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On this day: Pierce, Jefferson, Allen, Bradley drafted; Jones born

On this day, the Boston Celtics drafted Paul Pierce, Al Jefferson, Tony Allen, and Avery Bradley; it is also the birthday of Celtics legend Sam Jones.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the 1998 NBA draft was held in General Motors Place in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and in it, the Celtics took only one player of note. The Celtics selected forward Paul Pierce out of Kansas with the 10th overall pick of the draft, a team the Californian was no fan of as a youth.

Even casual fans know the legacy of “the Truth” — as he was dubbed by future teammate Shaquille O’Neal in 2001 — has had on the franchise. An instrumental part of the 2008 title that brought Boston its league-record 17th championship, the Oakland native racked up a finals MVP for that series as well.

Over the course of his career with the Celtics, Pierce amassed 10 All-Star and four All-NBA elections, All-Rookie First Team, election to the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame, and several other honors

Ranking every No. 47 pick made in the NBA draft by the Boston Celtics

Our 10th installment of ranking every pick from Nos. 1 to 60, we compare the three picks the Boston Celtics have made 47th overall.

Now at the 10th installment of articles ranking all of the picks selected by the Boston Celtics Nos. 1 through 60 by the number they were drafted from, we land at pick No. 47, which the team has drafted at three times in their seven decade span the Celtics have been a team.

The picks made here began in 1958 and continued until the 1992 NBA draft, the most recent draft Boston selected 47th overall.

There were no stars nor role-playing champs to be found among the three players drafted 47th overall by the Celtics, and no familiar face can be found among the three drafted at this late point of the draft, not Boston’s luckiest of draft picks.

As with prior iterations of this series, we utilize a rubric that emphasizes what players have done while a member of the Celtics franchise first and foremost, with successes coming before or after an additional means of ranking players when the difference is minimal.

With that said, who are the best Celtics drafted 47th overall?

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