Celtics City

WBZ's Jordan Rich takes a look at this Boston Celtics history series.  

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Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hello, friends and Celtics fans, welcome to now streaming with Jordan.
Celtics are one of the greatest teams in NBA history,
and qui well respected sports documentarian Bill Simmons has done
it again a terrific series on HBO Max called Celtic's City,
which tells us the full story, the full history of
the Boston Celtics, from the early days of Coozy Russell

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and coach read Auerbach to the most recent championship, the
eighteenth in twenty twenty four. It's not only the history
of the franchise, but Boston's cultural and racial growing pains
as the Celtics dominated the league with championship after a championship,
while its greatest early star, Bill Russell, faced strident racism
in his own neighborhood. Interviews with Celtic great's past and present,

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from Larry Bird to Kevin McHale to Bob Coosey, Paul Pierce,
read Aurbach, and some not necessarily fans of the seas
such as James Worthy, Jerry West, coaches pat Riley and
Rick Patino. Celtic City on HBO and that's now streaming
with Jordan w b Z. Boston's news radio,