1940s NBA – From Way Downtown

Boston Celtics: Remembering the Backboard-Shattering 1940s

Some funny things happened on the way to the greatest dynasty in the history of pro sports.

Twenty or 30 years ago, most sports fans regarded basketball as sissy stuff fit only for genteel young ladies in fashionable seminaries.

Joe Fulks today is the most-feared and most highly respected marksman in basketball.

The Caps are composed of four-fifths top-notch basketball players and one-fifth downright genius—the last being Robert Joseph Feerick