Word: auerbachs
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Dates: during 1980-1980
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...YORK--Bill Russell and Red Auerbach, who helped Boston Celtics win 11 championships in 13 years, were named yesterday as the greatest player and the greatest coach, respectively, in the 35 year history of the NBA, by members of the Professional Basketball Writers Association of America...
...Celtics--Cowens and Havlicek included--have departed over the last few years, Hondo after a year-long farewell party, Cowens with only his personally written epitaph as a goodbye. But Arnold Auerbach remains, and the boundless ability of the oldest Celtic of them all is why the Celtics--infinitely capable of finishing third in the NBA Atlantic Division--might instead garner another green and white flag for their rafter collection...
...Auerbach's biggest move of the off-season--the acquisition of Robert Parish--is also the most mysterious. The Celtics have never had much luck with seven-footers--their last, Hank Finkel, occupied himself for his last two seasons by coming in with 45 seconds left in close games to try blocking inbound passes...
...shoulders. Chris Ford is great at three-point shots, but when that's your strength... And Gerald Henderson is, to put it mildly, unproven. He showed flashes of leadership in the playoffs, and lots of hustle all season. But his 6.2 points per game will have to soar, or Auerbach will be on the phone to see if Jo Jo White has any little brothers...
...Celtics have, nominally, the ingredients. If they have a few injuries, trouble. If, without the seasoned leadership of a Cowens, they start to fight, trouble. But Auerbach will be on hand with bandages, and owner Harry Mangurian may be able to provide some costly transfusions of talent. There are no guarantees, but where there is Red there is hope, and where there is Bird that hope is eminently reasonable...