JasonKoivu

A heart-warming look at the special relationship between Celtic basketball legends Bill Russell and Red Auerbach. As a player Russell joined the Boston team at a time of great racial prejudice and strife. He and his coach Auerbach developed a bond through mutual respect that defied the color barrier of the day, essentially by almost completely ignoring it. Both wanted to win and that's all that mattered to them. The short and focused, Red and Me sticks almost entirely to the friendship that rose from this cohesive pairing, straying only on rare occasion to add a quick anecdote, most often only for the purpose of illustrating a point. Russell, a highly private man on and off the court, uses this book to finally shed a bit of light on his long time relationship with the now deceased Auerbach in a way he seldom if ever did in the past. Seek in depth, career-spanning analysis elsewhere, because this one's just about Red and him.

Rating: 3.5 stars I'm a life-long Celtics fan. I tried to rate this without bias, buuut...just take that into consideration.