Tag: 2008 nba draft

On this day: Smart, Walker, Fox drafted; Perkins, Banks, Walker trade; Hewson passes

On this day, the Boston Celtics drafted Marcus Smart, Antoine Walker and Rick Fox, and traded for Kendrick Perkins and Marcus Banks.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the Boston Celtics selected two players of note in the 2014 NBA draft, held in Barclays Center in Brooklyn, New York. The first was 6-foot-3 guard Marcus Smart out of Oklahoma State University, taken with the sixth overall pick of the draft. A native of Flower Mound, Texas, Smart fit in well and would make the 2014-15 All-Rookie Second Team in his inaugural season with the Celtics.

Smart’s brand of intense, all-out attack frequently saw the former Cowboy banged up with a litany of minor injuries, and his professionalism and dedication would position the young guard as the “heart and soul” and unofficial captain of the team in just a few short seasons.

Now with the Memphis Grizzlies, he earned 2018-19, 2019-20, and 2021-22 All-Defensive First Teams honors along with winning the 2022 Defensive Player of the Year award — among many other honors.

Three Boston Celtics alumni on the move in 2008 NBA redraft

A number of alumni of the Boston Celtics have seen their original draft stock shift up or down the first round.

The tag team duo from our sister site of Hoops Hype behind the series of NBA redrafts is back at it yet again with another focused on the class for the 2008 NBA draft. H/H’s Frank Urbina and Raul Barrigon have assembled another such exercise of using career hindsight to put the players from that draft class in the order that is, as they call it, “the way it should have been.”

And as has been the case in their other redrafts, a number of alumni of the Boston Celtics have seen their original draft stock shift up or down the first round hypothesized by the H/H analysts.

Let’s take a look at which Celtics alums went where in this exercise.