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Bill Russell

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Bill Russell

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Also known as William Russell, William Felton "Bill" Russell

American basketball player (1934–2022)

OverviewAI-generated

Bill Russell (1934–2022) was an American basketball player who competed as a forward and center. His professional career spanned from 1956 to 1969. Standing 208 centimeters tall and weighing 98 kilograms, he wore the number 6 jersey.

Russell is also recognized as an author with 21 works, including *Last Smoker in America*, *Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival)*, *Jesus Always*, and *Red and Me*. He has been referenced by 1,831 other encyclopedia articles.

Synthesized by Vinony from 24 facts across 8 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Open Library, MusicBrainz, Wikiquote, Thesportsdb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.

Person · Open Library

Works
21

Top works

  • מצעד המלאכים
  • Last Smoker in America
  • Side Show (2014 Broadway Revival)
  • Jesus Always
  • Red and Me

via Open Library + Wikidata

Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1942-04-02
Active to
2016-11-13

via MusicBrainz · CC0

Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
545
Total plays
1,998

<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Bill+Russell">Read more on Last.fm</a>

via Last.fm · Bill Russell

Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. The ERA5 global reanalysis

    · 2020 · cited 24,129x

  2. Biodiversity hotspots for conservation priorities

    · 2000 · cited 23,000x

  3. A simple method for displaying the hydropathic character of a protein

    · 1982 · cited 18,689x

  4. A global reference for human genetic variation

    · 2015 · cited 17,756x

  5. Atherosclerosis — An Inflammatory Disease

    · 1999 · cited 17,123x

via Crossref · CC0

Quotes

  • “He told me he couldn't wait for the basketball season to end, so he could go back to baseball and get out of shape.”
  • “"What do you think of the Chicago Bulls winning three in a row?" -- Russell: "Not much."”
  • “Something everybody else but Bill Russell excelled in was giving the coach good advice. I made the decisions, but I listened an awful lot. Sometimes in practice the other guys would talk for half an hour and I wouldn't say a word. I encouraged them to tell me what they thought.”

via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA

Sports profile

Sport
Basketball
Team
_Deceased Basketball
Position
Forward/Center
Nationality
United States

via TheSportsDB

~40 min read

Encyclopedic overview

William Felton Russell (February 12, 1934 – July 31, 2022) was an American professional basketball player who played center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) from 1956 to 1969. He was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty that played for 12 NBA championships and won 11 during his 13-year career. Russell is widely considered one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

Russell played college basketball for the San Francisco Dons, leading them to consecutive NCAA championships in 1955 and 1956. He was named NCAA tournament Most Outstanding Player (MOP), and captained the gold medal-winning U.S. national basketball team at the 1956 Summer Olympics. These victories along with his NBA championships made Russell one of only eight players in the history of men's basketball to achieve the Triple Crown.

Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bill Russell” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.

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