Bailey Howell had already been to five All-Star Games (four with Detroit and one with Baltimore) before he arrived in Boston for the back nine of his career.  Howell wasn't putting the same numbers that he did before in Boston, but he was now on a more loaded team, and when you are a teammate of Bill Russell, you didn't have to lead the team in boards.  Howell was a strong presence in their NBA Championship wins in 1968 and 1969 and was chosen for his sixth All-Star the year before he won his first title.  Howell would average 18 Points and 8.4 Rebounds per Game with a 17.9 PER.

Antoine Walker was a champion at the University of Kentucky, and he would be drafted 6^th 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 go to 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.

Considered one of the most colorful characters in Celtics history, Cedric “Cornbread” Maxwell came into his own in his second season in Boston after being drafted 12^th overall from UNC Charlotte in 1977.  That year he would lead the NBA in Field Goal Percentage, an achievement he repeated the season after.  Maxwell would now be joined by Larry Bird, Kevin McHale, and Robert Parish and while those three would become the core trio of the team, it was Maxwell who was the MVP in their Finals of the 1981 Championship.   The clutch shooter was also a member of the 1984 Title, and he would finish in the top ten in VORP three years in a row (1978-79 to 1980-81).  Boston will always remember "Cornbread" whose number 31 was hung to the rafters in 2003.

Don Nelson without question achieved more considerable notoriety as a coach than as a player, but it should never be discounted what he accomplished when he donned the shorts.

Kevin Garnett was one of the best players in the NBA, and he carried the Minnesota Timberwolves for years. But there was only so far he could take them without having any real star power around him.  Garnett grew frustrated, and he was traded to the Boston Celtics who gave up five players and two number one picks for the former MVP.  The Celtics had also acquired Ray Allen, and along with incumbent, Paul Pierce, Boston had a big three that content with anyone, and they did so immediately!

Tom Heinsohn would play his entire playing career with the Boston Celtics (1956 to 1965), but that was just the beginning of what he would do with the team.  As a player, he would help Boston win eight titles while being named a Second Team All-NBA Selection at Power Forward for four straight years (1961-64).  He was not the primary star for the team, but he didn't have to be, as he provided Bill Russell, the perfect frontcourt partner as he was more adept at scoring than Russell was.  Heinsohn would average 18.6 Points per Game and had three 20 PPG years for Boston while also providing useful boarding metrics with an 8.8 average.

This one will take a while.

First off, we feel guilty ranking Jim Loscutoff so low.  This man is iconic in Beantown and was one of the most popular players ever in the Celtics’ green.  Saying that, let’s focus on the positive. 

Kenny Anderson was an All-Star with the New Jersey Nets four years before he was traded to Boston during the 1997-98 Season and the Point Guard was able to average double-digits (11.3) in the PPG stat over his four and have seasons with the team.  Peaking with the Celtics with a 14.0 PPG campaign in 1999-00, he would average 1.9 Steals per Game two years later, which would be good enough for ninth overall.

The Boston Celtics drafted the Yugoslavian born, Dino Radja in the 2^nd Round of the 1989 Draft but it took until the 1993-94 season that the Power Forward elected to leave Europe to play in the United States.

Playing for the Boston Celtics for five and a half seasons, Tony Battie was never going to be confused with an elite player, but the Center was strong at the little details that did not appear on a stat sheet.  Averaging 6.8 Points and 5.9 Rebounds per Game, Battie was an expert screen setter and a master of floor placement, which was why the Celtics held onto him for so long and he would have a 14-year NBA career.

Ed Pinckney will always be best known for leading Villanova in 1985 to the NCAA Championship where he was named the Final Four Most Outstanding Player.  As a professional, his longest run was with the Boson Celtics where he was mostly used as a change of pace Power Forward coming off the bench.  Pinckney was not a star but was efficient, showing off a nice PER of 15.6 as a Celtic over 340 Games.  Overall, Pinckney averaged 6.1 Points and 19.2 Minutes per Game.

Fox may have been more known in his career with the Los Angeles Lakers where he would help them win the NBA Title three times, but before that, he played for the Boston Celtics for six years where he had his best individual numbers.  With Boston, he would average 10.7 Points per Game with his last two seasons there seeing him exceed the 14 PPG threshold.  He would also exceed a PER of 16 in his final three years as a Celtic.

Kevin Gamble struggled to find a spot in the NBA and when he did it was with Portland, who would waive him after a few Games.  The Celtics would sign him with little expectation, but he would work his way to the team for six seasons.  The Small Forward would have four straight years with a PPG over 11, with a 15.6 season in 1990/91.

Chaney was the 12^th overall pick from the University of Houston where as a rookie he was part of the Celtics’ 1969 Championship win, the last of the 60’s dynasty.  The Guard would star on the defensive side of the ball, being named a Second Team All-Defensive Selection four times as a Celtic and would have four years of 10 plus Points per Game.  Chaney was with Boston for most of his career, save for a one-year stint in the ABA with St. Louis and a year and change later with the Los Angeles Lakers and he holds the distinction of being the only Celtic who at one time played with Bill Russell and Larry Bird.

Reggie Lewis was a late round draft pick in 1987, and the product of Northeastern University played less than ten minutes a game as a rookie, so it surprised some when he would blossom when gaining minutes due to Larry Bird's injury and would have an 18.5 PPG season as a sophomore.  Lewis would become the starting Shooting Guard, and in 1991/92 and 1992/93 he averaged just over 20 Points per Game, with the first of those seasons seeing him earning All-Star recognition.

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.

Despite the high amount of Hall of Famers that the Boston Celtics had and how many championships that they won; you would think that there would be a glut of top considerations for the spot of the best of Celtic of all-time.

Larry Siegfried took a longer way than many to get to the Celtics as he was drafted by 3^rd in the 1961 Draft by the Cincinnati Royals, a team the former Ohio State Buckeye surprisingly did not want to play for. Instead, he elected to play for the Cleveland Pipers of the American Basketball League and would win a title in that league but the league folded and he would sign with the St. Louis Hawks who bought his NBA right from Cincinnati.  The Hawks cut him, and with his confidence at a low, he was picked up by Boston.

Ainge actually played for the Toronto Blue Jays before he was drafted by the Boston Celtics, who chose him 31^st Overall in 1981 and after a rocky start, he would find his role in professional basketball as a pesky agitator and occasional scorer.  Ainge would help Boston win two titles (1984 & 1986) and was a bit of a surprise as an All-Star in 1988.  The Guard would average 11.3 Points per Game over the seven and a half seasons he played for Boston.

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.