gold star for USAHOF
Site Admin

Site Admin

Antoine Walker was a champion at the University of Kentucky and was drafted 6th Overall by Boston in 1996, though the Celtics were no longer the dominant team they used to be.  The Power Forward would be Boston's primary offensive weapon, and he would be named an All-Star in his sophomore season when he averaged 22.4 Points per Game.  Walker would be a workhorse, and in 2001-02 he would lead the NBA in Minutes Played and Field Goal Attempts, and he would also make his second All-Star Game.  Walker also had help with Paul Pierce, and the tandem took the Celtics to the Eastern Conference Finals that year.  He would be with Boston one more season and would be chosen for his third and final All-Star Game.

21. Tom Sanders

Tom “Satch” Sanders is one of only three players to appear in eight NBA Finals and win them all.  To no surprise, the other two are also Celtics.

23. K.C. Jones

K.C. Jones played with the great Bill Russell at the University of San Francisco, where he would win two NCAA Championships.  The duo would later join the Celtics, where Jones was not the same contributor that he was in college, but his role was to be a role player and distributor, which he did perfectly.  Jones played all nine seasons in the NBA with Boston, wherein eight of them he would be an NBA Champion, and three would see him finish in the top five in Assists.  While Jones was never an All-Star, he knew he didn't have to be, and his selflessness was one of the main reasons that made Boston so good for so long.

22. Ray Allen

Ray Allen had already proven himself as a star with the Milwaukee Bucks and Seattle SuperSonics, but it was with the Boston Celtics where he would win his first NBA Championship.  The superstar shooter was traded from the Sonics before the 2007-08 season where he joined Paul Pierce and an incoming Kevin Garnett to form a "Big Three" and Allen, who no longer had to carry the workload (and also was getting a little older) may have scored less but was still very efficient and in his first year with the Celtics he was an NBA Champion.