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Joe Mazzulla and the Celtics have Boston on the edge of miseryJoe Mazzulla versus Erik Spoelstra has been a lopsided showdown between two coaches with a devotion to film study. Spoelstra famously began his brilliant coaching career as a video coordinator with the Miami Heat in 1995. Joe Mazzulla is more of a pure cinephile. One of the more interesting peeks in...

The Bill Russell Case for LeBron as Lakers Player-Coach“You want the job, Russ?” offered Celtics retiring head coach Red Auerbach in 1966....

Winning Time Episode 2: “Is That All There Is?”“You look like one of us,” a young woman tells Jerry West at a bar, fresh off a championship but stuck in his own ennui. The woman is part of a group mourning a deceased loved one, some dude named Bob. West is three hours removed from winning his first NBA championship in 1971, after six attempts. W...

Let’s talk the Lakers, the Magic and HBO's '<em>Winning Time'</em><em></em>

Before the Los Angeles Lakers drafted Earvin “Magic” Johnson with the first overall pick in 1979, the league was on the verge of a fate worse than death ⁠— irrelevancy. ...

When it comes to coveted coaching jobs, big names are winning out over qualifications

It seems like almost every other day there’s an announcement that a former NBA player is joining the high school or college coaching ranks....

WTF are these hideous pee-yellow Red Sox/Nike cash-grab alternate jerseys?

It was bad enough when the Red Sox rolled out green alternate jerseys, but at least those had some meaning to them. The Sox have worn green to honor Red Auerbach after his death, again to celebrate the Celtics beating the Lakers in the NBA Finals, and then once more for Earth Day in 2009. They looke...

The One Question Red Auerbach Wouldn't Answer

The following was originally published in the Dec. 1986 issue of Sport magazine. It is reprinted here with the author’s permission....

"Let's Clean This Thing Up. Let's Not Hurt The Game": Red Auerbach's Anti-Flopping Video

It was the mid '70s, and Red Auerbach wanted to teach the basketball world to stop flopping. To get his message across, he called in a dream team of Elvin Hayes, Clem Haskins, Wes Unseld, Paul Silas, Mike Riordan, and referee Mendy Rudolph, who was named head of officials and inducted into the Hal...