"You know who Powe reminds of, is Moses Malone."In honor of Tommy, I thought it would be therapeutic to put together an All-Tommy Team of Celtics who were going to be truly great some day:
PG: Milt Palacio, Orien Greene, Sebastian Telfair
SG: Ricky Davis, Jiri Welsch
SF: Jeff Green, Kedrick Brown, Adrian Griffin
PF: Walter McCarty (captain), Brian Scalabrine (co-captain)
C: Vitaly Potapenko, Greg Stiemsma
Coach: Ryan Gomes
Bruno Sundov has to be in there somewhere.In honor of Tommy, I thought it would be therapeutic to put together an All-Tommy Team of Celtics who were going to be truly great some day:
PG: Milt Palacio, Orien Greene, Sebastian Telfair
SG: Ricky Davis, Jiri Welsch
SF: Jeff Green, Kedrick Brown, Adrian Griffin
PF: Walter McCarty (captain), Brian Scalabrine (co-captain)
C: Vitaly Potapenko, Greg Stiemsma
Coach: Ryan Gomes
It was always a treat when Mike and Tommy got to call a LeBron game.I wish someone would put together a collection of him going ballistic over calls/non-calls/dirty plays. I’ve looked on YouTube in the past and there’s a relative dearth of this material, considering how much he’s generated over the years.
View: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=EjU3nvru9wA&t=8sI wish someone would put together a collection of him going ballistic over calls/non-calls/dirty plays. I’ve looked on YouTube in the past and there’s a relative dearth of this material, considering how much he’s generated over the years.
Honorable mention has to go to Aron Baynes:In honor of Tommy, I thought it would be therapeutic to put together an All-Tommy Team of Celtics who were going to be truly great some day:
PG: Milt Palacio, Orien Greene, Sebastian Telfair
SG: Ricky Davis, Jiri Welsch
SF: Jeff Green, Kedrick Brown, Adrian Griffin
PF: Walter McCarty (captain), Brian Scalabrine (co-captain)
C: Vitaly Potapenko, Greg Stiemsma
Coach: Ryan Gomes
I'll be over at Nellie's daughter's house this weekend here on Maui. They live next door to each other. Feeling for Nellie. His contemporaries are all leaving.A legend as a player and broadcaster. Don Nelson has some great Tommy stories as do many others. Hopefully they are shared widely over the next few days.
Basketball has an inordinate amount of its great players that are still alive, well into their 80s and even 90s. This is a contrast to baseball, who seem to be losing hall of fame players by the day. Most of the names from the golden era of the NBA (Pettit, Cousy, Russell, Oscar, Baylor, West) are all still with us. Since the MVP award was first given out in 1956 (won by Pettit) the only MVPs that have died are Wilt, Wes Unseld, Moses and Kobe. That seems pretty remarkable to me.I'll be over at Nellie's daughter's house this weekend here on Maui. They live next door to each other. Feeling for Nellie. His contemporaries are all leaving.
FWIW I'm pretty certain that Russell does not actually run his Twitter account, I think his daughter runs it for him.I went to Bill Russell's Twitter timeline to see if he had anything to say about Tommy, and the GOAT hasn't tweeted since Oct. 23.
Hope he's OK. Russell hasn't hesitated to weigh in on politics, so it's not like him to stay silent.
He carried Celtic water for 63 years.This is really sad. I remember him as a coach not player, and of course as a broadcaster, and loved him in both roles. The Tommy Cs vs Billy C Sixers was must watch on the bench as well as on the floor!
Edit to add: IIRC, he and Russell joined the team at the same time, in an era when rookies ran errands. Then there was a gap before the next rook made the club, and since nobody ever treated Russ like a rookie, Tommie got stuck with errand boy duty for several years...
I thought of Cooz. The oldest one (92) . He was older than all of them and outliving all of them.I'll be over at Nellie's daughter's house this weekend here on Maui. They live next door to each other. Feeling for Nellie. His contemporaries are all leaving.
View: https://twitter.com/RealBillRussell/status/1326282179026980864?s=20I went to Bill Russell's Twitter timeline to see if he had anything to say about Tommy, and the GOAT hasn't tweeted since Oct. 23.
Hope he's OK. Russell hasn't hesitated to weigh in on politics, so it's not like him to stay silent.
Great post and great sentiments. Little things in life like a familiar sports announcer are nonetheless important.He is the living embodiment of Celtics pride. I grew up listening to him every game and I'm sure some on here grew up watching him play and then broadcast. He's the kindest, most selfless person. When I moved away from the area, any time that NBA TV picked up a Celtics broadcast with Mike and Tommy it brought a piece of home into my living room. He will forever be one of the two voices I will always associate Celtics basketball with.
It’s not dusty in here I swear.
In honor of Tommy, I thought it would be therapeutic to put together an All-Tommy Team of Celtics who were going to be truly great some day:
PG: Milt Palacio, Orien Greene, Sebastian Telfair
SG: Ricky Davis, Jiri Welsch
SF: Jeff Green, Kedrick Brown, Adrian Griffin
PF: Walter McCarty (captain), Brian Scalabrine (co-captain)
C: Vitaly Potapenko, Greg Stiemsma
Coach: Ryan Gomes
This is a great story, thanks for sharing.Very sad news, sorry to hear about this.
My Aunt had cancer and she was getting treatment at a facility, as was Tommy's wife. After seeing Tommy in the waiting area a few times, my Uncle decided to say hello. Tommy treated my Uncle like a prince, was very gracious with his time at a time when he really did not have to be, they became friends under difficult circumstances.
When my Aunt died, Tommy came to the wake, my Uncle Harry introduced him to me as "My friend Tommy Heinsohn", I know my Uncle got a kick out of that.
Shows you what kind of a person he was, just a class act.
My Uncle died on April 14th of this year from COVID, on Greek Easter of all days, he was 94.
RIP Tommy, say hello to my Aunt Athena and Uncle Harry up in heaven for me, they'll be at the same table sitting next to my Dad..........................
Thanks...................needless to say, 2020 sucks.This is a great story, thanks for sharing.
He'll always be the voice and face of the Celtics for me.
It’s great:I'm not sure if they'll rebroadcast but Gorman has been on for awhile on NBC Sports Boston and going on and on about the whole history of Tommy and their relationship. I'm not sure when they started, but it's must see for a C's fan and Gorman is the best. If you're a hard core C's fan you've probably heard most of it before but seeing Gorman deliver it soon after his death and how happy he is to have spent years with him is great.
Abby's IG is pretty touching. As a side note, they need to bring her back - I have no way to know it but I would like to believe that Tommy would want that.NBC Sports Boston coverage tonight was terrific. They had Draper and Scal interviewing people in the studio (wish Abby had been there), an older biography of Tommy with great clips of players like Cousy, Russell and Havlicek and his playing and coaching days and re-ran their 30th anniversary of Mike and Tommy special which was from 2011. Lots of great content and insights.
An impressive haul for a station that has largely been passed around for a while now.
Thanks for posting Mike Gorman's touching remembrances of Tommy.