For fans, the debate over the GOAT often hinges on two key metrics - individual accolades and numbers or the championships won. By both measures, Bill Russell stands on the top of the pinnacle.

Bill Russell didn't wait for the game to start ... As a player-coach, Russell led the Boston Celtics to the 1968 NBA championship, becoming the first African-American head coach to win an NBA ...

"It wasn't a matter of Wilt versus Russell with Bill. He would let Wilt score 50 if we won. The thing that was most important to him was championships, rings and winning," says former teammate ...

To be the greatest champion in your sport, to revolutionize the way the game is played, and to be a societal leader all at once seems unthinkable, but that is who Bill Russell was. Bill was a ...

UConn has been to six championship games and has won every time. No other team with at least three appearances is undefeated in title games. In 1957, a year after Bill Russell and San Francisco ...

Bill Russell -- the prototypical defensive center -- was a champion from his rookie season until his last game in his last championship series. Before he arrived, the Celtics had never won a ...

If you go by rings, it's Bill Russell with his 11 championships and five MVP awards. Many believed that because Kareem Abdul-Jabbar was the league's all-time scoring champion, his six rings ...