The NBA basketball Hall of Famer KC Jones has passed away. Jones, who won 8 championships with the Boston Celtics’ during the 60s, and two more as a head coach on 1984 and 1986, was 88 years old.
The Celtics said Jones’ family confirmed Friday that he died at an assistant living facility in Connecticut, where he had been receiving care for Alzheimer’s disease for the past several years.
A second-round draft pick by the Celtics, Jones alongside Bill Russell won eight straight NBA titles from 1959-66. Both, Jones and Russell, were teammates in San Francisco and led the team to back-to-back NCAA championships in 1955-56.
Jones retired in 1967 and began coaching. He was an assistant coach on the Celtics team that won it all in 1981 before guiding the team to the 1984 and 1986 championships as a head coach.
