The Celtics would again go with a familiar face in the role of head coach, hiring former champion forward and then-assistant coach Tom "Satch" Sanders to succeed Heinsohn, a legend in his own ...

On this day in Boston Celtics history, champion power forward Thomas Ernest "Satch" Sanders was born in New York City, New York. Satch -- as he was more commonly called -- played his college ball ...

But for players like Boston Celtics legends Bill Russell, Sam Jones, and Thomas "Satch" Sanders, such memories are an indelible relic of an era where casual racism was far more institutionalized ...