By: Michael D. McClellan | The player Larry Bird calls “the best teammate I’ve ever had” gets his start driving a forklift for $2.75 an hour in a tape warehouse. He arrives in Boston years later with a championship ring and a reputation as a locker room cancer, the former by virtue of one big play […]
https://i0.wp.com/www.celtic-nation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Dennis_Johnson.png?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1400600Michael McClellanhttps://www.celtic-nation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/celtics-clover-logo2.pngMichael McClellan2018-12-09 03:32:382018-12-10 01:50:03The Dennis Johnson Interview
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Garbage time is hardly the place where legends are born – those moments are usually reserved for the huge, pressure-packed situations, when everything is on the line and the fans are on their feet, their throaty roar engulfing the participants, swallowing them whole – but all of that changed […]
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Bill Walton wins an NBA championship, an NBA Finals MVP award, and an NBA Most Valuable Player award before vanishing into rumor, missing three full seasons and playing only 14 games in another, the one-time “Next Great Thing” undone by feet not designed to support a man his size, the pain taking him […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | The NBA has always been a star-driven universe, the lineage stretching from Mikan to Michael to LeBron, but the league and its teams can’t exist on star-power alone. For every Kevin Durant there are hundreds of grinders doing their best to make a roster, to make a contribution, to make […]
https://i0.wp.com/www.celtic-nation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/01/Fred_Roberts.png?fit=600%2C400&ssl=1400600Michael McClellanhttps://www.celtic-nation.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/celtics-clover-logo2.pngMichael McClellan2018-11-24 20:48:582018-11-25 19:04:45The Fred Roberts Interview
By: Michael D. McClellan | His NBA journey begins during the US Bicentennial and ends 21 seasons later, during Bill Clinton’s second term as President. He arrives as disco is heating up, plays through the Michael Jackson-dominated ‘80s, and is still balling when Tupac is gunned down on the Vegas Strip in ‘96, winning a […]
By: Michael D. McClellan | KC Jones is chilling with family and friends in the backyard, grilling the best ribs in all of New England and living life the way it’s meant to be lived at this stage, with all the winning in the rear-view mirror and countless stories being told and retold, some of them […]
The Dennis Johnson Interview
By: Michael D. McClellan | The player Larry Bird calls “the best teammate I’ve ever had” gets his start driving a forklift for $2.75 an hour in a tape warehouse. He arrives in Boston years later with a championship ring and a reputation as a locker room cancer, the former by virtue of one big play […]
The Terry Duerod Interview
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Garbage time is hardly the place where legends are born – those moments are usually reserved for the huge, pressure-packed situations, when everything is on the line and the fans are on their feet, their throaty roar engulfing the participants, swallowing them whole – but all of that changed […]
The Bill Walton Interview
Written By: Michael D. McClellan | Bill Walton wins an NBA championship, an NBA Finals MVP award, and an NBA Most Valuable Player award before vanishing into rumor, missing three full seasons and playing only 14 games in another, the one-time “Next Great Thing” undone by feet not designed to support a man his size, the pain taking him […]
The Fred Roberts Interview
By: Michael D. McClellan | The NBA has always been a star-driven universe, the lineage stretching from Mikan to Michael to LeBron, but the league and its teams can’t exist on star-power alone. For every Kevin Durant there are hundreds of grinders doing their best to make a roster, to make a contribution, to make […]
The Robert Parish Interview
By: Michael D. McClellan | His NBA journey begins during the US Bicentennial and ends 21 seasons later, during Bill Clinton’s second term as President. He arrives as disco is heating up, plays through the Michael Jackson-dominated ‘80s, and is still balling when Tupac is gunned down on the Vegas Strip in ‘96, winning a […]
The KC Jones Interview
By: Michael D. McClellan | KC Jones is chilling with family and friends in the backyard, grilling the best ribs in all of New England and living life the way it’s meant to be lived at this stage, with all the winning in the rear-view mirror and countless stories being told and retold, some of them […]