Longtime Celtics fixture stunned by unexpected honor from Basketball Hall of Fame

Longtime Celtics fixture stunned by unexpected honor from Basketball Hall of Fame

When Jeff Twiss saw the western Massachusetts phone number pop up on his cellphone in February, he was nervous. The longtime Celtics vice president knew the team had loaned their 1981 Larry O’Brien Championship trophy to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame to be part of the museum’s Celtics Vault exhibit. In the split second before answering, he wondered: “Had something happened to the trophy?” When he answered, Hall of Fame President …