"And he was about the proudest man in the world," says Paul Silas about Red Auerbach on ESPN Classic's SportsCentury series. Red Auerbach's coaching philosophy was simple: Only one statistic mattered.

When his Boston Celtics are on the basketball floor, Coach Arnold (“Red”) Auerbach, 45, sits hunched forward on the bench as if it were the edge of a razor blade, his face flickering between ...

In the modern-day NBA, coaches are only allowed to be animated with their words, but in the ‘60s, coaches like Red Auerbach displayed the ultimate thug persona, where he would confidently sit on ...

This very idea was once explored by Red Auerbach. The legendary head coach handpicked both current and past stars in November 1992 to create a team he thought could take on the Dream Team.