THE NEW YORK TIMESAfter our trip in the SF Bay Area, I sent my son to NYC to rendezvous with his mom and spy on what's going on with Phil Jackson and his hapless Knicks.
He first visited...
and then...
home of the lottery pick Kristaps Porzingis, ho-hum...
But what surprised me was a surreptitious midnight trip to Boston with his mom and aunt.
Just sending me a text on Viber that he was on the bus itself heading to Beantown, and that he'll say hi to Danny Ainge for me.
You send your boy to his mom, and this is what you get.
Happens all the time, these 'surprises'.
And so reluctantly, we have to post something from...
THE BOSTON GLOBE Can you believe it? Inside the famed Garden, no game but due to a U2 concert that night, the gates were open.
Larry Legend's Shoes, immortalized...
And while me and my generation of Celtics fans are known as 'The Sons of Auerbach', I never knew there were 'Grandsons of Auerbach'.
Trying to steal Red's victory cigar? That's sacrilege, boy.
The last message my correspondent wired to me was, 'dad, next time, WE should watch a game here at the TD Garden'. Yeah, right.
What he doesn't know is that I'm planning to write the 2 Bills - Bill Russell and Bill Simmons, to arrange for my victory tour in Beantown soon - by myself.