00:00Don Nelson, who won five titles as a player for the Boston Celtics and is the second most successful coach
00:05in NBA history, passed away on Sunday.
00:08He was 86. The Golden State Warriors, one of Nelson's coaching teams, announced his passing.
00:15Nelson is one of only two NBA coaches to have won at least 250 games while managing three different teams,
00:21Milwaukee, Dallas, and Golden State.
00:24In 31 seasons, he made the playoffs 18 times and won three Coach of the Year awards.
00:29He never won a championship despite making it to the conference finals three times with the Bucs and once with
00:35the Mavericks.
00:36Nelson created a stir with his fast-paced offensive style and introduced what is now called the point forward.
00:42He claimed that his playing days under Celtics Hall of Fame coach Red Auerbach gave him the idea to switch
00:48from the dominant big men of the 1970s to an offense centered on speed and the fast break.
00:53Nelson spent 11 of his 14 seasons in Boston, where he played for four different coaches on five Celtics championship
01:01teams.
01:02After retiring as a player, he joined Milwaukee as an assistant coach before taking over when head coach Larry Costello
01:08resigned 18 games into the 1976-77 campaign.
01:14Beginning in 1976, Nelson led the Bucs for 11 seasons, winning seven division titles in a row.
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