{"id":402283,"date":"2022-08-12T20:10:04","date_gmt":"2022-08-12T20:10:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/?p=402283"},"modified":"2022-08-12T20:10:04","modified_gmt":"2022-08-12T20:10:04","slug":"tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-deeply-honored-by-bill-russell-comparisons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/tennis-legend-martina-navratilova-deeply-honored-by-bill-russell-comparisons\/","title":{"rendered":"Tennis Legend Martina Navratilova &#8216;Deeply Honored&#8217; by Bill Russell Comparisons"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Russell, a professional basketball player from the United States, died at the age of 88. During his time playing for the Boston Celtics, Russell amassed a record 11 NBA championships and five MVP trophies. In 1956, Russell led the American national team to an Olympic gold medal.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/nba\/nba-team-detail\/BOS\/depth-chart\">Celtics<\/a> legend had his number 6 jersey retired by the Boston Celtics after being inducted into the NBA hall of fame in 1975 as a player and in 2021 as a coach. Bill Russell passed away yesterday, and many sportsmen and well-known figures, such as Martina Navratilova, paid their <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martina\/status\/1553796137123041281?s=20&amp;t=LFofNiyZfFT73xdG6R3heA\">respects<\/a> on social media. It was a devastating blow for admirers all across the world.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_402286\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-402286\" style=\"width: 1761px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-402286\" src=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/08\/Martina-Navratilova-scaled.webp\" alt=\"Martina Navratilova\" width=\"1761\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/08\/Martina-Navratilova-scaled.webp 1761w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/08\/Martina-Navratilova-206x300.webp 206w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/08\/Martina-Navratilova-704x1024.webp 704w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/08\/Martina-Navratilova-768x1117.webp 768w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/08\/Martina-Navratilova-1056x1536.webp 1056w, https:\/\/yebscore-cms.s3.us-east-2.amazonaws.com\/2022\/08\/Martina-Navratilova-1408x2048.webp 1408w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1761px) 100vw, 1761px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-402286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Credits: Journal des Femmes Sant\u00e9<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The daughter of the former NBA star recently compared her father to the legendary Navratilova on social media. When she realized this, Navratilova expressed sincere humility by thanking Russell&#8217;s daughter.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ: <a title=\"\u201cIt\u2019s Kevin F***ing Durant\u201d: New Report Reveals the Nets Might Discuss Jaylen Brown in Kevin Durant Deal Despite His Will to Play For the Celtics for Long-Term\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/its-kevin-fing-durant-new-report-reveals-the-nets-might-discuss-jaylen-brown-in-kevin-durant-deal-despite-his-will-to-play-for-the-celtics-for-long-term\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">\u201cIt\u2019s Kevin F***ing Durant\u201d: New Report Reveals the Nets Might Discuss Jaylen Brown in Kevin Durant Deal Despite His Will to Play For the Celtics for Long-Term<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<h2>Martina Navratilova shows humility after Bill Russell comparisons<\/h2>\n<p>Karen Russell, the late Bill Russell&#8217;s daughter, recently contrasted Navratilova&#8217;s remarks with those of her father.<\/p>\n<p>Karen tweeted: <em>\u201cMy friend\u00a0@Martina\u00a0reminds me of Daddy when she does color on tennis: informative, warm, and very funny.\u201c<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Navratilova <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martina\/status\/1557890298520510467?s=20&amp;t=kqzVlAXK0ipMNysq1NYk-g\">replied<\/a>: <em>\u201cThank you- I am deeply honored, especially today\u2026\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">\ud83d\ude18.<br \/>Thank you- I am deeply honored, especially today\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Martina Navratilova (@Martina) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Martina\/status\/1557890298520510467?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">August 12, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Like Russell, Navratilova has earned recognition as one of, if not the greatest, tennis player in history. Additionally, she has a terrific tennis record. She has won 41 Grand Slam championships in doubles and mixed doubles competitions in addition to her 18 Grand Slam singles victories, which has led many in the tennis community to consider her the greatest all-around player of all time.<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/0TQunSVWTcc\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><strong>More NBA news:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"NBA to retire the late Bill Russell\u2019s No. 6 leaguewide\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba-to-retire-the-late-bill-russells-no-6-leaguewide\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">NBA to retire the late Bill Russell\u2019s No. 6 leaguewide<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Trial over Kobe Bryant crash photos begins\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/trial-over-kobe-bryant-crash-photos-begins\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Trial over Kobe Bryant crash photos begins<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p class=\"entry-title\"><a title=\"Reports: NBA players need vaccine to play in Canada in \u201922-23\" href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/reports-nba-players-need-vaccine-to-play-in-canada-in-22-23\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Reports: NBA players need vaccine to play in Canada in \u201922-23<\/a><\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><em>Follow our\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/nba\/\">NBA<\/a>\u00a0page for more key NBA updates and news<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bill Russell, a professional basketball player from the United States, died at the age of 88. During his time playing for the Boston Celtics, Russell amassed a record 11 NBA championships and five MVP trophies. In 1956, Russell led the American national team to an Olympic gold medal. The Celtics legend had his number 6 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":402285,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[51],"tags":[244,2716],"class_list":["post-402283","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-nba","tag-bill-russell","tag-martina-navratilova"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402283","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=402283"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/402283\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/402285"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=402283"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=402283"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/yebscore.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=402283"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}