| BOOK IT: Russell, Red unlikely friends
Legendary Boston Celtics center Bill Russell is working on a memoir about his friendship with late Celtics coach and executive Red Auerbach. Red and Me will be published next spring by HarperCollins.
"Arnold Jacob Auerbach passed on Oct. 28, 2006 -- almost 50 years from when I joined his Boston Celtics," Russell said in a statement Monday. "I felt a tremendous sense of loss, a huge void in my life. There was an empty space in my psyche where a special person had been. I thought about that at Red's funeral. And the fact that there was no logical reason why we ever should've become friends because we came from such diverse places. I thought about how much I missed his friendship."
Russell, 74, was the competitive heart of the great Celtics teams of the 1950s and 1960s and led them to 11 NBA titles, including eight in a row (1959-66).
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