Auerbach has been honored often. In 1968, he was elected to the Basketball Hall of Fame. Thirteen years later, he was named NBA Executive of the Year. He is a member of the Jewish Sports Hall of Fame.

Arnold "Red" Auerbach, who built and sustained the Boston Celtics, professional basketball's greatest dynasty, through meticulous scouting, innovative coaching, cunning deal-making and fiery ...

Some time later, retired from coaching and mostly retired from general managing the greatest dynasty in the history of basketball, Red Auerbach told his brother, Zang, four years his junior, to ...

The expectations were high in Boston, and it was Red Auerbach time—the NBA Playoffs. Red lived for this time of year. When Red Auerbach died on Saturday, October 26, 2006 the world of sports ...

Auerbach once even came up with a way to limit Michael Jordan in a hypothetical battle of NBA legends divided into those who played in the first 30 years of the league and beyond it. "We'd wear ...

And nearly four months later, it was Russell and Heinsohn who led the way for Boston in game seven of the NBA finals, which Boston won to give Auerbach the first of the franchise’s 17 championships.

The enduring public image of Red Auerbach is watching the coach light his cigar at the moment he knew his Boston Celtics had the game won. As coach, general manager, and later president of the ...

For Red Auerbach, Celtics home-court ... While he denied turning up the heat or cutting off hot water years later, he did little to dismiss the rumors at the time. As a result, the perception ...