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"K.C. Jones" - 37 Total Result(s)
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Jones Did It His Way
K.C. Jones stood beside his induction display at the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Massachusetts. Inducted as a player, Jones won eight NBA World Championship titles on the ...
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Jones Gave Him Nowhere To Go
K.C. Jones defended future Hall-of-Famer Hal Greer of the Syracuse Nationals during a game in 1962. In the early days of their careers, K.C. Jones and teammate Sam Jones would substitute off the bench ...
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Jones Goes Against the Stilt
At 6-foot-1 and 200 pounds, K.C. Jones could out-muscle most guards of his day, but the story was always a little different when challenging big men like Wilt Chamberlain. Jones once said of Chamberla ...
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Jones Knew What To Say
Head Coach K.C. Jones listened during a timeout on the Celtics bench alongside Assistant Coach Jimmy Rodgers. Danny Ainge remembered about Jones: “He was just a real guy. He knew what to say. He’d bee ...
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Jones Shows the Way
After a second-straight disappointing playoff run, Boston made a coaching change in 1983 and turned to former player K.C. Jones. He had been a Celtics assistant coach for six years and previously took ...
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Jones Steals One From Sixers
In a series for the ages, the Celtics prevailed over the Philadelphia 76ers in the 1965 Eastern Conference Finals. K.C. Jones controlled Game 7 by dishing out a game-high 10 assists and scoring six po ...
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Jones: “This is Our Team”
With a team full of superstars, K.C. Jones’ best trait as Celtics head coach was his ability to relate to his players. Red Auerbach said of Jones, “You never hear him say, ‘This is my team.’ It’s alwa ...
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Jones: A Defensive Star in Any Sport
An excellent defender, K.C. Jones was not the man you wanted to try and back down as Jerry Chambers of the Los Angeles Lakers found out. The NFL’s Los Angeles Rams originally drafted Jones in 1955, an ...
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K.C. and DJ Talk Things Over
The acquisition of Phoenix Suns point guard Dennis Johnson in 1983 appeared to be the missing link in bringing two more NBA World Championships to Boston. The 1979 NBA Finals MVP with the Seattle Supe ...
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K.C. Gets a Little Help
Bill Russell set a pick against Cincinnati Royals star Oscar Robertson, which allowed K.C. Jones to make a move to the basket. During his playing days, Jones was known as a hard worker and great teamm ...