Guest post by Andy Lipton
The No. 25 has hung from the rafters of the Garden in Boston for over 50 years. It is a reminder that basketball is a team sport,that every player can be important and contribute, not just the players who can score a lot of points, and that they must work together, often sacrificing their own personal goals, in order tosucceed as a team.
Arnold “Red” Auerbach, the architect and patriarch of what is still the original gold standard in basketball, the 1950s and 1960s Boston Celtics, didn’t waste time in retiring K.