Michael D. McClellan is the founder of Celtic Nation, and he is also the author of "Boston Celtics - Where Have You Gone?", a hardcover collection of interviews with some of the most interesting players in franchise history.  Read the jacket cover, below:

When the Boston Celtics were running-and-gunning their way to 16 world championships, the bright lights shined on stars like Nate Archibald, Bailey Howell, Robert Parish, Charlie Scott, and Bill Sharman. But New England fans displayed their approval of the team’s effort and heart by rooting especially hard for the bench players. It didn’t matter whether a particular favorite was the sixth man or the twelfth. As long as the "chosen" player possessed determination, guts, emotion, and, above all, hustle, the Celtics faithful would reward that player with cascades of applause and chants. That’s how fringe players like "High Henry" Finkel and Terry Duerod became cult heroes.


From the Sam Jones Interview:

Imagine: The greatest athletic deal-closer of the twentieth century is celebrated endlessly, his name floating atop every all-time championship list and dropped into every serious debate over who has exerted the greatest influence on their sport, his close personal friendships awash in celebrity, royalty and head-of-state chutzpah. His likeness is iconic, a symbol of championship excellence against which all others in team sport are measured. His legacy as the ultimate bottom line, results-oriented exclamation point is long since secure, the label ‘winner’ perhaps more synonymous with his name than any athlete in history. And yet when Bill Russell – yes, that Bill Russell, the one with the signature laugh and all of those championship rings, many of them coming at the expense of a certain statistical glutton named Wilt Chamberlain – is asked to name the single greatest player he has ever been associated with, the answer comes quickly and without hesitation...