Don Nelson spent nearly five decades in the NBA. As a player, Nelson won five championships in 11 seasons with the Celtics in the 1960s and 1970s and had his number retired to the rafters of the old Boston Garden in 1978. As a coach, he set the league’s all-time record for regular-season wins and even popularized his own style of offense, Nellie Ball.
Now, it seems that the iconoclastic NBA legend is making the most of his retirement.
The New York Times recently caught up with Nelson in Hawaii, where he now lives.