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Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 13

Today’s installment focuses on the 24 players who wore No. 13 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 24 players who wore No. 13 over the years as of September 2023.

Ranking the 21 players who have played for the most (at least 10!) NBA teams

Ish Smith has now suited up for nearly half the teams in the league. Who else comes close?

There is something special about a journeyman who has experience playing for various different franchises during their NBA careers.

As of the time of publishing this article, there are 21 players who played at least one game for at least 10 different teams around the league. While many are former undrafted free agents who scrapped and clawed their way around to stay pros, others were former top picks.

Joe Smith (No. 1 overall pick in 1995), Jim Jackson (No. 4 pick in 1992), Jeff Green (No. 5 pick in 2007) and D.J. Augustin (No. 9 pick in 2008) were lottery picks before bouncing around from team to team.

One reason for this is that you have to be pretty good to convince so many teams that you are worth an NBA contract.

So we took a look at the players who have played for the most teams while in the NBA. Feel free to use this as a resource next time you are having trouble guessing a player for Immaculate Grid.

Note that some active players who could potentially make this list in the future if they keep signing with new teams in the NBA include Justin Holiday, Robin Lopez, Jae Crowder, Seth Curry, George Hill, JaVale McGee, Markieff Morris and Noah Vonleh.

The pie charts provided below indicate how many games each player played with each team so you can track longevity.

All data is available via Basketball-Reference and NBA.com.

On this day: Tony Dawson, Damon Jones born; Javonte Green has knee surgery

Former Celtics Tony Dawson and Damon Jones were born today, the same day Javonte Green had knee surgery in 2020.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, small forward Tony Dawson was born in 1967 in Kinston, North Carolina. A brother of fellow NBAer Jerry Stackhouse, Dawson played his collegiate basketball at Florida Gulf Coast Community College and Florida State University.

After going unselected in the 1989 NBA draft, the former Seminole played overseas for several clubs as well as a few in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA – the equivalent of the G League in that era). He also had a short stint with the Sacramento Kings before he joined the Celtics in 1995.

Dawson played two games with Boston on a pair of 10-day deals before moving on to play overseas again. He averaged 4 points and 1.5 rebounds per game in his very short time with the team.

Nine Boston Celtics alumni changing places in re-draft of NBA’s 1997 class

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

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

In the H/H reassessment of the 1997 NBA draft class, a total of nine Boston alumni ended up seeing their draft stock shift 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: Thompson, Counts, Bonham drafted; Garnett cut; Jones signed

On this day, Celtics champions John Thompson and Ron Bonham were drafted in 1964, and several notable roster changes took place.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the storied Massachusetts franchise would select four players of note in the 1964 NBA draft, held in New York City as it typically was in that era.

They did not however draft future Celtics champion forward Paul Silas, who was instead taken out of Creighton University by the (then) St. Louis (now, Atlanta) Hawks in the second round of the draft with the 10th overall pick (there were many more rounds with far fewer teams in that era of the draft). Silas would play for the Hawks in St. Louis and after they moved to Atlanta, Georgia as well as the Phoenix Suns before being dealt to Boston in the spring of 1972.

There, he would win two banners, be elected to multiple All-Defensive teams, and an All-Star Game — among many other honors.

On this day: Celtics sign Damon Jones; Oliver Lafayette debuts

On this day, the Boston Celtics signed guard Damon Jones and saw wing Oliver Lafayette debut.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team signed guard Damon Jones in 1999 to the first of two 10-day contracts as a late-season addition despite having no playoffs to play for.

The Galveston native was a career journeyman, undrafted out of Houston in 1997, and Boston the second of ten eventual stops for the shooter. In his brief stay of just 13 games with the Celtics, Jones logged 5.8 points, 2.4 rebounds, and 2.2 assists while shooting 45.5 % from 3-point range. Unfortunately for the Texan, he only shot 38.7 % overall in an era that didn’t value the three quite the same.

Jones would continue on to sign with the Golden State Warriors over the summer.

J.R. Smith finally explains why he threw hot chicken tortilla soup at an assistant coach

“He’s over there screaming because the [expletive] is hot.”

North Carolina A&T golfer and former NBA champion J.R. Smith was suspended in March 2018 for “throwing soup” at a Cavaliers assistant coach.

Smith, the subject of a docuseries on Amazon, recently appeared on The Old Man and The Three podcast with J.J. Redick. While the former NBA champ was promoting his docuseries, Redfined, he was asked about what led to the soup-throwing incident.

At the time, Smith said he didn’t recall what type of soup he threw at former Cavs assistant coach Damon Jones. ESPN’s Brian Windhorst knew what type of soup was involved but for some reason, he refused to share details as a silent protest.

Eventually, however, The Athletic’s Jason Lloyd revealed it was actually chicken tortilla soup. Smith has since argued that it was actually more of a “toss” than a throw.

Finally, however, we learned why Smith made this decision. This is what he told Redick at the 1-hour, 10-minute mark:

“Damon Jones is my guy. I love D-Jones. Everybody knows. But he has a knack of playing too much. For me, don’t get me wrong, I like to play a little joke here and there. Kikiki. But he is consistent with it. And for me, if I’m telling you: ‘I’m not in the mood right now.’ Like bro, I had some stuff going on at home. I wasn’t playing well. I was like dude, not right now.”

So we know that Smith was in a bad mood and we know that Jones was messing around with him.

But what happened next?

“Sure enough, I’m in the lunch room, getting my soup and he comes in and mind you the soup is hot. I’m like the first person in there. He’s like trying to make me spill it. I’m not going to lie. It took me a second because I actually thought about it. It wasn’t like a rageful throw. It was like: ‘Okay, you’re playing with me. I know you’re playing with me. I’m going to show you.’ I literally thought about it and I threw it on him. He’s over there screaming because the [expletive] is hot. I’m like, see, you want to stop playing now with me now right?”

Smith also confirmed that it was a tomato-based chicken tortilla soup.

The next day, according to Smith, he received an apology from Jones.

Jones is on record saying that it was the bowl and the soup that landed on him and because it was the first bowl out of the pot, it was hot as hell. He said it took a few months for them to speak again.

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On this day: Thompson, Counts, Bonham drafted; Garnett cut; Jones signed

On this day, Celtics champions John Thompson and Ron Bonham were drafted in 1964, and several notable roster changes took place.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the storied Massachusetts franchise would select four players of note in the 1964 NBA draft, held in New York City as it typically was in that era.

They did not however draft future Celtics champion forward Paul Silas, who was instead taken out of Creighton University by the (then) St. Louis (now, Atlanta) Hawks in the second round of the draft with the 10th overall pick (there were many more rounds with far fewer teams in that era of the draft). Silas would play for the Hawks in St. Louis and after they moved to Atlanta, Georgia as well as the Phoenix Suns before being dealt to Boston in the spring of 1972.

There, he would win two banners, be elected to multiple All-Defensive teams, and an All-Star Game — among many other honors.

Washington rules out a fan favorite for new name

Washington ruled out a fan favorite for its new name. “Wolves” or “Red Wolves” had been a favorite for some of the fanbase.

As announced earlier this morning, the Washington Football Team is now set to reveal their new name/identity on February 2.

This change will be both welcomed by many and resisted by many. That is only natural when you are dealing with people, a long-standing tradition and where there has been much emotional and financial investment.

In a video released by the organization, Doug Williams reflects, “We have been ‘Redskins’ all of our lives, but whatever the change is, I am hugging it.”

Desiring a public acceptance, Washington GM Martin Mayhew expressed, “I hope it is something that embraces DC and the culture we have here.”

“We believe we found a name that our fans and our team across the DMV and beyond can really rally behind,” Washington team president Jason Wright declared, announcing the date.

Damon Jones, WFT Chief Legal Officer reflected on some of the complicated issues and that they were, “Looking at all the similar names and logos that might be out in the marketplace, and how to be sure that you create enough distance from rights that other folks have, (so) that you don’t get yourself into legal trouble.”

“In searching the intellectual property landscape, its extraordinarily complicated for something like this that is going to be this famous and this widely used” continued Jones.

Consequently, a fan favorite, “Red Wolves or Redwolves” was ruled out officially. No doubt this was done now, to eliminate a larger disappointment at the time of the actual announcement.

Seeing they were not going to go with “Redwolves” it is probably wise for Wright to have gone ahead and broken that news to the fans now.

Here is a brief mention and glimpse of the new uniform:

It now appears that the beloved HTTR may cease to exist.

Whatever the choice will be, a lesson that should have been learned is for Wright and Dan Snyder to avoid the politically correct, horrible over-reaction by the MLB Cleveland franchise who announced they were transitioning from the Cleveland “Indians” and becoming the Cleveland “Guardians.”

We earnestly hope Wright and Snyder won’t similarly blow this transition.

On this day: Tony Dawson, Damon Jones born; Javonte Green has knee surgery

Former Celtics Tony Dawson and Damon Jones were born today, the same day Javonte Green had knee surgery in 2020.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, small forward Tony Dawson was born in 1967 in Kinston, North Carolina. A brother of fellow NBAer Jerry Stackhouse, Dawson played his collegiate basketball at Florida Gulf Coast Community College and Florida State University.

After going unselected in the 1989 NBA draft, the former Seminole played overseas for several clubs as well as a few in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA – the equivalent of the G League in that era), as well as a short stint with the Sacramento Kings before he joined the Celtics in 1995.

Dawson played two games with Boston on a pair of 10-day deals before moving on to play overseas again, averaging 4 points and 1.5 rebounds per game in his very short time with the team.