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On this day: Hank Beenders, Eric Riley, Dontae Jones born

On this day, former Boston Celtics Hank Beenders, Eric Riley, and Dontae Jones were born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Boston big man Hank Beenders was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands in 1916. Beenders would later immigrate to the U.S. at age eight and won a National Invitational Tournament championship with Long Island University in 1942. He then would join the Providence Steamrollers as one of the first international players of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a precursor league to the NBA.

He would be traded to the then-Philadelphia Warriors in 1948, who would turn around and deal him to the Celtics in that same year with center Chick Halbert for big man Ed Sadowski.

The Haarlem native would play just 8 games for Boston in 1948-49, his last stop in the BAA. He averaged 2.4 points and 0.4 assists per game — rebounds were not yet being recorded.

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On this day: Celtics Carlisle, Turner, Morgan born; Tsioropoulos debut; Beenders passed

On this day in Boston Celtics history, Rick Carlisle, Evan Turner, and Rex Morgan were born, Lou Tsioropoulos debuted, and Hank Beenders passed away.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, small forward and current Indiana Pacers head coach Richard “Rick” Preston Carlisle was born in Ogdensburg, New York in 1959. Carlisle played his college ball with the Universities of Maine and Virginia, leading the latter to a Final Four loss to Hakeem Olajuwon’s Houston Cougars in 1984.

The former Cavalier would be selected 70th overall in the 1984 NBA draft (there were several more rounds in that era), and would go on to win a title with the team in 1986 in a reserve role before being waived by the team in the fall of 1987.

Carlisle averaged 2.2 points and an assist per game as a Celtic.

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 6

Today’s installment focuses on the five players who wore No. 6 over the years as of September 2022, a number which will never be worn again in the future of any team in the league in honor of the last Celtic to wear it.

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 five players who wore No. 6 over the years as of September 2022, a number which will never be worn again in the future of any team in the league in honor of the last Celtic to wear it.

On this day: Hank Beenders, Eric Riley, Dontae Jones born

On this day, former Boston Celtics Hank Beenders, Eric Riley, and Dontae Jones were born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Boston big man Hank Beenders was born in Haarlem, the Netherlands in 1916. Beenders would later emigrate to the U.S. at age eight and won a National Invitational Tournament championship with Long Island University in 1942 before joining the Providence Steamrollers as one of the first international players of the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a precursor league to the NBA.

He would be traded to the then-Philadelphia Warriors in 1948, who would turn around and deal him to the Celtics in that same year with center Chick Halbert for big man Ed Sadowski.

The Haarlem native would play just 8 games for Boston in 1948-49, his last stop in the BAA. He averaged 2.4 points and 0.4 assists per game — rebounds were not yet being recorded.

On this day: Celtics Carlisle, Turner, Morgan born; Tsioropoulos debut; Beenders passed

On this day in Boston Celtics history, Rick Carlisle, Evan Turner, and Rex Morgan were born, Lou Tsioropoulos debuted, and Hank Beenders passed away.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, small forward and current Indiana Pacers head coach Richard “Rick” Preston Carlisle was born in Ogdensburg, New York in 1959. Carlisle played his college ball with the Universities of Maine and Virginia, leading the latter to a Final Four loss to Hakeem Olajuwon’s Houston Cougars in 1984.

The former Cavalier would be selected 70th overall in the 1984 NBA draft (there were several more rounds in that era), and would go on to win a title with the team in 1986 in a reserve role before being waived by the team in the fall of 1987.

Carlisle averaged 2.2 points and an assist per game as a Celtic.

On this day: Hank Beenders, Eric Riley, Dontae Jones born

On this day, former Boston Celtics Hank Beenders, Eric Riley, and Dontae Jones were born.

On this day, former Boston Celtics big man Hank Beenders was born in Haarlem, Netherlands in 1916.

Beenders would emigrate to the U.S. at age eight, and won an NIT championship with Long Island University in 1942 before joining the Providence Steamrollers as one of the first international players of the the Basketball Association of America (BAA), a precursor league to the NBA.

He would be traded to the then-Philadelphia Warriors in 1948, who would turn around and deal him to the Celtics in that same year with center Chick Halbert for big man Ed Sadowski.

The Haarlem native would play just 8 games for Boston in 1948-49, his last stop in the BAA.

He averaged 2.4 points and 0.4 assists per games — rebounds were not yet being recorded.

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