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.
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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?