Originally Posted by MikeSmoke

Sorry...my mistake, I had just woken up

That should have said "Then what would 9 championships in a ten-year span make Red Auerbach?"

(And I know he coached a bunch of flotsam and jetsam for several years before the championship run started - but I'm comparing apples and apples here - looking at the records when they were coaching players the caliber of Russell/Cousy/Havlicek and MJ/Shaq/Kobe.)