Red Auerbach: An Old Friend’s Telling You to Hang ‘Em Up, 1979

[This article, as they say, is just one man’s opinion. That man is the 44-year-old journalist Dick Joyce, who is reacting negatively to rumors in the late 1970s that Boston owner Irv Levin had offered Auerbach a second chance to coach the Celtics. Levin wanted to return the old Celtic magic to Boston Garden, and in his mind, Auerbach was the only man fo…