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- greatest winning traditions
- in basketball in the 1950ΓÇÖs
- and 1960ΓÇÖs, had managed
- only a 29-53 record the
- year before Larry joined the
- team. But behind a Rookie-of-the-Year effort
- by Larry, Boston turned those numbers
- around, finishing at 61-21. The next year,
- Larry led the Celtics to the NBA championship.
-
- Larry fit in well with BostonΓÇÖs team-oriented
- game, and Boston's ΓÇ£big three" front court of
- Larry, fellow forward Kevin McHale, and
- center Robert Parish. At 6' 9" tall, Larry ran
- the offense from his forward position, and
- his amazing feel for the game made it
- seem as if he knew where all nine
- other players were on the court at all
- times. This special sense of his was