It was on this day that the 1952 NBA Draft was held in Minneapolis, Minnesota, with the Celtics taking forward Gene Conley with the 90th overall pick out of Washington State.
Conley would play four seasons with Boston in two stints, the middle being broken up with five seasons playing for the Milwaukee Braves baseball team, with whom he won an MLB national championship in 1957.
He’d win three NBA championships with the Celtics in the second stint, between 1959 and 1961.