/wiki/Nation_of_Islam" title="Nation of Islam">Nation of Islam</a>'s practice of replacing a European <a href="/wiki/Slave_name" title="Slave name">slave name</a> with an X, and purchased land in Liberia.<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> Russell's public statements became increasingly militant, and he was quoted as saying: "I dislike most white people because they are people ... I like most blacks because I am black." Russell articulated these views with a measure of self-criticism, saying: "I consider this a deficiency in myself—maybe. If I looked at it objectively, detached myself, it would be a deficiency."<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-si19631118-139">[137]</a> When his white Celtics teammate Frank Ramsey asked whether he hated him, Russell stated that he had been misquoted but few believed it.<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> According to Taylor, Russell discounted the fact that his career was facilitated by white people who were proven <a href="/wiki/Anti-racists" class="mw-redirect" title="Anti-racists">anti-racists</a>: his high school coach George Powles, who encouraged him to play basketball, his college coach <a href="/wiki/Phil_Woolpert" title="Phil Woolpert">Phil Woolpert</a>, who integrated USF basketball, Celtics coach <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a>, who made him the first black NBA coach and is regarded as an anti-racist pioneer for his <a href="/wiki/No_color_barrier_(Red_Auerbach)" class="mw-redirect" title="No color barrier (Red Auerbach)">no color barrier</a>, and Celtics owner <a href="/wiki/Walter_A._Brown" title="Walter A. Brown">Walter A. Brown</a>, who gave him a high $24,000 rookie contract, just $1,000 shy of the top-earning veteran <a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Bob Cousy</a>.<a href="#cite_note-taylor359_366-140">[138]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington,_D.C._(Former_National_Basketball_Association_player,_Bill_Russell.)_-_NARA_-_542073_-_Crop.png" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A crowd, mostly made up of black men in suits and black women in dressed up attire" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington%2C_D.C._%28Former_National_Basketball_Association_player%2C_Bill_Russell.%29_-_NARA_-_542073_-_Crop.png/220px-Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington%2C_D.C._%28Former_National_Basketball_Association_player%2C_Bill_Russell.%29_-_NARA_-_542073_-_Crop.png" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington%2C_D.C._%28Former_National_Basketball_Association_player%2C_Bill_Russell.%29_-_NARA_-_542073_-_Crop.png/330px-Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington%2C_D.C._%28Former_National_Basketball_Association_player%2C_Bill_Russell.%29_-_NARA_-_542073_-_Crop.png 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/0/0f/Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington%2C_D.C._%28Former_National_Basketball_Association_player%2C_Bill_Russell.%29_-_NARA_-_542073_-_Crop.png/440px-Civil_Rights_March_on_Washington%2C_D.C._%28Former_National_Basketball_Association_player%2C_Bill_Russell.%29_-_NARA_-_542073_-_Crop.png 2x" data-file-width="1928" data-file-height="1366" /></a><figcaption>Russell attending a Civil Rights March on Washington, D.C., August 1963</figcaption></figure> In a 1963 article by <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a>, Russell said he had "never met a finer person [than George Powles] ... I owe so much to him it's impossible to express."<a href="#cite_note-si19631118-139">[137]</a> Years after Taylor's book, Russell published the autobiographical account Red and Me, which chronicled his lifelong friendship with Auerbach. Of the book, <a href="/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley">Bill Bradley</a> wrote for <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a> that "Bill Russell is a private, complex man, but on the subject of his love of Red Auerbach and his Celtic teammates, he's loud and clear."<a href="#cite_note-nytram-141">[139]</a> In the book, Russell wrote: "Whenever I leave the Celtics locker room, even Heaven wouldn't be good enough because anywhere else is a step down ... With Red [Auerbach] and Walter Brown, I was the freest athlete on the planet. I could always be myself with them and they were always there for me."<a href="#cite_note-142">[140]</a> Describing the Celtics organization, as distinguished from Boston sports fans in the 1950s and 1960s, as very progressive racially, Russell recalled in 2010 a list of the organization's accomplishments on racial progress both in terms of objective milestones and his own subjective experience as a member of the organization. He said: <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote">The Celtics were the first [NBA basketball] team to draft a black player, period: a guy named Chuck Cooper from Duquesne. The first team to start five black players was the Boston Celtics. The first [NBA organization] to hire a black [head] coach was the Boston Celtics, and they've had at least five [black head-coaches] over the years. And so the guy that owned the Celtics [Walter Brown] was [in addition to Auerbach for whom Russell expressed "respect" and "actual love"] another one of the fine, good, and decent human beings that I've ever encountered. When the Celtics drafted Chuck Cooper and they came into Washington, D.C., to sign his contract, Walter Brown the owner of the team walked up to him and said: "Mr. Cooper, the Boston Celtics will never embarrass you." That's the first thing Walter Brown said to Chuck Cooper. And that's the kind of guy [Brown] was. And so the Celtics—all we looked for was: "Can he play?" And what we would do is—[Auerbach] trusted all his players—so like when he'd make a coaching decision, he could talk: he talked to [Bob] Cousy [who is white], he talked to me [black], he talked to [Bill] Sharman [white], he talked to Sam [Jones] [black]—all of us: "What do you think?" [Auerbach would] get the information from us and then make a decision based on that information and his thoughts. So we never, or at least I never, ever considered him as having ulterior motives for whatever he did.<a href="#cite_note-143">[141]</a></blockquote> In 1966, Russell was promoted to head coach of the Celtics. During a press conference, Russell was asked: "As the first Negro head coach in a major league sport, can you do the job impartially without any racial prejudice in reverse?" He replied: "Yes." When the reporter asked how, Russell responded: "Because the most important factor is respect. And in basketball I respect a man for his ability, period."<a href="#cite_note-White_1,_49-113">[111]</a><a href="#cite_note-144">[142]</a> As a result of repeated racial bigotry, Russell refused to respond to fan acclaim or friendship from his neighbors, thinking it was insincere and hypocritical. This attitude contributed to his bad rapport with fans and journalists.<a href="#cite_note-taylor108_111-73">[71]</a> He alienated Celtics fans by saying: "You owe the public the same it owes you, nothing! I refuse to smile and be nice to the kiddies."<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> This supported the opinion of many white fans that Russell, who was by then the highest-paid Celtic, was egotistical, paranoid, and hypocritical. The already hostile atmosphere between Russell and Boston hit its apex when vandals broke into his house in <a href="/wiki/Reading,_Massachusetts" title="Reading, Massachusetts">Reading, Massachusetts</a>, covered the walls with racist graffiti, damaged his trophies, and defecated in the beds.<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> In response, Russell described Boston as a "flea market of racism".<a href="#cite_note-145">[143]</a> He was quoted as saying: "From my very first year I thought of myself as playing for the Celtics, not for Boston. The fans could do or think whatever they wanted."<a href="#cite_note-146">[144]</a> Referring to a time when the Celtics did not frequently sell out the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Garden" title="Boston Garden">Boston Garden</a>, while the generally mediocre and all-white NHL <a href="/wiki/Boston_Bruins" title="Boston Bruins">Boston Bruins</a> did, Russell recalled: "We [the Celtics] did a survey about what we could do to improve attendance. Over 50 percent of responses said 'There's too many black players.'"<a href="#cite_note-147">[145]</a> In retirement, Russell described the Boston press as corrupt and racist; in response, Boston sports journalist Larry Claflin claimed that Russell himself was the real racist.<a href="#cite_note-taylor361-148">[146]</a> The <a href="/wiki/FBI" class="mw-redirect" title="FBI">FBI</a> maintained a file on Russell and described him in their file as "an arrogant Negro who won't sign autographs for white children".<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a><a href="#cite_note-149">[147]</a> Russell refused to attend the ceremony when his jersey No. 6 was retired in 1972; he also refused to attend his induction into the Hall of Fame in 1975.<a href="#cite_note-Flatter_1999-137">[135]</a> While Russell long had sore feelings towards Boston, there was something of a reconciliation, and he visited the city regularly in his later years, something he never did in the years immediately after his retirement.<a href="#cite_note-150">[148]</a> On November 15, 2019, Russell accepted the Hall of Fame ring in a private ceremony with family.<a href="#cite_note-151">[149]</a> When Russell originally retired, he demanded that his jersey be retired in an empty Boston Garden.<a href="#cite_note-Sandomir-152">[150]</a> In 1995, the Celtics left the Boston Garden and moved into the FleetCenter, now known as the <a href="/wiki/TD_Garden" title="TD Garden">TD Garden</a>; as the main festive act, the Celtics wanted to re-retire Russell's jersey in front of a sellout audience.<a href="#cite_note-taylor359_366-140">[138]</a> Perennially wary of what he long perceived as a racist city, Russell decided to make amends and gave his approval. On May 6, 1999, the Celtics re-retired Russell's jersey in a ceremony attended by his on-court rival and friend Chamberlain, along with Celtics legend <a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Larry Bird</a> and Hall of Famer <a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a>. The crowd gave Russell a prolonged standing ovation, which brought tears to his eyes.<a href="#cite_note-Sandomir-152">[150]</a> He thanked Chamberlain for taking him to the limit and "making [him] a better player", and the crowd for "allowing [him] to be a part of their lives."<a href="#cite_note-taylor359_366-140">[138]</a> In December 2008, the We Are Boston Leadership Award was presented to Russell.<a href="#cite_note-153">[151]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Post-playing_career_and_endeavors">Post-playing career and endeavors</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=17" title="Edit section: Post-playing career and endeavors">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Russell_in_the_Green_Room.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell wearing a suit" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Bill_Russell_in_the_Green_Room.jpg/150px-Bill_Russell_in_the_Green_Room.jpg" decoding="async" width="150" height="193" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Bill_Russell_in_the_Green_Room.jpg/225px-Bill_Russell_in_the_Green_Room.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/6/63/Bill_Russell_in_the_Green_Room.jpg/300px-Bill_Russell_in_the_Green_Room.jpg 2x" data-file-width="684" data-file-height="880" /></a><figcaption>Russell at the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a> in 2011</figcaption></figure> In 1971, Russell joined <a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ABC" title="NBA on ABC">NBA on ABC</a> to do commentary on the Game of the Week.<a href="#cite_note-154">[152]</a> His No. 6 jersey was retired by the Celtics on March 12, 1972,<a href="#cite_note-155">[153]</a> Russell had worn the same number 6 at the USF and for the 1956 U.S. Olympic team.<a href="#cite_note-156">[154]</a> He was inducted into the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a> in 1975. Russell, who had a difficult relationship with the media, did not attend either ceremony.<a href="#cite_note-Flatter_1999-137">[135]</a> He attended his 2021 induction into the Basketball Hall of Fame as a coach.<a href="#cite_note-157">[155]</a> After retiring as a player, Russell had stints as head coach of the <a href="/wiki/Seattle_SuperSonics" title="Seattle SuperSonics">Seattle SuperSonics</a> (1973–1977) and <a href="/wiki/Sacramento_Kings" title="Sacramento Kings">Sacramento Kings</a> (1987–1988). His time as a non-playing coach was lackluster; he led the struggling SuperSonics into the playoffs for the first time in franchise history, but Russell's defensive, team-oriented Celtics mindset did not mesh well with the team, and he left in 1977 with a 162–166 record. Russell's stint with the Kings was considerably shorter, his last assignment ending when the Kings went 17–41 to begin the <a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season" title="1987–88 NBA season">1987–88 NBA season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-158">[156]</a> He finished with a 341–290 regular season record and was 34–27 in the playoffs.<a href="#cite_note-159">[157]</a> Russell also served as general manager of the SuperSonics during his coaching tenure,<a href="#cite_note-160">[158]</a> and held the same position with the Kings during the <a href="/wiki/1988%E2%80%9389_NBA_season" title="1988–89 NBA season">1988–89 season</a>.<a href="#cite_note-161">[159]</a> In addition, Russell ran into financial trouble. He had invested $250,000 in a rubber plantation in <a href="/wiki/Liberia" title="Liberia">Liberia</a>, where he had wanted to spend his retirement, but it went bankrupt.<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> The same fate awaited his Boston restaurant Slade's, after which he had to default on a $90,000 government loan to purchase the outlet. The <a href="/wiki/Internal_Revenue_Service" title="Internal Revenue Service">Internal Revenue Service</a> discovered that Russell owed $34,430 in tax money and put a lien on his house.<a href="#cite_note-taylor359_366-140">[138]</a> Russell became a vegetarian, took up <a href="/wiki/Golf_in_the_United_States" title="Golf in the United States">golf</a>, and worked as a <a href="/wiki/Color_commentator" title="Color commentator">color commentator</a> for <a href="/wiki/CBS" title="CBS">CBS</a> and <a href="/wiki/TBS_(U.S._TV_channel)" class="mw-redirect" title="TBS (U.S. TV channel)">TBS</a> throughout the 1970s into the mid-1980s, but he was uncomfortable as a broadcaster. He later said: "The most successful television is done in eight-second thoughts, and the things I know about basketball, motivation, and people go deeper than that."<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-taylor359_366-140">[138]</a> On November 3, 1979, Russell hosted <a href="/wiki/Saturday_Night_Live" title="Saturday Night Live">Saturday Night Live</a>, in which he appeared in several sports-related sketches.<a href="#cite_note-162">[160]</a> Russell also wrote books, usually written as a joint project with a professional writer, including 1979's Second Wind,<a href="#cite_note-163">[161]</a> and played Judge Roger Ferguson in the <a href="/wiki/Miami_Vice" title="Miami Vice">Miami Vice</a> episode "The Fix" (aired March 7, 1986).<a href="#cite_note-164">[162]</a> In 1985, former Celtic teammate <a href="/wiki/Don_Chaney" title="Don Chaney">Don Chaney</a>, who was head coach of the <a href="/wiki/Los_Angeles_Clippers" title="Los Angeles Clippers">Los Angeles Clippers</a>, asked Russell to tutor <a href="/wiki/Benoit_Benjamin" title="Benoit Benjamin">Benoit Benjamin</a>, the third overall draft pick from <a href="/wiki/Creighton_University" title="Creighton University">Creighton University</a>, who left after his junior season; according to Chaney, Russell did not get paid for it.<a href="#cite_note-165">[163]</a> Russell made few public appearances in the early 1990s, living as a near-recluse on <a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island,_Washington" title="Mercer Island, Washington">Mercer Island, Washington</a>, near <a href="/wiki/Seattle" title="Seattle">Seattle</a>. Following Chamberlain's death in October 1999, Russell returned to prominence at the turn of the millennium.<a href="#cite_note-166">[164]</a> In 2001, Russell and David Falkner published Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner.<a href="#cite_note-167">[165]</a> Russell convinced <a href="/wiki/Miami_Heat" title="Miami Heat">Miami Heat</a> superstar center <a href="/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">Shaquille O'Neal</a> to bury the hatchet with fellow NBA superstar and former Los Angeles Lakers teammate <a href="/wiki/Kobe_Bryant" title="Kobe Bryant">Kobe Bryant</a> and end the <a href="/wiki/Shaq%E2%80%93Kobe_feud" title="Shaq–Kobe feud">Shaq–Kobe feud</a> in January 2006.<a href="#cite_note-168">[166]</a> On November 17, the two-time NCAA champion Russell was recognized for his impact on college basketball as a member of the founding class of the <a href="/wiki/National_Collegiate_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame">National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame</a>. He was one of five, along with <a href="/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith">James Naismith</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Oscar Robertson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">Dean Smith</a>, and <a href="/wiki/John_Wooden" title="John Wooden">John Wooden</a>, selected to represent the inaugural class.<a href="#cite_note-169">[167]</a> On May 20, 2007, Russell was awarded an honorary doctorate by <a href="/wiki/Suffolk_University" title="Suffolk University">Suffolk University</a>, where he served as its commencement speaker.<a href="#cite_note-170">[168]</a> Russell also received honorary degrees from <a href="/wiki/Harvard_University" title="Harvard University">Harvard University</a> on June 7, 2007,<a href="#cite_note-171">[169]</a> and from <a href="/wiki/Dartmouth_College" title="Dartmouth College">Dartmouth College</a> on June 14, 2009.<a href="#cite_note-172">[170]</a> On June 18, 2007, Russell was inducted as a member of the founding class of the <a href="/wiki/FIBA_Hall_of_Fame" title="FIBA Hall of Fame">FIBA Hall of Fame</a>.<a href="#cite_note-173">[171]</a><a href="#cite_note-174">[172]</a> In 2008, Russell received the Golden Plate Award of the <a href="/wiki/Academy_of_Achievement" title="Academy of Achievement">Academy of Achievement</a>.<a href="#cite_note-175">[173]</a><a href="#cite_note-176">[174]</a> On February 14, 2009, NBA Commissioner <a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a> announced that the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award would be renamed the <a href="/wiki/Bill_Russell_NBA_Finals_Most_Valuable_Player_Award" class="mw-redirect" title="Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award">Bill Russell NBA Finals Most Valuable Player Award</a> in his honor as an 11-time NBA champion.<a href="#cite_note-finalsmvp-177">[175]</a> During halftime of the <a href="/wiki/2009_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="2009 NBA All-Star Game">2009 NBA All-Star Game</a>, Celtics captains <a href="/wiki/Ray_Allen" title="Ray Allen">Ray Allen</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Garnett" title="Kevin Garnett">Kevin Garnett</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Paul_Pierce" title="Paul Pierce">Paul Pierce</a> presented Russell a surprise birthday cake for his 75th birthday.<a href="#cite_note-178">[176]</a> Russell attended Game 5 of the <a href="/wiki/2009_NBA_Finals" title="2009 NBA Finals">2009 NBA Finals</a> to present Bryant the NBA Finals Most Valuable Player award.<a href="#cite_note-179">[177]</a><a href="#cite_note-180">[178]</a> Russell was awarded the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a> by President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> in 2011.<a href="#cite_note-181">[179]</a> Russell and Bryant were spectators to a basketball game for Obama's 50th birthday at the <a href="/wiki/White_House_tennis_court" title="White House tennis court">White House tennis court</a>. The game featured <a href="/wiki/Shane_Battier" title="Shane Battier">Shane Battier</a>, <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Magic Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Maya_Moore" title="Maya Moore">Maya Moore</a>, <a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Mourning" title="Alonzo Mourning">Alonzo Mourning</a>, <a href="/wiki/Joakim_Noah" title="Joakim Noah">Joakim Noah</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chris_Paul" title="Chris Paul">Chris Paul</a>, <a href="/wiki/Derrick_Rose" title="Derrick Rose">Derrick Rose</a>, and Obama's friends from high school.<a href="#cite_note-SIObama-182">[180]</a> On September 26, 2017, Russell posted a photograph of himself to a previously unused Twitter account in which he was <a href="/wiki/Taking_the_knee" title="Taking the knee">taking the knee</a> in solidarity with the <a href="/wiki/U.S._national_anthem_kneeling_protests" title="U.S. national anthem kneeling protests">U.S. national anthem kneeling protests</a>. Russell wore his Presidential Medal of Freedom and the image was captioned: "Proud to take a knee, and to stand tall against social injustice." In an interview with <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>, Russell said he wanted the <a href="/wiki/NFL" class="mw-redirect" title="NFL">NFL</a> players to know they were not alone.<a href="#cite_note-183">[181]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Accomplishments_and_legacy">Accomplishments and legacy</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=18" title="Edit section: Accomplishments and legacy">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Basketball_Legends.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="A collection of basketball players seated around the Larry O'Brien Championship Trophy" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Basketball_Legends.jpg/220px-Basketball_Legends.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="146" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Basketball_Legends.jpg/330px-Basketball_Legends.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/2/27/Basketball_Legends.jpg/440px-Basketball_Legends.jpg 2x" data-file-width="3008" data-file-height="2000" /></a><figcaption>Russell (first from left, front row) posing along other former players with the Championship Trophy for the 2005 NBA Legends Tour</figcaption></figure> Russell is one of the most successful and decorated athletes in North American sports history.<a href="#cite_note-Gill_2010-11">[9]</a><a href="#cite_note-Frey_2021-48">[46]</a> His awards and achievements include eleven NBA championships with the <a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> in thirteen seasons,<a href="#cite_note-Beslic_2020-61">[59]</a> two of which were won as <a href="/wiki/Player-coach" title="Player-coach">player-coach</a>,<a href="#cite_note-184">[182]</a> and he is credited with having raised defensive play in the NBA to a new level.<a href="#cite_note-Hoophall.com-185">[183]</a> By winning the 1956 NCAA championship with USF and the 1957 NBA title with the Celtics,<a href="#cite_note-186">[184]</a> Russell became the first of only five players in basketball history to win an NCAA championship and an NBA championship in back-to-back seasons, the others being <a href="/wiki/Henry_Bibby" title="Henry Bibby">Henry Bibby</a>, <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Magic Johnson</a>, <a href="/wiki/Billy_Thompson_(basketball)" title="Billy Thompson (basketball)">Billy Thompson</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Christian_Braun" title="Christian Braun">Christian Braun</a>.<a href="#cite_note-187">[185]</a> He also won two state championships in high school. In the interim, Russell won an Olympic gold medal in 1956.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a><a href="#cite_note-Heery_2022-51">[49]</a> His stint as coach of the Celtics was also of historical significance,<a href="#cite_note-188">[186]</a><a href="#cite_note-189">[187]</a> as he became the first black head coach in the NBA,<a href="#cite_note-Goldstein_2022-16">[14]</a> when he succeeded <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Red Auerbach</a>.<a href="#cite_note-190">[188]</a><a href="#cite_note-191">[189]</a> In his first NBA full season (1957–58), Russell became the first player in NBA history to average more than 20 rebounds per game for an entire season, a feat he accomplished ten times in his thirteen seasons. He is one of just two NBA players (the other being <a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Wilt Chamberlain</a>) to have grabbed more than 50 rebounds in a game.<a href="#cite_note-Schwartz_1999-83">[81]</a> He still holds the NBA record for rebounds in one half with 32 (vs. Philadelphia, November 16, 1957). Career-wise in rebounds, Russell ranks second to Chamberlain in regular season total (21,620) and average per game (22.5), and he led the NBA in average rebounds per game four times.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> As of 2024, Russell is the leader for most career rebounds, most minutes per game (42.3), and most rebounds per game in Celtics franchise history.<a href="#cite_note-192">[190]</a> Russell is the all-time playoff leader in total (4,104) and average (24.9) rebounds per game, he grabbed 40 rebounds in three separate playoff games (twice in the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a>), and he never failed to average at least 20 rebounds per game in any of his thirteen playoff campaigns. Russell also had seven regular-season games with 40 or more rebounds, the NBA Finals record for highest rebound per game average (29.5, 1959) and by a rookie (22.9, 1957).<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> In addition, Russell holds the NBA Finals single-game record for most rebounds (40, March 29, 1960, vs. St. Louis, and April 18, 1962, vs. Los Angeles), most rebounds in a quarter (19, April 18, 1962, vs. Los Angeles), and most consecutive games with 20 or more rebounds (15 from April 9, 1960 – April 16, 1963).<a href="#cite_note-stats-193">[191]</a> He also had 51 in one game, 49 in two others, and twelve straight seasons of 1,000 or more rebounds.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> Russell was known as one of the most <a href="/wiki/Clutch_(sports)" title="Clutch (sports)">clutch</a> players in the NBA.<a href="#cite_note-Shouler_2006-194">[192]</a> He played in eleven deciding games (ten times in Game 7s, once in a Game 5) and ended with a 11–0 record. In these eleven games, Russell averaged 18.3 points and 29.4 rebounds.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_(5448739629).jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell smiling as Barack Obama puts an award around his neck" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_%285448739629%29.jpg/200px-Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_%285448739629%29.jpg" decoding="async" width="200" height="206" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_%285448739629%29.jpg/300px-Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_%285448739629%29.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/52/Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_%285448739629%29.jpg/400px-Medal_of_Freedom_Ceremony_%285448739629%29.jpg 2x" data-file-width="900" data-file-height="929" /></a><figcaption>Russell being awarded the Medal of Freedom by President <a href="/wiki/Barack_Obama" title="Barack Obama">Barack Obama</a> at the <a href="/wiki/White_House" title="White House">White House</a>, February 2011</figcaption></figure> Russell was considered the consummate defensive center, noted for his defensive intensity, basketball <a href="/wiki/Intelligence_quotient" title="Intelligence quotient">IQ</a>, and will to win.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> He excelled at playing man-to-man defense, blocking shots, and grabbing defensive rebounds.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> Chamberlain said Russell's timing as a shot-blocker was unparalleled.<a href="#cite_note-Shouler_2006-194">[192]</a> In 2009, Russell's erstwhile Knicks opponent <a href="/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley">Bill Bradley</a> wrote in <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times_Book_Review" title="The New York Times Book Review">The New York Times Book Review</a> that Russell "was the smartest player ever to play the game [of basketball]".<a href="#cite_note-nytram-141">[139]</a> He could score with putbacks and made mid-air outlet passes to point guard <a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Bob Cousy</a> for easy <a href="/wiki/Fast-break" class="mw-redirect" title="Fast-break">fast-break</a> points.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> He was also known as a fine passer and <a href="/wiki/Pick-and-roll" class="mw-redirect" title="Pick-and-roll">pick-and-roll</a> setter, featured a decent left-handed <a href="/wiki/Hook_shot" title="Hook shot">hook shot</a>, and finished strong on alley oops.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> On offense, Russell's output was limited and his NBA career personal averages show him to be an average scorer (15.1 points career average), a poor <a href="/wiki/Free-throw" class="mw-redirect" title="Free-throw">free-throw</a> shooter (56.1%), and average overall shooter from the field (44%, not exceptional for a center). In his thirteen years, he averaged a relatively low 13.4 field goals attempted (normally, top scorers average 20 and more),<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> illustrating that he was never the focal point of the Celtics offense, who instead focused on his elite defense.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> He ranks No. 1 in NBA history for defensive win shares at 133.6, with <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Tim Duncan</a> in second at 106.3.<a href="#cite_note-Heery_2022-51">[49]</a> While blocked shots were not a recorded <a href="/wiki/Basketball_statistic" class="mw-redirect" title="Basketball statistic">basketball statistic</a> during Russell's career, he averaged 8.1 blocks in 135 games, as Boston writers often attempted to tally his blocks.<a href="#cite_note-nbacompraise-65">[63]</a> <a href="/wiki/Bill_Simmons" title="Bill Simmons">Bill Simmons</a> has estimated that Russell had between 8 and 15 blocks per game in the playoffs.<a href="#cite_note-Heery_2022-51">[49]</a> Russell was driven by "a neurotic need to win", as his Celtic teammate <a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Tom Heinsohn</a> observed.<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> He was so tense before every game that he regularly vomited in the locker room; early in his career, it happened so frequently that his fellow Celtics were more worried when it did not happen than when it did.<a href="#cite_note-taylor6-195">[193]</a> Later in Russell's career, <a href="/wiki/John_Havlicek" title="John Havlicek">John Havlicek</a> said of his teammate and coach that he threw up less often than early in his career, only doing so "when it's an important game or an important challenge for him—someone like Chamberlain, or someone coming up that everyone's touting. [The sound of Russell throwing up] is a welcome sound, too, because it means he's keyed up for the game, and around the locker room we grin and say, 'Man, we're going to be all right tonight.'"<a href="#cite_note-196">[194]</a> In a retrospective interview, Russell described the state of mind he felt he needed to enter in order to be able to play basketball: "I had to almost be in a rage. Nothing went on outside the borders of the court. I could hear anything, I could see anything, and nothing mattered. And I could anticipate every move that every player made."<a href="#cite_note-197">[195]</a> In his career, Russell won five <a href="/wiki/NBA_MVP" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA MVP">NBA MVP</a> awards (1959, 1961–63, 1965),<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> which is tied with <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a> for second all-time behind <a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a>'s six awards, and is at No. 6 for most regular season MVP–<a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals_MVP" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Finals MVP">NBA Finals MVP</a> awards, despite the latter being assigned only since 1969.<a href="#cite_note-198">[196]</a> He was selected three times to the <a href="/wiki/All-NBA" class="mw-redirect" title="All-NBA">All-NBA</a> First Teams (1959, 1963, 1965) and eight Second Teams (1958, 1960–62, 1964, 1966–68), and was a 12-time <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star">NBA All-Star</a> (1958–1969).<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> Russell was elected to one <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Defensive_First_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Defensive First Team">NBA All-Defensive First Team</a>.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> This took place during his last season (1969) and was the first season the NBA All-Defensive Teams were selected.<a href="#cite_note-199">[197]</a> In 1970, <a href="/wiki/The_Sporting_News" title="The Sporting News">The Sporting News</a> named Russell the "Athlete of the Decade".<a href="#cite_note-Hoophall.com-185">[183]</a><a href="#cite_note-200">[198]</a> Russell is universally seen as one of the best NBA players ever,<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> and he was declared "Greatest Player in the History of the NBA" by the Professional Basketball Writers Association of America in 1980.<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> <figure class="mw-default-size mw-halign-left" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Clinton_and_Bill_Russell_meet_at_2014_Civil_Rights_Summit.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Clinton smiling and hugging a pole while speaking to Russell" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bill_Clinton_and_Bill_Russell_meet_at_2014_Civil_Rights_Summit.jpg/220px-Bill_Clinton_and_Bill_Russell_meet_at_2014_Civil_Rights_Summit.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="147" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bill_Clinton_and_Bill_Russell_meet_at_2014_Civil_Rights_Summit.jpg/330px-Bill_Clinton_and_Bill_Russell_meet_at_2014_Civil_Rights_Summit.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/d/dc/Bill_Clinton_and_Bill_Russell_meet_at_2014_Civil_Rights_Summit.jpg/440px-Bill_Clinton_and_Bill_Russell_meet_at_2014_Civil_Rights_Summit.jpg 2x" data-file-width="6732" data-file-height="4488" /></a><figcaption>Former President <a href="/wiki/Bill_Clinton" title="Bill Clinton">Bill Clinton</a> and Russell at the <a href="/wiki/LBJ_Presidential_Library" class="mw-redirect" title="LBJ Presidential Library">LBJ Presidential Library</a>'s Civil Rights Summit in 2014</figcaption></figure> For his achievements, Russell was named "Sportsman of the Year" by <a href="/wiki/Sports_Illustrated" title="Sports Illustrated">Sports Illustrated</a> in 1968.<a href="#cite_note-Plimpton_1968-120">[118]</a> He is one of four players (along with Cousy, <a href="/wiki/George_Mikan" title="George Mikan">George Mikan</a>, and <a href="/wiki/Bob_Pettit" title="Bob Pettit">Bob Pettit</a>) to have made all four <a href="/wiki/NBA_anniversary_teams" title="NBA anniversary teams">NBA anniversary teams</a>: the <a href="/wiki/NBA_25th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 25th Anniversary Team">NBA 25th Anniversary Team</a> (1970), the <a href="/wiki/NBA_35th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 35th Anniversary Team">NBA 35th Anniversary Team</a> (1980), the <a href="/wiki/NBA_50th_Anniversary_Team" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA 50th Anniversary Team">NBA 50th Anniversary Team</a> (1996),<a href="#cite_note-nbacomsummary-8">[6]</a> and the <a href="/wiki/NBA_75th_Anniversary_Team" title="NBA 75th Anniversary Team">NBA 75th Anniversary Team</a> (2021).<a href="#cite_note-NBA_75-201">[199]</a> Russell ranked No. 18 on <a href="/wiki/ESPN" title="ESPN">ESPN</a>'s "50 Greatest Athletes of the 20th Century" list in 1999.<a href="#cite_note-202">[200]</a><a href="#cite_note-203">[201]</a> In 2007, he was voted the third best center of all time by ESPN behind Abdul-Jabbar and Chamberlain.<a href="#cite_note-204">[202]</a> In 2009, <a href="/wiki/Slam_(magazine)" title="Slam (magazine)">Slam</a> named him the third best player of all-time behind Jordan and Chamberlain.<a href="#cite_note-205">[203]</a> In 2020, he was ranked No. 4 in ESPN's list of the top 74 NBA players of all time, the second best center behind Abdul-Jabbar and ahead of Chamberlain.<a href="#cite_note-206">[204]</a> In 2022, he was ranked No. 6 in ESPN's NBA 75th Anniversary Team list,<a href="#cite_note-207">[205]</a> and No. 4 in a similar list by <a href="/wiki/The_Athletic" title="The Athletic">The Athletic</a>.<a href="#cite_note-208">[206]</a> Of Russell, former NBA player and head coach <a href="/wiki/Don_Nelson" title="Don Nelson">Don Nelson</a> said: "There are two types of superstars. One makes himself look good at the expense of the other guys on the floor. But there's another type who makes the players around him look better than they are, and that's the type Russell was."<a href="#cite_note-209">[207]</a> In 2000, his longtime teammate <a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Tom Heinsohn</a> described both Russell's stature and his uneasy relationship with Boston more earthily, saying: "Look, all I know is the guy ... came to Boston and won 11 championships in 13 years, and they named a bleeping tunnel after <a href="/wiki/Ted_Williams" title="Ted Williams">Ted Williams</a>."<a href="#cite_note-210">[208]</a> During the <a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Weekend" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA All-Star Weekend">NBA All-Star Weekend</a> on February 14, 2009, NBA Commissioner <a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">David Stern</a> announced that the NBA Finals MVP award would be named after Russell.<a href="#cite_note-finalsmvp-177">[175]</a> He was named as a 2010 recipient of the <a href="/wiki/Presidential_Medal_of_Freedom" title="Presidential Medal of Freedom">Presidential Medal of Freedom</a>.<a href="#cite_note-211">[209]</a> On June 15, 2017, Russell was announced as the inaugural recipient of the <a href="/wiki/NBA_Lifetime_Achievement_Award" title="NBA Lifetime Achievement Award">NBA Lifetime Achievement Award</a>.<a href="#cite_note-212">[210]</a> In October 2021, Russell was honored as one of the league's 75 greatest players of all time.<a href="#cite_note-NBA_75-201">[199]</a> On August 11, 2022, it was announced that Russell's No. 6 jersey would be retired throughout the National Basketball Association, the first time a jersey had been retired league-wide in NBA history, and joining <a href="/wiki/Jackie_Robinson" title="Jackie Robinson">Jackie Robinson</a> and <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky" title="Wayne Gretzky">Wayne Gretzky</a> in the honor among <a href="/wiki/Major_North_American_professional_sports_teams" class="mw-redirect" title="Major North American professional sports teams">the four major American sports leagues</a>.<a href="#cite_note-League-20">[18]</a><a href="#cite_note-213">[211]</a> However, the NBA players who wore the number 6 jersey at that time, such as <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">LeBron James</a>, may keep the number under the <a href="/wiki/Grandfather_clause" title="Grandfather clause">grandfather clause</a> until they voluntarily change it or retire, similar to what MLB players did with Robinson's No. 42.<a href="#cite_note-214">[212]</a><a href="#cite_note-215">[213]</a> In October 2024, Boston Mayor <a href="/wiki/Michelle_Wu" title="Michelle Wu">Michelle Wu</a> and other officials announced that the city would rename the new North Washington Street Bridge (located near TD Garden) in honor of Russell. At the time of the renaming, the "William Felton 'Bill' Russell Bridge" was under construction as the replacement of a bridge known locally as the <a href="/wiki/Charlestown_Bridge" title="Charlestown Bridge">Charlestown Bridge</a>.<a href="#cite_note-216">[214]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Statue">Statue</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=19" title="Edit section: Statue">edit</a>]</div> In 2013, <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston</a> honored Russell by erecting a statue of him on <a href="/wiki/City_Hall_Plaza_(Boston)" class="mw-redirect" title="City Hall Plaza (Boston)">City Hall Plaza</a>. He is depicted in-game, surrounded by 11 <a href="/wiki/Plinths" class="mw-redirect" title="Plinths">plinths</a> representing the 11 championships he helped the Celtics win.<a href="#cite_note-217">[215]</a> Each plinth features a key word and related quote to illustrate Russell's multiple accomplishments. The Bill Russell Legacy Foundation, established by the Boston Celtics Shamrock Foundation, funded the project.<a href="#cite_note-218">[216]</a> The art is by Ann Hirsch of <a href="/wiki/Somerville,_Massachusetts" title="Somerville, Massachusetts">Somerville, Massachusetts</a>, in collaboration with Pressley Associates Landscape Architects of Boston.<a href="#cite_note-219">[217]</a> The statue was unveiled on November 1, 2013, with Russell in attendance.<a href="#cite_note-220">[218]</a><a href="#cite_note-221">[219]</a><a href="#cite_note-222">[220]</a> During the spring of 2015, two statues of children were added, honoring Russell's commitment to working with children. These statues were modeled by a local boy from Somerville and multiple girls from the surrounding area.<a href="#cite_note-223">[221]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="West_Coast_Conference's_Russell_Rule">West Coast Conference's Russell Rule</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=20" title="Edit section: West Coast Conference's Russell Rule">edit</a>]</div> On August 2, 2020, the <a href="/wiki/West_Coast_Conference" title="West Coast Conference">West Coast Conference</a> (WCC), which has been home to Russell's alma mater of USF since the league's formation in 1952,<a href="#cite_note-WCC_history-224">[222]</a><a href="#cite_note-225">[c]</a> became the first <a href="/wiki/NCAA_Division_I" title="NCAA Division I">NCAA Division I</a> conference to adopt a conference-wide diversity hiring commitment, announcing the Russell Rule, named after Russell and based on the <a href="/wiki/National_Football_League" title="National Football League">National Football League</a>'s <a href="/wiki/Rooney_Rule" title="Rooney Rule">Rooney Rule</a>. In its announcement, the WCC stated: "The 'Russell Rule' requires each member institution to include a member of a traditionally underrepresented community in the pool of final candidates for every athletic director, senior administrator, head coach and full-time assistant coach position in the athletic department."<a href="#cite_note-226">[223]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="NBA_career_statistics">NBA career statistics</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=21" title="Edit section: NBA career statistics">edit</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="white-space: nowrap;"> <caption>Legend </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;">  GP </td> <td>Games played </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black">  GS  </td> <td>Games started </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black"> MPG  </td> <td>Minutes per game </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;"> FG%  </td> <td style="padding-right: 8px"><a href="/wiki/Field_goal_(basketball)" title="Field goal (basketball)">Field goal</a> percentage </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black"> 3P%  </td> <td style="padding-right: 8px"><a href="/wiki/Three-point_field_goal" title="Three-point field goal">3-point field goal</a> percentage </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black"> FT%  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Free_throw" title="Free throw">Free throw</a> percentage </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;"> RPG  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Rebound_(basketball)" title="Rebound (basketball)">Rebounds</a> per game </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black"> APG  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Assist_(basketball)" title="Assist (basketball)">Assists</a> per game </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black"> SPG  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Steal_(basketball)" title="Steal (basketball)">Steals</a> per game </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black;"> BPG  </td> <td><a href="/wiki/Block_(basketball)" title="Block (basketball)">Blocks</a> per game </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black"> PPG  </td> <td>Points per game </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black"> Bold  </td> <td>Career high </td></tr> <tr> <td style="background-color: #afe6ba; border: 1px solid black;"> †  </td> <td>Won an <a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_champions" title="List of NBA champions">NBA championship</a></td> <td style="background-color: #CFECEC; border: 1px solid black;"> *  </td> <td>Led the league</td> <td style="background-color: #E0CEF2; border: 1px solid black;"> ‡  </td> <td>NBA record </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Regular_season">Regular season</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=22" title="Edit section: Regular season">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:right;"> <caption>Bill Russell regular season statistics<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Team </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Games Played">GP</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Minutes per Game">MPG</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Field Goal Percentage">FG%</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Free Throw Percentage">FT%</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Rebounds per Game">RPG</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Assists per Game">APG</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Points per Game">PPG</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_NBA_season" title="1956–57 NBA season">1956–57</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1956–57 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>48</td> <td>35.3</td> <td>.427</td> <td>.492</td> <td bgcolor="CFECEC">19.6*</td> <td>1.8</td> <td>14.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:transparent;"><a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_NBA_season" title="1957–58 NBA season">1957–58</a> </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1957-58_Boston_Celtics_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1957-58 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>69</td> <td>38.3</td> <td>.442</td> <td>.519</td> <td bgcolor="CFECEC">22.7*</td> <td>2.9</td> <td>16.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1958%E2%80%9359_NBA_season" title="1958–59 NBA season">1958–59</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1958-59_Boston_Celtics_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1958-59 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>70</td> <td bgcolor="CFECEC">42.6*</td> <td>.457</td> <td>.598</td> <td bgcolor="CFECEC">23.0*</td> <td>3.2</td> <td>16.7 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_NBA_season" title="1959–60 NBA season">1959–60</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1959-60_Boston_Celtics_season" class="mw-redirect" title="1959-60 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>74</td> <td>42.5</td> <td>.467</td> <td>.612</td> <td>24.0</td> <td>3.7</td> <td>18.2 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_NBA_season" title="1960–61 NBA season">1960–61</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1960–61 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>78</td> <td>44.3</td> <td>.426</td> <td>.550</td> <td>23.9</td> <td>3.4</td> <td>16.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_NBA_season" title="1961–62 NBA season">1961–62</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1961–62 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>76</td> <td>45.2</td> <td>.457</td> <td>.575</td> <td>23.6</td> <td>4.5</td> <td>18.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_NBA_season" title="1962–63 NBA season">1962–63</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1962–63 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>78</td> <td>44.9</td> <td>.432</td> <td>.555</td> <td>23.6</td> <td>4.5</td> <td>16.8 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_NBA_season" title="1963–64 NBA season">1963–64</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1963–64 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>78</td> <td>44.6</td> <td>.433</td> <td>.550</td> <td bgcolor="CFECEC">24.7*</td> <td>4.7</td> <td>15.0 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_NBA_season" title="1964–65 NBA season">1964–65</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1964–65 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>78</td> <td>44.4</td> <td>.438</td> <td>.573</td> <td bgcolor="CFECEC">24.1*</td> <td>5.3</td> <td>14.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_NBA_season" title="1965–66 NBA season">1965–66</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1965–66 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>78</td> <td>43.4</td> <td>.415</td> <td>.551</td> <td>22.8</td> <td>4.8</td> <td>12.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:transparent;"><a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_NBA_season" title="1966–67 NBA season">1966–67</a> </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1966–67 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td style="background:#cfecec;">81*</td> <td>40.7</td> <td>.454</td> <td>.610</td> <td>21.0</td> <td>5.8</td> <td>13.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_NBA_season" title="1967–68 NBA season">1967–68</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1967–68 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>78</td> <td>37.9</td> <td>.425</td> <td>.537</td> <td>18.6</td> <td>4.6</td> <td>12.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1968–69</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1968–69 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>77</td> <td>42.7</td> <td>.433</td> <td>.526</td> <td>19.3</td> <td>4.9</td> <td>9.9 </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;background:transparent;" colspan="2">Career </th> <td>963</td> <td>42.3</td> <td>.440</td> <td>.561</td> <td>22.5</td> <td>4.3</td> <td>15.1 </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;background:transparent;" colspan="2">All-Star </th> <td>12</td> <td>28.5</td> <td>.459</td> <td>.529</td> <td>11.5</td> <td>3.2</td> <td>10.0 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Playoffs">Playoffs</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=23" title="Edit section: Playoffs">edit</a>]</div> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:right;"> <caption>Bill Russell post-season statistics<a href="#cite_note-brstats-1">[1]</a> </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col">Team </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Games Played">GP</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Minutes per Game">MPG</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Field Goal Percentage">FG%</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Free Throw Percentage">FT%</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Rebounds per Game">RPG</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Assists per Game">APG</abbr> </th> <th scope="col"><abbr title="Points per Game">PPG</abbr> </th></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1957_NBA_playoffs" title="1957 NBA playoffs">1957</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1956%E2%80%9357_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1956–57 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>10</td> <td>40.9</td> <td>.365</td> <td>.508</td> <td>24.4</td> <td>3.2</td> <td>13.9 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:transparent;"><a href="/wiki/1958_NBA_playoffs" title="1958 NBA playoffs">1958</a> </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1957%E2%80%9358_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1957–58 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>9</td> <td>39.4</td> <td>.361</td> <td>.606</td> <td>24.6</td> <td>2.7</td> <td>15.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1959_NBA_playoffs" title="1959 NBA playoffs">1959</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1958%E2%80%9359_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1958–59 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>11</td> <td>45.1</td> <td>.409</td> <td>.612</td> <td>27.7</td> <td>3.6</td> <td>15.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1960_NBA_playoffs" title="1960 NBA playoffs">1960</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1959%E2%80%9360_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1959–60 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>13</td> <td>44.0</td> <td>.456</td> <td>.707</td> <td>25.8</td> <td>2.9</td> <td>18.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1961_NBA_playoffs" title="1961 NBA playoffs">1961</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1960–61 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>10</td> <td>46.2</td> <td>.427</td> <td>.523</td> <td>29.9</td> <td>4.8</td> <td>19.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_playoffs" title="1962 NBA playoffs">1962</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1961%E2%80%9362_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1961–62 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>14</td> <td>48.0</td> <td>.458</td> <td>.726</td> <td>26.4</td> <td>5.0</td> <td>22.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1963_NBA_playoffs" title="1963 NBA playoffs">1963</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1962%E2%80%9363_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1962–63 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>13</td> <td>47.5</td> <td>.453</td> <td>.661</td> <td>25.1</td> <td>5.1</td> <td>20.3 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1964_NBA_playoffs" title="1964 NBA playoffs">1964</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1963%E2%80%9364_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1963–64 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>10</td> <td>45.1</td> <td>.356</td> <td>.552</td> <td>27.2</td> <td>4.4</td> <td>13.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1965_NBA_playoffs" title="1965 NBA playoffs">1965</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1964%E2%80%9365_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1964–65 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>12</td> <td>46.8</td> <td>.527</td> <td>.526</td> <td>25.2</td> <td>6.3</td> <td>16.5 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1966_NBA_playoffs" title="1966 NBA playoffs">1966</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1965%E2%80%9366_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1965–66 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>17</td> <td>47.9</td> <td>.475</td> <td>.618</td> <td>25.2</td> <td>5.0</td> <td>19.1 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:transparent;"><a href="/wiki/1967_NBA_playoffs" title="1967 NBA playoffs">1967</a> </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1966–67 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>9</td> <td>43.3</td> <td>.360</td> <td>.635</td> <td>22.0</td> <td>5.6</td> <td>10.6 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_playoffs" title="1968 NBA playoffs">1968</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1967–68 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>19</td> <td>45.7</td> <td>.409</td> <td>.585</td> <td>22.8</td> <td>5.2</td> <td>14.4 </td></tr> <tr> <th scope="row" style="text-align:left;background:#afe6ba;"><a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_playoffs" title="1969 NBA playoffs">1969</a>† </th> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1968–69 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td>18</td> <td>46.1</td> <td>.423</td> <td>.506</td> <td>20.5</td> <td>5.4</td> <td>10.8 </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom"> <th scope="row" style="text-align:center;background:transparent;" colspan="2">Career </th> <td>165</td> <td>45.4</td> <td>.430</td> <td>.603</td> <td bgcolor="EOCEF2">24.9‡</td> <td>4.7</td> <td>16.2 </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Head_coaching_record">Head coaching record</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=24" title="Edit section: Head coaching record">edit</a>]</div> <table class="toccolours" style="white-space: nowrap;"> <caption style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid #AAAAAA;">Legend </caption> <tbody><tr> <td style="text-align:center;">Regular season </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">G </td> <td>Games coached </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">W </td> <td>Games won </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">L </td> <td>Games lost </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">W–L % </td> <td>Win–loss % </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:center;">Playoffs </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">PG </td> <td style="padding-right: 8px">Playoff games </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">PW </td> <td style="padding-right: 8px">Playoff wins </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">PL </td> <td>Playoff losses </td> <td style="background-color: #F2F2F2; border: 1px solid black; width:50px; text-align:center;">PW–L % </td> <td>Playoff win–loss % </td></tr></tbody></table> <table class="wikitable sortable plainrowheaders" style="text-align:right;"> <caption>Bill Russell coaching statistics </caption> <tbody><tr> <th scope="col">Team </th> <th scope="col">Year </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Games">G</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Games won">W</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Games lost">L</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Win–loss perecentage">W–L%</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Finish </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Playoff games">PG</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Playoff games won">PW</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Playoff games lost">PL</abbr> </th> <th scope="col" data-sort-type="number"><abbr title="Playoff games win–loss percentage">PW–L%</abbr> </th> <th scope="col">Result </th></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1966–67 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1966%E2%80%9367_NBA_season" title="1966–67 NBA season">1966–67</a> </td> <td>81</td> <td>60</td> <td>21</td> <td>.671</td> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd in Eastern</td> <td>9</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td>.444 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Lost in <a href="/wiki/1967_NBA_playoffs" title="1967 NBA playoffs">Division finals</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#FDE910;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1967–68 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1967%E2%80%9368_NBA_season" title="1967–68 NBA season">1967–68</a> </td> <td>82</td> <td>54</td> <td>28</td> <td>.659</td> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd in Eastern</td> <td>19</td> <td>12</td> <td>7</td> <td>.632 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Won <a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">NBA championship</a> </td></tr> <tr style="background:#FDE910;"> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1968–69 Boston Celtics season">Boston</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1968%E2%80%9369_NBA_season" title="1968–69 NBA season">1968–69</a> </td> <td>82</td> <td>48</td> <td>34</td> <td>.585</td> <td style="text-align:center;">4th in Eastern</td> <td>18</td> <td>12</td> <td>6</td> <td>.667 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Won <a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">NBA championship</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374_Seattle_SuperSonics_season" title="1973–74 Seattle SuperSonics season">Seattle</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1973%E2%80%9374_NBA_season" title="1973–74 NBA season">1973–74</a> </td> <td>82</td> <td>36</td> <td>46</td> <td>.439</td> <td style="text-align:center;">3rd in Pacific</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td>— </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Missed playoffs </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1974%E2%80%9375_Seattle_SuperSonics_season" title="1974–75 Seattle SuperSonics season">Seattle</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1974%E2%80%9375_NBA_season" title="1974–75 NBA season">1974–75</a> </td> <td>82</td> <td>43</td> <td>39</td> <td>.524</td> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd in Pacific</td> <td>9</td> <td>4</td> <td>5</td> <td>.444 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Lost in <a href="/wiki/1975_NBA_playoffs" title="1975 NBA playoffs">Conference semifinals</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1975%E2%80%9376_Seattle_SuperSonics_season" title="1975–76 Seattle SuperSonics season">Seattle</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1975%E2%80%9376_NBA_season" title="1975–76 NBA season">1975–76</a> </td> <td>82</td> <td>43</td> <td>39</td> <td>.524</td> <td style="text-align:center;">2nd in Pacific</td> <td>6</td> <td>2</td> <td>4</td> <td>.333 </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Lost in <a href="/wiki/1976_NBA_playoffs" title="1976 NBA playoffs">Conference semifinals</a> </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377_Seattle_SuperSonics_season" title="1976–77 Seattle SuperSonics season">Seattle</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1976%E2%80%9377_NBA_season" title="1976–77 NBA season">1976–77</a> </td> <td>82</td> <td>40</td> <td>42</td> <td>.488</td> <td style="text-align:center;">4th in Pacific</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td>— </td> <td style="text-align:center;">Missed playoffs </td></tr> <tr> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_Sacramento_Kings_season" title="1987–88 Sacramento Kings season">Sacramento</a> </td> <td style="text-align:left;"><a href="/wiki/1987%E2%80%9388_NBA_season" title="1987–88 NBA season">1987–88</a> </td> <td>58</td> <td>17</td> <td>41</td> <td>.293</td> <td style="text-align:center;">(dismissed)</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td>—</td> <td>— </td> <td style="text-align:center;">— </td></tr> <tr class="sortbottom"> <td style="text-align:left;">Career </td> <td></td> <td>631</td> <td>341</td> <td>290</td> <td>.540</td> <td></td> <td>61</td> <td>34</td> <td>27</td> <td>.557</td> <td> </td></tr></tbody></table> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Personal_life_and_death">Personal life and death</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=25" title="Edit section: Personal life and death">edit</a>]</div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Bill_Russell_-_2005_NBA_Legends_Tour_-_1-21-05.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img alt="Russell looking away from the camera" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/7/7e/Bill_Russell_-_2005_NBA_Legends_Tour_-_1-21-05.jpg/170px-Bill_Russell_-_2005_NBA_Legends_Tour_-_1-21-05.jpg" decoding="async" width="170" height="234" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/7/7e/Bill_Russell_-_2005_NBA_Legends_Tour_-_1-21-05.jpg 1.5x" data-file-width="240" data-file-height="331" /></a><figcaption>Russell in 2005</figcaption></figure> Russell was a resident of <a href="/wiki/Mercer_Island,_Washington" title="Mercer Island, Washington">Mercer Island, Washington</a>, for nearly five decades.<a href="#cite_note-227">[224]</a> In 1959, Russell became the first NBA player to visit Africa.<a href="#cite_note-228">[225]</a> Russell was a member of <a href="/wiki/Kappa_Alpha_Psi" title="Kappa Alpha Psi">Kappa Alpha Psi</a> fraternity, having been initiated into its Gamma Alpha chapter while a student at University of San Francisco.<a href="#cite_note-229">[226]</a> On October 16, 2013, Russell was arrested for bringing his registered, loaded .38-caliber <a href="/wiki/Smith_%26_Wesson" title="Smith & Wesson">Smith & Wesson</a> handgun to the <a href="/wiki/Seattle%E2%80%93Tacoma_International_Airport" title="Seattle–Tacoma International Airport">Seattle–Tacoma International Airport</a>.<a href="#cite_note-Stapleton-230">[227]</a> He was issued a citation and released, and the <a href="/wiki/Transportation_Security_Administration" title="Transportation Security Administration">Transportation Security Administration</a> indicated it would levy a civil penalty, which would be between $3,000 and $7,500.<a href="#cite_note-Stapleton-230">[227]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Marriages_and_children">Marriages and children</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=26" title="Edit section: Marriages and children">edit</a>]</div> Russell was married to his college sweetheart Rose Swisher from 1956 to 1973. They had three children: daughter Karen Russell, a television pundit and lawyer, and sons William Jr. and Jacob. The couple grew emotionally distant and divorced.<a href="#cite_note-taylor359_362-231">[228]</a> In 1977, he married <a href="/wiki/Dorothy_Anstett" title="Dorothy Anstett">Dorothy Anstett</a>, <a href="/wiki/Miss_USA" title="Miss USA">Miss USA</a> of 1968;<a href="#cite_note-taylor359_362-231">[228]</a> they divorced in 1980.<a href="#cite_note-232">[229]</a> In 1996, Russell married his third wife, Marilyn Nault;<a href="#cite_note-233">[230]</a> their marriage lasted until her death in January 2009.<a href="#cite_note-234">[231]</a> Russell was married to Jeannine Russell at the time of his death.<a href="#cite_note-235">[232]</a><a href="#cite_note-236">[233]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Personality">Personality</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=27" title="Edit section: Personality">edit</a>]</div> In 1966, <a href="/wiki/The_New_York_Times" title="The New York Times">The New York Times</a> wrote that "Russell's main characteristics are pride, intelligence, an active and appreciative sense of humor, a preoccupation with dignity, a capacity for consideration once his friendship or sympathy has been aroused, and an unwillingness to compromise whatever truths he has accepted."<a href="#cite_note-237">[234]</a> In 2009, Russell wrote his paternal grandfather's motto, passed down to his father and then to him: "A man has to draw a line inside himself that he won't allow any man to cross." Russell said he was "proud of my grandfather's heroic dignity against forces more powerful than him ... he would not allow himself to be oppressed or intimidated by anyone." He wrote these words after recounting how grandfather Jake Russell had stood up to the <a href="/wiki/Ku_Klux_Klan" title="Ku Klux Klan">Ku Klux Klan</a> and other whites who attempted to thwart his efforts to build a schoolhouse for black children; his grandfather was the first person in Russell's patrilineal line born free in North America and was himself illiterate.<a href="#cite_note-238">[235]</a><a href="#cite_note-239">[236]</a> Russell's motto became: "If you disrespect that line, you disrespect me."<a href="#cite_note-240">[237]</a> Russell was known for his distinctive high-pitched laugh, of which Red Auerbach quipped: "There are only two things that could make me quit coaching. My wife and Russell's laugh."<a href="#cite_note-si19631118-139">[137]</a> To teammates and friends, Russell was open and amicable; he was extremely distrusting and cold towards anyone else.<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> Journalists were often treated to the "Russell Glower", described as an "icily contemptuous stare accompanied by a long silence".<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> Russell was also notorious for his refusal to give autographs or acknowledge the Celtics fans, and was called "the most selfish, surly and uncooperative athlete" by one pundit.<a href="#cite_note-taylor193_197-125">[123]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Death">Death</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=28" title="Edit section: Death">edit</a>]</div> Russell died at his Mercer Island, Washington, home on July 31, 2022, at the age of 88.<a href="#cite_note-Goldstein_2022-16">[14]</a><a href="#cite_note-241">[238]</a> The news was announced in a <a href="/wiki/Twitter_post" class="mw-redirect" title="Twitter post">Twitter post</a> by his family. In a statement, NBA Commissioner <a href="/wiki/Adam_Silver" title="Adam Silver">Adam Silver</a> said that Russell was "the greatest champion in all of team sports".<a href="#cite_note-242">[239]</a> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Selected_publications">Selected publications</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=29" title="Edit section: Selected publications">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFRussellMcSweeny,_William1966" class="citation book cs1">Russell, Bill; McSweeny, William (1966). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/goupforglory00russ">Go Up for Glory</a>. Coward-McCann.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Go+Up+for+Glory&rft.pub=Coward-McCann&rft.date=1966&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft.au=McSweeny%2C+William&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fgoupforglory00russ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRussellBranch,_Taylor1979" class="citation book cs1">Russell, Bill; <a href="/wiki/Taylor_Branch" title="Taylor Branch">Branch, Taylor</a> (1979). Second Wind. Ballantine Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50385-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-394-50385-1"><bdi>978-0-394-50385-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Second+Wind&rft.pub=Ballantine+Books&rft.date=1979&rft.isbn=978-0-394-50385-1&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft.au=Branch%2C+Taylor&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRussellFaulkner,_David2001" class="citation book cs1">Russell, Bill; Faulkner, David (2001). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/isbn_9780525945987">Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership from the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner</a>. New American Library. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-525-94598-9" title="Special:BookSources/0-525-94598-9"><bdi>0-525-94598-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Russell+Rules%3A+11+Lessons+on+Leadership+from+the+Twentieth+Century%27s+Greatest+Winner&rft.pub=New+American+Library&rft.date=2001&rft.isbn=0-525-94598-9&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft.au=Faulkner%2C+David&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fisbn_9780525945987&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRussellSteinberg,_Alan2009" class="citation book cs1">Russell, Bill; Steinberg, Alan (2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/redmemycoachmy00russ">Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend</a>. Harper. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-176614-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-176614-5"><bdi>978-0-06-176614-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Red+and+Me%3A+My+Coach%2C+My+Lifelong+Friend&rft.pub=Harper&rft.date=2009&rft.isbn=978-0-06-176614-5&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft.au=Steinberg%2C+Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fredmemycoachmy00russ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading3"><h3 id="Documentary_series">Documentary series</h3>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=30" title="Edit section: Documentary series">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li>Bill Russell: Legend, Netflix, 2023</li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="See_also">See also</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=31" title="Edit section: See also">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_career_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association career rebounding leaders">List of National Basketball Association career rebounding leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_career_minutes_played_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association career minutes played leaders">List of National Basketball Association career minutes played leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_career_playoff_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association career playoff rebounding leaders">List of National Basketball Association career playoff rebounding leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_career_playoff_triple-double_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association career playoff triple-double leaders">List of National Basketball Association career playoff triple-double leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association annual rebounding leaders">List of National Basketball Association annual rebounding leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_annual_minutes_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association annual minutes leaders">List of National Basketball Association annual minutes leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_single-game_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association single-game rebounding leaders">List of National Basketball Association single-game rebounding leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_single-season_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association single-season rebounding leaders">List of National Basketball Association single-season rebounding leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_rookie_single-season_rebounding_leaders" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association rookie single-season rebounding leaders">List of National Basketball Association rookie single-season rebounding leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_National_Basketball_Association_longest_winning_streaks" class="mw-redirect" title="List of National Basketball Association longest winning streaks">List of National Basketball Association longest winning streaks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_players_with_most_championships" title="List of NBA players with most championships">List of NBA players with most championships</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NCAA_Division_I_men%27s_basketball_career_rebounding_leaders" title="List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career rebounding leaders">List of NCAA Division I men's basketball career rebounding leaders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Race_and_ethnicity_in_the_NBA" title="Race and ethnicity in the NBA">Race and ethnicity in the NBA</a></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Footnotes">Footnotes</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=32" title="Edit section: Footnotes">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist reflist-lower-alpha"> <div class="mw-references-wrap"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-3"><a href="#cite_ref-3">^</a> Russell won 11 NBA championships as a player for the Boston Celtics. Those 11 championships include two that he won as the team's player-coach (1968, 1969).<a href="#cite_note-2">[2]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-5"><a href="#cite_ref-5">^</a> Russell won 11 NBA championships as a player for the Boston Celtics. Those 11 championships include two that he won as the team's player-coach.<a href="#cite_note-titles-4">[3]</a> </li> <li id="cite_note-225"><a href="#cite_ref-225">^</a> During Russell's college career, the conference was known as the California Basketball Association.<a href="#cite_note-WCC_history-224">[222]</a> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=33" title="Edit section: References">edit</a>]</div> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239543626"><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-brstats-1">^ <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-0">a</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-1">b</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-2">c</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-3">d</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-4">e</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-5">f</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-6">g</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-7">h</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-8">i</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-9">j</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-10">k</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-11">l</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-12">m</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-13">n</a> <a href="#cite_ref-brstats_1-14">o</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/russebi01.html">"Bill Russell Statistics"</a>. Basketball Reference. 2004. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080517143603/http://www.basketball-reference.com/players/r/russebi01.html">Archived</a> from the original on May 17, 2008. Retrieved May 23, 2008.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Basketball+Reference&rft.atitle=Bill+Russell+Statistics&rft.date=2004&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.basketball-reference.com%2Fplayers%2Fr%2Frussebi01.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-2"><a href="#cite_ref-2">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://about.fiba.basketball/en/fiba-hall-of-fame/hall-of-famers/bill-russell">"FIBA Hall of Fame: Bill Russell (USA)"</a>. FIBA. 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The Baltimore Sun. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20131105012416/http://articles.baltimoresun.com/1990-12-12/news/0503070267_1_arundel-county-anne-arundel-frank-robinson">Archived</a> from the original on November 5, 2013. Retrieved October 9, 2024.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Baltimore+Sun&rft.atitle=Who%27s+Better+At+Hoops%3A+Bill+Russell+Or+Frank+Robinson%3F&rft.date=1990-12-12&rft.aulast=O%27Malley&rft.aufirst=Pat&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.baltimoresun.com%2F1990%2F12%2F12%2Fwhos-better-at-hoops-bill-russell-or-frank-robinson%2F&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-32"><a href="#cite_ref-32">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSven2007" class="citation magazine cs1 cs1-prop-foreign-lang-source">Sven, Simon (December 2007). 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Retrieved April 4, 2022. <q>His name is Bill Russell and if he ever learns to hit the basket someone is going to have to revise the rules.</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Sports+Illustrated&rft.atitle=The+Tournaments+and+The+Man+Who&rft.date=1956-01-09&rft.aulast=Terrell&rft.aufirst=Roy&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fvault%2F1956%2F01%2F09%2F668249%2Fthe-tournaments-and-the-man-who&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-DeCock2005-42"><a href="#cite_ref-DeCock2005_42-0">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDeCock2005" class="citation book cs1">DeCock, Luke (December 6, 2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=iR22YS-PT_wC">Great Teams in College Basketball History</a>. 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Retrieved May 22, 2019.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=World+Rankings+%E2%80%94+Men%27s+High+Jump&rft.date=2019&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftrackandfieldnews.com%2Fwp-content%2Fuploads%2F2019%2F01%2F14-mHJRank.pdf&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-53"><a href="#cite_ref-53">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070214121726/http://sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/multitalented">"NCAA Basketball Tourney History: Two by Four"</a>. CBS Sports. April 22, 2003. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.sportsline.com/collegebasketball/mayhem/history/multitalented">the original</a> on February 14, 2007. Retrieved February 23, 2007.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=CBS+Sports&rft.atitle=NCAA+Basketball+Tourney+History%3A+Two+by+Four&rft.date=2003-04-22&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.sportsline.com%2Fcollegebasketball%2Fmayhem%2Fhistory%2Fmultitalented&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-54"><a href="#cite_ref-54">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHuntress1956" class="citation news cs1">Huntress, Frank (May 13, 1956). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1956/05/15?page=3&section=MODSMD_ARTICLE30">"Stanford Trackmen Finish Fourth in Fresno Relays; Leamon King Equals Century World Record; Landy Runs Mile in 3.59.1; Russell Nears Mark"</a>. The Stanford Daily. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220806104837/https://archives.stanforddaily.com/1956/05/15?page=3&section=MODSMD_ARTICLE30">Archived</a> from the original on August 6, 2022. Retrieved August 1, 2022. <q>USF's versatile Bill Russell and Compton's Charlie Dumas cleared 6–9"-1/4 and tried for the magic ceiling of seven feet. On his third attempt, Russell just missed breaking 6–9"-1/2, the record set by Walt Davis of Texas A&M</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Stanford+Daily&rft.atitle=Stanford+Trackmen+Finish+Fourth+in+Fresno+Relays%3B+Leamon+King+Equals+Century+World+Record%3B+Landy+Runs+Mile+in+3.59.1%3B+Russell+Nears+Mark&rft.date=1956-05-13&rft.aulast=Huntress&rft.aufirst=Frank&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchives.stanforddaily.com%2F1956%2F05%2F15%3Fpage%3D3%26section%3DMODSMD_ARTICLE30&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-55"><a href="#cite_ref-55">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFYoung2022" class="citation news cs1">Young, Dennis (August 4, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Bill-Russell-s-66-year-old-University-of-San-17352796.php">"Bill Russell's 66-year-old University of San Francisco high jump record may never be broken"</a>. SF Gate. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20230304222710/https://www.sfgate.com/sports/article/Bill-Russell-s-66-year-old-University-of-San-17352796.php">Archived</a> from the original on March 4, 2023. Retrieved March 4, 2023.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Bill+Russell%27s+66-year-old+University+of+San+Francisco+high+jump+record+may+never+be+broken&rft.date=2022-08-04&rft.aulast=Young&rft.aufirst=Dennis&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.sfgate.com%2Fsports%2Farticle%2FBill-Russell-s-66-year-old-University-of-San-17352796.php&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-56"><a href="#cite_ref-56">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation magazine cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1105/bill.russell.rare.photos/images/russell-track.jpg">"Bill Russell attempting to clear 6–9 1/4. (embedded photo)"</a>. Sports Illustrated. Associated Press. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20170412061606/https://cdn-s3.si.com/s3fs-public/si/multimedia/photo_gallery/1105/bill.russell.rare.photos/images/russell-track.jpg">Archived</a> from the original on April 12, 2017. 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The New York Times. p. 49. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210308075831/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/19/80002651.html?pageNumber=49">Archived</a> from the original on March 8, 2021. Retrieved April 10, 2017. <q>Russell and Auerbach enjoy a strictly professional rapport ... Russell frankly appraised [Auerbach] as the greatest of all coaches ... 'Yet we are not particularly friends. No man who has ever played for Auerbach has ever been close to him, with the possible exception of Bob Cousy.'</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Celtics+Name+Russell+Coach%2C+Making+Him+First+Negro+to+Lead+Major+Team&rft.pages=49&rft.date=1966-04-19&rft.aulast=Daley&rft.aufirst=Arthur&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesmachine.nytimes.com%2Ftimesmachine%2F1966%2F04%2F19%2F80002651.html%3FpageNumber%3D49&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-116"><a href="#cite_ref-116">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20060916203742/http://www.basketball-reference.com/playoffs/NBA_1967.html">"1967 NBA Playoffs"</a>. Basketball Reference. 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April 19, 1966. p. 49. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20210307230445/https://timesmachine.nytimes.com/timesmachine/1966/04/19/issue.html">Archived</a> from the original on March 7, 2021. Retrieved July 16, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+New+York+Times&rft.atitle=Glory+at+the+Basket%2C+William+Felton+Russell&rft.pages=49&rft.date=1966-04-19&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Ftimesmachine.nytimes.com%2Ftimesmachine%2F1966%2F04%2F19%2Fissue.html&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-238"><a href="#cite_ref-238">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDeford1999" class="citation magazine cs1">Deford, Frank (May 10, 1999). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.si.com/nba/2014/08/15/bill-russell-boston-celtics-ring-leader-si-60-frank-deford">"The Ring Leader: Bill Russell helped the Celtics rule their sport like no team ever has"</a>. Sports Illustrated. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220731190914/https://www.si.com/nba/2014/08/15/bill-russell-boston-celtics-ring-leader-si-60-frank-deford">Archived</a> from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 16, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=Sports+Illustrated&rft.atitle=The+Ring+Leader%3A+Bill+Russell+helped+the+Celtics+rule+their+sport+like+no+team+ever+has&rft.date=1999-05-10&rft.aulast=Deford&rft.aufirst=Frank&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.si.com%2Fnba%2F2014%2F08%2F15%2Fbill-russell-boston-celtics-ring-leader-si-60-frank-deford&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-239"><a href="#cite_ref-239">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRussellSteinberg2009" class="citation book cs1">Russell, Bill; Steinberg, Alan (May 5, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/redmemycoachmy00russ">Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend</a>. HarperCollins. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/redmemycoachmy00russ/page/2">2</a>–6. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-176614-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-176614-5"><bdi>978-0-06-176614-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Red+and+Me%3A+My+Coach%2C+My+Lifelong+Friend&rft.pages=2-6&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2009-05-05&rft.isbn=978-0-06-176614-5&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft.au=Steinberg%2C+Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fredmemycoachmy00russ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-240"><a href="#cite_ref-240">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFRussellSteinberg2009" class="citation book cs1">Russell, Bill; Steinberg, Alan (May 5, 2009). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/redmemycoachmy00russ">Red and Me: My Coach, My Lifelong Friend</a>. HarperCollins. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/redmemycoachmy00russ/page/6">6</a>. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-06-176614-5" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-06-176614-5"><bdi>978-0-06-176614-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Red+and+Me%3A+My+Coach%2C+My+Lifelong+Friend&rft.pages=6&rft.pub=HarperCollins&rft.date=2009-05-05&rft.isbn=978-0-06-176614-5&rft.aulast=Russell&rft.aufirst=Bill&rft.au=Steinberg%2C+Alan&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Fredmemycoachmy00russ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-241"><a href="#cite_ref-241">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoldman2022" class="citation news cs1">Goldman, Tom (July 31, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.npr.org/2022/07/31/961414664/bill-russell-basketball-great-with-record-11-nba-titles-dies-at-88">"Bill Russell, Basketball Great With Record 11 NBA Titles, Dies At 88"</a>. NPR. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220731174521/https://www.npr.org/2022/07/31/961414664/bill-russell-basketball-great-with-record-11-nba-titles-dies-at-88">Archived</a> from the original on July 31, 2022. Retrieved July 31, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.atitle=Bill+Russell%2C+Basketball+Great+With+Record+11+NBA+Titles%2C+Dies+At+88&rft.date=2022-07-31&rft.aulast=Goldman&rft.aufirst=Tom&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.npr.org%2F2022%2F07%2F31%2F961414664%2Fbill-russell-basketball-great-with-record-11-nba-titles-dies-at-88&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> <li id="cite_note-242"><a href="#cite_ref-242">^</a> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFWright2022" class="citation web cs1">Wright, Michael C. (July 31, 2022). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.nba.com/news/celtics-legend-11-time-nba-champion-bill-russell-dies-at-88">"Celtics legend, 11-time NBA champion Bill Russell dies at 88"</a>. National Basketball Association. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20220801014812/https://www.nba.com/news/celtics-legend-11-time-nba-champion-bill-russell-dies-at-88">Archived</a> from the original on August 1, 2022. Retrieved July 31, 2022.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=unknown&rft.btitle=Celtics+legend%2C+11-time+NBA+champion+Bill+Russell+dies+at+88&rft.pub=National+Basketball+Association&rft.date=2022-07-31&rft.aulast=Wright&rft.aufirst=Michael+C.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.nba.com%2Fnews%2Fceltics-legend-11-time-nba-champion-bill-russell-dies-at-88&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"> </li> </ol></div></div> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Further_reading">Further reading</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=34" title="Edit section: Further reading">edit</a>]</div> <ul><li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFGoudsouzian2010" class="citation book cs1">Goudsouzian, Aram (2010). King of the Court: Bill Russell and the Basketball Revolution. Berkeley: University of California Press. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-520-25887-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-520-25887-7"><bdi>978-0-520-25887-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=King+of+the+Court%3A+Bill+Russell+and+the+Basketball+Revolution&rft.place=Berkeley&rft.pub=University+of+California+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-520-25887-7&rft.aulast=Goudsouzian&rft.aufirst=Aram&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFHeisler2003" class="citation book cs1">Heisler, Mark (2003). Giants: The 25 Greatest Centers of All Time. Chicago: Triumph Books. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-57243-577-1" title="Special:BookSources/1-57243-577-1"><bdi>1-57243-577-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Giants%3A+The+25+Greatest+Centers+of+All+Time&rft.place=Chicago&rft.pub=Triumph+Books&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=1-57243-577-1&rft.aulast=Heisler&rft.aufirst=Mark&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKornheiser1999" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Kornheiser" title="Tony Kornheiser">Kornheiser, Tony</a> (1999). "Bill Russell: Nothing but a Man". In MacCambridge, Michael (ed.). ESPN SportsCentury. New York City: Hyperion-ESPN Books. pp. 178–189.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=bookitem&rft.atitle=Bill+Russell%3A+Nothing+but+a+Man&rft.btitle=ESPN+SportsCentury&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pages=178-189&rft.pub=Hyperion-ESPN+Books&rft.date=1999&rft.aulast=Kornheiser&rft.aufirst=Tony&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPluto1992" class="citation book cs1"><a href="/wiki/Terry_Pluto" title="Terry Pluto">Pluto, Terry</a> (1992). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/talltales00plut">Tall Tales: The Glory Years of the NBA in the Words of the Men Who Played, Coached, and Built Pro Basketball</a>. New York: Simon & Schuster. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-671-74279-5" title="Special:BookSources/0-671-74279-5"><bdi>0-671-74279-5</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tall+Tales%3A+The+Glory+Years+of+the+NBA+in+the+Words+of+the+Men+Who+Played%2C+Coached%2C+and+Built+Pro+Basketball&rft.place=New+York&rft.pub=Simon+%26+Schuster&rft.date=1992&rft.isbn=0-671-74279-5&rft.aulast=Pluto&rft.aufirst=Terry&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Ftalltales00plut&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPomerantz2019" class="citation book cs1">Pomerantz, Gary M. (2019). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://openlibrary.org/works/OL19754797W/The_last_pass">The Last Pass: Cousy, Russell, the Celtics, and What Matters in the End</a>. New York City: Penguin. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-7352-2363-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-7352-2363-9"><bdi>978-0-7352-2363-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Last+Pass%3A+Cousy%2C+Russell%2C+the+Celtics%2C+and+What+Matters+in+the+End&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pub=Penguin&rft.date=2019&rft.isbn=978-0-7352-2363-9&rft.aulast=Pomerantz&rft.aufirst=Gary+M.&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fopenlibrary.org%2Fworks%2FOL19754797W%2FThe_last_pass&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li> <li><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFTaylor2005" class="citation book cs1">Taylor, John (2005). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/rivalrybillrusse0000tayl">The Rivalry: Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlain, and the Golden Age of Basketball</a>. New York City: Random House. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/1-4000-6114-8" title="Special:BookSources/1-4000-6114-8"><bdi>1-4000-6114-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Rivalry%3A+Bill+Russell%2C+Wilt+Chamberlain%2C+and+the+Golden+Age+of+Basketball&rft.place=New+York+City&rft.pub=Random+House&rft.date=2005&rft.isbn=1-4000-6114-8&rft.aulast=Taylor&rft.aufirst=John&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Frivalrybillrusse0000tayl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3ABill+Russell" class="Z3988"></li></ul> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="External_links">External links</h2>[<a href="/w/index.php?title=Bill_Russell&action=edit&section=35" title="Edit section: External links">edit</a>]</div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1235681985">.mw-parser-output .side-box{margin:4px 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class="external text" href="http://www.hoophall.com/hall-of-famers/william-f-bill-russell">Bill Russell</a> at the <a href="/wiki/Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame</a></li> <li><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20070930171404/http://www.halloffame.fiba.com/pages/eng/hof/indu/play/2007/p/lid_17904_newsid/19961/bio.html">FIBA Hall of Fame on Russell</a></li> <li class="mw-empty-elt"></li> <li>Career statistics from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://stats.nba.com/player/78049/">NBA.com</a> <a href="https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q242185#P3647" title="Edit this at Wikidata"><img alt="Edit this at Wikidata" src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/8/8a/OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg/10px-OOjs_UI_icon_edit-ltr-progressive.svg.png" decoding="async" width="10" height="10" class="mw-file-element" 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Russell</a></li> <li>1957: <a href="/wiki/Chet_Forte" title="Chet Forte">Forte</a></li> <li>1958: <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lucas" title="Jerry Lucas">Lucas</a></li> <li>1962: <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lucas" title="Jerry Lucas">Lucas</a></li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/Art_Heyman" title="Art Heyman">Heyman</a></li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/Gary_Bradds" title="Gary Bradds">Bradds</a></li> <li>1965: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley">Bradley</a></li> <li>1966: <a href="/wiki/Cazzie_Russell" title="Cazzie Russell">C. 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Black">Black</a> </li> <li>1925: <a href="/wiki/Earl_Mueller" title="Earl Mueller">Mueller</a> </li> <li>1926: <a href="/wiki/Jack_Cobb" title="Jack Cobb">Cobb</a> </li> <li>1927: <a href="/wiki/Vic_Hanson" title="Vic Hanson">Hanson</a> </li> <li>1928: <a href="/wiki/Victor_Holt" title="Victor Holt">Holt</a> </li> <li>1929: <a href="/wiki/Cat_Thompson" title="Cat Thompson">C. 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style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>1953: <a href="/wiki/Ken_Sears" title="Ken Sears">Sears</a> </li> <li>1954: None selected </li> <li>1955: <a href="/wiki/Ken_Sears" title="Ken Sears">Sears</a> </li> <li>1956: <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Russell</a> </li> <li>1957: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Farmer_(basketball)" title="Mike Farmer (basketball)">Farmer</a> </li> <li>1958: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Farmer_(basketball)" title="Mike Farmer (basketball)">Farmer</a> & <a href="/wiki/Leroy_Wright" title="Leroy Wright">Wright</a> </li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/LaRoy_Doss" title="LaRoy Doss">Doss</a> & <a href="/wiki/Leroy_Wright" title="Leroy Wright">Wright</a> </li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Grote_(basketball)" title="Jerry Grote (basketball)">Grote</a> </li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Meschery" title="Tom Meschery">Meschery</a> </li> <li>1962: <a href="/wiki/Harry_Dinnel" title="Harry Dinnel">Dinnel</a> & <a href="/wiki/Steve_Gray_(basketball)" title="Steve Gray (basketball)">Gray</a> </li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Gray_(basketball)" title="Steve Gray (basketball)">Gray</a> </li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/Ollie_Johnson_(basketball,_born_1942)" title="Ollie Johnson (basketball, born 1942)">Johnson</a> </li> <li>1965: <a href="/wiki/Ollie_Johnson_(basketball,_born_1942)" title="Ollie Johnson (basketball, born 1942)">Johnson</a> </li> <li>1966: <a href="/wiki/Keith_Swagerty" title="Keith Swagerty">Swagerty</a> </li> <li>1967: <a href="/wiki/Keith_Swagerty" title="Keith Swagerty">Swagerty</a> </li> <li>1968: <a href="/wiki/Rick_Adelman" title="Rick Adelman">Adelman</a> </li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Awtrey" title="Dennis Awtrey">Awtrey</a> </li> <li>1970: <a href="/wiki/Dennis_Awtrey" title="Dennis Awtrey">Awtrey</a> </li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/John_Gianelli" title="John Gianelli">Gianelli</a> </li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Stewart_(basketball)" title="Mike Stewart (basketball)">Stewart</a> </li> <li>1973: <a href="/wiki/Bird_Averitt" title="Bird Averitt">Averitt</a> </li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Frank_Oleynick" title="Frank Oleynick">Oleynick</a> </li> <li>1975: <a href="/wiki/Ricky_Sobers" title="Ricky Sobers">Sobers</a> </li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/Marcos_Leite" title="Marcos Leite">Leite</a> </li> <li>1977: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cartwright" title="Bill Cartwright">Cartwright</a> </li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cartwright" title="Bill Cartwright">Cartwright</a> </li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/Bill_Cartwright" title="Bill Cartwright">Cartwright</a> </li> <li>1980: <a href="/wiki/Kurt_Rambis" title="Kurt Rambis">Rambis</a> </li> <li>1981: <a href="/wiki/Quintin_Dailey" title="Quintin Dailey">Dailey</a> </li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Quintin_Dailey" title="Quintin Dailey">Dailey</a> </li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Orlando_Phillips" title="Orlando Phillips">Phillips</a> & <a href="/wiki/Dane_Suttle" title="Dane Suttle">Suttle</a> </li> <li>1984: <a href="/wiki/John_Stockton" title="John Stockton">Stockton</a> </li> <li>1985: 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Jones</a> </li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Jeff_Brown_(basketball)" title="Jeff Brown (basketball)">Brown</a> </li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a> </li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a> </li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Marlon_Garnett" title="Marlon Garnett">Garnett</a> </li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Bakari_Hendrix" title="Bakari Hendrix">Hendrix</a> </li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/Eric_Schraeder" title="Eric Schraeder">Schraeder</a> </li> <li>2000: <a href="/wiki/Kenyon_Jones_(basketball)" title="Kenyon Jones (basketball)">K. Jones</a> </li> <li>2001: <a href="/wiki/Casey_Calvary" title="Casey Calvary">Calvary</a> </li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Dan_Dickau" title="Dan Dickau">Dickau</a> </li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/Blake_Stepp" title="Blake Stepp">Stepp</a> </li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/Blake_Stepp" title="Blake Stepp">Stepp</a> </li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Ronny_Turiaf" title="Ronny Turiaf">Turiaf</a> </li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/Adam_Morrison" title="Adam Morrison">Morrison</a> </li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Sean_Denison" title="Sean Denison">Denison</a> & <a href="/wiki/Derek_Raivio" title="Derek Raivio">Raivio</a> </li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Jeremy_Pargo" title="Jeremy Pargo">Pargo</a> </li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/John_Bryant_(basketball)" title="John Bryant (basketball)">Bryant</a> </li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/Matt_Bouldin" title="Matt Bouldin">Bouldin</a> </li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Mickey_McConnell" title="Mickey McConnell">McConnell</a></li> <li>2012: <a 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Malone</a></li> <li>1980: <a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Abdul-Jabbar</a></li> <li>1981: <a href="/wiki/Julius_Erving" title="Julius Erving">Erving</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Moses_Malone" title="Moses Malone">M. Malone</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Moses_Malone" title="Moses Malone">M. Malone</a></li> <li>1984: <a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Bird</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Bird</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Bird</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Johnson</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Johnson</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Johnson</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li>1993: <a href="/wiki/Charles_Barkley" title="Charles Barkley">Barkley</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Olajuwon</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/David_Robinson" title="David Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Karl_Malone" title="Karl Malone">K. Malone</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/Karl_Malone" title="Karl Malone">K. Malone</a></li> <li>2000: <a href="/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">O'Neal</a></li> <li>2001: <a href="/wiki/Allen_Iverson" title="Allen Iverson">Iverson</a></li> <li>2002: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Garnett" title="Kevin Garnett">Garnett</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Dirk_Nowitzki" title="Dirk Nowitzki">Nowitzki</a> </li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Kobe_Bryant" title="Kobe Bryant">Bryant</a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">James</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">James</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Derrick_Rose" title="Derrick Rose">Rose</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">James</a></li> <li>2013: <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron James">James</a></li> <li>2014: <a href="/wiki/Kevin_Durant" title="Kevin Durant">Durant</a></li> <li>2015: <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Curry" title="Stephen Curry">Curry</a></li> <li>2016: <a href="/wiki/Stephen_Curry" title="Stephen Curry">Curry</a></li> <li>2017: <a href="/wiki/Russell_Westbrook" title="Russell Westbrook">Westbrook</a></li> <li>2018: <a href="/wiki/James_Harden" title="James Harden">Harden</a></li> <li>2019: <a href="/wiki/Giannis_Antetokounmpo" title="Giannis Antetokounmpo">Antetokounmpo</a></li> <li>2020: <a href="/wiki/Giannis_Antetokounmpo" title="Giannis Antetokounmpo">Antetokounmpo</a></li> <li>2021: <a href="/wiki/Nikola_Joki%C4%87" title="Nikola Jokić">Jokić</a></li> <li>2022: <a href="/wiki/Nikola_Joki%C4%87" title="Nikola Jokić">Jokić</a></li> <li>2023: <a href="/wiki/Joel_Embiid" title="Joel Embiid">Embiid</a></li> <li>2024: <a href="/wiki/Nikola_Joki%C4%87" title="Nikola Jokić">Jokić</a></li></ul> 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Smith</a></li> <li>1967: <a href="/wiki/Rick_Barry" title="Rick Barry">Barry</a></li> <li>1968: <a href="/wiki/Hal_Greer" title="Hal Greer">Greer</a></li> <li>1969: <a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li>1970: <a href="/wiki/Willis_Reed" title="Willis Reed">Reed</a></li> <li>1971: <a href="/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens" title="Lenny Wilkens">Wilkens</a></li> <li>1972: <a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">West</a></li> <li>1973: <a href="/wiki/Dave_Cowens" title="Dave Cowens">Cowens</a></li> <li>1974: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Lanier" title="Bob Lanier">Lanier</a></li> <li>1975: <a href="/wiki/Walt_Frazier" title="Walt Frazier">Frazier</a></li> <li>1976: <a href="/wiki/Dave_Bing" title="Dave Bing">Bing</a></li> <li>1977: <a href="/wiki/Julius_Erving" title="Julius Erving">Erving</a></li> <li>1978: <a href="/wiki/Randy_Smith_(basketball)" title="Randy Smith (basketball)">R. 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Jones</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Head coach: <a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Auerbach</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td class="navbox-abovebelow hlist" colspan="2" style="background-color: #BB9753 !important; color: #000000 !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #008348, inset -2px -2px 0 #008348; !important;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1960%E2%80%9361_Boston_Celtics_season" title="1960–61 Boston Celtics season">Regular season</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_NBA_playoffs" title="1961 NBA playoffs">Playoffs</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239334494"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Boston_Celtics_1961–62_NBA_champions" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2" style="background-color: #BB9753 !important; color: #000000 !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #008348, inset -2px -2px 0 #008348; !important;;background-color: #008348 !important; color: #FFFFFF !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #BB9753, inset -2px -2px 0 #BB9753; !important;"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a href="/wiki/Template:Boston_Celtics_1961%E2%80%9362_NBA_champions" title="Template:Boston Celtics 1961–62 NBA champions"><abbr title="View this template" style="color: #FFFFFF !important">v</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-talk"><a href="/wiki/Template_talk:Boston_Celtics_1961%E2%80%9362_NBA_champions" title="Template talk:Boston Celtics 1961–62 NBA champions"><abbr title="Discuss this template" style="color: #FFFFFF !important">t</abbr></a></li><li class="nv-edit"><a href="/wiki/Special:EditPage/Template:Boston_Celtics_1961%E2%80%9362_NBA_champions" title="Special:EditPage/Template:Boston Celtics 1961–62 NBA champions"><abbr title="Edit this template" style="color: #FFFFFF !important">e</abbr></a></li></ul></div><div id="Boston_Celtics_1961–62_NBA_champions" style="font-size:114%;margin:0 4em"><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics" title="Boston Celtics">Boston Celtics</a> <a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_Finals" title="1962 NBA Finals">1961–62 NBA champions</a></div></th></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>4 <a href="/wiki/Carl_Braun_(basketball)" title="Carl Braun (basketball)">Braun</a></li> <li>6 <a class="mw-selflink selflink">Russell</a></li> <li>14 <a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Cousy</a></li> <li>15 <a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Heinsohn</a></li> <li>16 <a href="/wiki/Satch_Sanders" title="Satch Sanders">Sanders</a></li> <li>18 <a href="/wiki/Jim_Loscutoff" title="Jim Loscutoff">Loscutoff</a></li> <li>20 <a href="/wiki/Gene_Guarilia" title="Gene Guarilia">Guarilia</a></li> <li>21 <a href="/wiki/Gary_Phillips_(basketball)" title="Gary Phillips (basketball)">Phillips</a></li> <li>23 <a href="/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(basketball)" title="Frank Ramsey (basketball)">Ramsey</a></li> <li>24 <a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(basketball,_born_1933)" title="Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)">S. 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Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nate_Archibald" title="Nate Archibald">Archibald</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Barnett" title="Dick Barnett">Barnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Beckman" title="John Beckman">Beckman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Belov" title="Sergei Belov">Belov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chauncey_Billups" title="Chauncey Billups">Billups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Bing" title="Dave Bing">Bing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carol_Blazejowski" title="Carol Blazejowski">Blazejowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bennie_Borgmann" title="Bennie Borgmann">Borgmann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Carl_Braun_(basketball)" title="Carl Braun (basketball)">Braun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joseph_Brennan_(basketball)" title="Joseph Brennan (basketball)">Brennan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kobe_Bryant" title="Kobe Bryant">Bryant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vince_Carter" title="Vince Carter">Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Cervi" title="Al Cervi">Cervi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Cheeks" title="Maurice Cheeks">Cheeks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zack_Clayton" title="Zack Clayton">Clayton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cynthia_Cooper-Dyke" title="Cynthia Cooper-Dyke">Cooper-Dyke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Cousy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louie_Dampier" title="Louie Dampier">Dampier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Davies" title="Bob Davies">Davies</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Drexler" title="Clyde Drexler">Drexler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Dumars" title="Joe Dumars">Dumars</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teresa_Edwards" title="Teresa Edwards">Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Endacott" title="Paul Endacott">Endacott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Frazier" title="Walt Frazier">Frazier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marty_Friedman_(basketball)" title="Marty Friedman (basketball)">Friedman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikos_Galis" title="Nikos Galis">Galis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Gervin" title="George Gervin">Gervin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manu_Gin%C3%B3bili" title="Manu Ginóbili">Ginóbili</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gail_Goodrich" title="Gail Goodrich">Goodrich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hal_Greer" title="Hal Greer">Greer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Theresa_Grentz" title="Theresa Grentz">Grentz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richie_Guerin" title="Richie Guerin">Guerin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Becky_Hammon" title="Becky Hammon">Hammon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vic_Hanson" title="Vic Hanson">Hanson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Hardaway" title="Tim Hardaway">Hardaway</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marques_Haynes" title="Marques Haynes">Haynes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nat_Holman" title="Nat Holman">Holman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charley_Hyatt" title="Charley Hyatt">Hyatt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Isaacs" title="John Isaacs">Isaacs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_Iverson" title="Allen Iverson">Iverson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Buddy_Jeannette" title="Buddy Jeannette">Jeannette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fats_Jenkins" title="Fats Jenkins">Jenkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Johnson" title="Dennis Johnson">D. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">M. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._C._Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="K. C. Jones">K. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(basketball,_born_1933)" title="Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)">S. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jason_Kidd" title="Jason Kidd">Kidd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nancy_Lieberman" title="Nancy Lieberman">Lieberman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Maravich" title="Pete Maravich">Maravich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hort%C3%AAncia_Marcari" title="Hortência Marcari">Marcari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0ar%C5%ABnas_Mar%C4%8Diulionis" title="Šarūnas Marčiulionis">Marčiulionis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slater_Martin" title="Slater Martin">Martin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_McDermott" title="Bobby McDermott">McDermott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tracy_McGrady" title="Tracy McGrady">McGrady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_McGuire" title="Dick McGuire">D. McGuire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Meyers" title="Ann Meyers">Meyers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reggie_Miller" title="Reggie Miller">R. Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sidney_Moncrief" title="Sidney Moncrief">Moncrief</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Monroe" title="Earl Monroe">Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pearl_Moore" title="Pearl Moore">Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Calvin_Murphy" title="Calvin Murphy">C. Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harlan_Page" title="Harlan Page">Page</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Parker" title="Tony Parker">Parker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Payton" title="Gary Payton">Payton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Petrović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Phillip" title="Andy Phillip">Phillip</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cumberland_Posey" title="Cumberland Posey">Posey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mitch_Richmond" title="Mitch Richmond">Richmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Rodgers" title="Guy Rodgers">Rodgers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Roosma" title="John Roosma">Roosma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Honey_Russell" title="Honey Russell">J. Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Schommer" title="John Schommer">Schommer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charlie_Scott_(basketball)" title="Charlie Scott (basketball)">Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barney_Sedran" title="Barney Sedran">Sedran</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Sharman" title="Bill Sharman">Sharman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katie_Smith" title="Katie Smith">K. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dawn_Staley" title="Dawn Staley">Staley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Christian_Steinmetz" title="Christian Steinmetz">Steinmetz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Stockton" title="John Stockton">Stockton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sheryl_Swoopes" title="Sheryl Swoopes">Swoopes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isiah_Thomas" title="Isiah Thomas">Thomas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Thompson_(basketball)" title="David Thompson (basketball)">D. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michele_Timms" title="Michele Timms">Timms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fuzzy_Vandivier" title="Fuzzy Vandivier">Vandivier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dwyane_Wade" title="Dwyane Wade">Wade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Wanzer" title="Bobby Wanzer">Wanzer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teresa_Weatherspoon" title="Teresa Weatherspoon">Weatherspoon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Westphal" title="Paul Westphal">Westphal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Whalen" title="Lindsay Whalen">Whalen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Jo_White" title="Jo Jo White">J. White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens" title="Lenny Wilkens">Wilkens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynette_Woodard" title="Lynette Woodard">Woodard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wooden" title="John Wooden">Wooden</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Forwards</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Arizin" title="Paul Arizin">Arizin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Seimone_Augustus" title="Seimone Augustus">Augustus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Charles_Barkley" title="Charles Barkley">Barkley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Barry" title="Rick Barry">Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elgin_Baylor" title="Elgin Baylor">Baylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">Bird</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Bosh" title="Chris Bosh">Bosh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Boswell" title="Sonny Boswell">Boswell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Bradley" title="Bill Bradley">Bradley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roger_Brown_(basketball,_born_1942)" title="Roger Brown (basketball, born 1942)">R. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swin_Cash" title="Swin Cash">Cash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tamika_Catchings" title="Tamika Catchings">Catchings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Cooper_(basketball)" title="Chuck Cooper (basketball)">C. Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Cooper" title="Michael Cooper">M. Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Cunningham" title="Billy Cunningham">Cunningham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denise_Curry" title="Denise Curry">Curry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Dalipagi%C4%87" title="Dražen Dalipagić">Dalipagić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Dandridge" title="Bob Dandridge">Dandridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Dantley" title="Adrian Dantley">Dantley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Davis_(basketball)" title="Walter Davis (basketball)">Davis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_DeBusschere" title="Dave DeBusschere">DeBusschere</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Dehnert" title="Dutch Dehnert">Dehnert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Duncan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_English" title="Alex English">English</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Julius_Erving" title="Julius Erving">Erving</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_E._Foster" title="Harold E. Foster">Foster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Fulks" title="Joe Fulks">Fulks</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Laddie_Gale" title="Laddie Gale">Gale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Garnett" title="Kevin Garnett">Garnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pau_Gasol" title="Pau Gasol">Gasol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop_Gates" title="Pop Gates">Gates</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Gola" title="Tom Gola">Gola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliff_Hagan" title="Cliff Hagan">Hagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Havlicek" title="John Havlicek">Havlicek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Connie_Hawkins" title="Connie Hawkins">Hawkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elvin_Hayes" title="Elvin Hayes">Hayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Spencer_Haywood" title="Spencer Haywood">Haywood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Heinsohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Grant_Hill" title="Grant Hill">Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bailey_Howell" title="Bailey Howell">Howell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lou_Hudson" title="Lou Hudson">Hudson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lauren_Jackson" title="Lauren Jackson">L. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gus_Johnson_(basketball)" title="Gus Johnson (basketball)">G. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Jones_(basketball,_born_1951)" title="Bobby Jones (basketball, born 1951)">B. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bernard_King" title="Bernard King">King</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radivoj_Kora%C4%87" title="Radivoj Korać">Korać</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toni_Kuko%C4%8D" title="Toni Kukoč">Kukoč</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lucas" title="Jerry Lucas">Lucas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Luisetti" title="Hank Luisetti">Luisetti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Karl_Malone" title="Karl Malone">K. Malone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Katrina_McClain" title="Katrina McClain">McClain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Branch_McCracken" title="Branch McCracken">B. McCracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_McCracken" title="Jack McCracken">J. McCracken</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_McGinnis" title="George McGinnis">McGinnis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_McHale_(basketball)" title="Kevin McHale (basketball)">McHale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vern_Mikkelsen" title="Vern Mikkelsen">Mikkelsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Miller" title="Cheryl Miller">C. Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Mullin" title="Chris Mullin">Mullin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dirk_Nowitzki" title="Dirk Nowitzki">Nowitzki</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Pettit" title="Bob Pettit">Pettit</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Pierce" title="Paul Pierce">Pierce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottie_Pippen" title="Scottie Pippen">Pippen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Pollard" title="Jim Pollard">Pollard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Albert_Pullins" title="Albert Pullins">Pullins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dino_Ra%C4%91a" title="Dino Rađa">Radja</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(basketball)" title="Frank Ramsey (basketball)">Ramsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Rodman" title="Dennis Rodman">Rodman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dolph_Schayes" title="Dolph Schayes">Schayes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Schmidt" title="Ernest Schmidt">E. Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Schmidt" title="Oscar Schmidt">O. Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Stokes" title="Maurice Stokes">Stokes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cat_Thompson" title="Cat Thompson">C. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tina_Thompson" title="Tina Thompson">T. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Twyman" title="Jack Twyman">Twyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Walker" title="Chet Walker">Walker</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Webber" title="Chris Webber">Webber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nera_White" title="Nera White">N. White</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jamaal_Wilkes" title="Jamaal Wilkes">Wilkes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dominique_Wilkins" title="Dominique Wilkins">Wilkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Worthy" title="James Worthy">Worthy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Yardley" title="George Yardley">Yardley</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Centers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Abdul-Jabbar</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Thomas_Barlow_(basketball)" title="Thomas Barlow (basketball)">Barlow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zelmo_Beaty" title="Zelmo Beaty">Beaty</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Bellamy" title="Walt Bellamy">Bellamy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wilt_Chamberlain" title="Wilt Chamberlain">Chamberlain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tarzan_Cooper" title="Tarzan Cooper">T. Cooper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kre%C5%A1imir_%C4%86osi%C4%87" title="Krešimir Ćosić">Ćosić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Cowens" title="Dave Cowens">Cowens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joan_Crawford_(basketball)" title="Joan Crawford (basketball)">Crawford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Daniels" title="Mel Daniels">Daniels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Forrest_DeBernardi" title="Forrest DeBernardi">DeBernardi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Divac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Donovan" title="Anne Donovan">Donovan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Ewing" title="Patrick Ewing">Ewing</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Gallatin" title="Harry Gallatin">Gallatin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Artis_Gilmore" title="Artis Gilmore">Gilmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yolanda_Griffith" title="Yolanda Griffith">Griffith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ace_Gruenig" title="Ace Gruenig">Gruenig</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lusia_Harris" title="Lusia Harris">Harris-Stewart</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Houbregs" title="Bob Houbregs">Houbregs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Issel" title="Dan Issel">Issel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Inman_Jackson" title="Inman Jackson">Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skinny_Johnson" title="Skinny Johnson">W. Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neil_Johnston" title="Neil Johnston">Johnston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moose_Krause" title="Moose Krause">M. Krause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Kurland" title="Bob Kurland">Kurland</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Lanier" title="Bob Lanier">Lanier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Leslie" title="Lisa Leslie">Leslie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clyde_Lovellette" title="Clyde Lovellette">Lovellette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Joe_Lapchick" title="Joe Lapchick">Lapchick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Macauley" title="Ed Macauley">Macauley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ubiratan_Pereira_Maciel" title="Ubiratan Pereira Maciel">Maciel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Moses_Malone" title="Moses Malone">M. Malone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_McAdoo" title="Bob McAdoo">McAdoo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dino_Meneghin" title="Dino Meneghin">Meneghin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Mikan" title="George Mikan">Mikan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Mourning" title="Alonzo Mourning">Mourning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stretch_Murphy" title="Stretch Murphy">S. Murphy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dikembe_Mutombo" title="Dikembe Mutombo">Mutombo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Olajuwon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">O'Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Parish" title="Robert Parish">Parish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willis_Reed" title="Willis Reed">Reed</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arnie_Risen" title="Arnie Risen">Risen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Robinson" title="David Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">B. Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvydas_Sabonis" title="Arvydas Sabonis">Sabonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Sampson" title="Ralph Sampson">Sampson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uljana_Semjonova" title="Uljana Semjonova">Semjonova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Sikma" title="Jack Sikma">Sikma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nate_Thurmond" title="Nate Thurmond">Thurmond</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wes_Unseld" title="Wes Unseld">Unseld</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Wachter" title="Ed Wachter">Wachter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Wallace_(basketball)" title="Ben Wallace (basketball)">Wallace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Walton" title="Bill Walton">Walton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ora_Washington" title="Ora Washington">Washington</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yao_Ming" title="Yao Ming">Yao</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_coaches_in_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of coaches in the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Coaches</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Adelman" title="Rick Adelman">Adelman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lidiya_Alekseyeva" title="Lidiya Alekseyeva">Alexeeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phog_Allen" title="Phog Allen">P. Allen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Anderson_(basketball)" title="Harold Anderson (basketball)">Anderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">Auerbach</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Geno_Auriemma" title="Geno Auriemma">Auriemma</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Leon_Barmore" title="Leon Barmore">Barmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Barry" title="Sam Barry">Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Bess" title="Gene Bess">Bess</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Blair" title="Gary Blair">Blair</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_Blood" title="Ernest Blood">Blood</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Boeheim" title="Jim Boeheim">Boeheim</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Brown_(basketball)" title="Larry Brown (basketball)">L. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Calhoun" title="Jim Calhoun">Calhoun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Calipari" title="John Calipari">Calipari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Cann" title="Howard Cann">Cann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Carlson" title="Doc Carlson">Carlson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lou_Carnesecca" title="Lou Carnesecca">Carnesecca</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ben_Carnevale" title="Ben Carnevale">Carnevale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Carril" title="Pete Carril">Carril</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Case" title="Everett Case">Case</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Van_Chancellor" title="Van Chancellor">Chancellor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Chaney_(basketball,_born_1932)" title="John Chaney (basketball, born 1932)">Chaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jody_Conradt" title="Jody Conradt">Conradt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Denny_Crum" title="Denny Crum">Crum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Daly" title="Chuck Daly">Daly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Dean" title="Everett Dean">Dean</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_D%C3%ADaz-Miguel" title="Antonio Díaz-Miguel">Díaz-Miguel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edgar_Diddle" title="Edgar Diddle">Diddle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bruce_Drake" title="Bruce Drake">Drake</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lefty_Driesell" title="Lefty Driesell">Driesell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Ferr%C3%A1ndiz" title="Pedro Ferrándiz">Ferrándiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Fitch" title="Bill Fitch">Fitch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cotton_Fitzsimmons" title="Cotton Fitzsimmons">Fitzsimmons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clarence_Gaines" title="Clarence Gaines">Gaines</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sandro_Gamba" title="Sandro Gamba">Gamba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Gardner_(basketball)" title="Jack Gardner (basketball)">Gardner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Gaze" title="Lindsay Gaze">Gaze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Slats_Gill" title="Slats Gill">Gill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gomelsky" title="Alexander Gomelsky">Gomelsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sue_Gunter" title="Sue Gunter">Gunter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alex_Hannum" title="Alex Hannum">Hannum</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marv_Harshman" title="Marv Harshman">Harshman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Haskins" title="Don Haskins">Haskins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sylvia_Hatchell" title="Sylvia Hatchell">Hatchell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Heinsohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Hickey" title="Eddie Hickey">Hickey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Hixon" title="David Hixon">Hixon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Hobson" title="Howard Hobson">Hobson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Holzman" title="Red Holzman">Holzman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Huggins" title="Bob Huggins">Huggins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Hughes_(basketball)" title="Robert Hughes (basketball)">Hughes</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Hurley" title="Bob Hurley">Hurley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Iba" title="Henry Iba">Iba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Izzo" title="Tom Izzo">Izzo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Jackson" title="Phil Jackson">P. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doggie_Julian" title="Doggie Julian">Julian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Karl" title="George Karl">Karl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gene_Keady" title="Gene Keady">Keady</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Keaney" title="Frank Keaney">Keaney</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Keogan" title="George Keogan">Keogan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Knight" title="Bob Knight">Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Krzyzewski" title="Mike Krzyzewski">Krzyzewski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Kundla" title="John Kundla">Kundla</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ward_Lambert" title="Ward Lambert">Lambert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bobby_Leonard" title="Bobby Leonard">Leonard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Guy_Lewis" title="Guy Lewis">Lewis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_Litwack" title="Harry Litwack">Litwack</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ken_Loeffler" title="Ken Loeffler">Loeffler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dutch_Lonborg" title="Dutch Lonborg">Lonborg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Magee" title="Herb Magee">Magee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arad_McCutchan" title="Arad McCutchan">McCutchan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Muffet_McGraw" title="Muffet McGraw">McGraw</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_McGuire" title="Al McGuire">A. McGuire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_McGuire" title="Frank McGuire">F. McGuire</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McLendon" title="John McLendon">McLendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_Meanwell" title="Walter Meanwell">Meanwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ray_Meyer" title="Ray Meyer">Meyer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Miller" title="Ralph Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billie_Moore" title="Billie Moore">Moore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kim_Mulkey" title="Kim Mulkey">Mulkey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Nelson" title="Don Nelson">Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Nikoli%C4%87" title="Aleksandar Nikolić">Nikolić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirko_Novosel" title="Mirko Novosel">Novosel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lute_Olson" title="Lute Olson">Olson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Pitino" title="Rick Pitino">Pitino</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gregg_Popovich" title="Gregg Popovich">Popovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Ramsay" title="Jack Ramsay">Ramsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harley_Redin" title="Harley Redin">Redin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nolan_Richardson" title="Nolan Richardson">Richardson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Riley" title="Pat Riley">Riley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cesare_Rubini" title="Cesare Rubini">Rubini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adolph_Rupp" title="Adolph Rupp">Rupp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cathy_Rush" title="Cathy Rush">Rush</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">B. Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bo_Ryan" title="Bo Ryan">Ryan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenny_Sachs" title="Lenny Sachs">Sachs</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Self" title="Bill Self">Self</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Sharman" title="Bill Sharman">Sharman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Everett_Shelton" title="Everett Shelton">Shelton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Sloan" title="Jerry Sloan">Sloan</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Charles_Smith_(basketball_coach)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Charles Smith (basketball coach) (page does not exist)">C. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">D. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marianne_Stanley" title="Marianne Stanley">Stanley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Barbara_Stevens_(basketball)" title="Barbara Stevens (basketball)">Stevens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._Vivian_Stringer" title="C. Vivian Stringer">Stringer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Summitt" title="Pat Summitt">Summitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Sutton" title="Eddie Sutton">Sutton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Tarkanian" title="Jerry Tarkanian">Tarkanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Taylor_(basketball,_born_1924)" title="Fred Taylor (basketball, born 1924)">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bertha_Teague" title="Bertha Teague">Teague</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Thompson_(basketball)" title="John Thompson (basketball)">J. Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rudy_Tomjanovich" title="Rudy Tomjanovich">Tomjanovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tara_VanDerveer" title="Tara VanDerveer">VanDerveer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margaret_Wade_(basketball)" title="Margaret Wade (basketball)">Wade</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stan_Watts" title="Stan Watts">Watts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens" title="Lenny Wilkens">Wilkens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Williams" title="Gary Williams">G. Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Roy_Williams_(basketball_coach)" title="Roy Williams (basketball coach)">R. Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Wooden" title="John Wooden">Wooden</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Woolpert" title="Phil Woolpert">Woolpert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Morgan_Wootten" title="Morgan Wootten">Wootten</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Wright_(basketball)" title="Jay Wright (basketball)">Wright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kay_Yow" title="Kay Yow">Yow</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame#Contributors" title="List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Contributors</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Senda_Berenson_Abbott" title="Senda Berenson Abbott">Abbott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Val_Ackerman" title="Val Ackerman">Ackerman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Attles" title="Al Attles">Attles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Barksdale" title="Don Barksdale">Barksdale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Patrick_Baumann_(basketball)" title="Patrick Baumann (basketball)">Baumann</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clair_Bee" title="Clair Bee">Bee</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Biasone" title="Danny Biasone">Biasone</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubie_Brown" title="Hubie Brown">H. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_A._Brown" title="Walter A. Brown">W. Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Bunn_(basketball)" title="John Bunn (basketball)">Bunn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Buss" title="Jerry Buss">Buss</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nat_Clifton" title="Nat Clifton">Clifton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Colangelo" title="Jerry Colangelo">Colangelo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Collins_(basketball)" title="Doug Collins (basketball)">Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Costello" title="Larry Costello">Costello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Davidson_(businessman)" title="Bill Davidson (businessman)">Davidson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Douglas" title="Bob Douglas">Douglas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alva_Duer" title="Alva Duer">Duer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Wayne_Embry" title="Wayne Embry">Embry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cliff_Fagan" title="Cliff Fagan">Fagan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harry_A._Fisher" title="Harry A. Fisher">Fisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Fleisher" title="Larry Fleisher">Fleisher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Garfinkel" title="Howard Garfinkel">Garfinkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Gavitt" title="Dave Gavitt">Gavitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Gottlieb" title="Eddie Gottlieb">Gottlieb</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Russ_Granik" title="Russ Granik">Granik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Luther_Gulick_(physician)" title="Luther Gulick (physician)">Gulick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Del_Harris" title="Del Harris">Harris</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Les_Harrison_(basketball)" title="Les Harrison (basketball)">Harrison</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chick_Hearn" title="Chick Hearn">Hearn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edwin_Henderson" title="Edwin Henderson">Henderson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ferenc_Hepp" title="Ferenc Hepp">Hepp</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Edward_J._Hickox" title="Edward J. Hickox">Hickox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tony_Hinkle" title="Tony Hinkle">Hinkle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ned_Irish" title="Ned Irish">Irish</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mannie_Jackson" title="Mannie Jackson">M. Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Jernstedt" title="Tom Jernstedt">Jernstedt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Renato_William_Jones" title="Renato William Jones">R. Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/J._Walter_Kennedy" title="J. Walter Kennedy">Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Phil_Knight" title="Phil Knight">Knight</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Krause" title="Jerry Krause">J. Krause</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Meadowlark_Lemon" title="Meadowlark Lemon">Lemon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emil_Liston" title="Emil Liston">Liston</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Lloyd" title="Earl Lloyd">Lloyd</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rebecca_Lobo" title="Rebecca Lobo">Lobo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_McLendon" title="John McLendon">McLendon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Mokray" title="Bill Mokray">Mokray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ralph_Morgan_(basketball)" title="Ralph Morgan (basketball)">Morgan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pop_Morgenweck" title="Pop Morgenweck">Morgenweck</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith">Naismith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Newell" title="Pete Newell">Newell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/C._M._Newton" title="C. M. Newton">Newton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_O%27Brien_(basketball,_born_1888)" title="John O'Brien (basketball, born 1888)">J. O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_O%27Brien" title="Larry O'Brien">L. O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Harold_Olsen" title="Harold Olsen">Olsen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maurice_Podoloff" title="Maurice Podoloff">Podoloff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/H._V._Porter" title="H. V. Porter">Porter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Raveling" title="George Raveling">Raveling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/William_Reid_(basketball)" title="William Reid (basketball)">Reid</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_Reinsdorf" title="Jerry Reinsdorf">Reinsdorf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elmer_Ripley" title="Elmer Ripley">Ripley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satch_Sanders" title="Satch Sanders">Sanders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abe_Saperstein" title="Abe Saperstein">Saperstein</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Schabinger" title="Arthur Schabinger">Schabinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Herb_Simon_(businessman)" title="Herb Simon (businessman)">Simon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_St._John" title="Lynn St. John">St. John</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Amos_Alonzo_Stagg" title="Amos Alonzo Stagg">Stagg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borislav_Stankovi%C4%87" title="Borislav Stanković">Stanković</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Steitz" title="Ed Steitz">Steitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">Stern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Taylor_(salesman)" title="Chuck Taylor (salesman)">Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_Thorn" title="Rod Thorn">Thorn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oswald_Tower" title="Oswald Tower">Tower</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arthur_Trester" title="Arthur Trester">Trester</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Valvano" title="Jim Valvano">Valvano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Vitale" title="Dick Vitale">Vitale</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Clifford_Wells" title="Clifford Wells">Wells</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Welts" title="Rick Welts">Welts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">West</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Louis_Wilke" title="Louis Wilke">Wilke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tex_Winter" title="Tex Winter">Winter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Zollner" title="Fred Zollner">Zollner</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_Naismith_Memorial_Basketball_Hall_of_Fame#Referees" title="List of members of the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame">Referees</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Bavetta" title="Dick Bavetta">Bavetta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Enright_(referee)" class="mw-redirect" title="James Enright (referee)">Enright</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hugh_Evans_(basketball)" title="Hugh Evans (basketball)">Evans</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Darell_Garretson" title="Darell Garretson">Garretson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hepbron" title="George Hepbron">Hepbron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Hoyt" title="George Hoyt">Hoyt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Matthew_P._Kennedy" title="Matthew P. Kennedy">Kennedy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lloyd_Leith" title="Lloyd Leith">Leith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Mihalik" title="Red Mihalik">Mihalik</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hank_Nichols" title="Hank Nichols">Nichols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Nucatola" title="John Nucatola">Nucatola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernest_C._Quigley" title="Ernest C. 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color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;"><div> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/FIBA" title="FIBA">FIBA</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_members_of_the_FIBA_Hall_of_Fame" title="List of members of the FIBA Hall of Fame">Members</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%">Players</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Amaury_Pasos" title="Amaury Pasos">Amaury</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Janeth_Arcain" title="Janeth Arcain">Arcain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Belov" title="Alexander Belov">A. Belov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Belov" title="Sergei Belov">S. Belov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Miki_Berkovich" title="Miki Berkovich">Berkovich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ubiratan_Pereira_Maciel" title="Ubiratan Pereira Maciel">Bira</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pero_Cameron" title="Pero Cameron">Cameron</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jacky_Chazalon" title="Jacky Chazalon">Chazalon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kre%C5%A1imir_%C4%86osi%C4%87" title="Krešimir Ćosić">Ćosić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Te%C3%B3filo_Cruz" title="Teófilo Cruz">Cruz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Dalipagi%C4%87" title="Dražen Dalipagić">Dalipagić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ivo_Daneu" title="Ivo Daneu">Daneu</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirza_Deliba%C5%A1i%C4%87" title="Mirza Delibašić">Delibašić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vlade_Divac" title="Vlade Divac">Divac</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anne_Donovan" title="Anne Donovan">Donovan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Margo_Dydek" title="Margo Dydek">Dydek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Teresa_Edwards" title="Teresa Edwards">Edwards</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Antonio_San_Epifanio" title="Juan Antonio San Epifanio">Epi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panagiotis_Fasoulas" title="Panagiotis Fasoulas">Fasoulas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mathieu_Faye" title="Mathieu Faye">Faye</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Isabelle_Fijalkowski" title="Isabelle Fijalkowski">Fijalkowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Furlong" class="mw-redirect" title="Oscar Furlong">Furlong</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikos_Galis" title="Nikos Galis">Galis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrew_Gaze" title="Andrew Gaze">A. Gaze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Panagiotis_Giannakis" title="Panagiotis Giannakis">Giannakis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Atanas_Golomeev" title="Atanas Golomeev">Golomeev</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ricardo_Primitivo_Gonz%C3%A1lez" title="Ricardo Primitivo González">González</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ruperto_Herrera_Tabio" title="Ruperto Herrera Tabio">Herrera</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hana_Hor%C3%A1kov%C3%A1" title="Hana Horáková">Horáková</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jean-Jacques_Concei%C3%A7%C3%A3o" title="Jean-Jacques Conceição">Jean-Jacques</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Jordan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mieczys%C5%82aw_%C5%81opatka" title="Mieczysław Łopatka">Łopatka</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dragan_Ki%C4%87anovi%C4%87" title="Dragan Kićanović">Kićanović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radivoj_Kora%C4%87" title="Radivoj Korać">Korać</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stanislav_Kropil%C3%A1k" title="Stanislav Kropilák">Kropilák</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Toni_Kuko%C4%8D" title="Toni Kukoč">Kukoč</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hort%C3%AAncia_Marcari" title="Hortência Marcari">Marcari</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C5%A0ar%C5%ABnas_Mar%C4%8Diulionis" title="Šarūnas Marčiulionis">Marčiulionis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fernando_Mart%C3%ADn_(basketball)" title="Fernando Martín (basketball)">Martín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pierluigi_Marzorati" title="Pierluigi Marzorati">Marzorati</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dino_Meneghin" title="Dino Meneghin">Meneghin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ann_Meyers" title="Ann Meyers">Meyers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Miller" title="Cheryl Miller">Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Moglia" title="Oscar Moglia">Moglia</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alonzo_Mourning" title="Alonzo Mourning">Mourning</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Razija_Mujanovi%C4%87" title="Razija Mujanović">Mujanović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Nash" title="Steve Nash">Nash</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/%C3%81gnes_N%C3%A9meth" title="Ágnes Németh">Németh</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaquille_O%27Neal" title="Shaquille O'Neal">O'Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fabricio_Oberto" title="Fabricio Oberto">Oberto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hakeem_Olajuwon" title="Hakeem Olajuwon">Olajuwon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Ortiz_(basketball)" title="José Ortiz (basketball)">Ortiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Paula_Silva" title="Maria Paula Silva">Paula</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Modestas_Paulauskas" title="Modestas Paulauskas">Paulauskas</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Shin-Ja_Park&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Shin-Ja Park (page does not exist)">Park</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dra%C5%BEen_Petrovi%C4%87" title="Dražen Petrović">Petrović</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Manuel_Raga" title="Manuel Raga">Raga</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antoine_Rigaudeau" title="Antoine Rigaudeau">Rigaudeau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Robinson" title="David Robinson">Robinson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Emiliano_Rodr%C3%ADguez" title="Emiliano Rodríguez">Rodríguez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Liliana_Ronchetti" title="Liliana Ronchetti">Ronchetti</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Arvydas_Sabonis" title="Arvydas Sabonis">Sabonis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenichi_Sako" title="Kenichi Sako">Sako</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Schmidt" title="Oscar Schmidt">Schmidt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Detlef_Schrempf" title="Detlef Schrempf">Schrempf</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Uljana_Semjonova" title="Uljana Semjonova">Semjonova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zoran_Slavni%C4%87" title="Zoran Slavnić">Slavnić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Penka_Stoyanova" title="Penka Stoyanova">Stoyanova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sergei_Tarakanov" title="Sergei Tarakanov">Tarakanov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michele_Timms" title="Michele Timms">Timms</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Tkachenko" title="Vladimir Tkachenko">Tkachenko</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valdis_Valters" title="Valdis Valters">Valters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Volkov_(basketball)" title="Alexander Volkov (basketball)">Volkov</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vanya_Voynova" title="Vanya Voynova">Voynova</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mohsen_Medhat_Warda" title="Mohsen Medhat Warda">Warda</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Natalya_Zasulskaya" title="Natalya Zasulskaya">Zassoulskaya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jure_Zdovc" title="Jure Zdovc">Zdovc</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Zheng_Haixia" title="Zheng Haixia">Zheng</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ji%C5%99%C3%AD_Z%C3%ADdek_Sr." title="Jiří Zídek Sr.">Zídek</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%">Coaches</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Lidiya_Alekseyeva" title="Lidiya Alekseyeva">Alekseyeva</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Canavesi" title="Jorge Canavesi">Canavesi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Daly" title="Chuck Daly">Daly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_D%C3%ADaz-Miguel" title="Antonio Díaz-Miguel">Díaz-Miguel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Donohue_(basketball)" title="Jack Donohue (basketball)">Donohue</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pedro_Ferr%C3%A1ndiz" title="Pedro Ferrándiz">Ferrándiz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lindsay_Gaze" title="Lindsay Gaze">L. Gaze</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Alexander_Gomelsky" title="Alexander Gomelsky">A. Gomelsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Evgeny_Gomelsky" title="Evgeny Gomelsky">E. Gomelsky</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nat%C3%A1lia_Hejkov%C3%A1" title="Natália Hejková">Hejková</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Henry_Iba" title="Henry Iba">Iba</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Du%C5%A1an_Ivkovi%C4%87" title="Dušan Ivković">Ivković</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kanela" title="Kanela">Kanela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Kondrashin" title="Vladimir Kondrashin">Kondrashin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rub%C3%A9n_Magnano" title="Rubén Magnano">Magnano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Maher" title="Tom Maher">Maher</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ettore_Messina" title="Ettore Messina">Messina</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Newell" title="Pete Newell">Newell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Aleksandar_Nikoli%C4%87" title="Aleksandar Nikolić">Nikolić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mirko_Novosel" title="Mirko Novosel">Novosel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Svetislav_Pe%C5%A1i%C4%87" title="Svetislav Pešić">Pešić</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Giancarlo_Primo" title="Giancarlo Primo">Primo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cesare_Rubini" title="Cesare Rubini">Rubini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jan_Stirling" title="Jan Stirling">Stirling</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Summitt" title="Pat Summitt">Summitt</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bogdan_Tanjevi%C4%87" title="Bogdan Tanjević">Tanjević</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tara_VanDerveer" title="Tara VanDerveer">VanDerveer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Milan_Vasojevi%C4%87" title="Milan Vasojević">Vasojević</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kay_Yow" title="Kay Yow">Yow</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mou_Zuoyun" title="Mou Zuoyun">Zuoyun</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ranko_%C5%BDeravica" title="Ranko Žeravica">Žeravica</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background:#000000; color:#FFFFFF; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #DBC068, inset -2px -2px 0 #DBC068;;;width:1%">Contributors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>Founding Federations: <a href="/wiki/Argentine_Basketball_Confederation" title="Argentine Basketball Confederation">Argentine</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Basketball_Federation_of_Czechoslovakia&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Basketball Federation of Czechoslovakia (page does not exist)">Czechoslovakian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hellenic_Basketball_Federation" title="Hellenic Basketball Federation">Greek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Italian_Basketball_Federation" title="Italian Basketball Federation">Italian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Latvian_Basketball_Association" title="Latvian Basketball Association">Latvian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Portuguese_Basketball_Federation" title="Portuguese Basketball Federation">Portuguese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Romanian_Basketball_Federation" title="Romanian Basketball Federation">Romanian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Swiss_Basketball" title="Swiss Basketball">Swiss</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Eduardo_Airaldi_Rivarola" title="Eduardo Airaldi Rivarola">Airaldi Rivarola</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Abdel_Azim_Ashry" title="Abdel Azim Ashry">Ashry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Turgut_Atakol" title="Turgut Atakol">Atakol</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/L%C3%A9on_Bouffard" title="Léon Bouffard">Bouffard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Busnel" title="Robert Busnel">Busnel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dionisio_Calvo" title="Dionisio Calvo">Calvo</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Antonio_dos_Reis_Carneiro" title="Antonio dos Reis Carneiro">Carneiro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jos%C3%A9_Cl%C3%A1udio_dos_Reis" title="José Cláudio dos Reis">Dos Reis</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Willard_N._Greim" title="Willard N. 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Killian">Killian</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Noah_Klieger" title="Noah Klieger">Klieger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Marian_Koz%C5%82owski_(basketball)" title="Marian Kozłowski (basketball)">Kozłowski</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Anselmo_L%C3%B3pez_(basketball)" title="Anselmo López (basketball)">López</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Luis_Mart%C3%ADn_(basketball)&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Luis Martín (basketball) (page does not exist)">Martín</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Naismith" title="James Naismith">Naismith</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Hans-Joachim_Otto&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Hans-Joachim Otto (page does not exist)">Otto</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/August_Pitzl" title="August Pitzl">Pitzl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Neboj%C5%A1a_Popovi%C4%87" title="Nebojša Popović">Popović</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Al_Ramsay&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Al Ramsay (page does not exist)">Ramsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Juan_Antonio_Samaranch" title="Juan Antonio Samaranch">Samaranch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Radomir_%C5%A0aper" title="Radomir Šaper">Šaper</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Raimundo_Saporta" title="Raimundo Saporta">Saporta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Decio_Scuri" title="Decio Scuri">Scuri</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ernesto_Seguro_de_Luna&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ernesto Seguro de Luna (page does not exist)">Seguro de Luna</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Nikolai_Semashko_(basketball)" title="Nikolai Semashko (basketball)">Semashko</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Abdoulaye_Seye_Moreau&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Abdoulaye Seye Moreau (page does not exist)">Sèye Moreau</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Borislav_Stankovi%C4%87" title="Borislav Stanković">Stanković</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Steitz" title="Ed Steitz">Steitz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/David_Stern" title="David Stern">Stern</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Yoshimi_Ueda" 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href="/wiki/Obrad_Belo%C5%A1evi%C4%87" title="Obrad Belošević">Belošević</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Robert_Blanchard&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Robert Blanchard (page does not exist)">Blanchard</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Konstantinos_Dimou&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Konstantinos Dimou (page does not exist)">Dimou</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mario_Hopenhaym" title="Mario Hopenhaym">Hopenhaym</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ervin_Kassai" title="Ervin Kassai">Kassai</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vladimir_Kostin" title="Vladimir Kostin">Kostin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Valentin_Lazarov" title="Valentin Lazarov">Lazarov</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Marcel_Pfeuti&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Marcel Pfeuti (page does not exist)">Pfeuti</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Allen_Rae" title="Allen Rae">Rae</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pietro_Reverberi" title="Pietro Reverberi">Reverberi</a></li> <li><a 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style="width:1%">Related programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_American_Basketball_Association_broadcasters" title="List of American Basketball Association broadcasters">ABA on CBS</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_CBS_Late_Movie" title="The CBS Late Movie">The CBS Late Movie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/College_Basketball_on_CBS_Sports" title="College Basketball on CBS Sports">College Basketball on CBS</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_on_television" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Association on television">NBA on TV</a> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals_television_ratings" title="NBA Finals 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Play-by-play</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Gary_Bender" title="Gary Bender">Gary Bender</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Brant" title="Tim Brant">Tim Brant</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Costas" title="Bob Costas">Bob Costas</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Criqui" title="Don Criqui">Don Criqui</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Eddie_Doucette" title="Eddie Doucette">Eddie Doucette</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Glieber" title="Frank Glieber">Frank Glieber</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Gumbel" title="Greg Gumbel">Greg Gumbel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Kelly_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Kelly (sportscaster)">Jim Kelly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verne_Lundquist" title="Verne Lundquist">Verne Lundquist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Musburger" title="Brent Musburger">Brent Musburger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andy_Musser" title="Andy Musser">Andy Musser</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Nantz" title="Jim Nantz">Jim Nantz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Patrick" title="Mike Patrick">Mike Patrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Robertson_(television_announcer)" title="Don Robertson (television announcer)">Don Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Stockton" title="Dick Stockton">Dick Stockton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_Summerall" title="Pat Summerall">Pat Summerall</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Color commentators</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/John_Andariese" title="John Andariese">John Andariese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Barry" title="Rick Barry">Rick Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubie_Brown" title="Hubie Brown">Hubie Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Elgin_Baylor" title="Elgin Baylor">Elgin Baylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/James_Brown_(sportscaster)" title="James Brown (sportscaster)">James Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quinn_Buckner" title="Quinn Buckner">Quinn Buckner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Collins_(basketball)" title="Doug Collins (basketball)">Doug Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Cunningham" title="Billy Cunningham">Billy Cunningham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Terry_Dischinger" title="Terry Dischinger">Terry Dischinger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Len_Elmore" title="Len Elmore">Len Elmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Erickson" title="Keith Erickson">Keith Erickson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Havlicek" title="John Havlicek">John Havlicek</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">Tom Heinsohn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Rod_Hundley" title="Hot Rod Hundley">Rod Hundley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Gus_Johnson_(basketball)" title="Gus Johnson (basketball)">Gus Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_%22Snapper%22_Jones" title="Steve "Snapper" Jones">Steve Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Jurgensen" title="Sonny Jurgensen">Sonny Jurgensen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stu_Lantz" title="Stu Lantz">Stu Lantz</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Loughery" title="Kevin Loughery">Kevin Loughery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Maravich" title="Pete Maravich">Pete Maravich</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jon_McGlocklin" title="Jon McGlocklin">Jon McGlocklin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Motta" title="Dick Motta">Dick Motta</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Mullins_(basketball)" title="Jeff Mullins (basketball)">Jeff Mullins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Billy_Packer" title="Billy Packer">Billy Packer</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Raftery" title="Bill Raftery">Bill Raftery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cal_Ramsey" title="Cal Ramsey">Cal Ramsey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Oscar Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mendy_Rudolph" title="Mendy Rudolph">Mendy Rudolph</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bill Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cazzie_Russell" title="Cazzie Russell">Cazzie Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lynn_Shackelford" title="Lynn Shackelford">Lynn Shackelford</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Steele" title="Larry Steele">Larry Steele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lenny_Wilkens" title="Lenny Wilkens">Lenny Wilkens</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sideline reporters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Charlsie_Cantey" title="Charlsie Cantey">Charlsie Cantey</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jane_Chastain" title="Jane Chastain">Jane Chastain</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Irv_Cross" title="Irv Cross">Irv Cross</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Gray_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Gray (sportscaster)">Jim Gray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sonny_Hill" title="Sonny Hill">Sonny Hill</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Jiggetts" title="Dan Jiggetts">Dan Jiggetts</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Andrea_Joyce" title="Andrea Joyce">Andrea Joyce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pat_O%27Brien_(radio_and_television_personality)" title="Pat O'Brien (radio and television personality)">Pat O'Brien</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lesley_Visser" title="Lesley Visser">Lesley Visser</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div></div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NBA Finals</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1974_NBA_Finals" title="1974 NBA Finals">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_NBA_Finals" title="1975 NBA Finals">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_NBA_Finals" title="1976 NBA Finals">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_NBA_Finals" title="1977 NBA Finals">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_NBA_Finals" title="1978 NBA Finals">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_NBA_Finals" title="1979 NBA Finals">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_NBA_Finals" title="1980 NBA Finals">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_NBA_Finals" title="1981 NBA Finals">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_NBA_Finals" title="1982 NBA Finals">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_NBA_Finals" title="1983 NBA Finals">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_NBA_Finals" title="1984 NBA Finals">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_NBA_Finals" title="1985 NBA Finals">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_Finals" title="1986 NBA Finals">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_NBA_Finals" title="1987 NBA Finals">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_Finals" title="1988 NBA Finals">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_NBA_Finals" title="1989 NBA Finals">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_NBA_Finals" title="1990 NBA Finals">1990</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">All-Star Game</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1974_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1974 NBA All-Star Game">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1975_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1975 NBA All-Star Game">1975</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1976 NBA All-Star Game">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1977_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1977 NBA All-Star Game">1977</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1978_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1978 NBA All-Star Game">1978</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1979_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1979 NBA All-Star Game">1979</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1980_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1980 NBA All-Star Game">1980</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1981 NBA All-Star Game">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1982_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1982 NBA All-Star Game">1982</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1983_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1983 NBA All-Star Game">1983</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1984 NBA All-Star Game">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1985_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1985 NBA All-Star Game">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1986 NBA All-Star Game">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1987 NBA All-Star Game">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1988 NBA All-Star Game">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1989 NBA All-Star Game">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1990 NBA All-Star Game">1990</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Detroit_Pistons#1979.E2.80.931994:_The_Bad_Boys_era" title="Detroit Pistons">The Bad Boys</a>" <ul><li>"<a href="/wiki/Jordan_Rules" title="Jordan Rules">Jordan Rules</a>"</li></ul></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_Christmas_games" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Association Christmas games">Christmas Day</a></li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/1976_NBA_Finals#Game_5" title="1976 NBA Finals">The Greatest Game Ever Played</a>"</li> <li>"<a href="/wiki/The_Shot" title="The Shot">The Shot</a>" </li></ul></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th id="Rivalries" scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivalries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulls%E2%80%93Cavaliers_rivalry" title="Bulls–Cavaliers rivalry">Bulls–Cavaliers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bulls%E2%80%93Pistons_rivalry" title="Bulls–Pistons rivalry">Bulls–Pistons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtics%E2%80%93Lakers_rivalry" title="Celtics–Lakers rivalry">Celtics–Lakers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtics%E2%80%93Pistons_rivalry" title="Celtics–Pistons rivalry">Celtics–Pistons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakers%E2%80%93Pistons_rivalry" title="Lakers–Pistons rivalry">Lakers–Pistons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/76ers%E2%80%93Celtics_rivalry" title="76ers–Celtics rivalry">76ers–Celtics rivalry</a></li> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="NBA_on_ABC" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible autocollapse navbox-inner" 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programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Countdown" title="NBA Countdown">NBA Countdown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Access_with_Ahmad_Rashad" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad">NBA Access with Ahmad Rashad</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Inside_Stuff" title="NBA Inside Stuff">NBA Inside Stuff</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Saturday_Primetime" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Saturday Primetime">NBA Saturday Primetime</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Sunday_Showcase" class="mw-redirect" title="NBA Sunday Showcase">NBA Sunday Showcase</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ABC" title="WNBA on ABC">WNBA on ABC</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ESPN" title="NBA on ESPN">NBA on ESPN</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_ESPN_Radio" title="NBA on ESPN Radio">Radio</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ESPN_NBA_Wednesday" class="mw-redirect" title="ESPN NBA Wednesday">NBA Wednesday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ESPN_NBA_Friday" class="mw-redirect" title="ESPN NBA Friday">NBA Friday</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/WNBA_on_ESPN" title="WNBA on ESPN">WNBA on ESPN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_Today" title="NBA Today">NBA Today</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NBA drafts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2003_NBA_draft" title="2003 NBA draft">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_NBA_draft" title="2004 NBA draft">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_NBA_draft" title="2005 NBA draft">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_NBA_draft" title="2006 NBA draft">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_NBA_draft" title="2007 NBA draft">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_NBA_draft" title="2008 NBA draft">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_NBA_draft" title="2009 NBA draft">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_NBA_draft" title="2010 NBA draft">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_NBA_draft" title="2011 NBA draft">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_NBA_draft" title="2012 NBA draft">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_NBA_draft" title="2013 NBA draft">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_NBA_draft" title="2014 NBA draft">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_NBA_draft" title="2015 NBA draft">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_NBA_draft" title="2016 NBA draft">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_NBA_draft" title="2017 NBA draft">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_NBA_draft" title="2018 NBA draft">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_NBA_draft" title="2019 NBA draft">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_NBA_draft" title="2020 NBA draft">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_NBA_draft" title="2021 NBA draft">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_NBA_draft" title="2022 NBA draft">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_NBA_draft" title="2023 NBA draft">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_NBA_draft" title="2024 NBA draft">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Non-NBA programs</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/College_Basketball_on_ABC" title="College Basketball on ABC">College Basketball on ABC</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/ABC_Olympic_broadcasts" title="ABC Olympic broadcasts">Olympics on ABC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Related articles</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_on_television" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Association on television">NBA on TV</a> (<a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals_television_ratings" title="NBA Finals television ratings">NBA Finals TV ratings</a>)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_1960s" title="NBA on television in the 1960s">1960s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_1970s" title="NBA on television in the 1970s">1970s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_2000s" title="NBA on television in the 2000s">2000s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_2010s" title="NBA on television in the 2010s">2010s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_2020s" title="NBA on television in the 2020s">2020s</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_on_ABC_commentators" title="List of NBA on ABC commentators">Key figures</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_All-Star_Game_broadcasters" title="List of NBA All-Star Game broadcasters">All-Star Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_on_ESPN_commentators" title="List of NBA on ESPN commentators">ESPN</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_NBA_Finals_broadcasters" title="List of NBA Finals broadcasters">NBA Finals</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_WNBA_All-Star_Game_broadcasters" title="List of WNBA All-Star Game broadcasters">WNBA All-Star Game</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_WNBA_Finals_broadcasters" title="List of WNBA Finals broadcasters">WNBA Finals</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Play-by-play</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Breen" title="Mike Breen">Mike Breen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Durham" title="Jim Durham">Jim Durham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Flemming" title="Bill Flemming">Bill Flemming</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chet_Forte" title="Chet Forte">Chet Forte</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Gordon_(sportscaster)" title="Jim Gordon (sportscaster)">Jim Gordon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Curt_Gowdy" title="Curt Gowdy">Curt Gowdy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Howard" title="Chuck Howard">Chuck Howard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Keith_Jackson" title="Keith Jackson">Keith Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Jones_(sportscaster)" title="Mark Jones (sportscaster)">Mark Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_McKay" title="Jim McKay">Jim McKay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Al_Michaels" title="Al Michaels">Al Michaels</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brent_Musburger" title="Brent Musburger">Brent Musburger</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Brad_Nessler" title="Brad Nessler">Brad Nessler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Pasch" title="Dave Pasch">Dave Pasch</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ryan_Ruocco" title="Ryan Ruocco">Ryan Ruocco</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Saunders_(journalist)" title="John Saunders (journalist)">John Saunders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Schenkel" title="Chris Schenkel">Chris Schenkel</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Tirico" title="Mike Tirico">Mike Tirico</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Color commentators</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Greg_Anthony" title="Greg Anthony">Greg Anthony</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubie_Brown" title="Hubie Brown">Hubie Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Burke" title="Doris Burke">Doris Burke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Vince_Carter" title="Vince Carter">Vince Carter</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">Bob Cousy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sean_Elliott" title="Sean Elliott">Sean Elliott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Len_Elmore" title="Len Elmore">Len Elmore</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Legler" title="Tim Legler">Tim Legler</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Jackson" title="Mark Jackson">Mark Jackson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Jefferson" title="Richard Jefferson">Richard Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_%22Snapper%22_Jones" title="Steve "Snapper" Jones">Steve "Snapper" Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Kerr" title="Johnny Kerr">Johnny Kerr</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Majerle" title="Dan Majerle">Dan Majerle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Ramsay" title="Jack Ramsay">Jack Ramsay</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/JJ_Redick" title="JJ Redick">JJ Redick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Rivers" title="Doc Rivers">Doc Rivers</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bill Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Tolbert" title="Tom Tolbert">Tom Tolbert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Twyman" title="Jack Twyman">Jack Twyman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jeff_Van_Gundy" title="Jeff Van Gundy">Jeff Van Gundy</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Walton" title="Bill Walton">Bill Walton</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jerry_West" title="Jerry West">Jerry West</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sideline reporters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/David_Aldridge" title="David Aldridge">David Aldridge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Malika_Andrews" title="Malika Andrews">Malika Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doris_Burke" title="Doris Burke">Doris Burke</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Howard_Cosell" title="Howard Cosell">Howard Cosell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Heather_Cox" title="Heather Cox">Heather Cox</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Diles" title="Dave Diles">Dave Diles</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Israel_Gutierrez" title="Israel Gutierrez">Israel Gutierrez</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cassidy_Hubbarth" title="Cassidy Hubbarth">Cassidy Hubbarth</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mark_Jones_(sportscaster)" title="Mark Jones (sportscaster)">Mark Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sal_Masekela" class="mw-redirect" title="Sal Masekela">Sal Masekela</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Rinaldi" title="Tom Rinaldi">Tom Rinaldi</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Sager" title="Craig Sager">Craig Sager</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lisa_Salters" title="Lisa Salters">Lisa Salters</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Scott" title="Stuart Scott">Stuart Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jorge_Sedano" title="Jorge Sedano">Jorge Sedano</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michele_Tafoya" title="Michele Tafoya">Michele Tafoya</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Wolff" title="Bob Wolff">Bob Wolff</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio hosts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Malika_Andrews" title="Malika Andrews">Malika Andrews</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michelle_Beadle" title="Michelle Beadle">Michelle Beadle</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Greenberg" title="Mike Greenberg">Mike Greenberg</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rachel_Nichols_(journalist)" title="Rachel Nichols (journalist)">Rachel Nichols</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dan_Patrick_(sportscaster)" title="Dan Patrick (sportscaster)">Dan Patrick</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Saunders_(journalist)" title="John Saunders (journalist)">John Saunders</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stuart_Scott" title="Stuart Scott">Stuart Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sage_Steele" title="Sage Steele">Sage Steele</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hannah_Storm" title="Hannah Storm">Hannah Storm</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Maria_Taylor_(sportscaster)" title="Maria Taylor (sportscaster)">Maria Taylor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Tirico" title="Mike Tirico">Mike Tirico</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio analysts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jon_Barry" title="Jon Barry">Jon Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chauncey_Billups" title="Chauncey Billups">Chauncey Billups</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chris_Broussard" title="Chris Broussard">Chris Broussard</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Collins_(basketball)" title="Doug Collins (basketball)">Doug Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_Javie" title="Steve Javie">Steve Javie</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Richard_Jefferson" title="Richard Jefferson">Richard Jefferson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Avery_Johnson" title="Avery Johnson">Avery Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Magic_Johnson" title="Magic Johnson">Magic Johnson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/George_Karl" title="George Karl">George Karl</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Myers" title="Bob Myers">Bob Myers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chiney_Ogwumike" title="Chiney Ogwumike">Chiney Ogwumike</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kendrick_Perkins" title="Kendrick Perkins">Kendrick Perkins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Pierce" title="Paul Pierce">Paul Pierce</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Scottie_Pippen" title="Scottie Pippen">Scottie Pippen</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jalen_Rose" title="Jalen Rose">Jalen Rose</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Byron_Scott" title="Byron Scott">Byron Scott</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Simmons" title="Bill Simmons">Bill Simmons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Stephen_A._Smith" title="Stephen A. Smith">Stephen A. Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Michael_Wilbon" title="Michael Wilbon">Michael Wilbon</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jay_Williams_(basketball)" title="Jay Williams (basketball)">Jay Williams</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Adrian_Wojnarowski" title="Adrian Wojnarowski">Adrian Wojnarowski</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/ABC_Radio_(1945%E2%80%932009)" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Radio (1945–2009)">ABC Radio</a> announcers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marv_Albert" title="Marv Albert">Marv Albert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Barnett" title="Dave Barnett">Dave Barnett</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chick_Hearn" title="Chick Hearn">Chick Hearn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hot_Rod_Hundley" title="Hot Rod Hundley">Rod Hundley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_%22Snapper%22_Jones" title="Steve "Snapper" Jones">Steve "Snapper" Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Manfra" title="Fred Manfra">Fred Manfra</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Earl_Monroe" title="Earl Monroe">Earl Monroe</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Most" title="Johnny Most">Johnny Most</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Oscar Robertson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Vitale" title="Dick Vitale">Dick Vitale</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NBA_Finals" title="NBA Finals">NBA Finals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1965_NBA_Finals" title="1965 NBA Finals">1965</a> (Games 1, 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_NBA_Finals" title="1966 NBA Finals">1966</a> (Games 1, 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1967_NBA_Finals" title="1967 NBA Finals">1967</a> (Games 2, 5)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">1968</a> (Games 1, 4)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">1969</a> (Games 3, 5-7)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_NBA_Finals" title="1970 NBA Finals">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_NBA_Finals" title="1971 NBA Finals">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_NBA_Finals" title="1972 NBA Finals">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_NBA_Finals" title="1973 NBA Finals">1973</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2003_NBA_Finals" title="2003 NBA Finals">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2004_NBA_Finals" title="2004 NBA Finals">2004</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_NBA_Finals" title="2005 NBA Finals">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2006_NBA_Finals" title="2006 NBA Finals">2006</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_NBA_Finals" title="2007 NBA Finals">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_NBA_Finals" title="2008 NBA Finals">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_NBA_Finals" title="2009 NBA Finals">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_NBA_Finals" title="2010 NBA Finals">2010</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_NBA_Finals" title="2011 NBA Finals">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2012_NBA_Finals" title="2012 NBA Finals">2012</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_NBA_Finals" title="2013 NBA Finals">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_NBA_Finals" title="2014 NBA Finals">2014</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_NBA_Finals" title="2015 NBA Finals">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_NBA_Finals" title="2016 NBA Finals">2016</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_NBA_Finals" title="2017 NBA Finals">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_NBA_Finals" title="2018 NBA Finals">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_NBA_Finals" title="2019 NBA Finals">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_NBA_Finals" title="2020 NBA Finals">2020</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_NBA_Finals" title="2021 NBA Finals">2021</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_NBA_Finals" title="2022 NBA Finals">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_NBA_Finals" title="2023 NBA Finals">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_NBA_Finals" title="2024 NBA Finals">2024</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/ABC_Radio_(1945%E2%80%932009)" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Radio (1945–2009)">ABC Radio</a>'s coverage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1985_NBA_Finals" title="1985 NBA Finals">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_Finals" title="1986 NBA Finals">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_NBA_Finals" title="1987 NBA Finals">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_Finals" title="1988 NBA Finals">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_NBA_Finals" title="1989 NBA Finals">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_NBA_Finals" title="1990 NBA Finals">1990</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_Finals" title="WNBA Finals">WNBA Finals</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_Finals" title="2003 WNBA Finals">2003</a> (Game 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_WNBA_Finals" title="2005 WNBA Finals">2005</a> (Game 3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2010_WNBA_Finals" title="2010 WNBA Finals">2010</a> (Game 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2014_WNBA_Finals" title="2014 WNBA Finals">2014</a> (Game 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_WNBA_Finals" title="2015 WNBA Finals">2015</a> (Game 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2016_WNBA_Finals" title="2016 WNBA Finals">2016</a> (Game 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_WNBA_Finals" title="2017 WNBA Finals">2017</a> (Game 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_WNBA_Finals" title="2018 WNBA Finals">2018</a> (Game 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_WNBA_Finals" title="2019 WNBA Finals">2019</a> (Game 3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2020_WNBA_Finals" title="2020 WNBA Finals">2020</a> (Game 2)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2021_WNBA_Finals" title="2021 WNBA Finals">2021</a> (Game 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_WNBA_Finals" title="2022 WNBA Finals">2022</a> (Game 1)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_WNBA_Finals" title="2023 WNBA Finals">2023</a> (Games 1, 3)</li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_Finals" title="2024 WNBA Finals">2024</a> (Game 2)</li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/NBA_All-Star_Game" title="NBA All-Star Game">All-Star Game</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1968 NBA All-Star Game">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1969 NBA All-Star Game">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1970_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1970 NBA All-Star Game">1970</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1971_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1971 NBA All-Star Game">1971</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1972_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1972 NBA All-Star Game">1972</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1973_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1973 NBA All-Star Game">1973</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/ABC_Radio_(1945%E2%80%932009)" class="mw-redirect" title="ABC Radio (1945–2009)">ABC Radio</a>'s coverage</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1985_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1985 NBA All-Star Game">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1986 NBA All-Star Game">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1987 NBA All-Star Game">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1988 NBA All-Star Game">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1989 NBA All-Star Game">1989</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1990_NBA_All-Star_Game" title="1990 NBA All-Star Game">1990</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%"><a href="/wiki/WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="WNBA All-Star Game">WNBA</a></th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/2003_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2003 WNBA All-Star Game">2003</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2005_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2005 WNBA All-Star Game">2005</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2007_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2007 WNBA All-Star Game">2007</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2009_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2009 WNBA All-Star Game">2009</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2011_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2011 WNBA All-Star Game">2011</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2013_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2013 WNBA All-Star Game">2013</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2015_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2015 WNBA All-Star Game">2015</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2017_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2017 WNBA All-Star Game">2017</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2018_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2018 WNBA All-Star Game">2018</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2019_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2019 WNBA All-Star Game">2019</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2022_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2022 WNBA All-Star Game">2022</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2023_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2023 WNBA All-Star Game">2023</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_WNBA_All-Star_Game" title="2024 WNBA All-Star Game">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Twyman#Broadcasting_career" title="Jack Twyman">"I think we see Willis coming out!"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/The_Block_(basketball)" title="The Block (basketball)">"The Block (2016)"</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_Christmas_games" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Association Christmas games">Christmas Day</a> </li></ul></div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Rivalries</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <li><a href="/wiki/Shaq%E2%80%93Kobe_feud" title="Shaq–Kobe feud">Bryant–O'Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Lakers%E2%80%93Pistons_rivalry" title="Lakers–Pistons rivalry">Lakers–Pistons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtics%E2%80%93Lakers_rivalry" title="Celtics–Lakers rivalry">Celtics–Lakers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cavaliers%E2%80%93Warriors_rivalry" title="Cavaliers–Warriors rivalry">Cavaliers–Warriors</a></li> 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style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_on_television" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Association on television">NBA on television</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Category:Atlanta_Hawks_announcers" title="Category:Atlanta Hawks announcers">Atlanta Hawks announcers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_1980s" title="NBA on television in the 1980s">1980s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_1990s" title="NBA on television in the 1990s">1990s</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/NBA_on_television_in_the_2000s" title="NBA on television in the 2000s">2000s</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Key figures</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Marv_Albert" title="Marv Albert">Marv Albert</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tim_Brando" title="Tim Brando">Tim Brando</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Calabro" title="Kevin Calabro">Kevin Calabro</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chip_Caray" title="Chip Caray">Chip Caray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Skip_Caray" title="Skip Caray">Skip Caray</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Durham" title="Jim Durham">Jim Durham</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Gorman" title="Mike Gorman">Mike Gorman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Harlan" title="Kevin Harlan">Kevin Harlan</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Verne_Lundquist" title="Verne Lundquist">Verne Lundquist</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Neal_(Atlanta_sportscaster)" title="Bob Neal (Atlanta sportscaster)">Bob Neal</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mel_Proctor" title="Mel Proctor">Mel Proctor</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Stockton" title="Dick Stockton">Dick Stockton</a></li> <li><a href="/w/index.php?title=Ron_Thulin&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Ron Thulin (page does not exist)">Ron Thulin</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Pete_Van_Wieren" title="Pete Van Wieren">Pete Van Wieren</a></li></ul> </div><table class="nowraplinks navbox-subgroup" style="border-spacing:0"><tbody><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Color commentators</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Danny_Ainge" title="Danny Ainge">Danny Ainge</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Andariese" title="John Andariese">John Andariese</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rick_Barry" title="Rick Barry">Rick Barry</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Hubie_Brown" title="Hubie Brown">Hubie Brown</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Quinn_Buckner" title="Quinn Buckner">Quinn Buckner</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doug_Collins_(basketball)" title="Doug Collins (basketball)">Doug Collins</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Chuck_Daly" title="Chuck Daly">Chuck Daly</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Fratello" title="Mike Fratello">Mike Fratello</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walt_Frazier" title="Walt Frazier">Walt Frazier</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jack_Givens" title="Jack Givens">Jack Givens</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Mike_Glenn" title="Mike Glenn">Mike Glenn</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Rod_Hundley" class="mw-redirect" title="Rod Hundley">Rod Hundley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Steve_%22Snapper%22_Jones" title="Steve "Snapper" Jones">Steve Jones</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_MacLeod_(basketball)" title="John MacLeod (basketball)">John MacLeod</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Nelson" title="Don Nelson">Don Nelson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Raftery" title="Bill Raftery">Bill Raftery</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Doc_Rivers" title="Doc Rivers">Doc Rivers</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Oscar_Robertson" title="Oscar Robertson">Oscar Robertson</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">Bill Russell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Thompson_(basketball)" title="John Thompson (basketball)">John Thompson</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dick_Versace" title="Dick Versace">Dick Versace</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Walton" title="Bill Walton">Bill Walton</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio hosts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Vince_Cellini" title="Vince Cellini">Vince Cellini</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Fred_Hickman" title="Fred Hickman">Fred Hickman</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ernie_Johnson_Jr." title="Ernie Johnson Jr.">Ernie Johnson Jr.</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Studio analysts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Scott_Hastings_(basketball)" title="Scott Hastings (basketball)">Scott Hastings</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kenny_Smith" title="Kenny Smith">Kenny Smith</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reggie_Theus" title="Reggie Theus">Reggie Theus</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Peter_Vecsey_(sports_columnist)" title="Peter Vecsey (sports columnist)">Peter Vecsey</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Sideline reporters</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Kiley_(sportscaster)" title="Kevin Kiley (sportscaster)">Kevin Kiley</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cheryl_Miller" title="Cheryl Miller">Cheryl Miller</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Craig_Sager" title="Craig Sager">Craig Sager</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Contributors</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Bryan_Burwell" title="Bryan Burwell">Bryan Burwell</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Huber" title="Jim Huber">Jim Huber</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table><div> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">NBA drafts</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1985_NBA_draft" title="1985 NBA draft">1985</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_draft" title="1986 NBA draft">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1987_NBA_draft" title="1987 NBA draft">1987</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1988_NBA_draft" title="1988 NBA draft">1988</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1989_NBA_draft" title="1989 NBA draft">1989</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="width:1%">Lore</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even hlist" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/National_Basketball_Association_Christmas_games" class="mw-redirect" title="National Basketball Association Christmas games">Christmas Day</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Celtics%E2%80%93Pistons_rivalry" title="Celtics–Pistons rivalry">Celtics–Pistons rivalry</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr></tbody></table></div> <div class="navbox-styles"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1236075235"></div><div role="navigation" class="navbox" aria-labelledby="Sports_Illustrated_Sportsperson_of_the_Year" style="padding:3px"><table class="nowraplinks mw-collapsible mw-collapsed navbox-inner" style="border-spacing:0;background:transparent;color:inherit"><tbody><tr><th scope="col" class="navbox-title" colspan="2"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1129693374"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1239400231"><div class="navbar plainlinks hlist navbar-mini"><ul><li class="nv-view"><a 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<li>1955: <a href="/wiki/Johnny_Podres" title="Johnny Podres">Johnny Podres</a></li> <li>1956: <a href="/wiki/Bobby_Morrow" title="Bobby Morrow">Bobby Morrow</a></li> <li>1957: <a href="/wiki/Stan_Musial" title="Stan Musial">Stan Musial</a></li> <li>1958: <a href="/wiki/Rafer_Johnson" title="Rafer Johnson">Rafer Johnson</a></li> <li>1959: <a href="/wiki/Ingemar_Johansson" title="Ingemar Johansson">Ingemar Johansson</a></li> <li>1960: <a href="/wiki/Arnold_Palmer" title="Arnold Palmer">Arnold Palmer</a></li> <li>1961: <a href="/wiki/Jerry_Lucas" title="Jerry Lucas">Jerry Lucas</a></li> <li>1962: <a href="/wiki/Terry_Baker" title="Terry Baker">Terry Baker</a></li> <li>1963: <a href="/wiki/Pete_Rozelle" title="Pete Rozelle">Pete Rozelle</a></li> <li>1964: <a href="/wiki/Ken_Venturi" title="Ken Venturi">Ken Venturi</a></li> <li>1965: <a href="/wiki/Sandy_Koufax" title="Sandy Koufax">Sandy Koufax</a></li> <li>1966: <a href="/wiki/Jim_Ryun" title="Jim Ryun">Jim Ryun</a></li> <li>1967: <a 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Nicklaus">Jack Nicklaus</a></li> <li>1979: <a href="/wiki/Terry_Bradshaw" title="Terry Bradshaw">Terry Bradshaw</a> & <a href="/wiki/Willie_Stargell" title="Willie Stargell">Willie Stargell</a></li> <li>1980: <a href="/wiki/Miracle_on_Ice" title="Miracle on Ice">U.S. Olympic Hockey Team</a></li> <li>1981: <a href="/wiki/Sugar_Ray_Leonard" title="Sugar Ray Leonard">Sugar Ray Leonard</a></li> <li>1982: <a href="/wiki/Wayne_Gretzky" title="Wayne Gretzky">Wayne Gretzky</a></li> <li>1983: <a href="/wiki/Mary_Decker" title="Mary Decker">Mary Decker</a></li> <li>1984: <a href="/wiki/Edwin_Moses" title="Edwin Moses">Edwin Moses</a> & <a href="/wiki/Mary_Lou_Retton" title="Mary Lou Retton">Mary Lou Retton</a></li> <li>1985: <a href="/wiki/Kareem_Abdul-Jabbar" title="Kareem Abdul-Jabbar">Kareem Abdul-Jabbar</a></li> <li>1986: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Paterno" title="Joe Paterno">Joe Paterno</a></li> <li>1987: <a href="/wiki/Bob_Bourne" title="Bob Bourne">Bob Bourne</a>, <a href="/wiki/Judi_Brown" class="mw-redirect" title="Judi Brown">Judi Brown King</a>, <a href="/wiki/Kipchoge_Keino" title="Kipchoge Keino">Kipchoge Keino</a>, <a href="/wiki/Dale_Murphy" title="Dale Murphy">Dale Murphy</a>, <a href="/wiki/Chip_Rives" title="Chip Rives">Chip Rives</a>, <a href="/wiki/Patty_Sheehan" title="Patty Sheehan">Patty Sheehan</a>, <a href="/wiki/Rory_Sparrow" title="Rory Sparrow">Rory Sparrow</a>, & <a href="/wiki/Reggie_Williams_(linebacker)" title="Reggie Williams (linebacker)">Reggie Williams</a></li> <li>1988: <a href="/wiki/Orel_Hershiser" title="Orel Hershiser">Orel Hershiser</a></li> <li>1989: <a href="/wiki/Greg_LeMond" title="Greg LeMond">Greg LeMond</a></li> <li>1990: <a href="/wiki/Joe_Montana" title="Joe Montana">Joe Montana</a></li> <li>1991: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Jordan" title="Michael Jordan">Michael Jordan</a></li> <li>1992: <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Ashe" title="Arthur Ashe">Arthur Ashe</a></li> <li>1993: <a href="/wiki/Don_Shula" title="Don Shula">Don Shula</a></li> <li>1994: <a href="/wiki/Bonnie_Blair" title="Bonnie Blair">Bonnie Blair</a> & <a href="/wiki/Johann_Olav_Koss" title="Johann Olav Koss">Johann Olav Koss</a></li> <li>1995: <a href="/wiki/Cal_Ripken_Jr." title="Cal Ripken Jr.">Cal Ripken Jr.</a></li> <li>1996: <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Woods" title="Tiger Woods">Tiger Woods</a></li> <li>1997: <a href="/wiki/Dean_Smith" title="Dean Smith">Dean Smith</a></li> <li>1998: <a href="/wiki/Mark_McGwire" title="Mark McGwire">Mark McGwire</a> & <a href="/wiki/Sammy_Sosa" title="Sammy Sosa">Sammy Sosa</a></li> <li>1999: <a href="/wiki/United_States_women%27s_national_soccer_team" title="United States women's national soccer team">U.S. Women's Soccer Team</a></li> <li>2000: <a href="/wiki/Tiger_Woods" title="Tiger Woods">Tiger Woods</a></li> <li>2001: <a href="/wiki/Curt_Schilling" title="Curt Schilling">Curt Schilling</a> & <a href="/wiki/Randy_Johnson" title="Randy Johnson">Randy Johnson</a></li> <li>2002: <s><a href="/wiki/Lance_Armstrong" title="Lance Armstrong">Lance Armstrong</a></s></li> <li>2003: <a href="/wiki/David_Robinson" title="David Robinson">David Robinson</a> & <a href="/wiki/Tim_Duncan" title="Tim Duncan">Tim Duncan</a></li> <li>2004: <a href="/wiki/2004_Boston_Red_Sox_season" title="2004 Boston Red Sox season">Boston Red Sox</a></li> <li>2005: <a href="/wiki/Tom_Brady" title="Tom Brady">Tom Brady</a></li> <li>2006: <a href="/wiki/Dwyane_Wade" title="Dwyane Wade">Dwyane Wade</a></li> <li>2007: <a href="/wiki/Brett_Favre" title="Brett Favre">Brett Favre</a></li> <li>2008: <a href="/wiki/Michael_Phelps" title="Michael Phelps">Michael Phelps</a></li> <li>2009: <a href="/wiki/Derek_Jeter" title="Derek Jeter">Derek Jeter</a></li> <li>2010: <a href="/wiki/Drew_Brees" title="Drew Brees">Drew Brees</a></li> <li>2011: <a href="/wiki/Mike_Krzyzewski" title="Mike Krzyzewski">Mike Krzyzewski</a> & <a href="/wiki/Pat_Summitt" title="Pat Summitt">Pat Summitt</a></li> <li>2012: <a href="/wiki/LeBron_James" title="LeBron 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color: #000000 !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #008348, inset -2px -2px 0 #008348; !important;;"><div> <ul><li>Founded in <a href="/wiki/1946%E2%80%9347_BAA_season" title="1946–47 BAA season">1946</a></li> <li>Based in <a href="/wiki/Boston" title="Boston">Boston, Massachusetts</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #BB9753 !important; color: #000000 !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #008348, inset -2px -2px 0 #008348; !important;;;width:1%">Franchise</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/History_of_the_Boston_Celtics" title="History of the Boston Celtics">History</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics_all-time_roster" title="Boston Celtics all-time roster">All-time roster</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics_draft_history" title="Boston Celtics draft history">Draft history</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Boston_Celtics_accomplishments_and_records" title="Boston Celtics accomplishments and records">Accomplishments and records</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Boston_Celtics_head_coaches" title="List of Boston Celtics head coaches">Head coaches</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/List_of_Boston_Celtics_seasons" title="List of Boston Celtics seasons">Seasons</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024%E2%80%9325_Boston_Celtics_season" title="2024–25 Boston Celtics season">Current season</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #BB9753 !important; 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color: #000000 !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #008348, inset -2px -2px 0 #008348; !important;;;width:1%">G League affiliate</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Maine_Celtics" title="Maine Celtics">Maine Celtics</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #BB9753 !important; color: #000000 !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #008348, inset -2px -2px 0 #008348; !important;;;width:1%">Retired numbers</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-odd" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/Robert_Parish" title="Robert Parish">00</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Walter_A._Brown" title="Walter A. Brown">1</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Red_Auerbach" title="Red Auerbach">2</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dennis_Johnson" title="Dennis Johnson">3</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_Garnett" title="Kevin Garnett">5</a></li> <li><a class="mw-selflink selflink">6</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jo_Jo_White" title="Jo Jo White">10</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bob_Cousy" title="Bob Cousy">14</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Tom_Heinsohn" title="Tom Heinsohn">15</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Satch_Sanders" title="Satch Sanders">16</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/John_Havlicek" title="John Havlicek">17</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Dave_Cowens" title="Dave Cowens">18</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Don_Nelson" title="Don Nelson">19</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Bill_Sharman" title="Bill Sharman">21</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Ed_Macauley" title="Ed Macauley">22</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Frank_Ramsey_(basketball)" title="Frank Ramsey (basketball)">23</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Sam_Jones_(basketball,_born_1933)" title="Sam Jones (basketball, born 1933)">24</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/K._C._Jones" class="mw-redirect" title="K. 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Jones">25</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Cedric_Maxwell" title="Cedric Maxwell">31</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Kevin_McHale_(basketball)" title="Kevin McHale (basketball)">32</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Larry_Bird" title="Larry Bird">33</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Paul_Pierce" title="Paul Pierce">34</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Reggie_Lewis" title="Reggie Lewis">35</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Jim_Loscutoff" title="Jim Loscutoff">LOSCY</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/Johnny_Most" title="Johnny Most">MIC</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #BB9753 !important; color: #000000 !important; box-shadow: inset 2px 2px 0 #008348, inset -2px -2px 0 #008348; !important;;;width:1%">NBA championships</th><td class="navbox-list-with-group navbox-list navbox-even" style="width:100%;padding:0"><div style="padding:0 0.25em"> <ul><li><a href="/wiki/1957_NBA_Finals" title="1957 NBA Finals">1957</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1959_NBA_Finals" title="1959 NBA Finals">1959</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1960_NBA_Finals" title="1960 NBA Finals">1960</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1961_NBA_Finals" title="1961 NBA Finals">1961</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1962_NBA_Finals" title="1962 NBA Finals">1962</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1963_NBA_Finals" title="1963 NBA Finals">1963</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1964_NBA_Finals" title="1964 NBA Finals">1964</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1965_NBA_Finals" title="1965 NBA Finals">1965</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1966_NBA_Finals" title="1966 NBA Finals">1966</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1968_NBA_Finals" title="1968 NBA Finals">1968</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1969_NBA_Finals" title="1969 NBA Finals">1969</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1974_NBA_Finals" title="1974 NBA Finals">1974</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1976_NBA_Finals" title="1976 NBA Finals">1976</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1981_NBA_Finals" title="1981 NBA Finals">1981</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1984_NBA_Finals" title="1984 NBA Finals">1984</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/1986_NBA_Finals" title="1986 NBA Finals">1986</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2008_NBA_Finals" title="2008 NBA Finals">2008</a></li> <li><a href="/wiki/2024_NBA_Finals" title="2024 NBA Finals">2024</a></li></ul> </div></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="navbox-group" style="background-color: #BB9753 !important; 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