Toss in a reported 50” vertical leap and you can see why he was a load to deal with and only Nate Thurmond, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Bill ... Russell manages to take away the dunk.

It was, as Sielski writes, “an early version of the slam dunk.” This is the kind of ... boardrooms as they were on playgrounds; Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain, who shook up the game with ...