Cazzie Russell: Living On Wheat Germ, Vitamin C, and Tiger Milk, 1976

🫧 Open on Bubbles [By the mid-1970s, the clock was ticking on Cazzie Russell’s NBA career. The former top overall pick in the 1966 NBA draft, Russell had bounced from New York to Golden State and onward to Los Angeles. It was a 10-year run that hadn’t lived up to expectations, mainly because those expectations were too high and unrealistic. Russell was an outstanding scorer, but he wasn’t a franchise player as advertised coming out of college. During his NBA twilight years in Los Angeles, Russell still beli