Red Auerbach: The New York Knicks are Overrated, 1971

[Broadcaster Howard Cosell liked to “tell it like it is.” So, did Boston’s Red Auerbach. When an inquisitive journalist asked him the right question at the right time, Auerbach would light up a cigar at his wooden desk and speak with an opinionated, up-from-the-streets, razor-sharp honesty that, like Cosell, could rub some people the wrong way. In this …