The Boston Celtics have had gamers who’re accompanied by a complete of 68 totally different jersey numbers (and have three others who aren’t a part of a digital collection) from their basis on the daybreak of Basketball Affiliation of America (BAA – The League which might turn into NBA in the present day), 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 workforce’s basis.
With 25 of those jerseys now have retired to honor among the best Celtics to put on these jerseys, there are a whole lot of historical past to cowl.
And for in the present day’s article, we are going to proceed with the fifth of the 35 individuals to put on the jersey No. 12, the previous Boston Naillls Boston striker. After having ended his college profession on the UCLA, Naills was resumed with the tenth international collection of the 1956 NBA restoration by (then) St. Louis (now, Atlanta) Hawks.
The native of Dallas, Texas, would play a part of the primary season of his skilled profession with the Hawks, in addition to with the New York Knicks and (then) San Francisco (now, Golden State), earlier than his contract was offered to the Celtics in 1963.
His stick with the workforce has prolonged over the past 3 seasons of their skilled profession and noticed him enjoying historical past as a part of the primary black all that began 5 within the historical past of the League, in addition to successful 3 titles With Boston. Throughout his time that adapts to Celtics, Naills solely wore jersey No. 12 and filed 10.3 factors and 4.6 rebounds.
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This text initially appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics Jersey Historical past No. 12 – Willie Naills (1963-66)
