Thomas William Heinsohn Bio/Wiki, Net Worth, Married 2018
Thomas William "Tommy" Heinsohn (born August 26, 1934) is a retired American professional basketball player. He has been associated with the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA) for six decades as a player, coach and broadcaster. He played for the Celtics from 1956 to 1965, and also coached the team from 1969 to 1978. He has been granted Hall of Fame Status for his success as a player. He helped form the NBA players union. He is the only person to have the distinction of being involved in an official team capacity in each of the Celtics' 17 championships, as well as each of their 21 NBA Finals appearances. He is currently the color commentator on the Celtics' television broadcasts on CSN New England.
Inducted into the Massachusetts Broadcasters Hall of Fame in 2016, with his broadcast partner Mike Gorman, for their 35 years of broadcasting Boston Celtics games.
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Inducted into the National Collegiate Basketball Hall of Fame in 2006.
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Inducted into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986 as a player and in 2015 as a coach.
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Played basketball for Boston Celtics (1956-1965).
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1957 NBA Rookie of the Year.
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Named to All-NBA second team 4 times (1961-1964).
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Member of 8 NBA Championship teams (1957, 1959-1965).
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Head Coach of Boston Celtics (1969-1978; 427-263).
Actor
Title
Year
Status
Character
The Powers of Matthew Star
1983
TV Series
Student #2
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
Mike & Mike
2010-2013
TV Series
Himself - Telephone Interviewee / Himself - Basketball Hall of Famer / Himself - Boston Celtics TV Analyst
Goose
2012
Documentary
Himself
ESPN 25: Who's #1?
2004-2006
TV Series documentary
Himself
The Top 5 Reasons You Can't Blame...
2005
TV Series
Himself
City of Champions: The Best of Boston Sports
2005
Video
Himself
ESPN SportsCentury
2000-2001
TV Series documentary
Himself
Bill Russell: My Life, My Way
2000
TV Movie documentary
Himself - Boston Celtics 1965-1975
The NBA on CBS
1985-1986
TV Series
Himself - Color Commentator
1986 NBA All-Star Game
1986
TV Special
Himself - Color Commentator
1985 NBA All-Star Game
1985
TV Special
Himself - Color Commentator
1984 NBA Eastern Conference Finals
1984
TV Series
Himself - Color Commentator
1984 NBA All-Star Game
1984
TV Special
Himself - Color Commentator
1984 NBA Oldtimer's Game
1984
TV Movie
Himself
Late Night with David Letterman
1982
TV Series
Himself
The Way It Was
1975-1976
TV Series
Himself
Archive Footage
Title
Year
Status
Character
NBA Awesome Endings
1989
Video documentary
Himself
Known for movies
1984 NBA All-Star Game (1984) as Himself - Color Commentator
1986 NBA All-Star Game (1986) as Himself - Color Commentator
1985 NBA All-Star Game (1985) as Himself - Color Commentator
Bill Russell: My Life, My Way (2000) as Himself - Boston Celtics 1965-1975
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