The Boston Celtics have had gamers who’re accompanied by a complete of 68 completely different jersey numbers (and have three others who usually are not a part of a digital sequence) from their basis on the daybreak of Basketball Affiliation of America (BAA – The League which might turn out to be NBA at this time), carried by greater than 500 gamers through the historical past of the Celtics.
To commemorate the gamers who wore these figures, the Celtics Wire covers the entire historical past of Jersey’s numbers and the gamers who sported them from the group’s basis.
With 25 of those jerseys now have retired to honor among the best Celtics to put on these jerseys, there are a variety of historical past to cowl.
And for at this time’s article, we’ll proceed with the tenth of the 35 folks to put on jersey No. 12, the alum by Boston Guard Jerry Sichting. After having ended his college profession in Purdue, Sichting was resumed with the 82nd (there have been many extra laps on this draft time) total collection of the 1979 NBA draft by the Golden State Warriors.
The native of Martinsville, in Indiana, would play the primary season of his skilled profession with the Maine Lumberjacks of the Continental Basketball Affiliation (CBA – this model of the G league of the period), then signed with the Indiana Pacers in 1980 after being minimize by the Dubs. He can be handled in Boston in 1985 and performed for the Celtics till he was handled on the Portland Path Blazers in 1988, successful a title with the group in 1986.
Throughout his time that adapts to Celtics, Sichting solely introduced Jersey n ° 12 and picked up 5.9 factors, 1.2 rebounds and a couple of.4 assists per match.
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This text initially appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics Jersey Historical past No. 12 – Jerry Sichting (1985-86)
