Great, goofy commercial featuring the 1974 Celtics that you haven’t seen:

Bradlees, the Mervyn’s of the New England (both way out of biz), was the chain that paid for  Dave Cowens, John Havilicek and Don Nelson to look extremely white in their store. The video will be especially shocking for some of you who are used to seeing Nelson smuggling an underage Honduran child under his faux turtleneck all these years.

As an aside, Nelson wasn’t the third-best player on that Celtics team (Jo Jo White, anyone?). I wonder why Bradlees picked him for the commercial over White? Maybe Pumpsie Green can help me with that one.

Video after the jump.

These days, if you asked three of the current Celtics to do some tricks with the basketball, I’m guessing you’d be positively amazed (ok, maybe not Scal). But that trio? Could barely dribble between their legs during the spots.

Embedding for the video has been disabled. Go here to watch the vid.

Be sure to watch to the end, which features Havilicek struggling as he dribbles down the detergent aisle. (Yeah, but Hondo sure could move without the ball!)