Goodbye Sam Jones, legend of the Boston Celtics
In the last days of 2021, the loss of an NBA legend of the fifties and sixties. Sam Jones he was eighty-eight and won ten NBA titles in the legendary Boston Celtics led by Bill Russell. Only the latter in fact has won more titles than Jones, with eleven in the palmares. of those Boston Russell he was the defensive leader and coach on the pitch, while Jones was the one who took charge of the offensive responsibility in crucial moments of the matches. There is a proverb in football about goals that also applies very well to basketball and that is that goals in football like the points in basketball they are not counted but weighed.
The points of Sam Jones there were enough but not many, but they were heavy as boulders. In 1996 on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of the NBA Jones was included in the list of the fifty best players in the history of the League and this year on the occasion of the 75th birthday of the league he was included in the list of seventy-six best in history. In all of his twelve years in the NBA has always been in the almost invincible Boston Celtics. Between titles won and personal awards he has achieved everything that a basketball player has achieved. These days they are celebrating it in so many ways. His myth was already immense before his death.
Andrea Renzi
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