The Greatest Player of All Time, Bill Russell

When the Celtics would play on the road, it was sometimes in states that enforced Jim Crow laws. Spencer Haywood remembers talking to Bill Russell about his memories from the civil rights movement when Russell later became his coach on the Seattle SuperSonics. "That's why he stood out to me as the greatest player of all time"

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