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Welcome into this Monday's edition of Lockdown MBA where we cover all the latest from around the

Association. I'm Tony East, the host to Lockdown Pacers, and we have to open Lockdown

MBA on a Saturday note this week and this day as

NBA legend and Celtics legend several time champion an all-star one of the best

to ever do a Bill Russell officially passed away on Sunday with me from lockdown Celtics John

Corralis the host of the show John can you just for a moment talk about the impact

that Bill Russell had both on and off the court as one of the

Premier Legends of the NBA. Yeah, I mean it's it's hard to find words because

there are no words, there's no combination of words that anybody can put together that does Bill Russell's legacy any kind of justice on the court I mean

How much more dominant can you be than 11 championships in 13 seasons and a loss in the finals as one of the other two seasons?

You know, and that loss certainly ate at Russell because he was hurt and it was the

St. Louis Hawks beating his Celtics and Bob Pettit had a huge series and Russell was injured. He had sprained his ankle and you know he was still a little

salty about that because if he was healthy they probably would have won that too.

And he'd be talking about 12 out of 13 seasons.

And then, you know, capping it off with

championships as a player coach and the first black coach, first black head coach in the

NBA, his legacy is just, it reaches far and wide because he took stands in the 60s during the civil

rights era that not everyone was willing to take especially a guy like Russell

who was as dominant as he was on the court you could argue that he stood to lose a lot. But he was front and center with Mohammed Ali, with

Lou El Sinder at the time with Jim Brown taking on a very difficult era in American history.

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