Bill Russell

Statistical Profile

Despite a general lack of full game video from his career, we have a little bit of shooting data for Russell.

Shooting Data

Regular Season + Postseason
(1% Complete)

Head to Head

vs. Wilt Chamberlain

WOWYR

1957-2016
(100% Complete)

Shooting Data

Regular Season + Postseason Shooting – By Zone (From Dipper13 on RealGM. * denotes partial data.)

YearRimPaint (w/o Rim)MidrangeGames
1962-196921/28 (75.0%)3/8 (37.5%)1/6 (16.7%)9*

Head to Head

(From NBAStats.net.)

vs. Wilt Chamberlain

1960 RS (11 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 39.1 ppg, 29.7 rpg, 1.3 apg on 46.5 %FG/48.5 %TS — 4 wins
Bill Russell: 19.8 ppg, 23.7 rpg, 3.5 apg on 39.7 %FG/42.1 %TS — 7 wins

1960 EDF (6 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 30.5 ppg, 27.5 rpg, 2.0 apg on 50.0 %FG/51.0 %TS — 2 wins
Bill Russell: 20.7 ppg, 27.0 rpg, 2.8 apg on 44.6 %FG/47.6 %TS — 4 wins

1961 RS (13 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 35.5 ppg, 30.6 rpg, 1.8 apg on 49.2 %FG/50.2 %TS — 5 wins
Bill Russell: 18.8 ppg, 25.4 rpg, 3.6 apg on 39.8 %TS/40.2 %TS — 8 wins

1962 RS (10 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 39.7 ppg, 28.8 rpg, 2.1 apg on 46.8 %FG/48.3 %TS — 2 wins
Bill Russell: 18.5 ppg, 24.4 rpg, 4.6 apg on 38.3 %FG/41.6 %TS — 8 wins

1962 EDF (7 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 33.6 ppg, 26.9 rpg, 2.9 apg on 46.8 %FG/51.5 %TS — 3 wins
Bill Russell: 22.0 ppg, 25.9 rpg, 4.6 apg on 39.9 %TS/45.2 %TS — 4 wins

1963 RS (9 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 38.1 ppg, 28.9 rpg, 2.9 apg on 51.4 %FG/55.1 %TS — 1 win
Bill Russell: 15.3 ppg, 27.2 rpg, 5.0 apg on 39.3 %FG/41.3 %TS — 8 wins

1964 RS (8 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 29.1 ppg, 26.9 rpg, 3.1 apg on 53.0 %FG/52.1 %TS — 3 wins
Bill Russell: 14.4 ppg, 25.4 rpg, 5.0 apg on 38.2 %FG/39.0 %TS — 5 wins

1964 FIN (5 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 29.2 ppg, 27.6 rpg, 2.4 apg on 51.7 %FG/50.9 %TS — 1 win
Bill Russell: 11.2 ppg, 25.2 rpg, 5.0 apg on 38.6 %FG/41.5 %TS — 4 wins

1965 RS (11 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 25.4 ppg, 26.5 rpg, 4.2 apg on 47.3 %FG/46.9 %TS — 4 wins
Bill Russell: 12.6 ppg, 22.2 rpg, 4.5 apg on 30.5 %FG/37.4 %TS — 7 wins

1965 EDF (7 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 30.1 ppg, 31.4 rpg, 3.3 apg on 55.5 %FG/57.5 %TS — 3 wins
Bill Russell: 15.6 ppg, 25.3 rpg, 6.7 apg on 44.7 %FG/45.3 %TS — 4 wins

1966 RS (9 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 28.3 ppg, 30.7 rpg, 4.3 apg on 47.3 %FG/50.1 %TS — 6 wins
Bill Russell: 9.6 ppg, 22.3 rpg, 4.9 apg on 30.1 %FG/33.1 %TS — 3 wins

1966 EDF (5 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 28.0 ppg, 30.2 rpg, 3.0 apg on 50.9 %FG/50.0 %TS — 1 win
Bill Russell: 14.0 ppg, 26.2 rpg, 5.6 apg on 42.4 %FG/47.0 %TS — 4 wins

1967 RS (9 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 20.3 ppg, 26.7 rpg, 6.6 apg on 54.9 %TS/54.1 %TS — 4 wins
Bill Russell: 12.2 ppg, 21.1 rpg, 4.1 apg on 43.3 %FG/47.4 %TS — 5 wins

1967 EDF (5 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 21.6 ppg, 32.0 rpg, 10.0 apg on 55.6 %FG/56.1 %TS — 4 wins
Bill Russell: 11.4 ppg, 23.4 rpg, 6.0 apg on 35.8 %FG/43.6 %TS — 1 win

1968 RS (8 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 17.1 ppg, 26.1 rpg, 8.5 apg on 47.4 %FG/44.9 %TS — 4 wins
Bill Russell: 7.8 ppg, 17.5 rpg, 5.1 apg on 27.9 %FG/31.8 %TS — 4 wins

1968 EDF (7 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 22.1 ppg, 25.1 rpg, 6.7 apg on 48.7 %FG/48.5 %TS — 3 wins
Bill Russell: 13.7 ppg, 23.9 rpg, 4.1 apg on 44.0 %FG/47.9 %TS — 4 wins

1969 RS (6 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 16.3 ppg, 24.0 rpg, 4.8 apg on 50.7 %FG/50.8 %TS — 4 wins
Bill Russell: 6.7 ppg, 15.8 rpg, 5.8 apg on 34.0 %FG/35.1 %TS — 2 wins

1969 FIN (7 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 11.7 ppg, 25.0 rpg, 3.0 apg on 50.0 %FG/47.1 %TS — 3 wins
Bill Russell: 9.1 ppg, 21.1 rpg, 5.1 apg on 39.7 %FG/43.5 %TS — 4 wins

Career RS (94 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 30.0 ppg, 28.2 rpg, 3.8 apg on 48.8 %FG/50.1 %TS — 37 wins
Bill Russell: 14.2 ppg, 22.9 rpg, 4.5 apg on 37.1 %FG/39.9 %TS — 57 wins

Career PS (49 games)

Wilt Chamberlain: 25.7 ppg, 28.0 rpg, 4.1 apg on 50.8 %FG/51.7 %TS — 20 wins (1 series win)
Bill Russell: 14.9 ppg, 24.7 rpg, 5.0 apg on 41.7 %FG/45.6 %TS — 29 wins (7 series wins)

Man Defense vs. Wilt Chamberlain

SeriesPPG ChangeFG% ChangeTS% Change
1960 RS+1.5+0.4%-0.8%
1960 EDF-7.1+3.9%+1.7%
1961 RS-2.9-1.7%-1.7%
1962 RS-10.7-3.8%-5.3%
1962 EDF-16.8-3.8%-2.1%
1963 RS-6.7-1.4%+0.1%
1964 RS-7.8+0.6%-1.6%
1964 FIN-7.7-0.7%-2.8%
1965 RS-9.3-3.7%-4.4%
1965 EDF-4.6+4.5%+6.2%
1966 RS-5.2-6.7%-4.6%
1966 EDF-5.5-3.1%-4.7%
1967 RS-3.8-13.4%-9.6%
1967 EDF-2.5-12.7%-7.6%
1968 RS-7.2-12.1%-10.8%
1968 EDF-2.2-10.8%-7.2%
1969 RS-4.2-7.6%-5.6%
1969 FIN-8.8-8.3%-9.3%

WOWYR

1957-2016 WOWYR (From Thinking Basketball.)

PlayerScaled WOWYRAlt Scaled10-Year GPMAverageVariabilityRank
Bill Russell5.94.99.46.72.311th