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The great Bill Russell, born in 1934, would have received a lot of messages as a kid that told him he wasn't worth much.

He was a black kid in the American South.

He was poor.

He lost his mother at an early age.

Yet, as we've talked about before, he had a pretty remarkable father, a man of incredible dignity

and self-restraint, a man who after the death of his wife drove his kids across the country

to raise them in California trying to provide them a better life, away from the crush of segregation

and hopelessness. He encouraged his kid. Together, father and sons figured out how to do things

for themselves, how to remake their

lives. There at his new high school, surrounded by new and better teachers, Russell started to

really stand out as a basketball player. Once in this fresh environment, Russell had a revelation

so profound, he would later describe it as an almost religious experience. One day while I was walking down

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