(Cardinal auerbach)
19 17.9.20-2006. 10.29
Nationality: American Height: 178CM
Time to join Celtic: 1950
NBA record: 938 wins and 479 losses
NBA winning percentage ranking: third place
Honor:
1959- 1966 NBA eight consecutive championships.
PBWAA was chosen as the greatest coach in NBA.
1968 was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
"Cardinal" auerbach died on 2006.6438+00.29 at the age of 89. Auerbach is a legend in the history of NBA coaching. He led the Celtics to nine championships in the 1950s and 1960s, and he was elected to the Hall of Fame with 1968.
The Celtics announced the unfortunate news of auerbach's death that day. Auerbach died of a heart attack not far from his home in Washington that day. He is still the chairman of the Celtics. Auerbach 19 17 was born in Brooklyn, new york on September 20th, 2007. He coached in the NBA for 20 years, of which 16 contributed to the Celtics.
Auerbach had two operations on arterial infarction in 1983, and he felt chest tightness from time to time since 1986. Auerbach was hospitalized last year, but he recovered quickly and took part in the team's opening match last season. Auerbach also plans to play in the Celtics' opener against the Hornets in 2006-07.
"auerbach has a great influence on basketball. No one in the history of sports has ever had such a far-reaching impact on basketball like him. " Former Celtic star Heine Thorne said, "He is a pioneer of NBA, and his winning philosophy will last forever." Auerbach, the pioneer of NBA, created the sixth man's tactics-setting up substitute players as the main force to play and make contributions. From Ramsey to Havrisek, from donald nelson to mchale, the Celtics have always had a sixth man that other teams lack. At the same time, auerbach is also the promoter of fast break. The Celtics never scored less than 1 12.7 points during their eight consecutive championships.
Auerbach has been the coach, general manager, president and vice chairman of Celtic team since 1950. Auerbach led the Celtics to win the first championship in history from 1959, and then he led the Celtics to win eight consecutive championships from 1959- 1966, creating a winning streak in American professional sports history. Auerbach 1966 retired. Later, he served as the team manager until 1983-84 season, and served as the team president from 1970-97. He came out of the mountain at 200 1 and became the president of Celtic again.
When auerbach was the coach, general manager and president of Celtic, Celtic won the championship of 1 1 from 1957-69 and 13 seasons. The Celtics won the championship five times, namely 1974, 1976, 198 1, 1984 and 1986. Since then, the Celtics have won 65,438 games in history.
Auerbach is famous for winning cigars. He led the Celtics to 938 regular-season victories and became the coach with the highest winning percentage in NBA history at that time. This record was not broken by wilkens until the 1994-95 season. Auerbach always likes to celebrate his victory with post-match cigars. During his tenure as the general manager of the team, he founded the Celtic championship division from 1970s to 1980s, during which Celtic won seven championships.
As a coach, Auerbach became a hot figure. In the 65,438+0946-47 season (the first season in NBA history), he led the congressional team to reach the NBA semi-finals with 49 wins, 65 losses, 438 losses, 065 losses and 438 losses. Auerbach became the Celtic coach from 65438 to 0950. In the four seasons before he became the team coach, Celtic's performance was never better. However, since auerbach came to Celtic, Celtic has made rapid progress. In the 16 season coached by auerbach, the Celtics never missed. In the recent 10 season when auerbach coached the Celtics, the Celtics' winning percentage was never lower than 6 1. 1%. Auerbach coached the Celtics in the last game on April 29th. 1966. At that time, the Celtics beat the Lakers 95-93 to win the championship, and auerbach retired. He was only 48 years old. Since then, auerbach has taken the position of manager and devoted himself to the management of the team.
During his tenure as team coach and manager, auerbach made outstanding contributions to Celtic. He has a unique vision and is famous for being good at discovering talents. He found a lot of excellent players for Celtic. He helped the team get Russell, parrish and mchale through the trade. He chose Bird in his junior year to make sure he came to Celtic. Auerbach led the Celtics from 1959 to 1966 for eight consecutive championships. During this period, the Celtics produced Hall of Famers, such as Russell, Cousy, Heisen, Salman, K·C· Jones and sam jones.
As a head coach, auerbach won nine championship rings in his life. This record was tied by Phil Jackson in the 200 1-02 season, when Phil led the Lakers to win three consecutive championships.