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molson
10-28-2006, 08:55 PM
I've been hoping for 20 years they could win one more while he was still around - and they never really came close. My first sports memory is the last Celtics championship.

http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2642131
vtbub
10-28-2006, 08:57 PM
:(
Warhammer
10-28-2006, 08:59 PM
I always hated the Celtics being a Lakers fan and all, but I loved Auerbach.
Galaril
10-28-2006, 09:01 PM
Gee I thought he died like ten years ago. I had no idea he was still alive:(
cartman
10-28-2006, 09:06 PM
I'll chomp a cigar in his honor tonight.
Izulde
10-28-2006, 09:13 PM
:( Sucky news
molson
10-28-2006, 09:14 PM
Some of his trades were just insane. It was like he was light years ahead of everyone else in the NBA until the early-mid 1980s.
vtbub
10-28-2006, 09:40 PM
16 titles in 30 years.
Oilers9911
10-28-2006, 10:23 PM
This had to be his best:

Celtics — Traded two 1980 first round picks (#1-Joe Barry Carroll) (#13-Rickey Brown) to Warriors for Robert Parish, 1980 first round pick (#3-Kevin McHale) on 6/9/80
molson
10-28-2006, 10:33 PM
This had to be his best:

Celtics — Traded two 1980 first round picks (#1-Joe Barry Carroll) (#13-Rickey Brown) to Warriors for Robert Parish, 1980 first round pick (#3-Kevin McHale) on 6/9/80

Also, Cliff Hagan and Ed Macauley for Bill Russell. That was a pretty brave trade in Boston at the time, trading a popular Irish white guy for a moody, intimidating black guy. It didn't go over well with the fans at first.

I used to hear so much growing up about how the Celtics were a racist franchise. It drove me crazy. Auerbach didn't get enough credit for his progressiveness in that area. He's responsible for drafting the first black NBA player, starting the first all-black starting 5, and most importantly, hiring the first black head coach in any major professional American sports league.