Are you guys too young to remember the Auerbach teams built around Bill Russell ? Sam and KC Jones in there with Cousy, too.
And Russell was player-coach after Auerbach left coaching
Apparently. Or that the Celtics were the first to start 5 blacks Or the first to have a black coach. And that KC Jones was also a coach later. Or that they were the first to draft a black player.
Don’t forget Bailey Howell and Hondo Havicheck, and Don Nelson? All great white Celtics from the 60s and 70s.