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A list of the Razorbacks drafted to the NBA since 2000

Three Razorbacks had their names called during the 2023 NBA Draft, the most since 1992.

Both the NBA and NFL have done a great job of turning their respective drafts into spectacles.

Thursday, the NBA held the 77th edition of its draft, and three Razorbacks had their names called. It’s the most since 1992 when four players were drafted out of Fayetteville.

Anthony Black became the Razorbacks’ highest-drafted player, going No. 6 to the Orlando Magic, joining last year’s top overall pick Paolo Banchero.

Nick Smith’s name would get called later in the draft at No. 27 to the Charlotte Hornets, and the guard was emotional after going through a tumultuous freshman season at Arkansas. Jordan Walsh was the final Razorback drafted, going in the second round to the Boston Celtics, giving Eric Musselman four one-and-done players during his tenure as the Arkansas head coach.

With the smoke clearing, let’s take a look at all the players drafted to the NBA out of Arkansas since 2000.

GALLERY: Arkansas basketball’s first round picks since joining the SEC

Arkansas basketball has had a plethora of first round draft picks since joining the SEC in 1992.

Thirty-plus years ago, Nolan Richardson’s basketball program left the Southwest Conference and joined the Southeastern Conference in a seismic move.

Within three years, the Razorbacks went to back-to-back national championship games and won a title.

In preparation of Thursday night’s NBA Draft, we look back at the players who were taken in the first round in the last three decades.

 

Six Boston Celtics alumni changing places in redraft of 2001 NBA draft class

Let’s take a look at which Celtics alumni landed where.

As Hoops Hype’s staff keep themselves busy reassessing the draft orders of the last few decades over the years, there are always a fair number of Boston Celtics alumni making moves in their re-drafts as a result.

In the H/H’s reassessment of the 2001 NBA draft class, a total of six Boston alumni ended up seeing their draft stock shift with the benefit of hindsight lifting their fortunes. And while they won’t see any pay raises or anything else of that sort given the fictitious nature of such an exercise, it’s also nice to see this group get their flowers, too.

Let’s take a look at which Celtics alumni landed where.

Arkansas guard Anthony Black declares for NBA Draft

ICYMI: Arkansas guard Anthony Black will be entering the NBA Draft after one year with the Razorbacks.

Arkansas guard [autotag]Anthony Black[/autotag] has officially announced his decision to enter the 2023 [autotag]NBA Draft[/autotag] after just one season in Fayetteville. Black appeared on ESPN’s NBA Today to make his decision.

The former McDonald’s All-American was a steady and reliable option for the Razorbacks in his lone season as he played in every game on his way to averaging 12.8 points, 5.1 rebounds, 3.9 assists, 2.1 steals and 45.3% FG. Black joins [autotag]Nick Smith Jr.[/autotag], [autotag]Ricky Council[/autotag] and [autotag]Devo Davis[/autotag] as players from last year’s team to test the professional waters.

Black’s decision should come as no surprise to most fans, as he’s projected as a potential lottery selection in this year’s draft. In ESPN’s latest mock draft, Black is projected to be selected at No. 10 overall by the Portland Trail Blazers and in USA Today’s mock draft he’s projected to be selected at No. 9 by the Utah Jazz.

If those projections turn out to be true, he could potentially be the highest Razorback player selected since [autotag]Joe Johnson[/autotag] in 2001.

As for the current roster, his announcement provides some clarity as it opens up an available scholarship which [autotag]Eric Musselman[/autotag] will likely use fairly quickly on another transfer portal addition.

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What Boston Celtics are the highest earners from their NCAA schools?

As the 2023 NCAA Tourney unfolds, we look back on which Celtics alumni made the most money in the NBA from their respective schools.

With the entirety of college basketball fandom and then some focused on the 2023 NCAA Tournament as we inch closer to crowning a national champion at that level of the sport, attention to the college roots of the players of today and yesteryear also comes into momentary focus.

We can look back at the collegiate history of the Boston Celtics‘ top players, for example, and find a number of the storied ball club’s alumni are also among the highest earners for their respective schools at the NBA level. At blue blood schools like UConn, Duke, and Kansas to lesser-decorated but still well-represented universities like LSU, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, Celtics alumni have made a pretty penny at the NBA level.

Let’s take a look at which Celtics alumni are the top earners in the NBA for their respective colleges in the modern era.

HoopsHype’s most overpaid player list includes nine former Boston Celtics

Let’s dive into where alumni of the Boston Celtics appear on this list.

There is a good case to be made that with the advent of the NBA salary cap players are actually underpaid. In the context of that cap, however, quite a few players earned more than the value they brought to their clubs. The Boston Celtics are not excluded from that reality.

The folks over at HoopsHype have put together a metric to try to measure such things. The real value metric was developed by HoopsHype analyst Alberto De Roa. In a recent H/H article, authors Sam Yip and Frank Urbina sorted the top 30 players who have fleeced teams in terms of their real value.

Let’s dive into where former Celtics appear on this list.

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, big man Brandon Bass with 17 points.

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

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 October 2022.

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 October 2022.

JR Smith claims he, Jamal Crawford, Nick Young, Boston Celtics alums Isaiah Thomas, Joe Johnson blackballed by NBA

The former Lakers and Cavs champ believes a number of veterans are being blackballed by the league.

Former NBAer JR Smith recently claimed he, Jamal Crawford, and former Boston Celtics alumni Isaiah Thomas and Joe Johnson were “blackballed” from the NBA in a recent interview with Complex’s Pierce Simpson. “Anybody can sit here and tell you that that’s a fact,” suggested Smith.

“You’ve got those 30 teams, or the top three people on each of those 30 teams, and exclude them. Give me the fourth through 15th man, just the fourth through the 15th,” the two-time NBA champion continued. “Name one of them that’s better than me. I’m sitting here like, ‘Bro, I’ve worked out with these dudes.'”

“I’ve watched their GM come up to me and ask me, ‘Yo, why aren’t you playing?'” he added. “You know why I’m not playing.”

“I feel like it’s a whole genre that happened to the Joe Johnsons who obviously still got game, still can play,” Smith opined. “Jamal Crawford still got game, still can play. Nick Young, still got game, still can play. Isaiah Thomas, still got game, still can play.”

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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.