Posted: Wednesday July 23, 2008 12:02PM; Updated: Wednesday July 23, 2008 1:46PM Home to John Havlicek, Larry Bird, 19 NBA Finals and the famed parquet floor Fans knew when to clap without need of a Gene Hackman video clip By Ian Thomsen I don't remember the first time I paid visit to the Boston Garden in the early 1980s, but I do remember the smell. You walked up the staircases to the upper back of the arena where the incense of boiled hot dogs from the press room gathered with the humidity of the playoff season. The worse the smell, the bigger the series. While growing up in Oregon as a Canadian son of European immigrants, I would sit on the floor of the family room in front of our TV watching Bernie Carbo homer at Fenway or John Havlicek make basketball look like an incredibly fatiguing sport. A decade later I arrived in...
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