{"id":15475,"date":"2022-08-12T01:36:27","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:36:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/nba-to-retire-bill-russells-no-6-jersey-league-wide-boston-25-news\/"},"modified":"2022-08-12T01:36:27","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T01:36:27","slug":"nba-to-retire-bill-russells-no-6-jersey-league-wide-boston-25-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/?p=15475","title":{"rendered":"NBA to retire Bill Russell&#8217;s No. 6 jersey league-wide &#8211; Boston 25 News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">NEW YORK \u2014 The No. 6 worn by late Boston Celtics Hall of Famer Bill Russell will be retired for good in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">The league announced the move on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">&#8220;Bill Russell&#8217;s unparalleled success on the court and pioneering civil rights activism deserve to be honored in a unique and historic way,&#8221; said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver.  &#8220;The permanent retirement of his No. 6 on all NBA teams ensures that Bill&#8217;s transcendent career will always be recognized.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">Russell will be the first player to have his number retired in the NBA.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">&#8220;This is a momentous honor reserved for one of the greatest champions to ever play the game,&#8221; said NBPA Executive Director Tamika Tremaglio.  &#8220;Bill&#8217;s actions on and off the court throughout his life helped improve generations of players and for that, we are eternally grateful. We are proud to continue to celebrate his life and legacy around the league.&#8221; .<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">The NBA will also honor Russell during the 2022-23 season.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">All players will wear a commemorative patch on the right shoulder of their jerseys, and each NBA court will display a shamrock logo with the number 6 next to the scorer&#8217;s table.  The Celtics will have a separate and unique recognition for him on their uniforms, which will be announced soon, according to the league.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">Russell wore No. 6 throughout his 13-season career from 1956 to 1969, and no NBA team will ever reissue either player.<\/p>\n<p class=\"default__StyledText-tl066j-0 rQkyc body-paragraph\">Players currently wearing #6 will be grandfathered.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ImageMetadata__MetadataParagraph-sc-1gn0vty-0 gAFIWJ image-metadata\"><span class=\"title\">Bill Russell through the years <\/span><span>LAS VEGAS &#8211; FEBRUARY 16: Bill Russell leans on a rendering of the new box during a ceremony to honor him and introduce a new box of Wheaties on February 16, 2007 in Las Vegas, Nevada.  NOTE TO USER: User expressly acknowledges and agrees that by downloading or using this Photograph, User agrees to the terms and conditions of the Getty Images License Agreement.  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The league announced the move on Thursday. &#8220;Bill Russell&#8217;s unparalleled success on the court and pioneering civil rights activism deserve to be honored in a unique and historic way,&#8221; said NBA Commissioner Adam Silver. &#8220;The permanent retirement of his No. 6 on all NBA teams ensures that Bill&#8217;s transcendent career will always be recognized.&#8221; Russell will be the first player to have his number retired in the NBA. &#8220;This is a momentous honor reserved for one&#8230; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15475","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-videos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15475"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15475\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15475"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15475"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news24feed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15475"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}