NBA and Boston Celtics legendary big man Bill Russell is planning to work with Hunt Auctions this week to auction off a huge amount of historic items from his Hall of Fame career with the Celtics in their heyday of the late 1950s and 1960s.
The once-in-a-lifetime auction is featuring all sorts of memorabilia and hardware from his career to benefit two of his favorite charitable organizations, Mentor and Boston Celtics United For Social Justice, and has attracted the interest of a fellow Celtics center — Shaquille O’Neal — who reportedly plans to purchase an especially memorable assortment of those items for safekeeping.
He will of course have to win the bidding war likely to ensue, but he is better positioned than most to do it, having amassed a fortune in investments built off of his substantial earnings in his own Hall of Fame career.
That would of course be Shaquille O’Neal, who discusses those plans amid coverage of the auction on a recent episode of TNT’s “Inside the NBA”.
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