On this day in Boston Celtics history, champ shooting guard and penultimate group president of basketball operations Danny Ainge made his NBA launching for the franchise method back in1981 A item of Brigham Young University, Ainge was a three-sport star in high school, where he was a veryfirst group All-American in football, basketball, and baseball, playing basketball with BYU and baseball expertly with the Toronto Blue Jays while still in college.
He would play for that group in Major League Baseball for 3 seasons priorto choosing to shot his hand at basketball and was chose up with the 31st choice of the 1981 NBA draft by the Celtics.
Boston of course purchased him out of his offer with the Blue Jays.
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He would play his veryfirst videogame in the NBA on this date in a 109-100 win over the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets.
It was far from asign of how the Oregon native would fare lateron in his profession with the group nevertheless, Ainge scored simply 2 points, an help, and a rebound in his inaugural videogame with the group.
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Precisely 7 years to the day of his launching, Ainge would rating a career-high 45 points in a 121-107 blowout of the Philadelphia 76ers at the old Boston Garden.
The Oregon local scored 18 points in the 4th quarter alone.
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It is likewise the birthday of previous Celtic shooting guard Otis Birdsong, who tookplace to be on that Nets group Ainge assisted beat in an odd coincidence.
The Houston item came into this world in Winter Haven, Florida in 1955, and would be chosen from the Cougars by the (then) Kansas City (now, Sacramento) Kings with the 2nd total choice of the 1977 NBA draft.
Otis Birdsong was a gamer not pointedout much from his time in the NBA, however he was actually great, averaging 18 points a videogame throughout his 13 year profession invested with the Kings, the Nets and Celtics pic.twitter.com/3JZFj9Rxg4
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Birdsong would play for that group and the Nets (still in New Jersey in that age) priorto signingupwith the Celtics for the last chapter of his 12-season profession.
He would typical 2.8 points and a board per videogame with the group.
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On this day in 2011, Boston traded Albert Miralles to the Milwaukee Bucks for guard Keyon Dooling.
The Missouri item would play one season with the group, briefly serving as the company’s gamer advancement coach priorto un-retiring to signupwith the Memphis Grizzlies.
He balanced 4.0 points and 1.1 helps per videogame as a Celtic.
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That exactsame day is likewise the anniversary of when the group signed huge guy Greg Stiemsma as a complimentary representative.
It was the previous Wisconsin Badger’s initially gig in the league that saw him take the court after going undrafted in 2008, playing for abroad groups in the interim.
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