Bill Russell's number 6 Jersey is being retired across the NBA

 Russell's number 6 Jersey is being retired across the NBA . Nobody will wear No. 6 for the Orlando Magic or Sacramento Kings again.

The NBA and the National Basketball Players Association announced Thursday that the number worn by the 11-time champion, civil rights activist and person good enough to be enshrined in the Basketball Hall of Fame as both a player and a coach was being permanently retired by all 30 teams.

NBA commissioner Adam Silver said. 6 on every NBA team ensures that the  outstanding career  of Bill will always be recognized."Bill Russell's unparalleled success in court and pioneering civil rights activism should be honored in a peerless and historic way, 

In this season, all NBA players  wear a patch on the right shoulder of their jerseys, the league said, and each NBA court will display a clover-shaped logo with the number 6 on the edge near the scorer's table.

Who is Bill Russell?

William Felton Russell  was an American professional basketball player. Russell played as a center for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association .

 

Achievements 

 

NBA most valuable player and a 12-time NBA all Star. he was the centerpiece of the Celtics dynasty  that won 11 NBA championship during his 13-year career.Russell is widely considered to be one of the greatest basketball players of all time.

It was very mournful for USA 

Bill Russell, one of basketball's legendary players, he died at the age 88. 

He marched with Martin Luther King Jr., stood with Muhammad Ali and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom from President Barack Obama.

his number retired leaguewide puts him in a very exclusive club.

Major League Baseball abidingly  retired No. 42 — in honor of Jackie Robinson, who broke the big league's color barrier — with the understanding that those who were wearing that number could continue to do so. Mariano Rivera of the New York Yankees was the last in the majors to wear No. 42, doing so through his final season in 2013.

Nobody will wear No. 6 for the Orlando Magic or Sacramento Kings again. 

The NHL, upon Wayne Gretzky’s retirement in 1999, said his No. 99 would be retired league-wide in honor of that sport’s all-time scoring leader. 

And now, Russell gets the same treatment. It also seems fitting that he and Robinson — both barrier-breakers — are linked again. Russell called Robinson a hero, once saying that "he showed me the way to be a man in professional sports."