Red Holzman
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William "Red" Holzman （August 10, 1920 – November 13, 1998） was an American professional basketball player and coach.
He is best known as the head coach of the New York Knicks of the National Basketball Association （NBA） from 1967 to 1982.
Holzman helped lead the Knicks to two NBA championships in 1970 and 1973, and was inducted into the Basketball Hall of Fame in 1986.
In 1996, Holzman was named one of the Top 10 Coaches in NBA History.
Holzman was born in the Lower East Side of Manhattan in New York City, on August 10, 1920, to Jewish immigrant parents, as the son of a Romanian mother and Russian father.
He grew up in Brooklyn's Ocean Hill–Brownsville neighborhood and played basketball for Franklin K. Lane High School in the mid-1930s.
He attended the University of Baltimore and later the City College of New York, where he played for two years until graduation in 1942.
Holzman joined the United States Navy in the same year, and played on the Norfolk, Virginia Naval Base team till he was discharged from the Navy in 1945.
Holzman in 1950, when playing for the Rochester Royals.
After the Navy, Holzman joined the NBL Rochester Royals, which won the NBL championship in Holzman's first season, and he was named Rookie of the Year in 1944–45.
In 1945–46 and 1947–48 he was on the NBL's first All League team; in the interim year he was on its second team.
Holzman stayed with the team through their move to the NBA and subsequent NBA championship in 1951.
In 1953, Holzman left the Royals and joined the Milwaukee Hawks as a player-coach, eventually retiring as a player...
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