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Just taking my son out for a bike ride, I'm flying out later tonight, And I put him in the bike stroller. I put on my

Hoka Mach 6s. We did about 10 miles on the dirt road that we live. He's just getting too big for

the bike stroller. What's funny, because I remember in the early days of the pandemic, he was too

young for it. And that's just life. They're always

growing. And it goes by so fast. And my kids are pretty dang fast in their mock sixes by Hoka.

We all have a matching set now. It's a light, fast, an undeniably comfy shoe. It's got a kid's

specific design. And the fit will free your kids'

Interspeedster for a daily fun.

The adult version is not too bad either.

To learn more about the kids' mock six shoe Bill Russell as a kid, and now it was going to be a lot harder.

The Russell family had moved from Monroe, Louisiana, a segregated city where

racism was the norm, out to Oakland, California for Russell's father to find work. But the work

didn't come easy and the family fell into poverty, bouncing between public housing projects

throughout Russell's youth. Finally, his father found work as a truck driver, forcing him to

spend long stretches of time away from his family.

Then, quite suddenly, Bill Russell's mother died, leaving the family of three to fend for themselves.

Russell's father sat his boys down and told them they had to pull themselves together.

They didn't have the luxury of feeling sorry for themselves.

It was a pep talk that Bill Russell, who would later be coached by some of the greatest, most inspiring leaders in the history of sports, would remember all his life. He talked about all the things we'd have to learn to do for ourselves, Russell later recalled. We're going to cook. We're going to wash his father said. We're going to get along. And remember, I've got to work. He said, when I come home, I'm going to be half hot anyway, and I don't want to be raised in hell with you about nothing. We're going to wash our clothes. We're going to keep our bed clean. We're going to live like people, he said, and you two are going to get an education. And you know what? That's precisely what the family did. Russell attended high school where he was a raw talent on the basketball team, cut twice for his lack of experience, but he worked hard on his fundamentals, which eventually earned him a scholarship offer from the University of San Francisco. Once there, he grew three inches and his ability on the court exploded, setting all sorts of college records, and he later led

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