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Tom Heinsohn. Thomas William Heinsohn (August 26, 1934 – November 10, 2020) was an American professional basketball player. He was born in Jersey City, New Jersey. He has worked with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for 60 years as a player, coach and broadcaster. [1] He played for the Celtics from 1956 to 1965 ...
Nov 10, 2020 · Tom Heinsohn, the legendary Boston Celtics player, coach, and commentator, has died at 86. Heinsohn wasn’t just a Celtics legend, he was an icon who played a part in every single one of the team ...
Nov 10, 2020 · Wilton Jackson. Nov 10, 2020. Boston Celtics player, coach and commentator Tom Heinsohn died on Tuesday, the Boston Globe reports. Heinsohn was 86. Heinsohn, who was drafted by the Boston Celtics ...
Nov 11, 2020 · Before Heinsohn bestowed his first “Tommy Award,” he earned both the NBA Rookie of the Year and NBA Coach of the Year awards. The Celtics teams he coached from 1969-78 went 427-263.
Apr 17, 2023 · Founded in 1946, the Celtics have participated in 77 seasons, from 1946/47 to 2022/23, and have only hired 19 coaches. Some of them, like Red Auerbach and Tom Heinsohn, gave exemplary performances and are often considered the greatest NBA coaches of all time.
Tom Heinsohn, a two-time Basketball Hall of Fame inductee, passed away November 9, 2020. Tommy was known to all as “Mr. Boston Celtics,” spending over 60 years with the team as a player for 12 years, a world champion coach for 12 years, and then as the Celtics broadcaster.
Nov 10, 2020 · Tom Heinsohn talks with a bystander before a 2014 game at TD Garden. The Boston Globe/Boston Globe Heinsohn won championships with the Celtics as a player and a coach, and he was enshrined in the ...
