celtics

[Mr. Krinkle]

great clip. He was before my time, but he was unbelievable. Imagine a college player averaging 44 a game in this day in age...even if they stayed 4 years, never again.

[Mike P]

Maravich played before freshmen were eligible to play on the varsity in college, so his scoring record was set in 3 seasons.

Not to take anything away from him, but his head coach at LSU doubled as his father (Press Maravitch), so there was no real danger of him being benched for hogging the ball and taking dumb shots

[Saltheart]

The Celts have had 4 championship teams. Two , the Russel and Bird teams , were great. The other two , the Cowens teams and the current team did it with hard work. Hard to not love those teams with Bird but my favorite was the super hard working Cowens teams from the mid and late sventies.

[Saltheart]

Oh yeah , forgot about the Maravich comments. The most amazing thing about Maravich was discovered after he died at a young age. The autopsy showed that one chamber of his heat was missing or non functioning. Imagine palying professional sports with a missing heart chamber!

Maravich was no way the most talented ball player. Guys like Russel , chamberlain , Bird , Johnson , those were great players. One strange one was Bill Walton. had he remained sound physically , I think he would have been considered the most talented of all time. Unfortunately , he had one healthy season as a pro player. he was fortuanet to end his carreer in Boston who for decades had had the strategy that the team would keep you in the game and a star like walton only needed to be unstoppable for the last 60 seconds when everything was on the line. In the end , Walton could not play a whole game but for the last minute , he was a defensive players worst nightmare.