On this day, John Y. Brown attends 1st game as owner; Glen Davis born

On this day, new owner John Y. Brown attended his first game since swapping his Buffalo Braves for the Celtics that previous summer.

On this day falls the anniversary of the final chapter of one of the more odd tales in Boston Celtics history, and apropos for the first day of the new year.

In 1979, new Celtics owner John Y. Brown attended his first game as team owner. That in and of itself is nothing especially remarkable, but Brown – former owner of the team which became the Los Angeles Clippers – had just recently finalized the only “trade” of a franchise in league (and possibly all) history. To say it another way, from a strictly legal point of view, the Celtics of Bill Russell, Tommy Heinsohn and K.C. Jones are actually the Clippers.