In the year of Auerbach's departure, his successor, Russell, was not able to continue the glory of the dynasty. Former Hawks head coach Hanam, who had lost to Auerbach several times, went to Philadelphia to coach Chamberlain, Cunningham and Greer. Chamberlain made a huge sacrifice, and he averaged just four points per game in 1966-1967, after averaging 50 points per game in the season. But in the year of Chamberlain's transition to Russell, the 76ers put on an all-time record of 68 wins, and finally defeated the unbeatable monster of the decade in the Eastern Conference Finals, defeating the Warriors in the Finals to win the championship. In the 7th year of the 60s, the championship was finally not the Celtics.

"They're playing the kind of basketball we've been playing for the last decade." So says Celtics' KC Jones.

Auerbach's departure and the Celtics' defeat seem to have something inevitable, and the NBA teams that have been ruled by Auerbach's iron fist for a decade feel the gloom lifting, and the Celtics tree that has enveloped them seems to be scattered. Beginning in the fall of 1967, in stadiums across the United States, fans chanted to Russell and the occasional traveling Auerbach, the man they hated to eat his flesh and skin, "Boston is over, Boston is over, the dynasty is gone." ”

However, in the spring of 1968, the whole United States found themselves rejoicing. The emperor's departure is only an illusion. The old man hid in the darkness, and continued to control the monster team he had built, approaching the throne with an expressionless and unstoppable face.

The mood of the entire NBA in 1967 was like seeing a sunny day after a long flood. However, in 1968, they found that black clouds were filling the sky again. The Celtics used their 10th championship in one year to tell people that the 76ers' miracle was nothing more than an accident. Then, in 1969, the aging Celtics, the hated Celtics, the Celtics covered in the shadow of Auerbach, solved in one of the most typical Auerbach ways — the Finals, against the Lakers, Game 7, 108-106. 11th championship in 1 year, ending the 60s.

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In 1969, Russell retired after winning the championship, while Auerbach continued to pour his cigar in the position of general manager, and used his keen eye to spot players and weave teams. In the chaotic '70s, when no team defended their title, the Celtics relied on Auerbach's promotion of Covens and long-term development of Havlicek to win two more championships.

Of course, this alone is not Auerbach's handiwork.

In 1979, the six-year-old man found the prince he needed to carry on the glory of his original creation. He, Auerbach, the first anti-racist in NBA history to start with an all-black man, was the sixth pick in the 1979 draft to pick a white man who played at Indiana University for four years and couldn't run fast or jump high. According to his own account, he has only seen one ball from this guy.

The white man named Larry Bird was considered the greatest forward in NBA history when he retired, and Auerbach's eye was a no-brainer for the teams that held the 4th and 5th draft picks in 1979 — with the exception of the Lakers' selected Magic that year — and he was on the first team that season in his first year. The recurrence of this happened 17 years later, when Spurs' Tim Duncan staged a similar example. Like Duncan, Bird led the team to championship wins in his second year in the industry.

On June 9, 1980, Auerbach made another terrible deal — how many times he had done similar cunning in more than three decades — that earned him a reputation as a "robber." He traded the season's No. 1 and No. 1 picks from the Golden State Warriors for the No. 1 pick and Robert Parish, and then the University of Minnesota forward Kevin McHale at the No. 1 pick. From this moment on, the troika of the Celtic 80s came together. Auerbach decided the glory of the Celtics for the next decade and the fate of the Lakers, 76ers, and Pistons in a single trade and a draft.

In the Waterloo volume of Hugo's Les Misérables, Napoleon's cavalry rushes to the English on St. John's Hill. At that time, both Wellington and Napoleon were close to running out of oil, and the advantage was over the French. However, a deep ditch appeared in front of the cavalry, and the French cavalry, caught off guard, fell en masse. This thwarted Napoleon's attack. And it was not long after this that Prussian reinforcements appeared on the horizon.

Many times, it is not the moment when the limelight turns that turns the tide of war and the situation. A steed continued to run after being wounded, and finally collapsed unable to support it. His fate was predestined when he was wounded. The occurrence of a certain accident and a certain bad luck will become an unknown turning point in fate.

In 1986, Auerbach tried to build on the Bird-led Celtics. He cleverly got a draft pick and got — we have to believe in his vision — a talented player, Bias. Just a few hours after the election, this genius, the child who was fantasized about being a future superstar, the figure who was supposed to win honor for the future dynasty of the Celts, died of *** poisoning.

Nothing is more damaging to an old man than this kind of thing.

Bird and McHale retired in the early '90s, and Parish moved from team to team, ending his career with the New Dynasty Bulls in 1997 at the age of four. And Auerbach, who is over 70 years old, finally began to look like an old man after the death of Bias. In '199, another bad luck struck, when Celtics captain Lewis died suddenly in practice.

Then came the move of Boston Garden and the fall of the Celtics, who by then had already left.

"I don't have the motivation to work anymore." He said.

In 1997, at the age of 80, Auerbach participated in the NBA's 50th anniversary, and eight of the 50 greatest players of the NBA's 50th anniversary were from the Celtics — and rightfully so, his disciples. But that's far from all.

In the 1961 Finals, Sharman faced West of the Lakers. Ten years later, Sharman became the head coach of the Lakers, and led the Celtics' men such as Chamberlain and West to a 69-win record, giving the Lakers their first championship since moving to Los Angeles — ironically, it was a man who repeatedly defeated them to win the championship.

In Game 7 of the 1969 Finals, the Celtics relied on a mid-range shot from guard Don Nelson to beat the Lakers and win their 11th championship in one year. And Don Nelson is now one of the greatest coaches in NBA history. Like Auerbach, the old man was aggressive, high-spirited, competitive, and never stopped. (To be continued)