Now at the 10th installment of articles ranking all of the picks selected by the Boston Celtics Nos. 1 through 60 by the number they were drafted from, we land at pick No. 47, which the team has drafted at three times in their seven decade span the Celtics have been a team.
The picks made here began in 1958 and continued until the 1992 NBA draft, the most recent draft Boston selected 47th overall.
There were no stars nor role-playing champs to be found among the three players drafted 47th overall by the Celtics, and no familiar face can be found among the three drafted at this late point of the draft, not Boston’s luckiest of draft picks.
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As with prior iterations of this series, we utilize a rubric that emphasizes what players have done while a member of the Celtics franchise first and foremost, with successes coming before or after an additional means of ranking players when the difference is minimal.
With that said, who are the best Celtics drafted 47th overall?