Red Auerbach dead at age 89

[shawmut]

Celtics legendary coach Auerbach dead at age 89


WASHINGTON -- Red Auerbach, who coached the Boston Celtics to nine NBA championships in the 1950s and 1960s, died Saturday. He was 89.

Auerbach won 938 games with the Celtics and was the winningest coach in NBA history until Lenny Wilkens overtook him in the 1994-95 season. As general manager, the straight-talking Auerbach was also the architect of Celtics teams that won seven more titles in the 1970s and 1980s.

He died of a heart attack, according to an NBA official, who didn't want to be identified.

Auerbach joined the Celtics in 1950 as the franchise's third coach and also served as general manager, president and vice chairman of the board.

Auerbach guided the Celtics to their first championship as a coach-general manager in 1957 and an unprecedented eight straight titles from 1959-66, elevating them above such sports dynasties as the New York Yankees and Montreal Canadiens for consecutive championships.





http://sports.espn.go.com/nba/news/story?id=2642131

[Redstone]

1. May he go, or have gone, easy.

Redstone

[GOPisEvil]

2. Wow. What a sad weekend for sports passings.

Joe Neikro, Trevor Berbick and now Red. RIP Red; you were truly great.

[bigwillq]

3. Death comes in 3s

well if you believe in that.

:(

[GOPisEvil]

4. It does seem that way.

That's enough death for one weekend though. :(

[bigwillq]

5. True DAT!

:)

:hi: