Boston Celtics champion point and shooting guard Charlie Scott won a title with the Celtics, but he began breaking barriers well before he donned the green and white.
A New Yorker through and through, Scott became the first Black full scholarship player to suit up for the University of North Carolina in 1967, his freshman year at that school. He went on to have a successful career in the American Basketball Association (ABA — a competing league that later merged with the NBA) before joining the NBA’s Phoenix Suns and later the Celtics, where he won his sole title in 1976.
In honor of his Hall-of-Fame career, we decided to post these two videos in his honor — a career retrospective and his Hall of Fame acceptance speech from his induction in 2018.
Watch the videos embedded below to wax nostalgic about Boston’s own Rucker Park legend.