Given the task definition and input, reply with output. In this task, you are given two sentences in the English language (Sentence 1 and Sentence 2). Your task is to identify the connecting word between the two sentences.

Sentence 1:Jones , Russell 's former USF teammate . Sentence 2:Thus , in one night , the Celtics managed to draft three future Hall of Famers : Russell , Jones and Heinsohn .
thus