Red Auerbach tributes

Tribute compiled by Boston34Celtics:

Jim Sullivan: Auerbach was a one-man civil rights movement:

... Here's what made Auerbach a legendary figure, though. He didn't do any of those things because he felt sorry for black people, out of some sort of white liberal guilt. He did them because they were the right things to do, at those moments, for the success of the Boston Celtics basketball team. In my book, that makes him far greater than someone trying to address a past inequity or whose main purpose is to fill a quota. ...

Dave Bonner: I grew up in a Celtics family:

My grandparents were huge fans, and I still remember running up the stairs to their apartment after dinner to sit and watch the game with them. ...