From now until February 11, Red’s Army will be posting stories about the players behind the Celtics’ 22 retired numbers and that one retired nickname. Stories will be posted in the order that the numbers were retired.
The Cedric Maxwell story can be told in two parts: the things he did, and the things he said.
Max the player is still Boston’s all-time leader in field-goal percentage and he won the Celtics the 1984 championship when told the team before Game 7 to “climb on my back, boys.”
Which segues nicely into his mouth, which he was never afraid to use, sometimes to his detriment.