A mere eight days after the GOAT (along with his coach and all but one of his teammates) won his/their very first professional championship, this happened.
Here’s the box score.
And here’s the story (well, the beginning of Michael Hamel’s accounting of the NBA life 65 years ago):
On Saturday afternoon, April 13, 1957, the Boston Celtics captured their first NBA Championship by defeating the St. Louis Hawks 125-123 in double overtime.