Spencer Haywood and Bill Russell

Spencer Haywood credits Bill Russell with helping him stop using cocaine. He says he's now been sober for close to 41 years. After the 1980 final, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar gave him a championship ring. But eventually they got divorced and she married David Bowie.

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