Awesome Rivalry Story (Russell-Chamberlain Edition)
There’s not much really to say about this story beyond that it is awesome. I thought these guys hated each other, but I guess they left it on the court. Here’s the story:
On his relationship with Wilt Chamberlain: “At his memorial service, one of the nephews came up to me and said, ‘Mr. Russell, you may want to know this, I just cleaned out my uncle’s desk and he had a list of people he was gonna call the day that he died and you were second on the list…’ Every Thanksgiving we used to have a game in Philadelphia and I used to have Thanksgiving dinner with his mother, his father, his sister, and brothers. He’d come and pick me up at noon time and we’d have Thanksgiving dinner together. And, his mother would let me take a nap in his bed and then he and I would go to the game together, and his mother would say to me, “Now you be nice to my boy.
h/t: Hardwood Paroxysm via Sports Radio Interviews
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