An Addiction to Winning

If you look up the words Champion, Winner, Teammate, Leader... in the dictionary, there should be a picture of Bill Russell next to each one. There is no greater champion in the history of team sports than Bill Russell. Check out these stats. Russell's USF(University of San Fransisco), Olympic and Celtics teams were a near perfect 28-2 in win or go home games. USF was 9-0 in two NCAA tournaments, the U.S. was 2-0 in Olympic elimination games and the Celtics were 17-2, including 10-0 in game 7's and 1-0 in a fifth game of a best-of-five series. The guy was clutch and led his team by doing all the little things. He was a big man on the court and was larger than life to the city of Boston. He was the glue that held those championship teams togeather. In his last game, Russell had 21 rebounds and held Wilt Chamberlain to 18 points, the same guy who once scored 100 points in a single game. The Celtics won the game over the Lakers 108-106. Russell's 11th NBA Championship in 13 years.

Here is the list of Russell's Championship years with the C's and his MVP seasons: NBA Champion (1957, '59, '60, '61, '62, '63, '64, '65, '66, '68, '69); NBA MVP (1958, '61, '62, '63, '65). Don't worry, your eyes don't deceive you, he and the Celtics won 8 NBA Titles in a row and he was MVP of the league 3 years straight. Bill Russell was clearly the cornerstone of the Celtics Dynasty that still to this day is the winningest franchise in NBA history with 16 championships, and is third behind the Yankees(26) and Montreal Canadiens(23) in all of professional team sports.

A couple more fun facts on Bill Russell is he had 12 consecutive seasons with 1,000 or more rebounds. Once he had
51 rebounds in a game and 49 in two others. WOW!




Training Log
5/12/08
(NSC WOD)
Box Jump(24") - Situps - Handstand Pushups
10 - 15 - 1
9 - 15 - 2
8 - 15 - 3
7 - 15 - 4
6 - 15 - 5
5 - 15 - 6
4 - 15 - 7
3 - 15 - 8
2 - 15 - 9
1 - 15 - 10
22:20
Handstand pushups take me a good while, eventually just a couple at a time. I definitely should do more of them, more often.