OT: Tommy Heinsohn Passes Away

[cohenzone]

RIP. I actually saw him play maybe the worst game of his career. For you youngsters, the NBA used to have occasional doubleheaders with 4 teams and the one I went to was at the old MSG. The Knicks played in one game and the Celtics in the other. Heinsohn was something like 0 for 14 from the floor and fouled out. He was usually a pretty effective gunner. One of a kind as a broadcaster.

 

[Scoe]

Damn, huge loss for the Celtics and the NBA. Tommy Heinsohn did it all for Celtics, and lived it all. No one loved the Celtics more then him. I could never picture him watching a Celtics game calmly. RIP

 

[Guapo]

The best homer in all of sports. I’ll miss you Tommy!

Johnny Most would like a word

 

[Dove]

Rest in Peace, Tommy. There was no color guy like him. He will be missed.

 

[dennismenace]

Damn close think he learned a lot from Johnny Most. But what homers they both were huh?

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[Stinger92860]

Longtime Celtics player, coach, and broadcaster Tom Heinsohn dies at 86

Tom Heinsohn, whose association with the Boston Celtics spanned six decades as a player, coach, and broadcaster, has died, according to multiple people affiliated with the NBA. He was 86. Heinsohn was a six-time NBA All-Star as a player with the Celtics from 1956-1965, winning eight NBA...

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I cannot believe he was 86. I’m old.

 

[FriarJ]

For Celtic fans

 

[nelsonmuntz]

When I was at UConn, Cousy and Heinsohn would do the Celtics games. I would have needed subtitles to understand them. It certainly seemed like Heinsohn was drinking on the air, but that might have just been his personality. Very entertaining regardless.

 

[dennismenace]

When I was at UConn, Cousy and Heinsohn would do the Celtics games. I would have needed subtitles to understand them. It certainly seemed like Heinsohn was drinking on the air, but that might have just been his personality. Very entertaining regardless.

I had a friend who was a Celtic fan and when they used to play 4 games a year in Hartford he got tickets for as close to the Celtic bench as could for the primary reason of the entertainment of watching Heinsohn explode on the sidelines.

 

[Conndog]

I don't know the year, it must have been 1979 or 1980, but I got a ride from Tommy Heinsohn when I was hitchhiking around campus one night. He had been to a game to look at someone from UConn- not sure who, but he stopped because he was lost and didn't know how to get back to the highway. I recognized him & had short conversation, then I got out & sent him on his way down 195.

 

[Waquoit]

When I was at UConn, Cousy and Heinsohn would do the Celtics games. I would have needed subtitles to understand them. It certainly seemed like Heinsohn was drinking on the air, but that might have just been his personality. Very entertaining regardless.

They were good together. Tommy wasn't as bad on play-by-play as you might have thought.