On this day in Boston Celtics history, three scoring greats of the storied franchise had games of note on the offensive side of the court dating all the way back to the late 1980s.
The first of the three scoring fiestas in question was put together by Boston’s iconic Hall of Fame small forward Larry Bird. He exploded on a hapless Milwaukee Bucks squad visiting the Celtics at the old Boston Garden on this date in Boston, Massachusetts in 1988. The Bucks would lose in no small part due to The Hick from French Lick’s (as Bird was sometimes called affectionately) scoring in a massive, 132-96 blowout.
Bird hung 32 points, 7 rebounds, 8 assists, 4 steals, and a block on the Bucks, hitting 13-of-20 field goal attempts and 3-of-5 from beyond the arc that night, leading all scorers.