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Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 12

Today’s installment focuses on the 34 players who wore No. 12 over the years as of September 2023.

The Boston Celtics have more retired jerseys than any other team in the NBA, but that doesn’t mean the rest of their jerseys have little history of interest tied to them.

In fact, with 17 titles to their name and decades of competitive basketball played in them, their unretired jersey numbers pack in some of the most history not hanging from the rafters of any team in the league. To that end, we have launched our accounting of that history, with every player in every jersey worn by more than one Celtics player in the storied franchise’s history accounted for.

Today’s installment focuses on the 34 players who wore No. 12 over the years as of September 2023.

On this day: Wilkins hits 25,000 career points; Corchiani born; Upshaw re-signed

On this day in Celtics history, Dominique Wilkins hit the 25,000-point plateau, Chris Corchiani was born and Kelvin Upshaw re-signed.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, then-future Hall of Fame big man Dominique Wilkins would move into eighth place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. He did so after putting up 19 points, 7 rebounds, and an assist in a 126-115 win on the road against the Miami Heat, putting him at 25,207 overall points at the end of the contest.

While Wilkins was a short-timer with the Celtics — this being one of a mere 77 games played with the team in the 1994-95 season — he helped keep fans engaged in what was otherwise one of the toughest stretches of Boston’s history between the title runs of the 1980s and the arrival of Paul Pierce in 1998.

Even Wilkins couldn’t deal with the rebuilding Celtics for long though, skipping town to join Panathinaikos of the Greek League the following season.