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Bill Russell’s Reach
Bill Russell stretched every limb to get his hand up to block a shot by the Syracuse Nationals, while teammates Tommy Heinsohn (No. 15) and Bill Sharman (No. 21) fought for position. From 1957 to 1961 ...
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Bill Takes It All In
Bill Russell never sat on the bench much. Over his career, Russell averaged 42.29 minutes played per game, the second-highest mark all-time just behind Wilt Chamberlain. “It’s about taking whatever yo ...
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Boston’s Legendary Trio
A crowd of Celtics fans lifted Tommy Heinsohn, Red Auerbach and Bill Russell in the air after another win. For nearly three decades, from 1950 to 1978, these three men played a role with the Celtics e ...
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Champion of the Little People
Bill Russell went to Mississippi at the request of the NAACP just weeks after the infamous “Mississippi Burning” murders of three civil rights workers. Russell, who had just won his sixth straight NBA ...
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Clash of the Titans
The two most dominant NBA players of the era battled often. Usually Wilt Chamberlain would score a lot of points, but Bill Russell and the Celtics would win the game. That was the case on January 27, ...
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Coach Russell on the Floor
When Red Auerbach moved on to a front office role, he turned to Bill Russell to replace him as the new Celtics head coach and the NBA’s first Black head coach. Here, in his role as player-coach, Russe ...
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Cooz Leads the C’s in ’59
The 1958-59 Celtics posed ahead of another NBA World Championship title-winning season. The team swept the Elgin Baylor-led Minneapolis Lakers in the 1959 NBA Finals behind star player Bob Cousy’s 16. ...
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Cousy Scores for 15,000
Members of the 1961-62 Celtics signed a basketball for Bob Cousy after he became only the second player in NBA history to score 15,000 career points. On November 25, 1961, Cousy met the mark on a 20-f ...
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Doubly Satisfying for Bill
Player-coach Bill Russell celebrated at the Los Angeles Forum with Celtics fans after winning the 1968 NBA World Championship title. In doing so, Russell became the first Black head coach to win a tit ...
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Drama Off the Court
In addition to being an All-Star player and head coach of the Boston Celtics, Bill Russell tried his hand at acting. In 1967, Russell guest-starred in Chuck Connors’ series “Cowboy in Africa” by playi ...