It is considerably less difficult for a bookie to convince a poor college student to miss a few shots for a few hundred dollars than it is to convince a millionaire NBA player to do the very same thing.
Bill Russell, the NBA wonderful who anchored a Boston Celtics dynasty that won 11 championships in 13 years — the final two as the very first Black head coach in any significant U.S. sport — and marched for civil rights with Martin Luther King Jr., died Sunday.
The affiliation entails a mixture of rights and obligations.