Basketballography: Bill Russell 

GREATEST DEFENSIVE PLAYER AND WINNER IN NBA HISTORY!!! WINNING 11 CHAMPIONSHIPS OUT OF 13 YEARS IS A GREAT ACCOMPLISHMENT!!!👍👍

Bill Russell , the greatest winner !!!!

Russell varied his approach to rim protecting , weakside help , took charges , got offensive goal tending violations , clean blocks, bellied up. Pulled the chair, fronted and denied, helped and recovered , stepped into the passing lane for the steal. everyone had to guess - where was Russell ? He turned blocks into tip outs or passes. He didnt try to outmuscled Wilt but he would apply it at selective times .

He is not a basketball player basketball is what he did " it is not who I am " his words . He made everyone around him better . That's leadership.

He set such a high standard as a winner during his playing days, I seriously doubt anyone will ever come close to surpassing it, and if you ever listen to this man he is a super intelligent human being.

PERFECT TEAM PLAYER

Amazing player and an even more amazing person....Celtics were so fortunate that the owner who owned the rights to the #1 pick the year Russell was eligible, loved the Ice Capades. You can't make this stuff up...The basketball gods were looking out for the Celtics big time.

Best CENTER ever

THE TEAM..Russ was the cornerstone..my favorite player of the Celtics in the 60's..let me re-visit..The Jones boys,Hondo, Satch, Bailey Howell, Heinson,Cousy,Sharman,Don Nelson,gee, must I go on..im forgetting many names, but Russ, you were the glue that kept championship dreams alive and together..

"U had to make you sure ur opponent believe he can not win! This mindset is crazy!

The greatest defensive player I ever seen

“We won the championship my rookie year. We also won the championship my last year in the league as well as 9 championships in between, that... is etched in stone” “He doesn’t hurt your offense or defense; I played games in my peak where I only had just 6 shots, but I could close out the middle of the court; the way I play my team wins” Bill Russell 11x Champion 5x League MVP 12x All Star ⭐️ All-Star MVP 1956 🥇🇺🇸 2x NCAA champion #50greatestnbaplayers

Great human being!

Awesome!

The goat

one of the GOATS

Brilliant

I wish every African American family would listen to Russell's first memory of being from a loving family. Russell was from a family that treated him with love and kindness and he turned into a Cold Blooded Killer on the Basketball Court. Today too many African American people believe they have to beat their Boys down to prepare them for life, and those are the boys that always find trouble, or trouble finds them. To many White family's too!

His last 17 years of competition, he could have won 17 championships (2 State high school, Olympics, 3 NCAA, 12 NBA (he was injured one year). He won 16. Only twice (as a sophomore in college and once in the NBA) did he have to congratulate the victor in 17 years. He was the only Celtic to play on all 11 Championship teams.

Bill Russell is the GOAT... Haters gon' hate. lol

Todays media disrespect the basketball gods everyday

So the 1962-63 season had to be the peak if im not mistaken thats the only year Cousy, Havlicek & Russell all played together

PETITS Tip in broke celtics streak for hawks . Relentless rebounder and great scorer BUT RUSS PERCEIVED .

Rip Big Bill

Only chamberlain and petit interrupted his reign .

11!!!

10:53 Yea its no way he averaged any less than 5 BPG for his Career, He was hunting blocks like guys hunt 3's nowadays

Too bad Russell just called it quits in 1969, didn't market himself more after retirement. He could have had more than $100 million by now. But he apparently wanted to call it all quits, didn't want to do anymore basketball.

Folks you wanna know what's scary? Give Bill Magic Johnson (as his PG) and they probably would lose about 5-7 games a year! NO kidding. Think about it.

(13:26)😢🥺 that's no beautiful

Bill Russell was overrated. At best, Bill Russell is the 7th overall best NBA center of all-time; behind other greats such as Wilt, Kareem, Moses, Hakeem, Shaq, and Robinson. As an athlete, he was statistically (i.e. Points, Rebounds, Assists, FG%, FT%) lower in every category compared to the best center of all-time Wilt Chamberlain. His shot percentage was awfully low for a center (44% for his career average and 45.7% for his best season in that category). He was also not a go to scorer based on his career scoring average of 15.1 ppg and season best of 18.9 ppg. I’ve done the research and have found out that the only reason he won so many championship was because he had 6-8 Hall of Fame players on each of his championship teams. Most championship teams today would be very lucky to have 2-3 HOF players on their team. Russell was the first to have a SUPER TEAM of 6-8 SUPERSTARS. Let’s get it straight, if you consider KD and LeBron a cheater then Bill Russell was the greatest cheater of all-time.

Bill Russell , the greatest winner !!!!