Here is the biography of Bill Russell:
Bill Russell was born in Monroe, Louisiana in 1934, to Katie and Charlie Louis Russell. At the age of 9, he moved to Oakland, where he was very poor but became a skillful basketball player. At 18, he went to college at San Francisco, where he won two NCAA Championships in 1955 and 1956. In 1956, Bill Russell entered the NBA draft. He was drafted second overall, by the St. Louis Hawks, but was traded to the Boston Celtics for Ed Macauley, in a deal spearheaded by Red Auerbach, the coach of the Boston Celtics.
Russell played the game with an analytical view as well as with an emotional intensity. He knew that basketball was not so much scoring, but keeping your opponent from scoring as well. Russell viewed basketball as a science, and played the game with a psychological approach, defending his opponents so well that many times he made those he defended feel like they could not score a basket.
Russell led the Boston Celtics to 9 straight NBA titles, many times over vaunted rivals the Philadelphia Warriors, and later the Philadelphia 76ers, and the Los Angeles Lakers. He faced immense racism from the most devout Celtics fan, but remained one of the finest players of his day.
In his final years, Russell became the head coach of the Boston Celtics, leading the team to their eleventh championship in 1969. He was truly nothing short of a champion. After his historic victory, Russell remained active in broadcasting for NBA games, and occasionally coaching, including the Seattle Supersonics in the 1970s and the Sacramento Kings in the 1980s. He is a best-selling author and thirty years after he won, he remained a recognizable face and a legend. Until Michael Jordan, he was almost unanimously acclaimed as the greatest player of all time, and some still think he is.
