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WELL Deserved ! # 6 All time Legend and Real Man of the world Bill Russell
RIP and Thank you ! Bill Russell for what you did in Pro Sports for ALL Sports.

Nalod wrote:Im thinking the best of Bill Russell did not want this. I have read he did not like being addressed as “Allstar or HOF Bill Russell”, he would correct interviewers as “Captain of the chaptionship Celtics”. He was about team. So Im guessing he might have rejected that gesture by the NBA but said “do it when Im gone”. Just my take from what I read about him.

I think when Jackie Robinsons number 42 was retired players wearing it were allowed to. I think Mariana Rivera was among the last to wear it. My guess is Lebron won’t have to give it up.

Bill Russell incredible champion. Olympian gold medalist, 2 time NCAA champion, and 11 of 13 rings. He was a track star also. In the face of adulation he reminded us it was a team game than take the individual honors. He did much of this in the era of institutional and cultural racism. The Celtic organization/Auerbach was very supportive. Bill Russell was a champion and undertood his place as role model but also his limitations and stayed true to himself, not use the labels as leverage. His greatness gave him opportunities to coach and he did ok, but not great 4 years in seattle then SAC for a year. He was also did NBA broadcasts and personally I never thought much of him in that role. Stay with me. They wanted him to be “the Great BIll Russell!”, that not what he was about. Thus his insights were good, but in that era perhaps he was not able to craft a persona outside of “The great Bill Russell”.
I greatly have come to admire him for not using his celebrity as an athlete beyond what it was. He championed racism because he lived it as a role model. He sat with great men in the moment as he had a responsibility to it. There was an honesty about him.
He did not celebrate himself.

Not sure what you mean by this? Current players who have number 6 will be grandfathered and allowed to wear number until they give it up.

martin wrote:

Nalod wrote:Im thinking the best of Bill Russell did not want this. I have read he did not like being addressed as “Allstar or HOF Bill Russell”, he would correct interviewers as “Captain of the chaptionship Celtics”. He was about team. So Im guessing he might have rejected that gesture by the NBA but said “do it when Im gone”. Just my take from what I read about him.

I think when Jackie Robinsons number 42 was retired players wearing it were allowed to. I think Mariana Rivera was among the last to wear it. My guess is Lebron won’t have to give it up.

Bill Russell incredible champion. Olympian gold medalist, 2 time NCAA champion, and 11 of 13 rings. He was a track star also. In the face of adulation he reminded us it was a team game than take the individual honors. He did much of this in the era of institutional and cultural racism. The Celtic organization/Auerbach was very supportive. Bill Russell was a champion and undertood his place as role model but also his limitations and stayed true to himself, not use the labels as leverage. His greatness gave him opportunities to coach and he did ok, but not great 4 years in seattle then SAC for a year. He was also did NBA broadcasts and personally I never thought much of him in that role. Stay with me. They wanted him to be “the Great BIll Russell!”, that not what he was about. Thus his insights were good, but in that era perhaps he was not able to craft a persona outside of “The great Bill Russell”.
I greatly have come to admire him for not using his celebrity as an athlete beyond what it was. He championed racism because he lived it as a role model. He sat with great men in the moment as he had a responsibility to it. There was an honesty about him.
He did not celebrate himself.

Not sure what you mean by this? Current players who have number 6 will be grandfathered and allowed to wear number until they give it up.

Thats my point. I think someone asked the question if they'd have to give it up. They won't.