Tag: Jerryd Bayless

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 11

Today’s installment focuses on the 29 players who wore No. 11 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 29 players who wore No. 11 over the years as of September 2023.

On this day: ex- Celtics Jerryd Bayless, Si Green, Quinn Buckner born

On this day, former Boston Celtic guards Jerryd Bayless, Si Green, and Quinn Buckner were born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, point guard Jerryd Bayless was born in Phoenix, Arizona in 1988. Bayless would play his collegiate basketball with the University of Arizona Wildcats for one season before entering the 2008 NBA draft, where he was selected with the 11th overall pick by the Indiana Pacers.

The Phoenix native would never suit up for the Pacers, traded to the Portland Trail Blazers for Jarrett Jack, Josh McRoberts, and Brandon Rush soon after the draft. He would also play for the (then) New Orleans Hornets (now, Pelicans), Toronto Raptors, and Memphis Grizzlies before the latter team sent Bayless to Boston in a deal that sent back guard Courtney Lee.

Bayless would play just one season for the Celtics, playing 41 games and starting 14 of them.

Three Boston Celtics alumni on the move in 2008 NBA redraft

A number of alumni of the Boston Celtics have seen their original draft stock shift up or down the first round.

The tag team duo from our sister site of Hoops Hype behind the series of NBA redrafts is back at it yet again with another focused on the class for the 2008 NBA draft. H/H’s Frank Urbina and Raul Barrigon have assembled another such exercise of using career hindsight to put the players from that draft class in the order that is, as they call it, “the way it should have been.”

And as has been the case in their other redrafts, a number of alumni of the Boston Celtics have seen their original draft stock shift up or down the first round hypothesized by the H/H analysts.

Let’s take a look at which Celtics alums went where in this exercise.