View From The Rafters: Behind the Scenes with the Boston Celtics4 Feb 2022

S2E1: Three Legends, One Episode

To celebrate the release of the full 75th Anniversary All-Celtics Team squad, we brought three of the top 75 players of all-time and three members of the team in Bob Cousy, Dave Cowens and Paul Pierce onto the pod. This is the only podcast you can find that connects all 75 years of Celtics lineage together, from the voices who experienced it all first-hand.

0:35 – Marc and Sean intro S2E1 and the 75th Anniversary All-Celtics Team members who will join the episode as guests
2:53 – Bob Cousy joins the conversation and tells the unique story about how he wound up playing for the Boston Celtics
8:13 – Cousy on his relationship with Arnold “Red” Auerbach
12:53 – Cousy discusses his teammates and compared playing point guard to an art form
20:03 – Cousy remembers his ‘Houdini’ skills and playing in the NBA’s first All-Star game, which was played at Boston Garden
23:53 – Cousy describes what made the Big Three so special during the 1980s
27:22 – Dave Cowens joins the conversation and responds to being chosen to the 75th Anniversary All-Celtics Team
28:25 – Cowens remembers playing with John Havlicek and Jo Jo White
29:40 – Sean Grande asks how aware Cowens was of the history he was walking into with the Celtics back in 1970
30:50 – Cowens compared the game environment in the 70s to the game environment today
35:15 – Cowens on the pressure of trying to win titles in Boston
38:40 – Cowens recalls the 1974 championship series against Milwaukee
42:30 – Cowens on making the 75th Anniversary Team alongside his longtime coach, Tommy Heinsohn
45:10 – Cowens tells the story of when Larry Bird first joined the Celtics in 1979
51:03 – Paul Pierce joins the conversation and reacts to yet another accolade rolling in after his retirement
52:20 – Pierce recalls his first memory with the Celtics organization
55:00 – Pierce discusses how he, Kevin Garnett and Ray Allen motivated each other behind closed doors with their individual work ethics
58:05 – Pierce reacts to Ray Allen being named to the 75th Anniversary All-Celtics team
59:30 – Pierce’s dog joins the conversation
1:00:00 – Pierce recalls his understanding of the Celtics organization before being Drafted, and how blown away he was by the history once he got to Boston
1:03:00 – Pierce tells the story of going out to dinner with Bill Russell for the first time
1:04:30 – Pierce on the environment around the team when it reached the 2002 Eastern Conference Finals
1:06:30 – Pierce on the importance of creating a legacy with one organization

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