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On this day: Paul Silas passes; Sean Grande born; Kuberski signed

On this date, Sean Grande was born, Steve Kuberski returned to Boston and the Celtics beat the Raptors in triple-overtime.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, legendary Boston power forward Paul Silas left us. Born in 1943 in Prescott, Arkansas, Silas and his extended family moved to California as part of the Great migration, living in Oakland California with cousins who would eventually become the Pointer Sisters and another who would play college ball with him at Creighton.

Drafted by the then-St. Louis (now, Atlanta) Hawks in 1964, Silas would play for them and the Phoenix Suns before he was dealt to the Celtics in 1972. The McClymonds High graduate would win two of his three titles with Boston, and go on to play for the Denver Nuggets and Seattle SuperSonics before starting a three-decade career as an NBA coach.

His son Stephen has since followed him into the profession. Rest in Peace, Mr. Silas.

On this day: Lewis, Lohaus, Acres, Wenstrom, Jackson debut; Green signed; Turner cut; Kuberski born

On this day, former Celtics Reggie Lewis, Brad Lohaus, Mark Acres, and Matt Wenstrom made their debuts for Boston, and Steve Kuberski was born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, forward Reggie Lewis debuted for the team in a 125-108 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in 1987. Born on the 21st of this month in Baltimore, Maryland, Lewis would play collegiately for Boston-area Northeastern University under New England coaching legend Jim Calhoun (better known for his time at UConn) before being drafted by Boston with the 22nd overall pick of the 1987 NBA draft.

He would later collapse and die of heart-related medical issues he’d been recently diagnosed with many years later but would play with Boston for six seasons, starting with this win over the Bucks.

The Maryland native would log 4 points in 5 minutes of game time in his debut.

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.

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 33

Today’s installment focuses on the four players who wore No. 33 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 four players who wore No. 33 over the years as of August 2023.

On this day: Celtics beat Pistons in G1 of ’08 ECF; Enes Freedom, Dick Mehen born

On this day, the Celtics defeated the Detroit Pistons 88-79 in G1 of the ’08 East Finals, and Boston bigs Enes Kanter and Dick Mehen were born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team would lose a single player to the newly-formed (then) New Orleans (now, Utah) Jazz expansion team in the 1974 NBA expansion draft.

That player — Steve Kuberski — a big man the Celtics drafted out of Bradley with the 52nd overall pick of the 1969 NBA draft, would go on to win two championships with the franchise in 1974, and1976 during the first of two stints with Boston over his eight seasons with the team. Kuberski was the last player to wear jersey No. 33 before Larry Bird arrived in 1979.

He would return to the Celtics as a free agent in 1975 after being dealt by the Jazz to the Milwaukee Bucks, who waived him.

On this day: Sean Grande born; Kuberski signed; 3 OT win vs. Raps in ’96

On this date, Sean Grande was born, Steve Kuberski returned to Boston and the Celtics beat the Raptors in triple-overtime.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, the team’s current play-by-play announcer Sean David Grande was born in New York City, New York in 1971. The radio voice of the Celtics — as Grande is often called for his work alongside Celtics alumnus and fellow broadcaster Cedric Maxwell for 98.5 The Sports Hub’s “Grande and Max” show – got his start in the industry in the late 1980s calling college basketball, hockey and football for Boston University.

He would switch to calling games for Boston College football and hockey in 1996 and soon began calling NCAA tournament games in basketball and became a popular personality on local radio station WEEI before leaving to call NBA games in 1998, starting with the Minnesota Timberwolves.

Grande would return to the Boston market to cover the Celtics in 2001.

On this day: Lewis, Lohaus, Acres, Wenstrom, Jackson debut; Green signed; Turner cut; Kuberski born

On this day, former Celtics Reggie Lewis, Brad Lohaus, Mark Acres, and Matt Wenstrom made their debuts for Boston, and Steve Kuberski was born.

On this day in Boston Celtics history, forward Reggie Lewis debuted for the team in a 125-108 win over the Milwaukee Bucks in 1987. Born on the 21st of this month in Baltimore, Maryland, Lewis would play collegiately for Boston-area Northeastern University under New England coaching legend Jim Calhoun (better known for his time at UConn) before being drafted by Boston with the 22nd overall pick of the 1987 NBA draft.

He would later collapse and die of heart-related medical issues he’d been recently diagnosed with many years later but would play with Boston for six seasons, starting with this win over the Bucks.

The Maryland native would log 4 points in 5 minutes of game time in his debut.

Every player in Boston Celtics history who wore No. 33

This is every player in Boston’s history who wore the Celtics’ No. 33 jersey for at least one game.

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 four players who wore No. 33 over the years.

Ranking every No. 52 pick made in the NBA draft by the Boston Celtics

Our sixth installment of ranking every pick from Nos. 1 to 60, we compare the seven picks the Boston Celtics have made 52nd overall.

Now on our seventh installment of ranking each Boston Celtics draft pick by the pick number they were drafted Nos. 1 through 60, we land at No. 52, which the Celtics have drafted at seven times in their seven-decade history.

The picks made at this number began in 1962 and continued until 2010, the most recent draft Boston selected 52nd overall.

As one might be assume this late in the draft, there were no stars to be found.

But there is a two-time NBA champion to speak of, an (American Basketball Association) All-Star and at least one player that might be familiar to relatively newer fans of the Celtics.

As we have done in previous editions of this series, we use a rubric valuing contributions while with the Celtics as our main focus, with the achievements garnered before or after as a secondary means of ranking these players when the race is close.

All that explained, who are the greatest Celtics to be drafted 52nd overall?

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