Since their founding on the daybreak of the Basketball Affiliation of America (BAA, the league that will change into right now’s NBA), the Boston Celtics have worn 68 totally different jersey numbers (and three extra that aren’t a part of any numerical sequence), worn by over 500 gamers all through Celtics historical past. To commemorate the gamers who’ve worn these numbers, Celtics Wire covers your entire historical past of jersey numbers and the gamers who’ve worn them for the reason that workforce’s founding.
With 25 of those jerseys being retired to honor a number of the biggest Celtics to ever put on these jerseys, there’s loads of historical past to cowl. And for right now’s article, we’ll begin with the seventh participant out of 31 to put on jersey No. 4. That participant is former Boston nice Clyde Lovellette.
Lovellette performed faculty soccer for the College of Kansas and was chosen by the Minneapolis (now Los Angeles) Lakers, Boston’s rivals, with the tenth total decide within the 1952 NBA draft. The Petersburg, Indiana native performed for that workforce, the Cincinnati Royals (now Sacramento Kings) and the St. Louis (now Atlanta) Hawks earlier than the latter membership traded him to Boston for money and draft property.
The previous Jayhawk would play the ultimate two seasons of his NBA profession with the Celtics, carrying No. 4 for his first season in inexperienced and white (he would swap to No. 34 for the 1963-64 season).
Lovellette gained two of his three titles in a reserve function with Boston, and averaged 6.6 factors and a couple of.9 rebounds per recreation with the Celtics.
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