One of the most underrated aspects of Bill Russell's life and career, writes columnist MikeSielski, is that he revolutionized college basketball.
— An unsurpassable will to win? Toughness? Unselfishness? All of these attributes and more? — that Wilt Chamberlain did not have and the Celtics’ opponents could not overcome. Red Auerbach would light a victory cigar and gloat, which made him easy to hate, but there was nothing to do with Russell but acknowledge his greatness, especially his ability to enhance the collective performance of his teammates, and respect him for it.
“He was Magic Johnson,” the late college basketball writer and historian Bob Vetrone Sr. once said, “without the flair.”The Ed Sullivan Show That meeting took place on March 19, 1955, the day of the national title game, at the hotel in Kansas City where the La Salle and USF teams were both staying. Russell and assistant coach Ross Giudice passed Gola and La Salle head coach Ken Loeffler in the lobby.“You’ll be seeing a lot of him tonight, fellas,” Loeffler said.
“The guy doing the game kept talking about this guy Russell who kept blocking Tom Gola’s shots,” Packer. “I’m thinking, ‘That’s impossible. No one can do that to Gola. Who is this guy Russell?’”
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