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And now he's blogging about it! This isn't just to drive traffic to NBA.com (really, like they need help) but you find some interesting insights from Russ about this year's playoffs over here.

He talks about a number of things from what 'making adjustments' truly means to how annoyingly great that Tim Duncan is. But the best passage had to be his anecdote where he schooled his broadcast colleague Brent Musburger about Game 6 of the 1980 Lakers-Sixers series:

So he says, "Well, the Lakers won't be able to compete. They'll be 25 points behind at halftime." And I said, "The Lakers are going to win this game." He says to me, "You don't know what you're talking about." I replied, "Yes I do know what I am talking about.

"This is the sixth game in a row that the Lakers have played this Philadelphia team, but it will be the first time that Philadelphia had played this Laker team. The difference between Magic and Kareem is not the talent, because Kareem is extraordinarily talented. The difference is the way they play the position. With Kareem you always know where to find him. He is always on the blocks. Magic, he'll be all over the place. He will be out serving popcorn and the guy will not be able to keep up with him. Period. So they will have to make massive adjustments and by the time they get fully adjusted, it will be training season for next year. They can't keep up with this team on just foot speed alone." So Brent says, "Well I don't think that is so."

By the middle of the fourth quarter he says to me, "You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?"

I said, "Yeah, I told you that."

Obviously the whole thing should be read in its entirely. Pretty cool though to have Russell spread some e-knowledge. As a side note, is everyone blogging over at NBA.com these days?