Sad news today Bill Russell passed away at age 88

He's one of the most important athletes have ever had

So when the greatest athletes have ever had he is the greatest team sport athlete ever

He had an incredible life. He lived it on his terms. I

Spend two days of them in 2012 and it was the highlight of my career and it up turning it into a book of basketball

Podcasts for the end of season one a couple years ago

We're going to repost that on this feed right now Bill Russell rest in peace

Bill Russell spent the last four and a half decades living in Seattle on Mercer Island about as far from Boston as you can get without falling into the Pacific Ocean

When I spent two days with him in 2012

Russell kept maintaining that he didn't care about Boston anymore

He remembered the city being more of a hockey town

How his Celtics played multiple game sevens in a Boston garden that was less than 70% full

He remembered everyone writing off a budding Celtics dynasty after Bob Coos he retired in 1963

As if the coups was the reason for those first six titles

He remembered the skeptical reaction after Red R back name Russell is his coaching successor as if a black guy couldn't lead white guys please

He remembered the racist idiots who wrecked his new house destroyed his trophies defecated on his walls

Because how did anyone ever forget something like that?

He remembered Boston fans deifying Larry Bird

How they elevated him for winning eight fewer titles than Russell did

These sites kept coming up and coming up and

Halfway through our second day together. I just assumed Bill Russell would never return to Boston

We're filming a TV show called Mr. Russell's house for MBA TV

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