Or Maybe Wicks Deserved the Criticism

April 27, 1977 It was the afternoon of Jan. 13, 24 hours after center Dove Cowens announced that he was ending his 64-day, 31-game sabbatical and returning to the Boston Celtics, 18 hours after guard Charlie Scott celebrated the good news by breaking his forearm hideously in two places.

Celtic publicist Howie McHugh sat at grimy old Boston Garden on another gloomy day of the bone-chilling winter, philosophizing. "It's been like 'Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman' around here," he said, and that pretty well sums up the 1976-77 season of the defending National Basketball Association champions.

Sidney Wicks Proud of His Career

Sidney Wicks Proud of His Career

March 3, 2009

Sidney Wicks cannot imagine a more rewarding college experience than the one that ushered him into adulthood in the late 1960s and early '70s.

It was an era of tumultuous social change in the United States, and much of it took root on college campuses.

Sidney Wicks: Guilt by Association?

Kevin Garnett's 22-point, 20-rebound Celtics debut on Nov. 2 against the Wizards was so emphatic, it drowned out all memories of the only other Celtic in franchise history to record a 20-20 game with his first game in green. 

It was probably the highlight of Sidney Wicks' two seasons in green. As anyone who followed the team back then can attest, the forward's path quickly spiraled down. This former Rookie of the Year paired with the troubled Curtis Rowe for the most disliked twosome in franchise history.

And that's a shame, according to the man who coached Wicks for the first year-and-a-half.