The Boston Celtics have had gamers who current themselves in a complete of 68 totally 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 change into the NBA of immediately), carried by greater than 500 gamers through the historical past of the Celtic.
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 workforce’s basis.
With 25 of those jerseys now have retired to honor a number of the best Celtics to put on these jerseys, there are numerous historical past to cowl.
And for immediately’s article, we are going to proceed with the twenty fourth of 35 individuals to put on jersey No. 12, the Boston Wing Von Wafer alum. After placing an finish to his college profession in Florida State, Wafer was recovered with the thirty ninth general choice of the 2005 NBA restoration by the Los Angeles Lakers.
The native of Homer, in Louisiana, would play the primary season of his skilled profession with Lakers, in addition to stays with the Los Angeles Clippers, Denver Nuggets, Portland Path Blazers, Houston Rockets and overseas earlier than becoming a member of Boston in 2010.
His stick with the workforce lined a single season, ending when he was handled at Orlando Magic in 2011. Throughout his time, adapting to Celtics, Wafer solely wore Jersey N ° 12 and succeeded 3.2 factors per sport.
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This text initially appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics Jersey Historical past No. 12 – Von Wafer (2010-11)
