By: Michael D. McClellan | “Easy” Ed Macauley never wins a championship with the Boston Celtics, and yet he indirectly gives birth to the NBA’s first true superpower. He plays only six seasons in a Boston uniform, and yet his legacy is so great, and his mark so indelible, that his No. 22 is retired on […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | His arrival in Boston coincided with that of a certain shot-blocking, game-altering, paradigm-shifting center named Bill Russell, his considerable basketball talent overshadowed by the dazzling ball handling of fellow Holy Cross alum Bob Cousy and the dead-eye marksmanship of the gifted Bill Sharman. There would soon be other marquee players added […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | The player and the teams he plays on are a paradox, unfairly dismissed as a bridge between the two greatest eras in franchise history, and alternately lionized for one triumphant moment, a contest so thrilling that the league’s marketing apparatus dubs Game 5 of the 1976 NBA Finals “The Greatest Game […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | His NBA journey begins during the US Bicentennial and ends 21 seasons later, during Bill Clinton’s second term as President. He arrives as disco is heating up, plays through the Michael Jackson-dominated ‘80s, and is still balling when Tupac is gunned down on the Vegas Strip in ‘96, winning a […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | KC Jones is chilling with family and friends in the backyard, grilling the best ribs in all of New England and living life the way it’s meant to be lived at this stage, with all the winning in the rear-view mirror and countless stories being told and retold, some of them […]