Rick Pitino sent Red Auerbach into temporary obscurity, time for him to go there

Please allow me to correct a grave error in my CelticsLife article of October 18, 2017. Rick Pitino had just been fired from his coaching position in Louisville, and I foolishly wrote that he would be "gone from basketball altogether." It appears I may have been wrong.

Rick titled his book, Success is a Choice. Well, so is failure. I have a level of bias against the man mainly for the fact he came close to destroying my beloved Celtics. I openly admit Pitino had some fine successes at the college level, and some at the pro level, but his degradation of Red Auerbach and the team that Red coached and managed is too much for me to tolerate.

Rick now tells the world that he misses basketball and…