Red Auerbach Rates Basketball’s Best Battlers, 1973

[More Red Auerbach. This time, Red weighs in on some of the NBA’s all-time brawlers. But he mostly ponders the state of the NBA’s rough play in the early 1970s, and writer Marty Bell folds in some other telling observations. Bell’s article, which graced the now flaking pages of the April 1973 issue of the magazine Sports Today, isn’t too long. Definitel…