Remembering Red

September 20, 2008 have been Red Auerbach's 91st Birthday and is a good time for the Celtics Nation to pause and remember patriarch of the Celtics franchise. Red once said: "The Boston Celtics are not a basketball team, they are a way of life." Red was a member of the National Basketball Association since its formation in 1946 and was with the Celtics since 1950. For him, the Celtics truly were a way of life. When the Celtics won the 2008 NBA championship, it marked the first of the Celtics' 17 championships that Red wasn't there to see. Born in Brooklyn, New York, Red attended Eastern District High School in that city, attended Seth Low Junior College in New York, and George Washington University in the District of Columbia. He played three years of college basketball at GW, and was the team's leading scorer and a defensive specialist. He received a Bachelor of Science in Education in 1940 and a Master of Arts in Education from GW the follo...