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A Man of His Word
Date: October 18, 2022
City of Boston Poet Laureate Porsha Olayiwola read her work “Sestina” in honor of Bill Russell before the team’s 2022-23 Opening Night game against the Philadelphia 76ers. The Celtics honored the legendary center, coach and civil rights icon in part that night with this poem, which compared Russell’s on-court “swivel” to the civil rights movement and lauded the late C’s star as the “one true king of the backboard.”
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