Bill Russell, the great Boston Celtics center and later coach, was a one-man leadership college.
Bill Russell, the man, is someone who stood up for the rights and dignity of all men.
Examples include Bill Russell, Wilt Chamberlin, Kareem Abdul Jabbar, Michael Jordan and most recently LeBron James.
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Bill Russell can reflect with pride on helping change the culture of a sport and the course of our nation.
Jim Brown, Bill Russell, Kareem Abul-Jabbar, Muhammad Ali and Jackie Robinson were athletes who refused to hide away in the locker room.
"When you're playing against Bill Russell at the pro level, you realize why the Celtics won 11 world championships, " Louisville coach Rick Pitino said.
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"When you're playing against Bill Russell at the pro level, you realize why the Celtics won 11 World Championships, " Pitino said, drawing upon a legend for a comparison.
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But that year marked a stark line of demarcation in the sport's evolution, as Gola and the Explorers lost to the University of San Francisco and its star, Bill Russell.
Wilt Chamberlain scoring 100 points in the era of Bill Russell is different from Chamberlain having a 100-point game in the era of Patrick Ewing, David Robinson and Shaquille O'Neal.
And I hope that one day, in the streets of Boston, children will look up at a statue built not only to Bill Russell the player, but Bill Russell the man.
When Bill Russell was in junior high, he was cut from his basketball team. (Laughter.) He got better after that. (Laughter.) He led the University of San Francisco to two championships.
And while it was clear that Durant could become a great scorer, Oden was being projected not as an All-Star but a Hall of Famer, casually compared to legends like Bill Russell and Tim Duncan.
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In this primary race, Mr Burns is facing Bill Russell, a retired army officer who performed well against Mr Murtha in 2008, winning 42% of the vote, and who resents being passed over by the party establishment.
For the March Madness television coverage, the company not only released more ads in the same formula, but created a new set, where NBA greats Magic Johnson, Larry Bird, Kareem Abdul-Jabar and Bill Russell take the role of the kids.
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John Stockton, Jason Kidd, Mark Jackson and Steve Nash rank 1-4 on the all-time assist leaders, but none of them are mentioned in the same category as Michael Jordan, Wilt Chamberlin or Bill Russell as the Greatest Player of All-Time.
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Thompson, a star at Providence and a backup in the NBA to the great Bill Russell of the Boston Celtics before turning to coaching, had guided the Hoyas to a 71-70 victory over the Orange at the Kodak Classic in nearby Rochester, N.
Only Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (six), Michael Jordan (five), Bill Russell (five) and Wilt Chamberlain (four) have as many MVP awards, only Russell won four in a five-year span, and only Abdul-Jabbar went back-to-back twice, like James did with trophies in 2009 and 2010 and now again in 2012 and 2013.
In this recent Jordan re-appreciation, sports fans did what sports fans do, which was argue about where Jordan ranks among the all-time best, and in a lot of those conversations Michael Jordan was fixed at No. 1, ahead of legendary names like Wilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell and Magic and Larry.
Education Secretary Mike Russell said the reforms in the bill would "reduce the duplication of 41 college administrations".
Former President Bill Clinton, in a statement read by Brubeck's longtime manager Russell Gloyd, recalled being "utterly captivated" at age 15 after hearing Brubeck's quartet in concert and then going home to play "Take Five" until his lips gave out.
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