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The Boston Celtics are the most storied franchise in the NBA. They were what a dynasty is supposed to be. From 1957-1969 the team won 11 of 13 NBA championships. The teams were just ridiculously good and were led by the amazing coach Red Auerbach. Auerbach is one of two coaches to have a championship ring on every finger except one because he won nine NBA championships in his twenty seasons. One of the constants on those teams was, arguably the best player to ever touch a basketball, Bill Russell.
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If you grew up in a Massachusetts basketball culture in the 1950s and 1960s, a Boston Celtics championship was something of a birthright. Spring arrived, the forsythia bloomed, skinny guys ran 26 miles from Hopkington to Boston, and the Celtics won the NBA title. Imagine making it all the way to the eighth grade before realizing that your team doesn't automatically win the crown. More
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The Boston Celtics had a disappointing 2005-06 season, but next year looks to be much improved. Boston finished 33-49 and out of playoff contention. Previously, the Boston Celtics made the playoffs for four straight years, but never made it to the NBA Finals. A very young and inexperienced team, the Boston Celtics faced adversity day after day because of trade rumors of numerous players and even to the best player on the team, Paul Pierce. They did partake in one of the biggest trades of the season sending Ricky Davis to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Wally Sczerbiak. The trade, in total, involved seven players and three draft picks.
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The Boston Celtics have had a longstanding rivalry, particularly throughout the 80s, with the Los Angeles Lakers. At the height of the rivalry, the Lakers and Celtics would win 8 NBA Championships in the decade (The Lakers won 5 while the Celtics won 3), and would play every other in the NBA Finals 3 diverse times. The rivalry was chilled off as the Celtics slipped into mediocrity in the 90s, but Lakers-Celtics is measured by a lot of NBA fans to be the league's greatest rivalry. The Celtics ... have chronological ties with the Philadelphia 76ers, who played with the Celtics in tense game off sequences in the 60s and 80s.
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The Boston Celtics continued to rebuild on the night of the 2006 NBA Draft. Danny Ainge traded the rights to seventh overall pick Randy Foye, Dan Dickau and Raef LaFrentz to the Portland Trail Blazers in exchange for Sebastian Telfair, Theo Ratliff, and a future second-round pick. A subsequent trade with the Philadelphia 76ers for Allen Iverson was reported as a potential move beneficial to each team, although such a trade never happened and Iverson was shipped to the Denver Nuggets in December. Orien Greene was waived, and the Celtics replaced him by trading a first-round pick in the 2007 NBA Draft to the Phoenix Suns for rookie Rajon Rondo. In the second round the Celtics added Leon Powe to the team, and later signed Villanova star Allan Ray as an undrafted free agent.
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As the calendar made the turn from 2002 to 2003, the Boston Celtics franchise received new ownership. Boston Basketball Partners L.L.C., led by H. Irving Grousbeck, Wycliffe Grousbeck, Steve Pagliuca, Robert Epstein, David Epstein, and John Svenson completed the purchase of the team from Paul Gaston on December 31, 2002. Gaston had owned the team since 1992. The new ownership became the first local owners since 1964, when Walter Brown owned the legendary organization until his death.
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