Boston Celtic Stadium

Legendary Boston basketball coach and executive Red Auerbach once said that the Celtic's weren't a team, they were a way of life. Part of the teams great mystique has always been the Boston Celtic stadium. While the name and the actual building may have changed over the years, one this that has always been a constant is the legendary parquet floor. At one time, the Celtics played on a concrete floor at the Boston Arena, but in 1946, team president Walter Brown planned to add a new floor to the venue. However, since such materials were scare in the years following World War II, the floor had to be constructed parquet style, meaning that small pieces of wood needed to be pieced together. What started as necessity has since become one of the enduring legacies of Boston Celtics basketball, following the team from Boston Arena to the Boston Garden and to their current home, the TD Banknorth Garden.

Boston Celtic Stadium: What's In A Name?

For nearly 70 years, the Boston Celtic stadium was the venerable Boston Garden. It was originally to be called "Boston Madison Square Garden" after its resemblance to the venerable New York arena, but the title was eventually shortened to just Boston Garden. After that facility closed in 1995, the Celtics moved into a new venue then called the FleetCenter. In March 2005, however, the venue changed its name to the TD Banknorth Garden after the financial institution signed a 20-year deal with arena owner, the Delaware North Companies, Inc. According to sources, TD Banknorth is expected to pay upwards of $6 million annually for the naming rights. "As we think of Meccas of American sport, the Garden is certainly one of them," William Ryan, TD Banknorth's president and chief executive, told the Associated Press of the move. Ryan added that he wanted to "bring the Garden feeling back to all of the people who remember it so well."