Thomas Ernest "Satch" Sanders (born November 8, 1938) is an American former professional basketball player and coach.

He played his entire professional career as a power forward for the Boston Celtics of the National Basketball Association (NBA).

[1] After his playing retirement, he served as a head coach for the Harvard Crimson men's basketball team and the Boston Celtics.

After playing at New York University as a stand out collegian, he spent all of his 13 years in the National Basketball Association (NBA) with the Boston Celtics.

On March 20, 1968, a housing development group formed by Sanders (called the Sanders Associates) received a $996,000 FHA commitment through the Boston Rehabilitation Program (BURP) for the rehabilitation of 83 units in Roxbury, Massachusetts after local community activists (including Mel King) criticized BURP for a lack of sufficient community control and racial equity.