{"id":75390,"date":"2025-06-04T03:24:14","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/75390\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T03:24:14","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T03:24:14","slug":"how-did-the-boston-celtics-win-the-1974-nba-finals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/75390\/","title":{"rendered":"How did the Boston Celtics win the 1974 NBA Finals?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>How did the <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> win the 1974 NBA Finals? The short version is they used a very bold strategy to pull it off. But the longer version is quite the tale, which had the Celtics defeat the might <a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/milwaukee-bucks\/15\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Milwaukee Bucks;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a> helmed by future Los Angeles Lakers nemesis Kareem Abdul-Jabbar.<\/p>\n<p>Hall of Fame wing John Havlicek was the star of the series, eventually earning the Finals Most Valuable Player award for the series, but it was then-Celtics head coach Tommy Heinsohn who had Hondo serve as a decoy as the series was tied 3-3 heading into Game 7. Star big man Dave Cowens took over, and the gamble paid off big.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>The folks behind the &#8220;NBC Sports Boston&#8221; YouTube channel put together a clip detailing that Celtics history snapshot. Check it out below!<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy this pod, check out the &#8220;How Bout Them Celtics,&#8221; &#8220;First to the Floor,&#8221; &#8220;Celtics Lab,&#8221; and the many other New England sports podcasts available on the CLNS Media network.<\/p>\n<p>Listen to the &#8220;Celtics Lab&#8221; podcast on:<\/p>\n<p>Apple Podcasts: <a href=\"https:\/\/apple.co\/3zBKQY6\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/apple.co\/3zBKQY6;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/apple.co\/3zBKQY6<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Spotify: <a href=\"https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3GfUPFi\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3GfUPFi;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">https:\/\/spoti.fi\/3GfUPFi<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: <a href=\"https:\/\/celticswire.usatoday.com\/story\/sports\/nba\/celtics\/2025\/03\/23\/how-did-the-celtics-win-the-1974-nba-finals\/82530089007\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:How did the Celtics win the 1974 NBA Finals?;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">How did the Celtics win the 1974 NBA Finals?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"How did the Boston Celtics win the 1974 NBA Finals? The short version is they used a very&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":75391,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,150,121,6,1220,6249,8668],"class_list":{"0":"post-75390","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-los-angeles-lakers","14":"tag-milwaukee-bucks","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-nba-finals","17":"tag-nbc-sports-boston","18":"tag-tommy-heinsohn"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114622959982274097","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75390","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=75390"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75390\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/75391"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75390"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75390"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75390"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}