Bill Russell: First Wind, 1957

Apr 30, 2022

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[While at home flipping through a manila folder full of newspaper articles, I happened upon this clip from the Boston Herald, dated January 10, 1971. Bob Temple, a long-time reporter at the paper, waxes nostalgic about the night of November 16, 1957. According to Temple, that’s when Boston’s second-year center Bill Russell and his defensive wizardry cha…