Tag: Kelvin Upshaw

On this day: Kelvin Upshaw born; Boston holds Nuggets to 58 while Paul Pierce gets 45

On this day, former Celtic shooting guard Kelvin Upshaw was born, and Boston held Denver to just 58 points while Paul Pierce scored 45.

On this day in 1963, former Celtic shooting guard Kelvin Upshaw was born in Chicago, Illinois.

An alum of both at both Northeastern Oklahoma A&M and the University of Utah, Upshaw went undrafted. He worked his way up from the Continental Basketball Association (CBA — an equivalent to the G League in that era) to the Miami Heat. He started the 1988-89 season, appearing in nine games before returning to the CBA club he’d been with at the start of the season, the Albany Patroons. Upshaw managed to fight his way onto the Celts’ roster on the merit of his work over two ten-day contracts, only to find himself waived when summer came.

He found himself back in green in the fall, though, signed as a free agent in late November 1989. The stay was brief, however, as he was waived just a month later, the day after Christmas.

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 7

Today’s installment focuses on the 20 players who wore No. 7 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 20 players who wore No. 7 over the years as of September 2023.

On this day: Wilkins hits 25,000 career points; Corchiani born; Upshaw re-signed

On this day in Celtics history, Dominique Wilkins hit the 25,000-point plateau, Chris Corchiani was born and Kelvin Upshaw re-signed.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, then-future Hall of Fame big man Dominique Wilkins would move into eighth place on the NBA’s all-time scoring list. He did so after putting up 19 points, 7 rebounds, and an assist in a 126-115 win on the road against the Miami Heat, putting him at 25,207 overall points at the end of the contest.

While Wilkins was a short-timer with the Celtics — this being one of a mere 77 games played with the team in the 1994-95 season — he helped keep fans engaged in what was otherwise one of the toughest stretches of Boston’s history between the title runs of the 1980s and the arrival of Paul Pierce in 1998.

Even Wilkins couldn’t deal with the rebuilding Celtics for long though, skipping town to join Panathinaikos of the Greek League the following season.

On this day: Kelvin Upshaw born; Boston holds Nuggets to 58 while Paul Pierce gets 45

On this day, former Celtic shooting guard Kelvin Upshaw was born, and Boston held Denver to just 58 points while Paul Pierce scored 45.

On this day in 1963, former Celtic shooting guard Kelvin Upshaw was born in Chicago, Illinois.

An alum of both at both Northeastern Oklahoma A&M and the University of Utah, Upshaw went undrafted but worked his way up from the Continental Basketball Association (CBA — an equivalent to the G League in that era) to the Miami Heat, where he started the 1988-89 season, appearing in nine games before returning to the CBA club he’d been with at the start of the season, the Albany Patroons. He managed to fight his way onto the Celts’ roster on the merit of his work over two ten-day contracts, only to find himself waived when summer came.

He found himself back in green in the fall, though, signed as a free agent in late November of 1989. The stay was brief, however, as he was waived just a month later, the day after Christmas.