What Celtics from the NBA’s 50th anniversary All-Time list might not make the 75th?

A number of those who made the cut 25 years ago might not make the NBA’s 75th-anniversary list.

With the arrival of the NBA’s and the Boston Celtics‘ 75th anniversary season comes the expansion of the list of the 50 greatest players in NBA history released for the league’s commemorations festivities for hitting its half-century mark of existence.

As one might expect, the new list will have 75 players representing the NBA’s best players over the course of its 75 years of history. But there is no guarantee that having made it in at the 50-year mark means that a player will make it onto this expanded list. In fact, there are a number of Celtics who are in danger of being cut in light of previous snubs and more recent achievements.

Let’s take a look at who might not make the cut of the Boston players who populated the 50th-anniversary list.