Obama mourns death of basketball great Bill Russell: ‘We lost a giant’ ...Middle East

Former President Obama memorialized Bill Russell on Sunday in a statement on Twitter after the NBA legend’s family announced he had died at 88. “Today, we lost a giant,” Obama wrote. “As tall as Bill Russell stood, his legacy rises far higher—both as a player and as a person,” he continued. The 11-time NBA champion was known not just for his skill in the sport, becoming a 12-time All Star and being named Most Valuable Player five times, but also for his record as a trailblazer. Russell was the first Black head coach of any North American professional sports team. He also attended Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have a Dream” speech at the March on Washington in 1963, and Russell

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