Newsday · Apr 26, 2019
Celtics great John Havlicek dies
** FILE ** Boston Celtics general manager Red Auerbach hugs the stars of the Celtics NBA Championship win over the Los Angeles Lakers, Bill Russell, left, and John Havlicek, right, in Los Angeles, in a May 3, 1968, photo. Auerbach, who coached the Boston Celtics to nine championships in the 1950s and 1960s, died Saturday, Oct. 28, 2006. He was 89. (AP Photo/file) Photo Credit: AP/HFBOSTON -- John Havlicek, the Boston Celtics great whose steal of Hal Green’s inbounds pass in the final seconds of the 1965 Eastern Conference final against the Philadelphia 76ers remains one of the most famous plays in NBA history, has died. He was 79.
The Celtics said the Hall of Famer died Thursday.
