Talk:Bill Russell/Archive 2

Archive 1

Archive 2

Prose issue

"Rejoining"??? That's factually incorrect -- as should be obvious from the surrounding text -- yet somebody reverted my edit to try to fix it. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 72.93.241.135 (talk) 00:53, 2 June 2022 (UTC)

• I just removed that entire bit of the sentence. We already know from the last sentence that he joined the Celtics, so all that part did was cause possible confusion (and it may not have been accurate, as 72 said, since we don't establish that Russell had trained with the Celtics before the Olympics). Giants2008 (Talk) 21:39, 28 June 2022 (UTC)

I had to look up what a "clutch" was?

Can the inline link to this article Clutch (sports) be added to this section where it mentions the clutch.?

College career

University of San Francisco

Russell was ignored by college recruiters and received not one offer until recruiter Hal DeJulio from the University of San Francisco (USF) watched him play in a high school game. DeJulio was unimpressed by Russell's meager scoring and "atrocious fundamentals", but he sensed that the young Russell had an extraordinary instinct for the game, especially in the clutch.

There are far too many undefined North American sporting terms in articles, even though they are written for a global audience.146.200.202.126 (talk) 11:03, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

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Middle name

Mr. Russell's middle name was "Fenton", not "Felton". Please change "Felton" to "Fenton".

Examples are: https://olympics.com/en/athletes/william-fenton-russell https://www.bostonsportsjournal.com/2022/07/31/bill-russell-the-greatest-winner-of-all-time-dies-at-88

Mr. Russell and Mr. Wilt Chamberlain were great friends who called each other by their middle names. Mr. Russell was "Fenton", and Mr. Chamberlain was "Norman". 100.18.31.143 (talk) 00:54, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

The Washington Post ("Charles and Katie Russell welcome William Felton Russell on Feb. 12 in Monroe, a town in north Louisiana"), The New York Times ("William Felton Russell was born on Feb. 12, 1934, in Monroe, La., where his father, Charles, worked in a paper bag factory"), Sports Illustrated ("That was William Felton Russell, who learned his basketball chops on the Oakland playgrounds..."), and other reliable sources appear to disagree. General Ization ^Talk 01:13, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

Perhaps most definitively, in his own book "Russell Rules: 11 Lessons on Leadership From the Twentieth Century's Greatest Winner ", Russell writes "Felton".—Myasuda (talk) 01:30, 1 August 2022 (UTC)

My apologies. It seems that "Felton" is correct. Over the years I had seen numerous references to "Fenton" which apparently were incorrect.

100.18.31.143 (talk) 01:27, 2 August 2022 (UTC)

No need to apologize. There are, as you stated, multiple conflicting sources floating around. I even have an NBA register from Sporting News on my bookshelf that mistakenly lists the middle name as "Fenton". But we can safely rely on Russell's own book to settle the discussion.—Myasuda (talk) 02:07, 2 August 2022 (UTC)