It is also the birthday of former Boston point guard Larry Siegfried, who was born in Shelby, Ohio on this date in 1939.
Siegfried played his NCAA ball for his hometown Ohio State Buckeyes, and was drafted third overall by the Cincinnati Royals in the 1961 NBA Draft.
The Ohioan chose instead to play for the American Basketball League (ABL)’s Cleveland Pipers out of distaste for Cincinnati, whose eponymous college had beaten his Ohio State squad the year prior.
The ABL went under the following season, and would be convinced by fellow Buckeye teammate John Havlicek to join the Celtics.
He would of course accept, winning five titles with the team between 1964 and 1969. He played for Boston for seven seasons, logging 11.6 points, 2.8 rebounds and 3.3 assists per game while with the team, drafted away by the expansion Portland Trail Blazers in the 1970 Expansion Draft.