#4. 11 Championships - Bill Russell
Russell's legacy all stems from his unprecedented 11 championships in 13 seasons during the 50's and 60's. Russell led the Celtics to championships in 1957, 1959, 1960-1966, 1968 and 1969; he was a player-coach for the last two.
Russell did all of this in a time when there was less overall talent and fewer teams in the league, making his near-annual run to the NBA championship slightly easier. However, even if the majority of the competition was weaker, Russell still had to often go through Wilt Chamberlain in the NBA Finals.
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The really impressive part of this record is the constant domination over Wilt he had to deliver in order to set it. Despite being heralded as the better player, Chamberlain's playoff record against Russell was 20-29, and he won just two championships to Russell's eleven.
Robert Horry has seven championships to his name, which is the most by any player who wasn't a teammate of Bill Russell on the Celtics. Horry needed a whole lot of good luck and timing to win seven, and even still that doesn't come close to eleven.
Even the all-time greats can't compete with this record. Michael Jordan could have approached this record if he never retired to play baseball, but he still would have certainly fallen short; he and Scottie Pippen won six titles together on the Bulls to barely reach half of Russell's total.
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