At least two of Bill Russell's five MVP awards are considered 'questionable' by his critics. One of those was in 1962 which ...

Bill Russell is grossly disrespected when talking ... There's a reason why the Finals MVP award is named after him. He was truly ahead of his time." Russell is the greatest Celtic ever, but ...

Michael Jordan is among the legends, along with Bill Russell, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, and Wilt Chamberlain. All these names are in a class of their own. However, one rare compliment MJ received was ...

To be the greatest champion in your sport, to revolutionize the way the game is played, and to be a societal leader all at once seems unthinkable, but that is who Bill Russell was. Bill was a ...

In 2011, Bill even received the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest civilian award given to citizens of the United States. All told, Russell has ticked all the boxes of being a perfect NBA ...

Boston Celtics Legend Bill Russell Receives the Arthur Ashe Courage Award at the 2019 ESPYs Born in 1934 in West Monroe, Louisana, William Felton Russell later joined the basketball team at ...

Related: Barkley recalls meeting MJ for the first time at the 1984 Olympics tryouts: "I have never seen anything like it" Two years later, the NBA renamed the Finals MVP award "The Bill Russell ...