Trivia: Which Celtics were voted to an All-Defensive Team

Fencer reregistered · Post #1 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 11:30 pm

Trivia question: Which Celtics were ever voted to an All-Defensive team, either when they were on the Celtics or otherwise.

Hint: The team was first selected for the 1968-9 season.

I found one of the answers really surprising ...

Gomes3PC · Post #2 » by **Gomes3PC** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 11:55 pm

Just first team?

KG
DJ
McHale
Walton
Cowens
Hondo
Silas
GP
Ben Wallace (does he count? he was technically a Celtic for some period of time)
Bowen

I'm sure I'm missing someone.

Fencer reregistered · Post #3 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Tue Jul 1, 2008 11:58 pm

Gomes3PC wrote:Just first team?

KG
DJ
McHale
Walton
Cowens
Hondo
Silas
GP
Ben Wallace (does he count? he was technically a Celtic for some period of time)
Bowen

I'm sure I'm missing someone.

First or second team would be fine.

I don't think Ben Wallace was ever on the season roster, so we probably shouldn't count him.

You're missing three that I can think of.

BigHands · Post #4 » by **BigHands** » Wed Jul 2, 2008 12:08 am

Quite a list…I was surprised 3 times.

Russell
Hondo
Sanders
Cowens
Silas
Larry Joe
Chaney
Buckner
Dennis Johnson
McHale
Payton
P. J. Brown (somewhat surprising)
Theo Ratliff
KG
Chauncey Billups
Bill Walton
Bowen
Artis Gilmore
ML Carr (also a surprise)
Kermit Washington
Scott Wedman (very surprising)

Jammer · Post #5 » by **Jammer** » Wed Jul 2, 2008 2:29 am

BigHands:

You might be more surprised to learn that one of the years that PJ Brown was All-Defensive,

a sports writer actually cast a vote for PJ as League MVP.

Truthiracy · Post #6 » by **Truthiracy** » Wed Jul 2, 2008 4:26 am

I still can't believe Chauncey Billups got on, you might as well put Steve Nash & Jamal Crawford on then. That just makes the award a joke.

Fencer reregistered · Post #7 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Wed Jul 2, 2008 6:38 am

Wedman is the one that blew me away. That was my reason for starting this thread.

Edit: And thanks, BigHands. I didn't even read the lists as carefully as you did, and I had no intention of actually typing out the results.