Talk:1957 NBA Finals

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How can I tell who won each game? Is it the one in bold? There should be a key to make that clear. 98.82.190.59 (talk) 04:09, 13 June 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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When the Celtics won the 1957 NBA title in double overtime, it ended the greatest year for an individual basketball player in the history of the sport. Russell won his second consecutive NCAA title with an undefeated University of San Francisco in the spring of 1956. [1]

He then joined the US Olympic team which won the gold medal in the Melbourne Olympics in December. (The summer Olympics began in late November because they were in the Southern Hemisphere.) [2] Then in April of 1957 he won the 1956-57 NBA title with the Celtics, the first of 11 in his 13 year NBA career. [3] In 1988 the female tennis player Steffi Graf won all four "major" tennis titles, plus an Olympic gold medal (a so-called "Golden Slam"), which is perhaps the closest anyone has come to Russell's 1956-1957 basketball season.[4]