On this day: Havlicek dies; Cooper, Macauley drafted; ’65 banner won

On this day, Boston Celtics legend John Havlicek died, and Boston legends Chuck Cooper and Ed Macauley were drafted.

Finally, it is the anniversary of the famous fight between Tree Rollins of the Atlanta Hawks and current team president and then-Celtics shooting guard Danny Ainge.

Rollins and Ainge would get into a bench-clearing fight in a playoff game of the first round of the 1983 Eastern Conference Playoffs that saw Rollins chomp on Ainge’s finger, both ending up fined for the altercation behind one of the greatest headlines in sports history, “Tree Bites Man”.

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