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“It was professional mutiny,” said Buckner. “They just wouldn’t play for Bill Fitch. They spent half a season trying to embarrass him. That’s not an environment I was familiar with. Bill deserved better.”
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Bird didn’t limit his exasperation to a conversation with Auerbach. Once the locker room door ws closed, he leveled a brutally honest assessment of their shortcomings at his teammates, including their poisonous attitude toward Fitch.