In an interview with Boston Celtics, Heinsohn even acknowledged that Auerbach often singled him out with heated yet ...
On this day in 1934, Boston legend Tommy Heinsohn was born, and the NBA went on strike for a day over police violence.
Outside of the Boston Celtics’ two NBA titles, the 1970s marked a dark decade in the city’s history. The Boston desegregation ...
There are currently five who have been inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame as both an NBA player and an NBA coach — Bill Russell, Bill Sharman, Tom Heinsohn ...
But a foot injury to starting forward Tommy Heinsohn left head coach Red Auerbach with a void to fill in the team's starting five against the St. Louis Hawks the following night. Auerbach had ...
Forward Tommy Heinsohn, the team’s top pointmaker for ... and three of their seven defeats were by two points or less. Coach Auerbach calls “teamwork” the key to the Celtics’ success ...
This period of unrest served as the backdrop of a new Celtics era, in which the NBA legend and civil rights advocate Bill Russell retired and was replaced as C’s coach by Tommy Heinsohn.