{"id":59071,"date":"2025-05-27T09:28:09","date_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/59071\/"},"modified":"2025-05-27T09:28:09","modified_gmt":"2025-05-27T09:28:09","slug":"tommy-heinsohn-was-a-boston-celtics-legend-in-more-ways-than-most-people-realize","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/59071\/","title":{"rendered":"Tommy Heinsohn was a Boston Celtics legend in more ways than most people realize"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tommy Heinsohn was a <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Boston Celtics;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Boston Celtics<\/a> legend in more ways than most people realize. The only member of the Celtics alumni community who had a role in the first 17 banners hung by the storied ball club, Heinsohn had an iconic career with three distinct phases. First, of course, was that of his time as a player for Boston, the Jersey City, New Jersey native winning a total of eight titles with the Celtics before he retired from the game in 1965.<\/p>\n<p>Heinsohn would pick up the helm of the Celtics as head coach in 1969 after fellow Boston Hall of Famer and then-player-coach Bill Russell retired from both roles. He&#8217;d help guide Boston to two more titles in the mid-1970s, then transition into broadcasting after leaving the Cs as coach to start a four-decade partnership with beloved broadcaster Mike Gorman. Did we mention he was also an accomplished painter?<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind the &#8220;NBC Sports Boston&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip recounting Heinsohn&#8217;s career ahead of his induction to the Hoops Hall for coaching back in 2015. Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2025\/05\/27\/tommy-heinsohn-was-a-celtics-icon-in-more-ways-than-most-realize\/83314789007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Tommy Heinsohn was a Celtics icon in more ways than most realize;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Tommy Heinsohn was a Celtics icon in more ways than most realize<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tommy Heinsohn was a Boston Celtics legend in more ways than most people realize. The only member of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59072,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,6,8668],"class_list":{"0":"post-59071","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-boston","10":"tag-boston-celtics","11":"tag-bostonceltics","12":"tag-celtics","13":"tag-nba","14":"tag-tommy-heinsohn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114579092703641026","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59071"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59071\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59072"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59071"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59071"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59071"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}