Tag: Ray Williams

On this day: Siegfried inked; Brown, Schintzius, Williams born

On this day, former Celtics champ Larry Siegfried signed with the team, and PJ Brown, Dwayne Schintzius, and Ray Williams were born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Boston point and shooting guard Larry Siegfried was signed by the Boston Celtics as an unrestricted free agent. It is also the day he passed away in 2010 (rest in peace).

Siegfried was born in Shelby, Ohio in 1939 and would play collegiately at Ohio State with the Buckeyes, and would be taken by the (then) Cincinnati Royals (now, Sacramento Kings) with the third overall pick of the 1961 NBA draft. Siegfried would instead elect to play for the Pittsburgh Pipers of the American Basketball League (ABL — a competing league at that time) due to the sting of losing to the Cincinnati Bearcats while a Buckeye.

Quirky? Sure — but it worked out for the Celtics, with whom he would win five titles between 1963 and 1969.

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 20

Today’s installment focuses on the 31 players who wore No. 20 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, 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 31 players who wore No. 20 over the years as of August 2023.

On this day: Siegfried inked; Brown, Schintzius, Williams born

On this day, former Celtics champ Larry Siegfried signed with the team, and PJ Brown, Dwayne Schintzius, and Ray Williams were born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Boston point and shooting guard Larry Siegfried was signed by the Boston Celtics as an unrestricted free agent. It is also the day he passed away in 2010 (rest in peace).

Siegfried was born in Shelby, Ohio in 1939 and would play collegiately at Ohio State with the Buckeyes, and would be taken by the (then) Cincinnati Royals (now, Sacramento Kings) with the third overall pick of the 1961 NBA draft. Siegfried would instead elect to play for the Pittsburgh Pipers of the American Basketball League (ABL — a competing league at that time) due to the sting of losing to the Cincinnati Bearcats while a Buckeye.

Quirky? Sure — but it worked out for the Celtics, with whom he would win five titles between 1963 and 1969.

Today in Nets history: Third player in franchise history scores 50 in NBA game

After spending four years in a New York Knicks uniform, Ray Williams set his NBA career-high as a member of the New Jersey Nets.

With the NBA on hiatus and New York continuing its battle against the novel coronavirus outbreak, Brooklyn Nets games will not be played for the foreseeable future.

For the Nets, as much as any team, this comes at an odd time — Brooklyn was battling the Orlando Magic for the seventh spot in the Eastern Conference standings. At the stoppage of play, the Nets had a half-game advantage over the Magic.

Since there aren’t any games, each day Nets Wire will highlight impressive individual performances and major moments throughout Nets history:

John Williamson had some high-scoring nights during his ABA days with the New York Nets, but it wasn’t until the team moved to the NBA that he set his career-high at 50 points. In doing so, he became the first player in the history of the franchise to score 50 in an NBA game.

The next season (1979-80), and shortly after Williamson went to the Washington Bullets, Mike Newlin would join the club and set a new franchise high. He scored 52, though it came in a loss to the Boston Celtics.

Fast-forward to April 17, 1982, and Ray Williams joined the club when he dropped 52 on the Detroit Pistons in New Jersey’s 147-132 win (full box score). The guard went 21-for-34 from the floor and 9-for-11 at the free-throw line as he tied the franchise record in scoring — which would hold up until Deron Williams scored 57 in March of the 2011-12 season.