Red's Army · Feb 6, 2018
The Retired Number Project: Number 32 – Kevin McHale
From now until February 11, Red’s Army will be posting stories about the players behind the Celtics’ 22 retired numbers and that one retired nickname. Stories will be posted in the order that the numbers were retired.
Basketball is kind of a weird game.
Although James Naismith was, as he claimed, just trying to find a way to keep a bunch of kids occupied and indoors in the middle of a Massachusetts winter, a few of the choices he made had long-term effects on the kind of people who excelled at the sport.
For instance, those ten foot high baskets.
That was the height of the balcony in that gym in Springfield, the most convenient surface to nail a goal to.