Bill Russell Writing Book About Coach Red Auerbach

2008/07/16 10:36:32 @NBA.com: News

In the BOSTON GLOBE, the Associated Press reports "basketball great Bill Russell is working on a memoir about his friendship with the late Red Auerbach, the Boston Celtics coach for whom Russell starred on a long run of championship teams. ‘Red and Me' will be published by NewsCorp's HarperCollins division in Spring 2009. ‘Arnold Jacob Auerbach passed on Oct. 28, 2006 -- almost 50 years from when I joined his Boston Celtics,' Russell said Monday in a statement. ‘I felt a tremendous sense of loss, a huge void in my life. There was an empty space in my psyche where a special person had been. I thought about that at Red's funeral. And the fact that there was no logical reason why we ever should've become friends, because we came from such diverse places. I thought about how much I missed his friendship.'"
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