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Chris Ford, a former NBA player and coach of the Boston Celtics, passed away. He was seventy-four.
Ford passed away the day before, as his family reported when they made the announcement on Wednesday.
The NBA released the following statement on its website: “The Ford family is sad to announce Chris’s passing on January 17, 2023. Chris’s teammates, friends, and family all adored him. He loved his family, Boston, the fans, and the whole Celtics family very much. He was always respectful and humble toward everyone who had the good fortune to be in his life.”
Ford reportedly suffered a heart attack earlier this month, according to The Press of Atlantic City, even though an official cause of death was not stated.
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The Celtics shared a Twitter thread detailing Ford’s athletic legacy and team history after his family released a statement. The thread mentioned that Ford was fondly known by his teammates as “Doc” and that his career spanned “over a decade of Celtics basketball.”
“Ford went on to become the team’s eleventh head coach, leading his former teammates Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish to multiple playoff appearances in the trio’s final days together,” the article stated.
He started his NBA career in 1972 as a guard for the Detroit Pistons before joining the “elite group of Celtics’ personnel who have earned championship rings as both a player and coach with the organization.”
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In the first quarter of Boston’s victory over the Houston Rockets on October 12, 1979, he made the first three-point basket in NBA history, according to the Detroit Free Press, following his trade to the Celtics during the 1978–79 season.
