He was not only quarterback but captain of the 1941–42 Brooklyn College football team, and a teammate of future longtime Boston Celtics play-by-play man Johnny Most.
Other players to play a key role during this era were local players such as Terry Brunel, Glen Denham, Gilbert Gordon, John Hill, John "Dutchie" Rademakers, Graham Timms, Chris Tupu, Ian Webb, youngster Ralph Lattimore and another star American import player Kenny Perkins (father of Boston Celtic Kendrick Perkins) who later played for the Nelson Giants.
In consulting with the Boston Celtics and Portland Trail Blazers for the National Basketball Association (NBA), he emphasized sleep as the “third pillar of health” alongside nutrition and exercise.
Despite her father's strong discouragement, Hill’s initial work was in commercials (her first job was a 1973 commercial for the YMCA, spinning a basketball on her finger with then-Boston Celtics center Dave Cowens).
Before working as a full time baseball announcer, Jageler worked in Boston and Charlotte, North Carolina as a sportscaster, co-hosting talk shows and doing play by play of various sports, including fill-in work on the Boston Celtics radio network and serving as the team's PA announcer during part of the 2002–03 NBA season.
The station additionally paid for the rights to broadcast Boston Celtics basketball games for five years.
The first basketball game in the arena was a preseason NBA basketball game between the Boston Celtics and the Atlanta Hawks.
In 2008, Vannelli became a symbol of sorts for the National Basketball Association championship run by the Boston Celtics.
Only one other athlete in North American professional sports has achieved winning eleven championships in his respective league - Bill Russell of the NBA's Boston Celtics.
Red Auerbach was famous for smoking a Hoyo de Monterrey "victory cigar" before the end of basketball games of the Boston Celtics, the NBA team he worked for as a coach and executive from 1950 to 1997 and again from 2001 until his death in 2006.
As the decade went on, a variety of other businesses, from manufacturers to the Boston Celtics basketball team, began using the PTP structure .
In April 1972, Levin and attorney Harold A. Lipton purchased the Boston Celtics for $3.7 Million.
Delaware North also owns and manages TD Garden, home to the Bruins and the Boston Celtics, and one of the top concert and sports venues in North America.
Amorosino is an Emmy Award-winning sports reporter who has covered all three New England Patriots Super Bowl wins (2002, 2004, 2005) the Boston Red Sox World Series wins (2004, 2007), and the Boston Celtics NBA Championship win (2008) and the Boston Bruins most recent Stanley Cup Championship (2011).
Levittown High's Basketball team has produced several excellent players including Ramon Rivas, who played for the NBA with the Boston Celtics.
The team had such an outstanding record during the late 1900s that news articles sometimes compared them to the Boston Celtics because of their dominance over other teams.
Shane later worked in Worcester, Massachusetts, where she became a sportswriter for the Worcester Telegram in 1981 where she covered the Boston Celtics as one of the few female NBA beat reporters.
Other recordings had couch potatoes playing for the Boston Celtics, boxing at Madison Square Garden and playing golf at the U.S. Open.
TD Garden – home of the Boston Bruins and the Boston Celtics, formerly named the FleetCenter, this arena replaced the Boston Garden in 1995
South shore pop-punk band A Loss For Words also made shirts that featured a modified version of the Boston Celtics logo and the same saying on the reverse side.
Rob Sawicki (born 1978), basketball player who played briefly for the Boston Celtics.
In the 1960s, it began airing Boston Bruins and Boston Celtics games (from WHDH-TV in Boston), and also aired classic movies, syndicated sports programs, travelogues and other standard independent fare.
The Boston Celtics also play this song when they are about to win a basketball game in a convincing manner accompanied by the ever popular "Gino Time" video from the television show American Bandstand.
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Jo Jo White, the ninth pick, won two NBA championships with the Boston Celtics in 1974 and 1976.
Brown was a coach with the 1973-74 Milwaukee Bucks, which made the 1974 NBA Finals with future Hall of Famers Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Oscar Robertson and lost in seven games to a legendary Boston Celtics championship team.
The New York Knicks fell behind 2-0 to the Boston Celtics in their first round matchup, but took the series 3–2 by winning Game 5 124-117 in Boston Garden.
Ivan Johnson was fined USD 25,000 for making an obscene gesture to a fan after their Game 6 loss to the Boston Celtics in the playoffs.
Smith, a fictional Boston Celtics player, played by NBA star Alex English, catches a blurb about the story in his newspaper and decides to emulate Chuck, saying he will no longer participate in professional basketball unless there are no more nuclear weapons.
Lobel has also done some play-by-play work, calling WBZ's annual broadcast of the Boston Marathon, Boston Celtics games from 1989–1993, Boston College Eagles football games in 1986, New England Patriots preseason games from 1985–1991, and two NFL games for NBC in 1985.
In December 2009 Laird and his brother were arrested following a drunken brawl at US Airways Center during a Phoenix Suns–Boston Celtics game.
His father, Norman Cook, played collegiate basketball at the University of Kansas (1974–76) and professionally for the Boston Celtics (1979–80).
Frank played four seasons in the NBA with the Stags, Washington Capitals, Boston Celtics, Baltimore Bullets and Philadelphia Warriors.
Dubbed "Baby Shaq" in the Philippine Basketball League where he played for the Granny Goose team because of his physical resemblance to the Boston Celtics center Shaquille O'Neal.
In Cleveland, the now 35-year-old Thurmond came off the bench for the injured Jim Chones to lead Cleveland to the NBA Eastern Conference Finals before the Cavaliers lost to the star-studded Boston Celtics in 1976.
The sports and magazine division publishes the official yearbooks for the Boston Celtics, the Boston Bruins, and the Boston Marathon, in addition to program guides for the Tweeter Center for the Performing Arts, and the Bank of America Pavilion summer music series.
He appears regularly on several shows on Comcast Sportsnet New England, including New England Sports Tonight with Gary Tanguay and Greg Dickerson, and is also a studio analyst for the Boston Celtics' television coverage.
Stephen Pagliuca (born January 16, 1955) is a private equity investor, managing partner of Bain Capital, and co-owner of the Boston Celtics.
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In 2003, Pagliuca, along with Irving and Wyc Grousbeck, Robert Epstein, William P. Egan, David Epstein and John Svenson, was part of the consortium (Boston Basketball Partners LLC) that acquired the Boston Celtics for $360 million.
He led Thornridge to the 1972 IHSA state basketball championship, was co-captain of the 1976 national champion Indiana Hoosiers, won a gold medal in the 1976 Summer Olympic Games, and had a ten year NBA career, including membership on the 1984 NBA Champion Boston Celtics.
Wallace is also the boyhood home of M. L. Carr who played professionally overseas, and with the Detroit Pistons and Boston Celtics.
Kenny Rollins, basketball player, member of the University of Kentucky's "Fab Five" who won the 1948 NCAA Championship, the 1948 Gold Medal Winning U.S. Olympic Team, and the NBA's Chicago Stags and Boston Celtics.