Bill Russell: 12 quotes about basketball

5. On making inbounds passes

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Bill Russell hugs NBA Commissioner David Stern during an award ceremony for the W.E.B. Du Bois Medal at Harvard University, in Cambridge, Mass., Oct. 2, 2013.

“I loved making passes in from out of bounds because I could see each of my teammates so distinctly in the rush of bodies moving this way and that. … [B]ecause I had acquired enough technique, I could slow those bodies down in my mind’s eye before I released the ball.”

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