Through the GOAT’s first six NBA post-seasons, he’d competed in 67 Playoff games and snatched an astounding 1,775 rebounds (26-and-a-half per game). Through 13 playoff runs (165 games), that figure would surpass 4,000, giving No. 6 just a smidgen under 25 boards a game.
The 15th tip-off of his seventh season (Bill’s 430th career regular-season game) saw Mr. Russell become just the third player in league history to reach the 10,000 plateau in the matter of retrieving errant shots, an average of 23.3 rpg.
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The Celtics faced off with the Chicago Zephyrs in the opener of an NBA doubleheader staged at Madison Square Garden, the fourth of a whopping 15 double-bills MSG would host during the Association’s 16th season of play … the second of seven “curtain-jerkers” on Boston’s ’62-63 slate of games.