With his no-look passes and ability to run the fast break, Bob Cousy led a basketball revolution during his 13 seasons with the Celtics. Watch former teammates Tommy Heinsohn and Sam Jones recall playing with Cousy in his prime.

Watch as Bill Russell receives a standing ovation from the Boston Garden crowd. Assured of victory, Red Auerbach lights a victory cigar while a young John Havlicek watches the game beside him.

You could spend hours looking over all of the autographs on this one-of-a-kind piece of Celtics parquet. Dozens of team legends signed this section of parquet floor, including Bob Cousy directly on the leprechaun’s bowler hat while Tommy Heinsohn’s signature bled onto his basketball. Just to the left of Lucky was the autograph of infamous […]

In the final season of Boston Garden, Wheaties released a special edition box featuring five Hall-of-Fame players and team patriarch Red Auerbach. “Nowhere in sports is a winning tradition more evident than with the Boston Celtics,” the box stated. The cereal brand’s claim to be “The Breakfast of Champions” made a strong case with these […]

As the championships piled up, the Celtics were indeed sitting on top of the basketball world during the 1964-65 season. Boston won a sixth straight NBA World Championship title in 1964 and would go on to win a seventh in 1965. That season was bittersweet as Walter A. Brown, the team’s founder and original owner, […]

Nicknamed “Red” in part for his temper, Red Auerbach and Bob Cousy had a strong relationship defined by an obsessive desire to win. Cousy later said, “We all wanted to win badly. [Auerbach] more than anybody. But psychologically, he knew how to maintain that motivation.” Under Auerbach’s wing, Cousy helped Boston win six NBA World […]