Talk:Bill Russell

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Contents 1 Requested move 1.1 Survey 2 Clarification needed 3 Undersized Center 4 Centers in the sixties 5 More Bill Russells need disambiguating on this page 6 Info box 7 Rewrite for GA candidature

[edit] Requested move

Bill Russell (basketball) → Bill Russell – Rationale: Although there are many people known as "William Russell," and a few known as "Bill Russell," the basketball player is by far the best known person known as "Bill Russell." john k 19:02, 5 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Survey

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• Support. As above. john k 19:05, 5 April 2006 (UTC)
• Support per john k. - Nat Krause^(Talk!) 22:09, 6 April 2006 (UTC)

Done. —Nightstallion (?) ^{Seen this already?} 08:22, 10 April 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Clarification needed

"...he never failed to grab at least 20 rebounds per game in any of his 13 post-season campaigns." It sounds like he did this every single game, rather than averaging 20. It's possible, I suppose, but highly unlikely. Clarityfiend 18:55, 5 June 2006 (UTC)

Clarification has been supplied.Myasuda 04:05, 20 June 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Undersized Center

From my understanding of frontcourt players in the fifties and sixties, I am not sure if Bill Russell was that undersized. While he was on the thin side (about 220 lbs), his height (between 6-9 and 6-10) seems to be average for centers around the time he played. Wes Unseld and Willis Reed are typical examples of centers during his time. In fact, it is not that uncommon today to see players around Russell's height playing center in the NBA. Alonzo Mourning and Ben Wallace (who is probably shorter)are such examples. Dinobrya 12 June 2006.

[edit] Centers in the sixties

I conducted a large sampling of the fives who were playing during Russell's time and discovered the darndest thing. I found far more players who were 6'8 and 6'9 than I did 7 footers. In fact 6'9 was the mode {the most common height I saw). Secondly, Russell did not seem to be that much of a bean pole when compared to the vast majority of his comtemporaries. Bill Russell seemed to be undersized only in rare instances--such as his matchups with Chamberlain. 215-230 seemed to be very common for a NBA center. He was not outsized on a nightly basis. [[1]]Dinobrya 12 November 2006 2006

[edit] More Bill Russells need disambiguating on this page

I notice that 83rd United States Congress has a link here. As this article makes no mention of his career in the US Congress in the 1950s, I assume we have at least one more Bill Russell that needs disambiguating. -- Infrogmation 00:12, 19 August 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Info box

Can we get an info box in here and maybe a PD image? I'll try, but i'd appreciate help with either of these. Daniel_123  ►  14:02, 4 September 2006 (UTC)

[edit] Rewrite for GA candidature

I just rewrote a major part of the article, inserting much much more hard data, weeding out trivia, and some copyediting. I also had to delete two YouTube links according to WP:EL. I intend to make Bill Russell a good article as of WP:WIAGA and WP:BIO. —Onomatopoeia 08:15, 5 December 2006 (UTC)