NBA coach Red Auerbach of the Boston Celtics had held the record with nine championship victories.
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And yes, the once tradition-laden Celtics have a dance team, a 21st-century staple that the partners added shortly after the passing of old-school patriarch RedAuerbach in 2006.
At the same time, the old adage that defense wins championships is less true in 2011 than it was in the halcyon days of Red Auerbach's dynastic Celtics of the 1960s--those days of yore when Fortune 500 companies could tell the mainstream media "no comment" when a crisis hit until they figured out their strategy days later.