At the moment, within the historical past of the Boston Celtics, Marvin Barnes died in 2014. Barnes is from Windfall, Rhode Island. After coming into this world within the smallest state of the US in 1952, he performed his college ball together with his faculty faculty from the hometown earlier than being recovered by the Philadelphia 76ers through the 1974 NBA draft.
John Thomas of the Boston Celtics is held on the ring through the first half of the motion towards the Supersonics of Seattle on the Fleet Heart in Boston 09 January. AFP Picture / John Mottern (Picture by John Mottern / AFP) (Picture credit score should learn John Mottern / AFP through Getty Photographs)
The native of the Rhode Island selected to signal with the spirits of St. Louis of the American Basketball Affiliation (ABA) as a substitute of signing with the Sixers, taking part in for this ball membership for 2 seasons earlier than being taken by the Pistons de Detroit in 1976 after the dispersion draft of St. Louis. The dispersion undertaking is the results of the ABA-NBA merger when this staff has not joined the NBA. The pistons exchanged barnes at Buffalo Braves in 1977, which in flip handled it within the Celtics in 1978.
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Barnes performed 38 video games for Boston within the 1978-79 season, with a mean of 8.1 factors, 4.7 rebounds and 1.4 assists per match with the staff.
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It is usually the anniversary of the previous huge man of Boston, John Thomas, born at present in Minneapolis, Minnesota, in 1975. A present with Minnesota, Thomas was drafted by the New York Knicks with the twenty fifth selection of the draft of the NBA 1995. He by no means tailored to New York, nonetheless. He was handled with Dontae Jones, Walter McCarty and Scott Brooks (sure, that Scott Brooks) in Celtics in change for Chris Mills and lively.
Thomas solely performed 33 video games for Boston within the 1997-98 season. In them, he collected a mean of three.3 factors and a couple of.1 plates earlier than being exchanged with Chauncey Billups, Dee Brown and Roy Rogers on the Raptors of Toronto for Kenny Anderson, Popeye Jones and Zan Tabak in 1998.
This text initially appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics Historical past: Marvin Barnes Cross; John Thomas born
