Bill Russell Plays The Word Association Game | The Dick Cavett Show

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  • @mikeRedMDK2032
    @mikeRedMDK2032 2 ปีที่แล้ว +22

    Had to come back here after the news. R.I.P to a HOF player and HUMAN. He epitomized the boston celtics, he WAS the boston celtics. Class and greatness on and off the court for sports and civil rights

  • @alexkirschenbaum1207
    @alexkirschenbaum1207 2 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Bill Russell was always the man.

  • @emmanuelmoses7249
    @emmanuelmoses7249 5 ปีที่แล้ว +27

    Bill Russell is such a legend. Respect

  • @DanStrayer
    @DanStrayer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    “Fine line between a groove and a rut.” That is a good approach to sense of humour.

  • @blackphillip564
    @blackphillip564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +44

    Damn Mr. William Russell ladies and gentlemen. Brotha is sharper than a straight razor.

  • @quietsparklez11
    @quietsparklez11 5 ปีที่แล้ว +37

    What a great interview! Thanks for posting. I wish young boys could be exposed to men like these two. Intelligent, classy well dressed, interesting men. We need more in the world

  • @jaybrown3341
    @jaybrown3341 5 ปีที่แล้ว +39

    IF YOURE DEPRESSED JUST LISTEN TO BILL LAUGH...GUARANTEED TO FIX IT...

  • @maciekjoker9095
    @maciekjoker9095 4 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Big respect for Mr. Bill Russell.

  • @howamilooking5952
    @howamilooking5952 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    I love watching your interviews. Intelligent, quick, but also patient. You were a friend to communication.

  • @tedium37
    @tedium37 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Great guest and interviewer in his own right. His charisma and intellect shines so brightly he could have easily been a movie star or TV personality completely separate and unrelated to his legendary basketball career.

  • @general5886
    @general5886 4 ปีที่แล้ว +13

    bill was rocking a solid fit!

  • @tomitstube
    @tomitstube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    brilliant man bill russell. and still with us at 85, a black co-worker and i swapped books to read for a brief time. he gave me "red and me" which was a good read, great stories about russell's grandfather and father, both incredible men in the face of southern segregation. his father became part of the black migration to the west and north after world war II. russell clearly got the better of wilt chamberlain on the basketball court, but both were very bright and both were strong allies of the civil rights movement.

  • @simonrussell4986
    @simonrussell4986 5 ปีที่แล้ว +15

    Wow! Fantastic interview. Really interesting line "it's a fine line between a groove and a rut."

  • @SomeBF
    @SomeBF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

    God he’s charming and not in the prepared grown in a lab affability of the modern day celebrity (not a fault to them, we’re the ones who’ve put everything under a microscope)
    I’m so glad he’s still kicking

  • @howamilooking5952
    @howamilooking5952 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Bill Russell is so witty, yet not in an attackeful way. Just pushing you in the right direction.

  • @NikS952
    @NikS952 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    If this was posted because I requested it, THANK YOU very much! Fantastic clip, love seeing athletes from yesteryear and hearing how interesting and well spoken they were.

    • @NikS952
      @NikS952 5 ปีที่แล้ว

      That's not to say that athletes are meant to be uninteresting or thick - I mean that growing up in the 21st century, I usually only get to see them through their sporting highlights, not in interviews.

  • @MeadowFarmer
    @MeadowFarmer 11 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I've seen numerous documentaries about Bill Russel where they mention he was a very smart player and a smart man. You can see it in this interview. He's very quick witted and also introspective about things. He was a strong advocate for civil rights in the 60s, yet he spoke for himself and said he found the shows humorous and not offensive. He was an incredible athlete and a great man. RIP

  • @marcusbradly5982
    @marcusbradly5982 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Rest In Peace Bill Russell ❤️❤️❤️.

  • @Justin_R20
    @Justin_R20 3 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Wow first time hearing Bill Russell when he was younger, so much different now

  • @freddylubin
    @freddylubin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +7

    Russell had a reputation for being introverted.

  • @dabidibup
    @dabidibup 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

    "Squeeze them togeteher you get one and a half candidates"

  • @JoeSamsonMedArt
    @JoeSamsonMedArt 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    damn, I'd love to see this Bill Russel hosted talk show!

  • @prayingmantis6777
    @prayingmantis6777 3 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Bill's laugh almost makes me forget I'm a 76ers fan.

    • @SomeBF
      @SomeBF 3 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Fellow Sixers fan, Bill’s the only Celtic I’d ever consider getting the jersey of, dudes beyond basketball as a person and personality, and one of my top 5 all time

    • @lemonsweet69
      @lemonsweet69 2 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      Ah yes The Celtics always kickin 76ers ass back in the 60s (beside 66-67)

  • @footballbabybaby
    @footballbabybaby 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    The great bill russell wud be a winner in any era

    • @bcpme8637
      @bcpme8637 ปีที่แล้ว

      no doubt about it

  • @blackphillip564
    @blackphillip564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +14

    Russell is *_giving it_* to Cavett.

    • @seburox
      @seburox 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

      Pause

  • @Jaccpot10
    @Jaccpot10 4 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Imagine you see Bill Russell walking down the street with those pants on in 2020. Double cheeked up on a Thursday afternoon, hella ass

  • @DanStrayer
    @DanStrayer 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    RIP Bill Russell

  • @silver3149
    @silver3149 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    As a young child,
    The Amos and Andy Show was very educational. The star King Fish was a self employed businessman, who always had an iron in the fire.
    All the characters had potent messages.
    Andy character was a cab driver
    he portray a reliable family man.
    Lighten play himself slow witted but he knew how with lightening speed to though off an opponent.
    Sapire the wife of King Fish, brought femininity to the show. She stayed out of King Fish's business but made sure he TCB.
    Amos character play K. F. sometime investor. He was a lady' man.
    The show was comedy with focus on business and family.

  • @fredoctober292
    @fredoctober292 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    I like this cat

  • @LoganNagol
    @LoganNagol ปีที่แล้ว

    “Yes you heard that…I spread the rumor myself” 🤣🤣

  • @latchkeyed959
    @latchkeyed959 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    I think I’m gonna move to Nebraska

  • @whitt6354
    @whitt6354 4 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    why is this awkward and natural at the same time

    • @juju-vl7oj
      @juju-vl7oj 4 ปีที่แล้ว

      The host doesn't seem to mind or avoid awkward silences, so it feels more human and less perfect

    • @emmanuelmoses7249
      @emmanuelmoses7249 3 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      That's how it was back then..it's almost as if they're not aware of the awkwardness, or just don't care.

  • @Patrick-tx9rh
    @Patrick-tx9rh 2 ปีที่แล้ว

    He became the Seattle SuperSonics coach a year later.

    • @aarondigby9859
      @aarondigby9859 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      Russell coached the Sonics, Nets in NJ, the Clippers worked in the front office, a national treasure. One the GOAT.

  • @Gannooch
    @Gannooch 3 ปีที่แล้ว

    have nothing against the other celebs that were on this show but is this channel ever going to show the Dick Cavett shows where he interviews Jackie Gleason or Art Carney? How about any Honeymooners actors that were part of the main cast? These are rarities much like the other ones.

  • @hardcoreedwin5143
    @hardcoreedwin5143 5 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    If bill Russell would of been younger like in his 40's in 2019 😂 he would've have smoke weed, hell he would of got his own strain....😂😂😎

    • @jonisafreak3
      @jonisafreak3 ปีที่แล้ว

      Bill Russell was a gansta in 2013 he was caught at the airport with a .38 caliber smith and Weston handgun and basically got told to get rid of it and go about your business.

  • @j1st633
    @j1st633 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Should have given the word Vietnam.

  • @andrelawrence5515
    @andrelawrence5515 2 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When T.V was good

  • @blackphillip564
    @blackphillip564 5 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    It goes Russell _then_ Chamberlain. 11 > 2.

    • @emmanuelmoses7249
      @emmanuelmoses7249 5 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Wilt averaged 50 and 25..Swap him and Russell, Wilt gets those rings

    • @casualfandestroyer2503
      @casualfandestroyer2503 3 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@emmanuelmoses7249 Chamberlain was concerned about Chamberlain. He was in love with his stats."
      - Red Auerbach - who coached Russell's Celtics

    • @timrussell3485
      @timrussell3485 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@casualfandestroyer2503 wilts the goat bill even said it

    • @donovanprice3321
      @donovanprice3321 2 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@timrussell3485 but that don’t mean if you swap em the Celtics woulda been as successful Wilt even said that himself in an interview

  • @somethingyousaid5059
    @somethingyousaid5059 5 ปีที่แล้ว +11

    I wonder how much money he was making at the height of his NBA career? A couple hundred thousand dollars for a single season's work maybe? Not that much? No doubt not even the best NBA player back then was being paid anything close to a seven figure amount for a single season's work.

    • @tomitstube
      @tomitstube 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      wilt chamberlain became the first nba player to get $100,000 in 1965, bill reportedly demanded $100,001 which he got. about $800,000 in today's money. he became a player coach the next year and got $25,000 for that, how much he got along with playing isn't known, he did win a couple championships as player-coach.

    • @CorbCorbin
      @CorbCorbin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +12

      The Celtics owe him for eternity. No player made a million a season, not even close. Nolan Ryan signed the first million a year contract in any sport, in 1980, and Magic Johnson signed a 25 year, 25 million dollar one in 1981.
      Look at what Magic and Bird did for the NBA in the 80s. They were getting paid much better, but they made an Air Jordan possible in the 90s, not unlike Bill and Wilt, for Kareem, or a Dr. J, in the 70s.

    • @davidturner2233
      @davidturner2233 5 ปีที่แล้ว +2

      For the Time it was a lot of money.

    • @davidturner2233
      @davidturner2233 5 ปีที่แล้ว +3

      @@CorbCorbin you know your sports history.

    • @CorbCorbin
      @CorbCorbin 5 ปีที่แล้ว +4

      David Turner
      My memory for sports, and other pop culture trivia, is still with me.
      Though, I will admit to googling the years because I thought I might be getting them backwards, or that they both were in 80’. 🤣
      My old brain isn’t as confident as it once was. I did find a couple cool factoids I hadn’t remembered.
      Dave Parker was actually the first to sign a contract for what seemed like more than a million a year, but the contract(Pirates) never actually paid him a million a season. That one is a whole story itself, about reading the fine print, and the drug use at the time.
      Second one was the first million dollar contract, was actually Bobby Hull, who signed a ten year, one-million dollar contract in 1972, for the Winnipeg Jets.