Doc Rivers refuses to use end-of-era talk to motivate Celtics as formidable Heat await

BOSTON – Across these playoffs, Doc Rivers has let a different voice talk to these Boston Celtics, linking his team to the history here. The ghost of Red Auerbach has spoken to Kevin Garnett and Paul Pierce and Ray Allen, his graveled old words on the '69 Celtics, spliced with yesterday's grainy black-and-white, meeting the living color of today.

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