It is 4:00 AM ET on Friday, April 26, 2019. I just awoke to get the terrible news that Celtics legend, John Havlicek, had died at the age of 79. My immediate thought was that this can't be true. Must be some cruel hoax. Hondo could not have died so soon. He was indestructible. I checked other media. Yes, it was true. John has left us.
This is a story I hate to write. When John came on board in Boston, it coincided with my true interest in the Boston Celtics.