He also did a funny turn as the sidekick/Oddjob to bad guy Ricardo Montalban on a 1968 episode of "It Takes a Thief."
Heck, he even hosted SNL! He was The Black Shadow! On Sunday, July 31, 2022 at 3:58:35 PM UTC-4 PGage wrote: > > Dead at 88. I’m going to go ahead and give him his own thread here, not > just because he was the biggest star in the early phase of the NBA’s > television history, but because he was a high impact Analyst for, as I > recall, both ABC and CBS’s coverage of the NBA in the 70s. He was much > maligned in some quarters in that role, but if I, a tied in the purple and > gold fanatic, could appreciate him, I think he was doing something right. > > Also, of course, one of the most courageous and effective of civil and > human rights fighters produced by professional sports. > > > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/sports/basketball/bill-russell-dead.html?referringSource=articleShare > > https://www.nytimes.com/2022/07/31/sports/basketball/bill-russell-dead.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share > -- > Sent from Gmail Mobile > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TVorNotTV" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/tvornottv/f6b6e2e0-b82e-412f-bdeb-a62fbabee000n%40googlegroups.com.
