Bill Russell
“Micheal Jordan was to scoring like Bill Russell was to defense. You won't see this guy on any all-time scoring lists, but on every top ten list in NBA history. (Not to mention 5 MVPs and 11 rings, yikes!)”
“all hail the biggest winner in sports”
“needs top 5”
“Bill Russell is one of the best team players ever. His defense was phenomenal.”
“11 rings in 13 years, need I say more”
“Bill Russell is behing AI, Pistol Pete, and LeBron. This list is no good. Russell had 11 championships in 13 years, and should have 12 if he hadn't gotten injured one year”
“defense is the most important part of the game. Bill Russell was the best defensive player ever. It all adds up”
“Russell was the games most valuable player (5 MVP's). Let's not forget the 11 championships in 13 years. Nobody was more dominant defensivley than Russell and if you are putting Pete Maravich ahead of Russell because of Maravich's college career, you have to remember Russell has 2 NCAA National Championships, while Maravich had ZERO!!!”
“Yeah, when MJ gets another 4 rings, he'll have my vote.”
“This list is all jacked up. It should be like this
1. Bill Russell
2. Michael Jordan
3. Wilt Chamberlain
4. Kareem Abdul-Jabbar
5. Oscar Robertson”
“If you voted for anyone else, you don't know the meaning of winner. His competion was intense, most of his career he played only against the top 8 teams in the league! Jordon played against 30!”
“As long as the Celtics had Russell, they kept winning. I remember Red Auerbach saying that the year after Russell left (1970) and the team went dowhill. Russell blocked shots and kept the ball in play. His defense won games. He played against WIlt Chamberlain and except for 1967, when WIlt's team won, the Celtics won every year and beat out WIlt. Russell has a record nobody will ever achieve again- 11 championships in 13 years. Today, the game has changed. There are more big men and we now have essentially two centers. One is the traditional center and the other is the power forward. Kevin Garnett is a Russell-type shot blocker, but he plays power forward. It is much harder today for a center to dominate a game because there are two "centers" or big men per team. Russell made the Celtics world champions 11 of 13 seasons he played. I don't believe Russell could be this dominant in today's game. He was an intellectual player and basketball is an intellectual game. He was a student of the game. In 1970 in college I asked Bill how he could continually beat Chamberlain's teams as Wilt was about 4 or 5 inches taller. My recollection is he said, "Young man, I can jump flat footed and grab the top of the backboard. " He was an incredible athlete, a fact not that many people recognize today because Bill didn't lay the glamor position of a big time scorer. Guys like Michael Jordan and Kobe Bryant and Dwayne Wade are great players. They just could not have the impact of a big man like BIll Russell. Look at Wade. He needed Shaq to win. Look at Kobe. He needed Shaq and later Gasol. Jordan needed Cartwright and Pippen. These days one man on the team cannot make the impact Russell did in the 1950s and 1960s.”
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