the NBA is of mourning. This Friday, at the age of 88, the legendary died KC Jones, Player and coach of the Boston. The information was confirmed by the Celtics, a team with which he played nine seasons and won titles in eight of them, the third largest in history, just behind his legendary teammates Bill Russell (11) and Sam Jones (10).
This success moved to his women as a coach, when he won 3 titles (one as an assistant and two as a coach) during the Boston streak of success in the 1980s with Larry Bird, Starring Kevin McHale and Robert Parish, considered the best in NBA history.
The only season in which he did not win a championship was 1966-1967, and soon after, Jones, at 34, retired. But Jones remained in the competition, first as coach of Brandeis University on the outskirts of Boston and then as an assistant or head coach in the NBA or ABA before returning to the Celtics as an assistant to the legendary Bill Fitch in 1977.
Jones stopped coaching the Celtics after the 1987 season, and moved to the Celtics headquarters before finishing his coaching career with the Seattle SuperSonics and Detroit Pistons. The Celtics decided to withdraw his number 25 and he was also included in the Basketball Hall of Fame in the 1989 class.
A native of Texas, he trained alongside Russell at the University of San Francisco, winning consecutive NCAA titles in 1955 and 1956. The summer after the second title, the two led the U.S. national team to win a gold medal at the Melbourne Olympics (Australia).
He is also one of seven players to win college and NBA basketball titles, as well as Olympic gold, joining Russell, Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Jerry Lucas, Quinn Buckner and Clyde Lovellette.