We lived in Yorkville, which is located on the East End of Manhattan. It's further east than Hell's Kitchen, and back then it was the kind of place w….

I was the original socially depraved shy ghetto kid..

Indiana gets credit for having the most rabid basketball fans in the union, but Maine is a very, very active basketball state..

That seemed to be the case with most of the teams based in the smaller towns - the fans were more rabid, and they wanted to literally kill the opposi….

You have to remember that coaching wasn't sophisticated back then - you didn't have the camps, clinics and all the technical advances that are availa….

There were riots in just about every game we played with Syracuse..

Every jock gets up and tells the world how lucky he is. But I feel that I may be the luckiest one of all in terms of timing and being at the right pl….

We played every night. Sometimes we'd stay overnight after a game, but we'd usually drive on to our next destination..

It also didn't take me long to decide that Tri-Cities wasn't for me, and that I wasn't going to go there to play basketball..

I had endured six years of frustration so I think winning it all meant more to me than most of the others on the team..

We had a strong relationship with Walter Brown, and felt that he was the best owner in the league..

We ran an up-tempo, transition-style of game at Boston College - very similar to what we ran when I played for Arnold..

Russell joined the team in December, 1956, following the Olympics..

My biggest win was getting the meal money bumped from $5 to $7..

We hung out on the streets, played stickball, and did all of the things that other kids did..

I won the city scoring championship as a senior..

People have been killing because of racial differences since the time of Adam and Eve, but in this country racism has been primarily aimed at African….