As did many people on planet earth last night, I got all of Shaq's congratulatory tweets to Kobe and the rest of the Lakers. It reminded me that the Kobe v Shaq feaud's path to peace evidentally started with a conversation between Shaq and Bill Russell. I wish I could find more on the specifics of that conversation. To me it seems emblematic of the influence Russell still has on the game of basketball.
Another example, I didn't see much made of this on the National level, but this is an absolutely fascinating (if way too short) conversation between Tim Duncan and Bill Russell from earlier this year:
So short. Maybe they started making out, and this is all they can show.
But seriously, there's a pretty broad understanding about the ills of modern day professional sports. But sports are also frequently a venue for dignity, respect, and love in a world (specifically the telivised world) in which those qualities can seem terribly rare.
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