Arnold Jacob "Red" Auerbach (September 20, 1917 – October 28, 2006) was an American basketball coach of the Washington Capitols, the Tri-Cities Blackhawks and the Boston Celtics.
 After he retired from coaching, he served as president and front office executive of the Celtics until his death.
 As a coach, he won 938 games (a record at his retirement) and nine National Basketball Association (NBA) championships in ten years (a number surpassed only by Phil Jackson, who won 11 in twenty years).
 As general manager and team president of the Celtics, he won an additional seven NBA titles, for a grand total of 16 in a span of 29 years, making him one of the most successful team officials in the history of North American professional sports.
Frank Carl Kudelka (June 25, 1925 - May 4, 1993), nicknamed Apples, was an American National Basketball Association (NBA) player.
 In his first two years at Saint Mary's College of California, Kudelka averaged 18.1 points per game.
 Once the shotclock was introduced to college basketball in his junior season, Frank averaged 20.4 points per game.
 He was the nation's fourth leading scorer.
 As a senior at Saint Mary's, Frank averaged 16.2 points per game.
 He was also named an All-American basketball player by the Helms Foundation after his senior season.
 Frank made his NBA debut in the 1949-50 NBA season for the Chicago Stags.
 In his first NBA season, Frank averaged 6.7 points and 2.0 assists per game.
 Frank played four seasons in the NBA with the Stags, Washington Capitols, Boston Celtics, Baltimore Bullets and Philadelphia Warriors.
 In his NBA career, Frank averaged 7.2 points, 3.2 rebounds, and 2.1 assists per game.
The 1948–49 New York Knicks season was the third season for the team in the Basketball Association of America (BAA), which later became the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Knicks had a 32–28 record in 1948–49 and finished second in the Eastern Division, six games behind the Washington Capitols.
 New York qualified for the playoffs, and defeated the Baltimore Bullets 2–1 in a best-of-three series to earn a place in the Eastern Division Finals.
 In the division championship series, the Knicks lost to the Capitols, two games to one.
 Before the 1949–50 season, the BAA merged with the National Basketball League to form the NBA.
Gene E. Englund (October 21, 1917 – November 5, 1995) was an American professional basketball player in the National Basketball Association (NBA) for one season, , and split the season playing for the Boston Celtics and Tri-Cities Blackhawks.
 Although he played professionally, Englund is best remembered for being a star college basketball player for Wisconsin, where as a senior in 1940–41 he led the Badgers to win the NCAA National Championship.
John Joseph Mandic (October 3, 1919 – June 22, 2003) was an American professional basketball player of Croatian origin.
 He played college basketball for Oregon State University from 1939 to 1942.
 He played for the Portland Indians of the Pacific Coast Professional Basketball League in the team's debut season in 1946–47, and was drafted by the Washington Capitols in the 1947 BAA draft after the season had finished.
 Instead of playing for the Capitols, he instead signed with the Rochester Royals of the National Basketball League and played for the team for one season.
 He joined the Indianapolis Jets for the 1948–49 BAA season.
 He was sold to the Capitols, the team that had drafted him two years prior, on August 13, 1949.
 After playing 22 games with the Capitols, he was waived, and signed with the Baltimore Bullets, but only managed three games with the team before retiring from playing basketball.
Roger Potter was an American basketball coach, who was the first coach for the National Basketball Association's Tri-Cities Blackhawks (now the Atlanta Hawks).
 He lasted seven games (going 1-6) and was replaced with Red Auerbach.
The Boston Celtics are an American professional basketball team based in Boston.
 Founded in 1946 as a charter member of the Basketball Association of America, the Celtics then moved into the National Basketball Association (NBA) in 1949, as said league was formed by the merger of the BAA merged with the National Basketball League.
 Currently playing in the Atlantic Division of the Eastern Conference, the Celtics have the most NBA titles with 17 championships.
 Eleven of those occurred between 1957 and 1969, with a dynasty led by center Bill Russell and coach/general manager Red Auerbach.
 The Celtics won two more titles in the 1970s under coach Tom Heinsohn, and three more in the 1980s under the leadership of forward Larry Bird.
 After a 22-year drought, the Celtics got their latest title in 2008.
Howard "Howie" Rader (March 29, 1921 – February 2, 1991) was a professional basketball player who played two seasons in the National Basketball League (NBL) and one season in the Basketball Association of America (BBA).
 During his first season in the NBL, he played alongside his brother Len Rader as members of the Tri-Cities Blackhawks.
 After his brother signed with the Hammond Calumet Buccaneers, Howie Rader stayed with the Blackhawks.
 In the BBA, he played for the Baltimore Bullets during the 1948–49 season.
 He attended Long Island University.
The National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year is an annual National Basketball Association (NBA) award given since the 1962–63 NBA season.
 The winner receives the Red Auerbach Trophy, which is named in honor of the head coach who led the Boston Celtics to nine NBA Championships from 1956 to 1966.
 The winner is selected at the end of regular season by a panel of sportswriters from the United States and Canada, each of whom casts a vote for first, second and third place selections.
 Each first-place vote is worth five points; each second-place vote is worth three points; and each third-place vote is worth one point.
 The person with the highest point total, regardless of the number of first-place votes, wins the award.
The Los Angeles Lakers are an American professional basketball team based in Los Angeles, California.
 They play in the Pacific Division of the Western Conference in the National Basketball Association (NBA).
 The Lakers' franchise was founded in 1947 in Detroit, Michigan before moving to Minneapolis, Minnesota, where the team got its official title from the state's nickname, "Land of 10,000 Lakes".
 The Minneapolis Lakers won five NBA Finals before relocating to Los Angeles in the 1960–61 NBA season, becoming the first West Coast team in league history.
 In the 1960s, the Lakers reached the NBA Finals six times, but lost every series to the Boston Celtics, beginning their long and storied rivalry.
 In 1972, with future Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Gail Goodrich, and Jerry West, the Lakers compiled a 33-game winning streak, the longest streak in U.S. professional team sports, and won their sixth title under coach Bill Sharman.
 The Lakers' popularity soared in the 1980s when they won five additional championships during a nine-year span with the help of Hall of Famers Magic Johnson, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, James Worthy and coach Pat Riley, the franchise's all-time leader in both regular season and playoff games coached and wins.
 Two of those championships during that span were against their arch-rivals, the Boston Celtics.
 With the team of Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant, Toby Tincher, and Hall of Fame coach Phil Jackson, the Lakers played in four of the first five NBA Finals of the 21st century; winning three consecutively from 2000 to 2002, and losing the fourth in 2004.
 The Lakers would then conclude the decade with three straight Finals appearances; losing to the Boston Celtics in 2008 but then prevailing with back-to-back championships against the Orlando Magic in 2009 and the Boston Celtics in 2010.
 The 2010 championship marks the 16th NBA championship in Lakers franchise history.

Question: Which coach of the Washington Capitols, Tri-Cities Blackhawks, and Boston Celtics has an annual National Basketball Association's Coach of the Year trophy named in his honor?
Answer: Red Auerbach