It is also the birthday of former Boston big man Dick Mehen, who came to Boston in a trade sending back Kenny Sailors and Brady Walker to the Baltimore Bullets in 1950.
Mehen would play just seven games for the Celtics, averaging 6.3 points, 3.7 boards and 1.6 assists.
He would be traded that same season to the then-Fort Wayne (Indiana) Pistons in exchange for forward Bob Harris.