About Celtics Heritage
Leadership
Ownership
- Boston Garden-Arena Corporation (1946 to 1950)
- Walter Brown and Lou Pieri (1950 to 1964)
- Lou Pieri and Marjorie Brown (1964-1965)
- Marvin Kratter/Knickerbocker Brewing Company, subsidiary of National Equities (1965 to 1968)
- Ballantine Brewery, subsidiary of Investors Funding Corporation (1968 to 1969, 1971 to 1972)
- Trans-National Communications (1969 to 1971)
- Irv Levin and Harold Lipton (1972, 1975 to 1978)
- Robert Schmertz/Leisure Technology (1972 to 1975)
- Irv Levin, Harold Lipton and Robert Schmertz (1974-1975)
- John Y. Brown Jr. and Harry T. Mangurian Jr. (1978 to 1979)
- Harry T. Mangurian Jr. (1979 to 1983)
- Don Gaston, Alan N. Cohen and Paul Dupee, Jr. (1983 to 1993)
- Paul Gaston (1993 to 2002)
- Banner Seventeen, LLC (2002 to present)
Celtics Governor, Managing Partner and CEO Wyc Grousbeck
General Managers & Operations Leadership
- Walter Brown (1946 to 1950, General Manager; 1950 to 1964, Business Operations)
- Red Auerbach (1950 to 1964, Basketball Operations; 1964 to 1984, General Manager)
- Jan Volk (1984 to 1997, General Manager)
- Dave Gavitt (1990 to 1994, Senior Executive VP)
- M.L. Carr (1994 to 1997, Director of Basketball Operations)
- Chris Wallace (1997 to 2003, General Manager)
- Danny Ainge (2003 to 2021, President of Basketball Operations)
- Brad Stevens (2021 to present, President of Basketball Operations)
Head Coaches
- Honey Russell (1946 to 1948)
- Doggie Julian (1948 to 1950)
- Red Auerbach (1950 to 1966)
- Bill Russell, player-coach (1966 to 1969)
- Tommy Heinsohn (1969 to 1978)
- Satch Sanders (1978)
- Dave Cowens, player-coach (1978 to 1979)
- Bill Fitch (1979 to 1983)
- K.C. Jones (1983 to 1988)
- Jim Rodgers (1988 to 1990)
- Chris Ford (1990 to 1995)
- M.L. Carr (1995 to 1997)
- Rick Pitino (1997 to 2001)
- Jim O’Brien (2001 to 2004)
- John Carroll, interim head coach (2004)
- Doc Rivers (2004 to 2013)
- Brad Stevens (2013 to 2021)
- Ime Udoka (2021 to 2022)
- Joe Mazzula (2022 to present)
Head Coach Joe Mazzula
Team Captains
- Bob Cousy (1950 to 1963)
- Bill Russell (1963 to 1969)
- John Havlicek (1969 to 1978)
- Dave Cowens (1978 to 1980)
- Larry Bird (1980 to 1992)
- Reggie Lewis (1992-93)
- Robert Parish (1993-94)
- Dominique Wilkins (1994-95)
- Dee Brown (1995-96, 1997-98)
- Rick Fox (1996-97)
- Pervis Ellison (1997-98)
- Antoine Walker (1997 to 2003)
- Dana Barros (1999-2000)
- Paul Pierce (2000 to 2013)
- Rajon Rondo (2014)
