On this day, the Boston Celtics traded away Hall of Fame center Dave Cowens, and former Boston big man Steve Downing was born ...

Dave Cowens might not have led the league in any statistical category, but he did everything on both ends of the floor to help put the Boston Celtics in a prime position to win. Despite being an ...

“Dave Cowens earned a berth in the Basketball Hall of Fame because of his tenacity and work ethic as a mainstay of the Boston Celtics in the 1970s, leading the team to NBA championships in 1974 ...

With his fierce tenacity for the game and relentless work ethic, Dave Cowens was able to prove wrong the critics who said that at 6 9 he was too short to be a center in the NBA. Cowens made up ...

From the home video, Centers: The NBAs Great Rivals, we see the great battle in the 1974 NBA Finals between Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Dave Cowens.

From an episode of Red on Roundball, Dave Cowens helps Red Auerbach explain offensive moves big men can make in the pivot, with assistance from Bill Walton and John Havlicek.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the storied franchise traded star center Dave Cowens to the Milwaukee Bucks for point guard Quinn Buckner in 1982. Cowens had retired from the ball club as a ...