The 1963-64 season marked your last with the team, as the Celtics completed that campaign by winning it's fifth consecutive championship.  Two other memorable events occurred that season; John Havlicek was selected out of Ohio State, and an emotional "Bob Cousy Day" was celebrated on the last regular-season playing date at the Boston Garden.  Please tell me a little about each of these men, and also about the unforgettable "We luv ya Cous!" that rang down from the Boston Garden rafters.

John Havlicek was drafted Number 1 by the Celtics.  We rented a house with Clyde Lovellette in Brighton, Massachusetts.  He was my roommate on the road.  Great guy.  The only thing was that he was a health fanatic – you couldn’t play the radio, you couldn’t watch TV…he had a window open all the way in the middle of the winter [laughs].  Everything had to be quiet – he had to get his rest.  And if you went to a restaurant with him, it would take forty-five minutes to eat a steak – he would trim every little piece of fat off of it [laughs].

Bob Cousy Day – that was the first time I’d ever seen Bob Cousy cry.  They gave him a new car, and all kinds of elaborate things…like a television, which was a big deal back them.  That’s the first time I fully realized how important Bob Cousy was to Boston.

Please tell me about great battles between Bill Russell and Wilt Chamberlain.

The first time they ever played against each other was in Minneapolis.  It was benefit game - Ingemar Johansson was at the game; he was the new heavyweight champion, because he’d just beaten Floyd Patterson.  It was some kind of fundraiser. Russell held Chamberlain to 16 points in that game.  Obviously, the Celtics won.  That was the first of many battles between them.  I’ll never forget how cold it was – that has to be the coldest place in the United States [laughs].

Russell could always key himself up for a big game – and those games against Wilt were always big, regardless of what was at stake.  Wilt Chamberlain was drafted the same year as me, in 1959, but he played with the Globetrotters before joining the NBA.  It seemed that Wilt was always the one with the greater statistics, but Russell was the one who almost always came out on top in the win column.  You can’t argue with 11 championships in 13 years.  Russell was the greatest ever.

From an offensive standpoint, Sam Jones was the go-to guy for the Boston Celtics.  Please tell me a little about Sam Jones.

Sam was a great shooter.  He had a nickname – he was so fast that they called him ‘Slippery Sam’.  He was cat-like; he could run, jump and stop on a dime.  He was a fabulous basketball player

I've heard that you've become quite a musician since retiring from professional basketball.  What instruments do you play, and how did you get involved in playing in a band?

When I was in college, in Washington, D.C., you only had to be eighteen years old to get into a bar.  I used to go down to a place called the Hay Loft.  They had great bands there.  I really got interested in music just from listening to the bands at that bar.  I liked the bass guitar, bought one, and one of the musicians showed me a few things about it.  I’ve been practicing ever since.  I play the bass guitar and I sing in a band – we have a website, and it is http://www.cadillacsband.com.  I sing a lot of Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings and Toby Keith.  The band isn’t a country band, but we add those in there as a change of pace.