On this day in Boston Celtics history, huge guy Luke Cameron Harangody was born in Decatur, Illinois back in1988 Harangody would play his college ball with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish males’s basketball group, where he won 3 successive Second Team All-American honors inbetween 2008 and 2010, winning Big East Player of the Year in 2008.
Harangody was picked with the 52nd general choice of the Celtics in the 2010 NBA draft, finalizing a two-year offer with the group in August of that year. The Illinois native would launching versus the Detroit Pistons in November of that exactsame year, playing a overall of 49 videogames for the group that prepared him.
Harangody was then traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers along with center Semih Erden for draft properties.
Jan. 28, 2011; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Boston Celtics forward Luke Harangody versus the Phoenix Suns at the US Airways . Mandatory Credit: Mark J. Rebilas-USA TODAY Sports
It is likewise the date of the trade that sentout Celtic guard Michael John “Red” Wallace to the (now defunct) Toronto Huskies for guard Charlie Hoefer.
Wallace hadactually been one of the Celtics signed to the group in its inaugural season of 1946-47 even inthepast there was a draft to be taken in.
Happy birthday in paradise Charlie “Dutch” Hoefer and Bob Kinney.