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Old 01-05-2020, 06:22 PM
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Brady and Russell both had great coaches and players around them. There are at least 12 players who played on Celtics teams during Russell's time that are in the Hall of Fame. That's pretty outstanding. Russell was fantastic, but I believe that if you switched Chamberlain and Russell and kept everything else the same, the Celtics would have still won a bunch titles. Maybe a few less than with Russell, but the Celtics were loaded with players and had the best coach, too.


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Yes.

Also, after a 2-year hiatus from playing at the championship level after Russell's retirement in 1969, the Celtics drafted Dave Cowens and continued on an elite, championship level for 6 additional seasons, from the 1971-72 season through the 1976-77 season.

Led by Dave Cowens, John Havlicek, and Jo-Jo White, the 1971-72 Celtics had the best record in the Eastern Conference (56-25) before being upset by the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals. The 1972-1973 Celtics had the 3rd-best record of all-time (68-14) before again being upset by the Knicks in the Eastern Conference Finals. Over the next 3 seasons of 1973-74, 1974-75, and 1975-76, the Celtics won 2 World Championships and in the season in between (1974-75) they won 60 games before bowing to the Washington Bullets in the Eastern Conference Finals.

The aging Celtics had one additional winning, competitive season in 1976-77 before bottoming out with 2 losing seasons in the late 70's before Larry Bird came along and revived the ship of the franchise.


The Boston Celtics overall had an absolutely amazing run from the late 50's through the early 90's ........ it was started by Bill Russell and company, and with a couple of small blips, it continued right on through for 3 and-a-half decades.

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