Bill Russell and Suns Pay Tribute to King

In the ARIZONA REPUBLIC, Paul Coro writes "during Sunday's game, a scoreboard video showed a compilation of Suns players delivering portions of Martin Luther King Jr.'s powerful "I Have a Dream" speech at the 1963 March on Washington in honor of Monday's King holiday. Some Suns fans got another powerful message before the game, when the organization held a King symposium featuring Bill Russell, one of the NBA's legends and civil rights leaders as its first Black coach - or as he put it, ‘I was the first Black coach I played for.' Russell spoke with King the day before the march. King wanted him to come on stage, but Russell declined in deference to those who worked with King for years.” [link]