![]() ![]() Over six-nine with long limbs and air-cutting speed, he offered his physical and mental gifts at the altar of defense. Part of it was the intelligence and rectitude of his playing style. was much less marketable, and therefore much less forcibly narrativized, than it is today, Russell nonetheless crafted a persona that lasted him a lifetime. (By all accounts, he could’ve been an Olympic high jumper, too.) title twice, and the Olympic gold medal the one time he tried. ![]() (Russell is second in all-time rebounds, just a notch behind Chamberlain.) He played in ten win-or-go-home Game Sevens in the playoffs and won them all, and in those games he averaged slightly more than twenty-nine rebounds. He was an All-Star twelve times over and-sharing an era with another indomitable giant, Wilt Chamberlain-won the league’s rebounding title four times. awards, in a time when that award was decided by a vote among the players themselves-his helpless rivals, undoubtedly bitter at his stinginess with victory, found his greatness impossible to ignore. championships in thirteen seasons, and he won five M.V.P. The details of his devastating genius sound fake: his teams won eleven N.B.A. Russell’s gait was straighter, his hair darker, and his mien, at least in public, more consistently grave when, during the fifties and sixties, as a slim, graceful, brilliant center for the Boston Celtics, he unspooled a record of excellence unmatched in American organized sports. ![]()
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