Cedric Maxwell: A Late-Bloomer Who Made Good, 1981

[Here’s a nice profile of Boston Celtic great Cedric Maxwell, written shortly after he was named MVP of the 1981 NBA Finals. The Boston Globe’s Larry Whiteside did all the excellent reporting and writing for this piece, which ran in his newspaper on June 20, 1981. The article was reprinted in the magazine Basketball Digest in March 1982, and that’s wher…