Attention... Bill Russell, NBA legend, the Goat , dead at 88... comments 🤔 🏀
Hmmmmmm. I know he was of age. Yes I understand this. But the Boson Celtics were just in the NBA Finals. Although they did not win, perhaps this was an offer. Who knows. Bill Russell is said to be the greatest of all time. He is an awesome character. He won an inconceivable amount of championships 🏆 during his career. That would be 11 NBA championships combined! That's almost twice as many as Michael Jordan!. Unbelievable right. Hahahaha! But one on one I think Jordan was much better. Just saying now. But anyway he wore the number 6. And 2022 equals just that...the number 6. Hmmmmmm. Coincidence. You tell me. Louisiana born is gone now. Bill Russell dead at age 88. Duality number again. Yeah. Comments. 🤔🙂
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No way to compare Russell and Jordan. Russell played when they still played basketball -- no travelling, no palming the ball, no rules against defense -- and he still dominated, doing incredible things that others could not do and not just because of his height. In fact, single-handedly responsible for the first rules against goal-tending that led to the demise of defense in basketball. Sky Jordan, OTOH, was allowed to take running leads.
Russell came from a legendary sports high school in Oakland that also produced several baseball Hall of Famers. Led a USF basketball team under Coach Phil Woolpert that dominated college basketball, including a 57-1 season and a 66-game win streak that stood as the NCAA record until broken by UCLA.
@dancingtongue Jordan was a very skilled player who had an unusual talent. Not to mention extraordinary. Remember he played against legends such as Kareem Abdul Jabbar... Julius Irving...Larry Bird...and Magic Johnson.
@Zonuss Russell played against legends too, and they changed the rules to try and beat him, but he kept on beating them. Not diminishing Jordan's capabilities -- they just played under different rules and the stuff he got away with would have been whistled off the court in Russell's day. A comparable to Jordan would be Elgin Baylor, whom I got to see demolish my college team in the Regionals one year. They talk about Jordan's hang time, but gave him running starts. Baylor would go up for a rebound from a standing start, others would go up with him. Baylor would grab the ball. The other players would come down, Elgin would hang there, cocking his arm, waiting for his team mate to get free down court, and then hit him with a court length pass over everyone. THAT is hang time. My college team, incidentally, would come back the next year and win the national championships, eliminating Oscar Robertson's and Jerry West's teams back-to-back in the finals. Then come back the next year to defend the title in the final game, only to lose against Ohio State with Jerry Lucas and John Havilicek.
I was still in high school when Russell was at USF. But I remember my freshman year at college, we had a member of our basketball team come by to speak to us. He was pretty good; second team All American if I recall correctly. Although baseball was his better sport and he wound up playing briefly for the Orioles and made a career in MLB player development.
Anyway, he was asked what it was like to play against Russell. He recounted how he had stolen the ball, had crossed the half court line, knew he had a full-half court between him and any opponents, was about to go up for the easy lay-up when he heard two big feet clomp and a big gruff voice say "I gotcha, man". He said the ball went into the rafters somewhere and he wound up in the courtside seats and he looked back and Russell had just crossed the half-court line. But he was that intimidating.
