Guest post by Abacus Reveals
Back in the day when Tommy Heinsohn was staking his claim to a second Hall of Fame enshrinement, the sight of former Celtic players on a game night at the old Garden was hardly a novelty … the newly retired like Hank Finkel or Satch Sanders might still have been showing up out of habit, Bob Cousy and Bill Russell were into broadcasting, a couple (K.C. Jones, Bill Sharman) were on enemy benches.
There was one such semi-regular attendee who was initially unfamiliar to my then-young eyes – the head basketball coach, it was said, at Brandeis, a small college in the near suburbs.