shoeking2101
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You can find highlights of Eric Dampier though, on YouTube.
Just because you click 1 Bill Russell video doesn't qualify you to discuss his greatness.
Nobody in here (I'm guessing) wavy included, has watched more than a few clips of Russell.
Adding him to a "great list" is done so out of habit, and people you respect say he could ball, so you believe it.
I believe it myself, but I'd never debate his greatness, I'd have no fuxing clue why he'd deserve to be on that list other than stats.
You could look on YouTube and with sensibility, conjure up a picture of who Eric Dampier was in the NBA. Same with Russell. There's literally full length games of Russell on YouTube. What more do you need? From my perspective, in this day and age, there's more than enough sources of information out there to formulate an adequate opinion on Russell.
At the end of the day, what he did was historical for his time. That much can't be disputed. Where it gets tricky is how much you value the time period he was playing in with respect to his place in basketball annals. And in my opinion, that will always be a tricky, subjective argument but you can't dilute it because you "never seen him play." That's BS in 2014 IMO. More than enough videos, in depth statistics, testimonials, etc. out there.