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I had a very interesting conversation the other day after he was recommended to me by somebody in town as someone who was very close to Bill Russell.

He's from here.

He played high school basketball here, ended up playing somewhere else collegiately,

and then played with Russell in Boston for two seasons.

His name is Ronnie Watts. It's interesting since I recorded

this with Ronnie the other day. I have talked to no less than three people brought up his name,

and they said, of course, the guy that played for the Celtics or the guy that was friends with

Bill Russell. And so with that, let me let you listen in on the conversation that I had with Ronnie Watts the other day about his close friend, lifelong friend, Bill Russell.

As everybody knows, the passing of Bill Russell earlier this week was a massive story, one of the greatest of all time.

And the outpouring and the storytelling over the last few days has been so heartwarming.

He was 88 years old, passed away on Sunday.

We had JT3 on the radio show the other day. We had our good friend

Jimmy Patsos, who grew up in Boston and was a big Boston Celtics fan on the podcast the other

day sharing stories about Bill Russell as well. I got a call, or I got an email, excuse me, from George Solomon, George, the

longtime editor of the Washington Post Sports section. And he recommended that I reach out to Ronnie Watts.

Ronnie Watts was a very good friend of Bill Russell. He played for the Celtics for a few years on Russell's

teams in the 60s. And so Ronnie Watts is joining us right now on the podcast. And I'm not going

to lie to you and tell you that I knew a lot about you before George asked me to reach out to you and thought that it would be a

great conversation. But I didn't realize until reading a little bit about you, you grew up in

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