Basketballography: Red Auerbach 

Can you imagine ANY NFL team winning 8 consecutive Super Bowls, or any MLB team winning 8 consecutive World Series. Pretty impressive.

The 1957 finals has to be one of the most interesting and underrated finals series of all time. I mean 7 game series, 5 of them very close games include 2 double overtime games, the latter of which was Game 7, and the first of which being Game 1, with the score for each team swapping from the first 2OT game to the second. One game begins with Red punching the Hawks manager and the last game ends with a clutch Russel block and Bob Cousy air balling a go-ahead free throw that sets up the finish with the Hawks coach acting as a player-coach in order to make an incredible court length pass that bounced off the backboard and dropped right in Bob Petit’s hands, but he misses the shot to tie the game and the Celtics win the championship. Like a third of the roster for each were swapped earlier on in the season between the two teams, including the players traded from Boston to get Bill Russel, so they were very familiar with each other, and it was the first matchup of several finals series between The Hawks and the Celtics, setting up the revenge story of the next year’s series. It was also the beginning of the Celtics dynasty, with Bill Russel winning his first of 11 titles in his rookie year, with a Game 7 performance of 19 points, a clutch block with 39 seconds left to save the title and 32 rebounds. Besides that, Tom Heinsohn, who was also a rookie, matched up against Petit himself that series and had 37 points and 23 rebounds in the final game.

Great nostalgic video. A lovely bond build by Red and bill.

Red was a teacher of the game . He's basketball genis knows what he needs to win

you're a legend for uploading this

In 1964 I attended Red's summer camp in Marshfield, one night after dinner I saw Red and Sam Jones shoot free throws, Red hit 32 in a row with his two handed set shot. Sam hit 33 in a row while

they say all these coaches from different sports but this guys was hands down the greatest winning coach of all time. sorry pop

Imagine though how many more rings he would have had had Len Bias lived.

For me there are these two coaches who stand out, just a little bit more than all the others in american sports its Mr. Red Auerbach and Mr. Vince Lombardi. :D

10 players 2 baskets 13000 fans one ball...u make the outcome. Amazing

Nothing succeeds like success. Celtic Pride. Fundamentals. Execution. Do what you do best...again & again and again. Winning RINGS

I wished that in the 90s Auerbach hosted an NBA equivalent of Coach's Corner with Don Cherry. He has the charisma the gift of the gab, and the knowledge, not to mention the biggest collection of rings.

Just watched the finals game 3 and red with no mention of his name...Made me look him up. Greatness

Perhaps Auerbach's most remarkable achievement is his overwhelming coaching tree. One can assemble a basketball team from all his players who's gone on to have successful coaching careers. Bill Russell, Bill Sharman, Don Nelson, KC Jones, Larry Bird, Tom Heinsohn, just to name a few. Bill Sharman, in particular, went on to found the LA Lakers dynasty and unleashed his own overwhelming coaching tree.

A coach doesn't get respect by yelling and screaming. Red knew how to treat players and in return they wanted to win for him.

Watching this showed me just how important he was for basketball and tipple effect usa history, a small piece” his antics were famous, he would start with refs to take pressure off his players” if you know you know how deep that line is.

The Greatest Coach in NBA history, by far

16 rings He’s the lord of the rings

8 consecutive NBA championships. Never going to happen again. Ever.

He was the very best.

Auerbach was a SUPREME MANIPULATOR. In Terry Pluto's documentary of the ABA, there is an excerpt detailing how Red was adamantly against the three point shot and influential enough in NBA circles to keep what he called "a gimmick" out of the league. Of course, he reversed direction and the NBA had enough lead time to get the "gimmick" introduced for the 1979-80 season when Larry Bird, whom Boston had drafted in 1978, entered the league as a rookie.

Love you red

Look at Big Bill run the floor. How beautiful is that??

For the record, the Royals may or may not have drafted Russell first - for starters, they already had a rebounding center and Russell's defense-first mentality was not highly valued prior to his career. Centers were measured by their offense. Plus, the Royals could not afford Russell's contract demands.

Greatest gm, coach.

"One of the most"? Funny, who was second place?

what if red auerbach was the head coach for patrick ewing alonzo mourning hakeem olajuwon kareem abdul-jabbar and/or wilt chamberlain and what if the hawks kept bill russell

Bill Russell was not the first black coach in professional sports history. It was Don McClendon. He coached the Cleveland Pipers of the short lived American Basketball League.

No mention of the championship teams of '74 & '76??????????? This' tribute' loses all credibility.

They couldn't even TOUCH the rim?

You people who know: I think Russel won NCAA, Olympics, and NBA championships in the same year. True?

Mr. Boston Celtics Red Auerbach v_v ^_^

they're wrong about what happened in the 1957 NBA Finals, Red punched Hawks owner Ben Kerner before Game 3.....

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pop's 5 rings are better than red's 9 rings way more competitive era