The Boston Celtics have had gamers go together with a complete of 68 completely different jersey numbers (and have three extra that aren’t a part of a quantity collection) since their founding on the daybreak of the Basketball Affiliation of America (BAA – the league that may at the moment turn into NBA), worn by greater than 500 gamers all through the historical past of the Celtics.
To commemorate the gamers who wore these numbers, the Celtics Wire covers your complete historical past of Jersey numbers and the gamers who sported them because the crew’s founding.
With 25 of those jerseys now retired to honor a few of the best Celtics to put on these jerseys, there may be plenty of historical past to cowl.
And for at the moment’s article, we’ll proceed with the 18th of 29 individuals to put on jersey No. 11, Boston Guard alum Randy Brown. After ending his faculty profession at New Mexico State, Brown was taken with the thirty first total choice within the 1991 NBA Draft by the Sacramento Kings.
The Chicago, Illinois native would play the primary 4 seasons of his skilled profession with the Kings, in addition to the Chicago Bulls earlier than Brown signed with Boston as a free agent in 2000. His time with the crew lined 55 video games over two seasons till he was dealt to the Phoenix Suns in 2002.
Throughout his time suiting up for the Celtics, Brown solely wore jersey No. 11 and put up 4.1 factors, 1.8 rebounds, 2.8 assists and 1.1 steals per recreation.
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This text initially appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics Jersey Historical past No. 11 – Randy Brown (2000-02)
