On this day in Boston Celtics history, point and shooting guard Paul Douglas Westphal was born in 1950 in Torrance, California. A item of the University of Southern California Trojans basketball program that saw him play at an All-American level, Westphal would be selected up with the 10th general choice of the 1972 NBA draft by the Celtics, with whom he would play 3 seasons inbetween 1972 and 1975.
The Californian flooring basic would win a title with Boston in 1974 priorto he was traded with draft possessions in exchange for Phoenix Suns point guard Charlie Scott in May of 1975.
Westphal would typical 7.3 points, 1.7 rebounds and 2.1 helps per videogame throughout 224 contests played for the Celtics in the 3 seasons he was with the franchise.
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Westphal shares that birthday with previous Celtic little forward Darren Daye, born on this date in 1960 in Des Moines, Iowa.
Daye played collegiately for UCLA, and was taken 57th general by the (then) Washington Bullets (now, Wizards) in the 1983 NBA draft.
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The Des Moine native would play for that group and the Chicago Bulls priorto signingupwith the group as a totallyfree representative in December of 1986.
He would play 108 videogames over 2 seasons with the group, logging 4.8 points, 1.9 boards, and 1.4 helps per videogame.
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The set have the verysame birthday as ex-Boston huge guy Mark Blount, who came into this world on this day in 1975 in Dobbs Ferry, New York.
Blount played his NCAA ball with the Pitt Panthers priorto being picked by the Seattle Supersonics with the 54th total choice of the 1997 NBA draft.
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He would play anumberof seasons in the Continental Basketball Association (CBA), International Basketball League (IBL) and United States Basketball League (USBL) as well as overseas in that period’s developmental pipeline priorto finalizing with the Celtics as a totallyfree representative for the veryfirst time in 2000.
We state “first time” since Blount would play another stint with the group after leaving for the Denver Nuggets as a totallyfree representative in 2002.
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The Nuggets would offer him back to Boston simply 6 months lateron with Mark Bryant for Shammond Williams.
Blount would be dealt onceagain in 2006 with Marcus Banks, Ricky Davis, and Justin Reed to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Dwayne Jones, Michael Olowokandi, and Wally Szczerbiak.
He tape-recorded 7.6 points, 4.7 rebounds, and an help per videogame while with the group.
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Finally, the trio have their birthday in typical with present Celtic power forward Grant Dean Williams, born in 1998 in Houston, Texas.
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