It was also the date of the 1974 NBA Draft, in which the Celtics drafted four players of note.
The first was Al Skinner, a shooting guard out of UMass, taken with the 160th pick (there were many more rounds in that era).
Skinner would never play in the NBA, instead electing to join the (then) New York Nets in the American Basketball Association.
Boston also drafted small forward Ben Clyde from Florida State with the 89th pick of the draft.
Clyde would play 25 games for Boston in the following season, averaging 2.8 points, 1.6 boards and 0.2 assists per game before being waived in 1975.