The 88-year-old NBA legend Bill Russell, one of the greatest basketball players in history and honored by the whole sports world, breathed his last on Sunday, 31st July. Earlier this year, Netflix announced that it is working on the documentary about Russell, directed by Sam Pollard and produced by Larry Gordon, Ross Greenburg and Michael Richardson. The date of release is not announced yet.
NBA fans to relive the memories of Bill Russell through the Netflix documentary set to release later this year
Very few people turn out to be honest that left their impression on mankind. By means of generosity, some do their bit for society, while others donate large amounts of money to charity. But Bill Russell was exceptionally different from other great personalities as was the man with many talents.
The NBA legend whose expertise on the court was only exceeded by his compassionate and kind nature off the court. Bill fought for the improvement of society till his last breath being a Civil rights activist.
We can reexperience all his great accomplishments through the Netflix documentary which is likely to begin this year later in the season 2022-2023, making it a posthumous release. It seems that the streaming service is also paying tribute to the 11th-time NBA champion through the documentary.
According to the official synopsis, the untitled documentary will show us how Russell achieved to become the NBA champion and “Civil Rights icon.” Not only Russell won in the NBA but also he won two state titles in high school and a Gold Medal at the 1965 gold medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games in his basketball career.
In the history of the NBA, Russell is one of the top ten best players of all time. In his 13-year-long career, he was named NBA MVP five times besides winning 11 NBA titles. He was also named to the All-Star team 12 times and was selected to the All-NBA team 11 times. He was four times rebounding champion of the league.
In 2019 Rusell won the NBA Lifetime Achievement Award. He was named to the NBA 75th Anniversary Team but was also selected to the 25th Anniversary, 35th Anniversary and 50th Anniversary teams.
“To me, I was a better offensive player than a defensive player. By the end of my first year, I always put the offense in motion, and after a year or two almost all the plays went through me. In fact, Havlicek said after I left, he missed me more on offense than on defense,” Russell told Alan Paul in 2018.
In the later ages of his career, Paul had enquired Russell about being the player/coach for the Celtics, to which he replied, “Red [Auerbach] offered me the job first and I said I wasn’t interested. So he asked if I had any recommendations and said that he would not hire anyone who I didn’t approve of 100 percent, because I had meant too much to the franchise. I had some ideas, but we couldn’t work out a deal. Frank Ramsey, who was my first choice, couldn’t leave home. [Bob] Cousy couldn’t get out of his contract at Boston College and so on. Red came up with one last name, and I just wasn’t going to play for that person, so I decided that I would, in fact, do it.”
