Historically, the Boston Celtics and Red Auerbach pulled out all the stops to stymie opponents at the old Boston Garden. He’d turn off the hot water for the visitors’ showers, while the Lakers often accused him of turning the heat up in their locker room. The Garden wasn’t air conditioned, and the temperature on the floor once reached 97 degrees during one game of the 1984 NBA Finals. The notorious Garden parquet floor even moved with the Celtics to the new TD Garden in 1995, bringing its wood from 1947 and its unpredictable dead spots along with it.
Warriors shootaround delayed by “Auerbach special”
