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Which Boston Celtics alum is the NBA’s biggest career earner from Little Rock, Arkansas?

While there are a handful of notable players from one of the state’s capital city, only one of them is an alum of the Celtics.

Which Boston Celtics alum is the NBA’s biggest career earner from Little Rock, Arkansas? While there are a handful of notable players from one of the state’s capital city, only one of them is an alum of the Celtics. And if you need a clue on who it might be, he had two stints with the team, technically, separated by the rest of his entire career in the league, a gap of nearly a full two decades.

If that didn’t make it obvious, we might as well let you know who it is. Boston’s No. 10 pick of the 2001 NBA draft, Joe Johnson. According to our sister site HoopsHype, Johnson earned an impressive $217,468,696 in his time in the league.

That’s enough to give the top spot for his native city, well ahead of the next-closest competitor, Derek Fisher ($64,160,721 career earnings).

After that is Bobby Portis with $52,284,154 in career earnings, and he will probably pass Fisher on his next deal.

Moses Moody has a ways to go to catch up at $11,220,840, and Archie Godwin is bringing up the rear with $5,765,089.

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Spencer Dinwiddie passes Joe Johnson in Nets three-point shooting history

After making his second three-pointer in Monday’s loss, Spencer Dinwiddie in now fifth in Brooklyn Nets history in made three-pointers.

Brooklyn Nets combo guard Spencer Dinwiddie has played for four different teams during his 10-year NBA career and yet, he will always be known as a Net. Dinwiddie is in his second stint with the Nets and this is after spending a little over four seasons with the franchise during his first stint from 2016 to 2021. As such, he continues to elevate his name in the Nets history books.

In Monday’s 131-118 loss to the Sacramento Kings, Dinwiddie put up 18 points and seven assists in Brooklyn’s quest to beat the Kings despite giving up a constant barrage of three-pointers. Despite the disappointing loss in the first game of a five-game west coast road trip, there was something positive that came out of the contest.

When Dinwiddie made his second three-pointer with 11:07 left in the third quarter, Nets PR posted on X that he passed Joe Johnson for fifth in Nets history for three-pointers made. Dinwiddie has now made 517 three-pointers for the Nets and he has to make 122 three-pointers before he passes Vince Carter, who is fourth in franchise history with 638 made three-pointers.

So far this season, Dinwiddie is shooting 33.3% from three-point range and is draining 2.2 three-pointers per game. At his current pace, Dinwiddie will have to play 55 more games in which he makes between two and three three-pointers and should be able to pass Carter before the end of this season.

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On this day: Stevens, Olynyk, Pressey, Johnson, Langford debut; Rondo 24 asts

On this day, Boston coach Brad Stevens and Celtics Joe Johnson, Kelly Olynyk, Phil Pressey, Jared Sullinger, and Romeo Langford debuted for the team, while Rajon Rondo dropped 24 assists.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Celtics head coach and current Boston President of Basketball Operations Brad Stevens coached his first regular-season game in that role after being hired away from the Butler Bulldogs earlier in the year to head to the Celtics to accept his first NBA job.

The tilt was unfortunately a loss to the Toronto Raptors to start the Stevens era with the franchise, though at least a close one to the tune of 93-87. Stevens’ best performing players were forward Jeff Green with 25 points and 5 rebounds, and big man Brandon Bass with 17 points.

The game wasn’t just Stevens’ first with the Celtics.

Former Brooklyn Net Joe Johnson listed as 21st-most overpaid player in NBA history

Former Brooklyn Net “Iso Joe” seems to have been overpaid by a lot over the course of his career.

Joe Johnson was one of the better players in the NBA during his 18 seasons in the league. He came into the NBA as the 10th overall pick of the 2001 NBA Draft out of Arkansas and as a player with a lot of promise, he showed why he earned the nickname “Iso Joe”.

In an article by Frank Urbina and Raul Barrigon of HoopsHype, Johnson was listed as the 21st-most overpaid player in NBA history. This was a bit surprising given that Johnson made the All-Rookie Team for the 2001-02 season, made All-NBA for the 2009-10 season, and made seven All-Star teams, including one during his 3+ seasons with the Brooklyn Nets.

HoopsHype created this list using their “Real Value” metric, which measures how much salary a player’s performance is worth and compares that to the player’s actual salary. For example, Johnson made over $217 million in his career, but according to HoopsHype’s Real Value metric, Johnson’s play over his career should have earned him a little over $155 million.

Here’s what HoopsHype had to say about Johnson’s landing on this list:

“Real Value may believe Joe Johnson was overpaid a lot throughout his career but he was definitely a better player than his reputation indicates. Johnson was a seven-time All-Star and one-time 3rd Team All-NBAer for a reason. Nevertheless, Johnson’s most overpaid year, according to Real Value, came in 2015-16 when he split time between the Nets and Heat, averaging 12.2 points and 3.9 assists on 43.9 percent shooting while making $22.3 million. Real Value valued Johnson at $6.0 million that season, making that a $16.4 million overpay.”

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Where do Boston Celtics alumni stack up vs. the highest-paid shooting guards in NBA history?

With two distinct epochs of contention in the modern era — the only period in league history that saw players earn enough to have a chance at making such a list — that is no coincidence

When it comes to the highest-paid shooting guards in NBA history, the Boston Celtics have had a few of them on their roster over the course of the recent history of the storied ball club.

With two distinct epochs of contention in the modern era — the only period in league history that saw players earn enough to have a chance at making such a list — that is no coincidence. But who were the best-paid 2 guards in the history of the association, and where do Celtics alumni stack up against them? Thanks to a new assessment to such an end by HoopsHype’s Dionysis Aravantinos, we know the answer to both questions.

Let’s take a look at where Boston alums rate vs. the other top-earning shooting guards in the history of the league.

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 31

Today’s installment focuses on the eight players who wore No. 31 over the years as of August 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 eight players who wore No. 31 over the years as of August 2023.

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 55

This is every player in Boston’s history who wore the Celtics’ No. 55 jersey for at least one game as of Aug. 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 13 players who wore No. 55 over the years as of Aug. 2023.

Arkansas Basketball: The All-2000s Team

The 2000s was a turbulent decade for Arkansas basketball but produced some talented player. Here’s a look at the best Razorbacks from that decade.

The best decade in Arkansas basketball’s history was the 1990s. The Razorbacks became a juggernaut in those 10 years and were on the brink of joining Duke, Kentucky, UCLA and Kansas in “blue blood” territory.

By the end of the 1990s and into the early 2000s, however, it was clear that the good times were over.

Nolan Richardson’s highly publicized and scrutinized firing in 2002 ended the most successful era in Arkansas basketball. Stan Heath replaced him, but failed to win an NCAA Tournament game in his five seasons at Fayetteville.

The end of the 2000s decade was the beginning of John Pelphrey’s reign with Arkansas and he didn’t fare much better than Heath – though he did win an NCAA Tournament game in his first season. We can skip over the 24 hours that Dana Altman was head coach of the Razorbacks.

Despite the turmoil and controversy, Arkansas produced some extremely talented players. Here’s a look at Arkansas basketball’s All-2000s team with the best players from this decade.

On this day: Johnson born; Montross, Tillis drafted; Pinckney traded

On this day, former Boston Celtics forward Joe Johnson was born, Kevinn Pinkney traded, and Eric Montross and Darren Tillis drafted.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, Celtics draft pick Joe Johnson was born in Little Rock, Arkansas in 1981. Johnson would play his collegiate basketball at the University of Arkansas, which he would lead to the SEC Men’s Basketball Tournament championship in 2000.

The Little Rock native would be drafted by the Celtics in the 2001 NBA Draft with the 10th overall pick of the draft and would play for Boston for 48 games of his rookie season before being traded. The small forward would be dealt with Randy Brown, Milt Palacio, and draft assets to the Phoenix Suns for Tony Delk and Rodney Rogers in February of 2002, then rejoin Boston for a single game in 2022.

The former Razorback averaged 7.5 points, 3.3 rebounds, and 2.3 assists per game while with Boston.

On this day: Radja, Johnson, Brown drafted; Dennis Johnson traded for

On this day, the Boston Celtics drafted Dino Radja, Joe Johnson, and Dee Brown; they also traded for Dennis Johnson.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the 2001 NBA draft was held in Madison Square Garden in New York City, New York, and the Celtics took three players of note in the draft.

The first of the three was small forward Joe Johnson, taken with the 10th overall pick out of the University of Arkansas. The Little Rock native only had one incomplete season with the Celtics. He played in 48 total games and recorded an average of 6.3 points, 2.9 rebounds, and 1.5 assists per game, shooting 43% overall from the field in that stretch with the team.

In February of his inaugural season in the league, he would be dealt with Randy Brown, Milt Palacio, and draft assets to the Phoenix Suns for Tony Delk and Rodney Rogers.