If you ever wonder where the name "Boston Celtics" came from, you may not have known that Howie McHugh had a lot to do with it. McHugh was a star hockey goalie at Dartmouth before Celtics' owner Walter Brown hired him as their publicity director.
In the summer of 1946, Brown was having a conversation with McHugh on what the name of the new Boston basketball entity should be. Some of the names discussed? The Whirlwinds, Unicorns and Olympics. But Walter Brown had an epiphany:
"Wait, I've got it - the Celtics. We'll call them the Boston Celtics!