{"id":1441632,"date":"2021-11-14T11:00:00","date_gmt":"2021-11-14T16:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1441632"},"modified":"2023-02-21T17:32:14","modified_gmt":"2023-02-21T22:32:14","slug":"bill-russell-threatened-retire-unless-made-1-more-dollar-arch-rival-wilt-chamberlain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/bill-russell-threatened-retire-unless-made-1-more-dollar-arch-rival-wilt-chamberlain\/","title":{"rendered":"Bill Russell Threatened to Retire Unless He Made 1 More Dollar Than His Arch-Rival Wilt Chamberlain"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
Long before the days of Magic versus Bird, there was Chamberlain versus Russell. Wilt Chamberlain<\/a>, the larger-than-life big man with multiple scoring titles, met his match with Bill Russell<\/a>, the defensive genius with a reputation as the NBA<\/a>‘s greatest winner. The two centers wound up becoming good friends<\/a>, but that doesn't lessen the rivalry between them. Especially when it came down to something as petty as who was making the most money.<\/p>\n\n\n\nWilt Chamberlain and Bill Russell were opposite types of players<\/h2>\n\n\n\n