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Bob McAdoo: Now, they have the private …

Bob McAdoo: Now, they have the private jets, they can get out of town right after the game. We had to get up at 4 or 5 in the morning to take a commercial jet. We had to take our own uniforms and shoes. These guys don’t have to take nothing. The only thing they have to bring is their game. Also, the money is different. These guys don’t have to fight to get contracts. They are giving guys averaging five points per game $50 million. It’s crazy.

Which Boston Celtics centers populate HoopsHype’s estimate of the best to play the game at the 5?

The Celtics check in with seven alumni among HoopsHype’s recent list of the 20 greatest centers in NBA history.

The center position may have lost some of its luster in the NBA of today, with it often being seen as perhaps the most replaceable position after decades of the five being among or even the most important position in the sport.

And with a team as storied as the Boston Celtics are, you have to think that any list of the sport’s top centers in league history has to be peppered with quite a few Celtics alumni. Such an assessment would be a solid one, given a recent such list published by our sister site HoopsHype to highlight the 20 greatest centers of all time was populated by seven former Boston big men.

Let’s take a look at the players so honored.

18 Lakers selected to NBA 75th Anniversary Team

The Los Angeles Lakers had 18 players, both current and former, selected to the NBA’s 75th Anniversary Team.

The 2021-22 NBA season marks the 75th anniversary of the league, which is an astonishing milestone for any league.

To celebrate, the NBA has been acknowledging legends of the game both current and former in a variety of ways.

For the NBA 75th Anniversary Team, the league named 75 of the league’s best players in batches of 25.

The Los Angeles Lakers had 18 players make the list. For a franchise with such a rich history, being one of the most represented teams on the list was expected.

LeBron James was among those selected, and he shared his reaction to the news on Twitter.

From James and more, here is the full list of Lakers that made the team:

The NBA finally gave Dominique Wilkins, Bob McAdoo the respect they deserve

It was a good move by the voters to give these guys the credit they deserved 25 years ago.

To celebrate the NBA’s 75th anniversary festivities, the league has rolled out its official list of the 75 greatest players of all time. The voters got it right by finally including Dominique Wilkins and Bob McAdoo.

When the league released similar rankings for the 50th anniversary back in 1996-97, Wilkins and McAdoo were especially egregious omissions. It’s not easy to include everybody but those stood out at the time.

Wilkins, the longtime Atlanta Hawks superstar wing, was arguably the most glaring omission from the NBA’s 50th-anniversary list.

He was surprisingly excluded despite the fact that he ranked among the top-10 leading scorers of all time when the list was released in 1996-97. Fairly disappointed with the exclusion, he said at the time:

“Some of the players that were voted top 50 could not even hold my jock.”

He was the only nine-time All-Star as well as the only player to earn All-NBA consideration on six different occasions to not get included.

Only 13 players in league history have scored more points than Wilkins. It was an absolute travesty to have not Wilkins included then, but fortunately, the league has righted its wrong.

It also corrected the mistake of excluding Bob McAdoo, who had won two NBA titles and an MVP award. McAdoo was the only MVP excluded from the NBA’s 50th-anniversary list. As he told ESPN:

“I don’t get as upset anymore … but I bet if you asked the people that voted, they’d say, ‘Oh, we forgot about that guy.’ “

He was selected as an All-Star for seven consecutive seasons, defining what it meant to be a great NBA big man in the 1970s.

At the conclusion of his final NBA season in 1985-86, ‘Doo’ ranked among the 15 best scorers and shot blockers on record while also finishing as one of the 25 best rebounders.

It was a good move by the voters to give these guys the credit they deserved 25 years ago.

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Which Boston Celtics who missed the NBA’s 50th-anniversary greatest players list might make the 75th?

There are several potential additions from the ranks of past Celtics rosters.

It seems as if a fever for projecting the players who will make the list of the NBA’s 75 greatest to play the game in honor of hitting the three-quarter century mark this season is spreading across the wider NBA media sphere.

With everyone — including USA TODAY — attempting to prognosticate which players will be added to the league’s 50-man 50th-anniversary list as well as those who will be cut from that earlier take, there’s been plenty of speculation on which players may be elevated to that list of honor. Here at the Celtics Wire, we’ve already dipped our toes in, guessing which former Boston Celtics might not make it from the first list to the second.

But there’s also a number of Celtics who may well join the new list who were omitted from the version created 25 years ago, or rose to prominence since. Let’s take a look at who might make the new list.

HoopsHype lists 16 Boston Celtics on their projected 75 greatest players list

16 Celtics alumni make the cut for HoopsHype’s projected 75 greatest players list for the NBA’s 3/4 century celebratory accounting.

Not to be left out of the NBA’s 75th anniversary list creation extravaganza gripping the league’s wider media sphere, our sister site HoopsHype assembled a list of their own 75 greatest players of all time building off of (and cutting a few of) the NBA 50 greatest players list released for the Association’s 50th anniversary.

Given that the initial official list was, shall we say, a little generous to some and not as much as others perhaps warranted, we expected some players — including Boston Celtics alumni — to not make the cut of a list that was heavily dominated by the team in green and white.

They include Bill Walton, Sam Jones, Dave Bing, and Bill Sharman.

On This Day: Isiah Thomas, Bob McAdoo inducted into Hall of Fame

Thomas and McAdoo were among six individuals elected into the Hall of Fame on this day in 2000.

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On this day in 2000, 12-time NBA All-Star Isiah Thomas and five-time NBA All-Star Bob McAdoo were among six individuals elected into the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame.

Thomas, who played all 13 of his years in the NBA with the Detroit Pistons, is considered one of the 50 greatest players to ever play. He led the Pistons to back-to-back NBA championships in 1989 and 1990 and was named the Finals Most Valuable Player during their second title run.

McAdoo is regarded as one of the greatest scoring forwards in history, averaging 22.1 points, 9.4 rebounds and 2.3 assists in 852 career games between seven teams. The two-time champion was named the MVP in 1975 after averaging a career-high 34.5 points per game.

The Class of 2000 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame inductees

Name Category
Danny Biasone Contributor
Bob McAdoo Player
Charles Newton Contributor
Pat Summit Coach
Isiah Thomas Player
Morgan Wootten Coach

In addition to Thomas and McAdoo, the class also featured the late Pat Summit, who is regarded as one of the greatest coaches in basketball history. When she retired in 2012, her 1,098 career wins made her the winningest coach in NCAA history.

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Murray and Mitchell took the record …

Murray and Mitchell took the record away from Jerry West and John Havlicek, who, in fairness, had their own unbelievable shootout with slightly higher stakes at hand, in the 1969 Finals. The two Hall-of-Fame ball-handlers combined for 463 points in that series, 12 fewer than what Murray and Mitchell just put up. The other highest-scoring playoff series duos all likewise took place in the 1960s and ’70s – Bob McAdoo and Elvin Hayes in the 1975 conference semifinals (461 points), Elgin Baylor and Bob Pettit in the 1961 division finals (461 points) and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar and Rick Barry in the 1977 conference finals (450 points).

Sixers have seven players show up on ESPN’s top 74 players list

The Philadelphia 76ers have seven players appear on ESPN’s top 74 players list.

The Philadelphia 76ers are one of the more historic franchises in the game. They have had Hall of Famers and all-time greats such as Wilt Chamberlain, Allen Iverson, Julius Erving, Charles Barkley, and other players come through and rock a Sixers jersey.

So, it’s only fair for them to have a high number of players on ESPN’s list of the top 74 players in NBA history.

According to HoopsHype, the Sixers have seven players on the list which puts them at 10th in the NBA just behind the Brooklyn Nets and the Chicago Bulls who have eight players each:

10. SIXERS
Seven players combining for 2,937 games played with the team

Players: Julius Erving, Allen Iverson, Charles Barkley, Moses Malone, Wilt Chamberlain, Dikembe Mutombo and Bob McAdoo.

Philadelphia has two young All-Stars who, with a little more work, can eventually end up on an all-time list. Ben Simmons and Joel Embiid are two of the bright stars this league has to offer and they can make some noise as long as they can continue to move forward. [lawrence-related id=32277,32267,31579]