George Eddy: “Bill Russell marked the history of basketball, but also of American society”

For more than thirty years, he has been the voice of basketball and especially the NBA on Canal + for generations of French fans. With his inimitable accent, George Eddy is the man who made the prestigious North American basketball championship known in France. A championship that he himself discovered at 8 years old. Little George was passionate about the exploits of Bill Russell, the legendary pivot of the Boston Celtics who died Sunday at the age of 88. “Mister George” looks back on the legacy left by this legend of American basketball.