By: Michael D. McClellan | Someone had to bear the burden of replacing arguably the greatest winner in the history of professional sports, and that someone turned out to be Hank Finkel.  A karaoke singer who had somehow wandered onto Pavarotti’s stage, Finkel performed for an audience spoiled by the immensely unattainable standards of his predecessor. […]

By:  Michael D. McClellan | His professional career was supposed to start here, in Boston, joining Jo Jo White and Dave Cowens as part of Red Auerbach’s post-Russell rebuilding plan. Forget that the ABA’s Virginia Squires also had designs on Charlie Scott’s services, and that it was a foregone conclusion that Scott would follow the […]