No. 1 to wear No. 55: Wally Szczerbiak – 2006-07
Szczerbiak isn’t a player one thinks of when they think of Celtic greats, and that’s understandable. But there would quite possibly be no Big Three of Kevin Garnett, Paul Pierce and Ray Allen without him, as he would be dealt away at the end of his Boston tenure for the latter.
His averages of 16.3 points, 3.5 rebounds and 2.4 assists per game on the wing were one of the primary sweeteners to convince the Seattle Supersonics to part ways with the UConn product and make the first shoe drop in the formation of the Banner 17 crew.
And Wally World was a good player in his own right, one of the brighter spots at the end of one of the darker epochs in Celtics history — for all the above combined, he wins the honor of the best (yet) to wear No. 55 for Boston.
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