Re: Red and Russell

Nunnally, John wrote:
> 
> Just a little story...
> 
> I live in DC and went to a presentation at the Smithsonian Museum tonight
> that featured a "roundtable discussion" with Red Auerbach, Bill Russell,
> David Stern, Billy Cunningham and Marty Glickman (longtime Knicks
> broadcaster) celebrating the NBA at 50 thing.
> 
> It was basically Red telling stories about his entire reign in Boston and he
> was brilliant. Russell told some great stories, and Cunningham and Stern
> chimed in as well, but Red just told hilarious story after hilarious story.
> As he neared the end of each one, he'd all of a sudden change the subject
> and say "which reminds me of another time, when...." The rest of the panel
> and the entire audience was cracking up the whole two hours.
> 
> I don't live in Boston and am not exactly a Celtic expert, but one of the
> more interesting stories he told was about his famous victory cigar. I am a
> huge (and fairly longtime) NBA fan, but had never heard about the
> origination of his cigar. He said he used to watch some coaches who were
> winning by 20 points with a minute left in the game and they would be
> ranting and raving and calling plays etc... Red said he would always yell
> "The game's over for crissakes, sit down!" So he decided that to show how
> ridiculous these guys were, he wanted to look as relaxed as humanly possible
> when the game was "over" and so he came up with leaning back in his chair
> and lighting up a cigar.
> 
> Russell's highlight was a bunch of stories about his yearly contract
> negotiations that were a riot.
> 
> Anyway, it was just a night of reminiscing and reliving old memories and it
> was completely delightful. Just thought I'd share.
> 
>  -- Nunn

Anybody know where we can get a transcript of the evening?  I'd love to 
get one.

Joe.