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What Celtics from the NBA’s 50th anniversary All-Time list might not make the 75th?
A number of those who made the cut 25 years ago might not make the NBA’s 75th-anniversary list.
With the arrival of the NBA’s and the Boston Celtics‘ 75th anniversary season comes the expansion of the list of the 50 greatest players in NBA history released for the league’s commemorations festivities for hitting its half-century mark of existence.
As one might expect, the new list will have 75 players representing the NBA’s best players over the course of its 75 years of history. But there is no guarantee that having made it in at the 50-year mark means that a player will make it onto this expanded list. In fact, there are a number of Celtics who are in danger of being cut in light of previous snubs and more recent achievements.
Let’s take a look at who might not make the cut of the Boston players who populated the 50th-anniversary list.
It was a historic moment on several levels. https://t.co/YUmN5d5yLG
— The Celtics Wire (@TheCelticsWire) October 3, 2021
On this day: Grousbeck, Pagliuca buy Celtics; Bing, Milicic signed
On this day, Wyc Grousbeck, Steve Pagliuca, and partners bought the Boston Celtics, and the team signed Dave Bing and Darko Milicic.
On this day in Boston Celtics history, an investment group headed by Wycliffe K. Grousbeck, of Highland Capital Partners, and Stephen Pagliuca, managing director of Bain Capital, began the process of buying the Boston Celtics from the Gaston family in 2002.
The sale had been announced by Paul Gaston, whose father Donald purchased the team in 1983 for $18 million. Grousbeck, Pagliuca and partners purchased the team for $360 million 19 years later. Pagliuca and Grousbeck described themselves as lifelong fans of the franchise, and the latter was extremely excited about the purchase of the team.
So much so he said he felt “like the tooth fairy” had visited him, at the time according to the New York Times’ Fox Butterfield.
How many of the NBA’s official 50 greatest in 1996 were Boston Celtics?
In 1996, the NBA released a list of its 50 greatest players up to that year to celebrate as many years of play as a league. Can you guess them all?
In 1996, the NBA decided to assemble a panel of 50 players, media members, and team representatives in total to select the 50 greatest players of the league’s first 50 years on the anniversary of the NBA’s first season of 1946-47.
The league again plans to assemble a similar list to honor the 75th anniversary of its foundation in 2021, but before we begin to speculate which alumni of the Boston Celtics will be added to the list, let’s take a look at the old one. Dominated by names once populating the championship eras of the team from the 1960s, 1970s and 1980s, a total of 14 of the NBA’s 50 greatest players once donned the green and white.
Let’s review who made the cut, and when they were Celtics.
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OTD: Wilt nabs 55 rebounds vs BOS; Gorman, Hunter, Bing, Randolph born
On this day, legendary big man Wilt Chamberlain grabbed 55 boards vs. Boston, and Mike Gorman, Brandon Hunter, Dave Bing and Shavlik Randolph were born.
On this day: Wiz bested in ’18 East semis; Bing inducted; Nelson born
On this day, the Boston Celtics sent the Washington Wizards fishing in the ’18 East Semis, and guard Dave Bing was inducted into the Hall of Fame.
On this day in 1990, former Boston Celtics point guard Dave Bing was inducted into the Naismith Basketball Hall of Fame along with Elvin Hayes, Neil Johnston and Earl “The Pearl” Monroe.
After spending the bulk of his career with the Detroit Piston — a city he would one day become the mayor of — the Washington, D.C. native would play two seasons with his hometown Washington Bullets before signing with the Celtics in the final season of his storied career.
He joined Boston for its 1977-78 campaign, and scored 13.6 points, 2.7 rebounds and 3.8 assists per game before retiring from the NBA at the end of the season.
To support doctors, nurses and others …
To support doctors, nurses and others who are on the frontlines fighting the coronavirus pandemic, the Detroit Pistons united former and current players together to sing a rendition of a famous Ben E. King song. The Pistons released a video on Wednesday of the former guards — Isiah Thomas, Joe Dumars, Chauncey Billups, Rip Hamilton and Dave Bing — along with current guard Derrick Rose singing “Stand By Me” with the Detroit Youth Choir. The video featured each singer performing remotely, in accordance with Michigan’s “Stay Home, Stay Safe” guideline.
He is just the 15th SU basketball …
He is just the 15th SU basketball player — the 10th in the Jim Boeheim Era — to earn such recognition. Joining the likes of Dave Bing, Kendall’s Roosevelt Bouie, Louis Orr, Pearl Washington, Carmelo Anthony, Lawrence Moten and his boyhood heroes, Derrick Coleman and Billy Owens.
Who has scored the most points for losing teams in NBA history?
Who has scored the most points for losing teams in NBA history?
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