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...teams. He claims the secret to his success was, along with his nose for talent, a feeling of respect he engendered on his team. He demanded respect from his players, but he gave it back to them, too. From a sociological standpoint Auerbach coached during the time the NBA shifted from an all-white to a mostly black league, and the Celtics, resplendent with stars like Bill Russell and Bob Cousy, were a model of interracial harmony at a time when there weren't too many such models around. While Auerbach, a somewhat modest guy, doesn't claim responsibility...
...lack. The book details his entire life, from his youth in Brooklyn to his current duties with the Celtics. Nothin in between is left out. Nothing. Red rises from college hoop star to gym teacher to coach, bouncing from team to team in the early years of the NBA until he lands in Boston. He has had a very nice life, but it is impossible to read this book without thinking how irrelevant a life, too. What has this man done, really? He put together a group of men who could beat others at a game...
...ranks among the best. Indeed, all basketball fans will probably like Red's story even if he is always right. To a younger generation of fans who know Auerbach as the guy who smokes cigars while showing you how to shoot a lay-up between halves of nationally televised NBA games, a whole new world will be opened. So buy this book for your father or your kid brother for his birthday. Like all sports books, they'll read it once, most likely enjoy it, and then put it on the shelf to gather dust, for it is, after...
...comeback by the Philadelphia '76ers fell two points short in the closing seconds of their game at Portland yesterday, as the Trailblazers hustled their way to a 109-107 victory and their first NBA championship in the sixth game of the NBA playoff finals...
Either someone's playing a joke on me or my name isn't Simon Gourdine. Was that really Doctah J. on the tube Sunday in the opening game of the NBA finals? You bet your Ken Hubbs bubble-gum card it was--and how embarrassing is that? Doesn't Commissioner Larry O'Brien ever give up trying to get his name in the papers? You know basketball has reached a sorry state of affairs when the NBA champion is crowned after the running of the annually rain-shortened Indy 500. By the way, go with Philly over Portland...