{"id":1547108,"date":"2023-01-22T10:44:00","date_gmt":"2023-01-22T15:44:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/?p=1547108"},"modified":"2023-01-22T10:44:08","modified_gmt":"2023-01-22T15:44:08","slug":"tom-heinsohn-once-said-the-2-best-basketball-plays-he-ever-saw-happened-in-the-same-boston-celtics-game","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sports7.us\/news\/tom-heinsohn-once-said-the-2-best-basketball-plays-he-ever-saw-happened-in-the-same-boston-celtics-game\/","title":{"rendered":"Tom Heinsohn Once Said the 2 Best Basketball Plays He Ever Saw Happened in the Same Boston Celtics Game"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

The late, great Tom Heinsohn<\/a> was a Hall of Fame player and Hall of Fame coach with the Boston Celtics.<\/a> He went on to become a legendary broadcaster with the team. It's safe to say Heinsohn saw a lot of basketball in his days. The six-time All-Star and eight-time champion once said the two greatest plays he ever saw in basketball occurred in one Celtics game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Tom Heinsohn was dedicated to the Boston Celtics <\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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Head coach Tom Heinsohn of the Boston Celtics sits on a chair on the sideline before a game against the Buffalo Braves as Celtics radio announcer Johnny Most looks on at the Memorial Auditorium in 1976 in Buffalo, New York. | George Gojkovich\/Getty Images.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Heinsohn played his college ball at Holy Cross in Worcester, Massachusetts. He was a territorial pick of the Celtics in 1956 and was named Rookie of the Year over teammate Bill Russell. The Celtics acquired Russell in a trade<\/a> with the St. Louis Hawks, but he was captain of the Olympic team and came to the Celtics in the middle of the season. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

As a rookie, the 6-foot-7 Heinsohn averaged 16.2 points and 9.8 rebounds. He led the Celtics to a championship after they defeated the Hawks in seven games. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“That year changed everything for the Celtics,” Heinsohn once told Michael D. McClellan of Celtic Nation.<\/a>\u00a0“Walter Brown and Red Auerbach made the deal to get Bill Russell after St. Louis selected him with the third overall pick in the 1956 NBA Draft.\u00a0The Celtics also got K.C. Jones in the second round, and they used that territorial pick on me.\u00a0The Celtics got three Hall of Fame players in the same draft.”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heinsohn spent nine years in Boston as a player, winning eight championships. He spent nine more years as head coach and won two more titles. He then spent 30-plus years as the color man for Celtics broadcasts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Heinsohn said the two greatest plays he's ever seen came in one Celtics game<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
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In Memoriam: Tommy Heinsohn (1934-2020) pic.twitter.com\/1u5gcg0MXw<\/a><\/p>— NBA History (@NBAHistory) November 11, 2020<\/a><\/blockquote>