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Bill Russell: 12 quotes about basketball

11. Auerbach's extra dimension

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Bill Russell is congratulated by coach Red Auerbach after scoring his 10,000th NBA point in a game against the Baltimore Bullets in Boston Garden on Dec. 12, 1964.

鈥淩ed was a mathematician as well as a basketball man, and he drew on that as a coach. 鈥 Even in the final minutes of games, the abacus in Red鈥檚 mind was clicking away: 鈥極kay, we鈥檝e got three minutes, we鈥檙e up by ten, that means if we play good defense and don鈥檛 throw the ball away, we need three more baskets.鈥欌

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