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Which Boston Celtics alum is the NBA’s biggest career earner from Nashville, Tennessee?

He might be tough to guess, given he only played a total of 8 games with Boston before he was dealt to the Phoenix Suns.

Which Boston Celtics alum is the NBA’s biggest career earner from Nashville, Tennessee? While this Celtics alum is not the only top-five earner from Nashville, he is the leader in NBA career earnings from the city. And he might be tough to guess, given he only played a total of 8 games with Boston before he was dealt to the Phoenix Suns.

If that was not enough to make it clear who we are talking about, it is big man Brandan Wright, who took home $39,928,084 in his time in the league per HoopsHype. He’s unlikely to keep that spot for very long with James Wiseman breathing down his neck with $39,619,840 earned to date with an active career.

After Wiseman is Ron Mercer with $35,230,160 earned in the Association, the other Celtics alum on this list.

The last two of the top five is closed out by Jodie Meeks with $31,090,760 earned, and John Jenkins with $6,394,399.

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Marvin Williams or Brandan Wright: Who do you wish stayed at UNC for longer?

UNC basketball fans voted on X, formerly known as Twitter, if Marvin Williams or Brandan Wright was the better player in Chapel Hill.

Marvin Williams and Brandan Wright were two of the best one-and-dones to play basketball at UNC.

Williams, who helped the Heels capture the 2005 NCAA Championship over Illinois, averaged 11.3 points per game and shot 50.6% from the field, while grabbing 6.6 rebounds per game in Chapel Hill. He was named 2004-2005 NCAA and ACC Rookie of theYear, plus he earned a spot on the ACC All-Freshman Team.

Drafted 2nd in the 2005 NBA Draft, Williams averaged 10.2 points per game across 16 seasons with the Atlanta Hawks, Utah Jazz, Charlotte Hornets and Milwaukee Bucks.

Brandan Wright, who played at Carolina in 2006-2007, averaged 14.7 points per game on 64.6% shooting and 6.2 rebounds per game. Wright was ACC Rookie of the Year, 2nd Team All-ACC and a member of the ACC All-Freshman Team.

Drafted 8th overall in the 2007 NBA Draft, Wright averaged seven points, 3.6 rebounds and 0.5 assists per game across 14 season with the Golden State Warriors, New Jersey (now Brooklyn) Nets.

If either Williams or Wright stayed at Carolina for more than one season, it remains to be seen if there’d be any more titles for the boys in baby blue.

Tar Heel fans took to X, formerly known as Twitter, to vote for who they wished played multiple years in Chapel Hill:

Redraft of 2007 class sees five Boston Celtics alums on the move

A member of today’s Boston roster is among them.

As Hoops Hype’s Frank Urbina and Raul Barrigon keep busy reassessing the draft orders of the last several decades over the last few years, there are always a number of Boston Celtics alumni on the move in their re-drafts as a result.

In the H/H duo’s reassessment of the NBA’s 2007 draft class, a total of five Boston alumni ended up seeing their draft stock shift considerably with the benefit of hindsight lifting their fortunes. And while they won’t see any pay raises or anything else of that sort given the fictitious nature of such an exercise, it’s also nice to see this duo get their flowers, too.

Let’s take a look at which Celtics alumni landed where.

On this day: Rondo traded for Crowder; most team assists in ’85

On this day, the Celtics traded Rajon Rondo to the Mavericks for Jae Crowder, and Boston logged 46 assists against Dallas, their most ever.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the storied franchise traded champion point guard Rajon Rondo and center Dwight Powell to the Dallas Mavericks in 2014 in exchange for small forward Jae Crowder, point guard Jameer Nelson, big man Brandan Wright, draft assets, and a $13 million trade exception.

The move finally brought to an end the last remaining player from the team’s 2008 NBA title tenure with the franchise, Rondo having been with the Celtics since the Phoenix Suns drafted him out of Kentucky with the 21st overall pick of the 2006 NBA draft and dealt him to Boston on draft night.

Powell was a more recent arrival, having come over in the deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers for Keith Bogans in September of that year.

On this day: Rondo traded for Crowder; most team assists in ’85

On this day, the Celtics traded Rajon Rondo to the Mavericks for Jae Crowder, and Boston logged 46 assists against Dallas, their most ever.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the storied franchise traded champion point guard Rajon Rondo and center Dwight Powell to the Dallas Mavericks in 2014 in exchange for small forward Jae Crowder, point guard Jameer Nelson, big man Brandan Wright, draft assets, and a $13 million trade exception.

The move finally brought to an end the last remaining player from the team’s 2008 NBA title’s tenure with the franchise, Rondo having been with the Celtics since the Phoenix Suns drafted him out of Kentucky with the 21st overall pick of the 2006 NBA draft and dealt him to Boston on draft night.

Powell was a more recent arrival, having come over in the deal with the Cleveland Cavaliers for Keith Bogans in September of that year.