Kevin McHale

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Kevin Edward McHale (born December 19, 1957) is an American retired professional basketball player who played his entire professional career for the Boston Celtics. He is also a Basketball Hall of Fame inductee. He was named to the NBA's 50th Anniversary Team, and also to the official list of the NBA's best 50 players in 1996.

McHale began working for the Minnesota Timberwolves immediately following his retirement in 1993 (until 2009), at different times, as a TV analyst, general manager, and finally head coach. He was the head coach of the Houston Rockets from 2011-15, until he got fired by the Rockets after they started 4-11 during the 2015–16 season. McHale currently works as an on-air analyst for NBA TV and Turner Sports's popular NBA on TNT studio show.

These articles are all from the Duluth News-Tribune (MN) -

January 22, 2000

ONCE A RANGER ALWAYS A RANGER AFTER A STORIED NBA CAREER IN BOSTON, HIBBING NATIVE KEVIN MCHALE'S FAVORITE PLACE REMAINS THE IRON RANGE

Kevin McHale has played before millions. He's had championship battles with the Los Angeles Lakers and wrestled with the Detroit Pistons during his storied 13-year National Basketball Association career.For McHale, those sweat-soaked and blood-stained wars were just an extension of a rivalry born years ago between two high schools on Minnesota's Iron Range. The sites: Lincoln Junior High and Roles Gymnasium.The teams: McHale's Hibbing Bluejackets...

Duluth News-Tribune (MN)|Duluth News-Tribune (MN) - October 1, 1999

MCHALE ENTERS HALL OF FAME TODAY HIBBING STAR'S CAREER, CONTRIBUTIONS TO SPORTS, REGION FONDLY RECALLED

Kevin McHale left Hibbing in 1976 for a basketball career that carried him to the University of Minnesota, National Basketball Association All-Star status with the Boston Celtics and the job of top personnel executive with the Minnesota Timberwolves.His contributions to the game of basketball will be recognized today, when McHale is inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in Springfield, Mass. But for those who know him best, McHale's contributions to his hometown, friends...

Philadelphia Daily News (PA) - June 5, 1985

MCHALE DEFENDS IMAGE FORWARD SAYS HE'S A NICE GUY DOING A DIRTY JOB

Kevin McHale says he is nothing like the vicious monster he has been portrayed to be in the NBA Championship Series.He even has the character references to prove it. "Listen," the Boston Celtics' All-Star power forward said, "my wife likes me, my little girl likes me. I don't drink blood unless it's my own. I don't see what everybody's getting so emotional about. It's easy to get...

Star Tribune: Newspaper of the Twin Cities - July 22, 2001

McHale's style helps, hinders Wolves

Kevin McHale is on the job again, sprung early from his NBA-enforced "leave of absence" and back just in time to face the things he dislikes most about his role as the Timberwolves vice president of basketball operations. Schmoozing agents. Recruiting free agents. Working the phones until his ear sweats. Countering offers. Negotiating contracts. All are necessary skills for a man in his position, none are McHale's favorite things to do. Which...

Detroit Free Press (MI) - May 16, 1985

MCHALE IS VICIOUS ONLY IN HIS NICKNAME

Many are chosen, but few are called Sid Vicious.The only one before the Celtics' Kevin McHale, in fact, was a member of the Sex Pistols, a punk rock band whose members were more concerned with sticking hat pins through their cheeks than with making music you could dance to.It is a measure of McHale's cultural awareness that he actually risked his hearing by listening to the Pistols. Yet he didn't know until now how the New York Times identified the...

Philadelphia Inquirer, The (PA) - March 10, 1985

GIVEN A RARE OPPORTUNITY TO START, MCHALE IS ABLE TO MAKE HIS POINTS

 Way up in northern Minnesota, Gary Addington picked up his telephone last Sunday night and dialed Kevin McHale's home in the Boston area. The long- distance friends had a special event to discuss.''The first thing I asked him about was the little boy (the McHales' new baby)," said Addington, who used to be McHale's basketball coach at Hibbing High. "I just mentioned his good game after that."...

Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) - June 1, 1985

Armed, McHale has become one to keep eye on

 BOSTON -- "Ask any coach," says Chuck Daly of the Detroit Pistons, "and he'll tell you that the first thing on any Celtic scouting report is to watch out for McHale, not Larry Bird."After four mediocre playoff seasons, Kevin McHale, the 6-foot-10-inch forward who earns $1 million a year, has emerged as a major force in the Boston Celtics' bid to become the first team since 1969 to repeat as champion. McHale was...

Daily Breeze (Torrance, CA) - March 4, 1985

McHale sets Boston record with 56 points

 Step aside, Boston Celtics past and present. For one day, it was time to make way for Kevin McHale."After a while, you start getting a feeling you can't be stopped," McHale said Sunday. He had just set a club record with 56 points as Boston beat the Detroit Pistons, 138-129, in National Basketball Association action in Boston. Celtic legends Bob Cousy, Bill Russell, John Havlicek and Larry Bird never did it. After McHale did it, Ray Williams was forced...

Wichita Eagle, The (KS) - May 23, 1985

MCHALE NAMED TOP SIXTH MAN

 NEW YORK - Boston's Kevin McHale, continuing the off-the-bench tradition of former Celtics Frank Ramsey and John Havlicek, was named Wednesday the winner of the National Basketball Association's Sixth Man Award.It was the second year in a row that the 6-foot-10 McHale, a five-year pro and late-season starter for the Celtics, has won the award. He received 57 of 78 votes by a nationwide panel of sportswriters and broadcasters - three from each franchise city and nine...