{"id":32505,"date":"2023-04-07T08:13:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T12:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32505"},"modified":"2023-04-05T16:20:09","modified_gmt":"2023-04-05T20:20:09","slug":"bill-russell-legend-2023-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=32505","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;Bill Russell: Legend&#8221; (2023) \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z040723zview_billrusselllegend.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Bill Russell: Legend <\/em><\/strong>(2023)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Sam Pollard<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Satch Sanders, Bill Walton<\/strong><strong>, Jeannine Russell, Jalen Rose, Karen Russell, Lawrence O&#8217;Donnell, Oscar Robertson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, Magic Johnson, Stephen Curry, Bill Bradley, Shaquille O&#8217;Neal, Earl Monroe \u00a0<\/strong>and <strong>Chris Paul.<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline:\u00a0 <em>He Changed More Than the Game<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>The Plot\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Bill Russell: Legend<\/em> explores Russell&#8217;s life on and off the basketball court. Archival news reports as well as interviews with Bill Russell, his contemporaries, current athletes and sportswriters round out this two part series.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong style=\"font-size: inherit; color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font);\">Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Bill Russell is considered by many the greatest basketball player of all time.\u00a0 He made every team he played on the best. Bill Russell led his high school team to two California State High School Championships.\u00a0 In college his team won two back-to-back NCAA titles.\u00a0 As an Olympian, the U.S. basketball team won a Gold Medal at the 1956 Melbourne Olympic Games. When he went into the NBA his team, the Boston Celtics won 11 championships in his thirteen-year career. The last two were won with Bill Russell playing and serving as the coach!\u00a0 &#8220;He has more NBA championship rings than he has fingers.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Off the court Bill Russell was a man concerned with civil rights and world events.\u00a0 He was a proud man that felt that the things he did off the court were more important.\u00a0 I am not the biggest basketball fan in the world, but I give <em>Bill Russell: Legend<\/em> my highest recommendation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong><em>Bill Russell: Legend <\/em><\/strong>(2023) <\/span><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">rates 5 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_a.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2023\/z040723zview_billrusselllegend2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"506\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Russell: Legend (2023) Director:\u00a0 Sam Pollard Stars: Bill Russell, Larry Bird, Satch Sanders, Bill Walton, Jeannine Russell, Jalen Rose,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[17,72,54,49,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32505","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebs","category-history","category-movies","category-sports","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32505","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32505"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32505\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32561,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32505\/revisions\/32561"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32505"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32505"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32505"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}