Celtics Trivia Game (2024)

DavorFanCroatia · Post #121 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:30 pm

Little off topic...here is my research i posted on celticsblog forum a month ago...

Hay...
For statistical freaks like me...with a help of basketball reference web site here is the list of all Celtics players in history who scored 20 points or more in a NBA game (regular season or playoff)

60 Larry Bird
56 Kevin McHale
54 John Havlicek
51 Sam Jones, Ray Allen
50 Bob Cousy, Paul Pierce
49 Antoine Walker
46 Ed Macauley
45 Tom Heinsohn, Danny Ainge
44 Bill Sharman, Rajon Rondo
43 Dominique Wilkins, Jeff Green
42 Bob McAdoo, Reggie Lewis
41 Jo-Jo White, Dee Brown, Todd Day
40 Don Nelson, Robert Parish
39 Larry Siegfried, Em Bryant, Dave Cowens
38 Frank Ramsey, Bailey Howell
37 Bill Russell, Billy Knight, David Wesley
36 Dino Radja, Ricky Davis
35 Sidney Wicks, Cedric Maxwell, John Bagley, Ron Mercer, Wally Szczerbiak
34 George Kaftan, Ed Sadowski, Chris Ford, Kevin Gamble, Rick Fox
33 Dennis Johnson, Sherman Douglas, Kenny Anderson, Gerald Green, Kevin Garnett
32 KC Jones, Don Chaney, Charlie Scott, Raef LaFrentz, Al Jefferson, Avery Bradley
31 Don Barksdale, Jack Nichols, Paul Silas, Pete Maravich, Scott Wedman, Brian Shaw
31 Greg Minor, Eric Williams, Ryan Gomes, Delonte West, Eddie House, Jarred Sullinger
30 Tom Sanders, Willie Naulls, Dave Bing, Xavier McDaniel, Tony Allen, Leon Powe, Kelly Olynyk
29 Jeff Judkins, Marvin Barnes, Nate Archibald, Dana Barros, Bryant Stith, Mark Blount
29 Rasheed Wallace, Jerryd Bayless, Evan Turner
28 Gene Stump, Tony Lavelli, Eric Montross, Marcus Banks
27 Dick Hemric, Hank Finkel, Steve Kuberski, Art Williams, Paul Westphal, Rick Robey
27 Earl Williams, Gerald Henderson, Darren Daye, Walter McCarty, Gary Payton, Brandon Bass
26 Al Brightman, Tom Kelly, Connie Simmons, Jim Loscutoff, Alaa Abdelnaby, Vitaly Potapenko
26 Chauncey Billups, Tony Delk, Kendrick Perkins, Glen Davis, Jason Terry
25 Mel Riebe, Bob Doll, Ed Leede, Derek Strong, Rodney Rogers, JR Bremer
25 Shaquille O'Neal, Jordan Crawford
24 Ed Ehlers, Bob Kinney, Bob Harris, Gene Conley, Clyde Lovellette, Wayne Embry, Jiri Welsch
24 Ernie DiGregorio, Michael Smith, Tony Battie, Vin Baker, Mike James, Sebastian Telfair
24 Tyler Zeller
23 Hernie Hermsen, Sonny Hertzberg, ML Carr, Pervis Ellison, Adrian Griffin, Danny Fortson
23 Joe Johnson, Erick Strickland, Marcus Smart
22 Howie Shannon, Arnie Risen, Tom Boswell, Kevin Stacom, Curtis Rowe, Bill Walton
22 Ed Pinckney, Tony Harris, Blue Edwards, Marty Conlon, Allan Ray, Sam Cassell
22 Nate Robinson, Jae Crowder
21 Jim Seminoff, Johnny Ezersky, Mel Counts, Fred Saunders, Fred Roberts, Jimmy Oliver
21 Jim Paxson, Travis Knight, Shammond Williams, Chucky Atkins, Marcus Thornton
20 Saul Mariaschin, Brady Walker, Jim Barnes, Quinn Buckner, David Thirdkill, Jerry Sichting
20 Brad Lohaus, Nenad Krstic, Courtney Lee, Kris Humphries, Phil Pressey

Greetings from Croatia

truth18 · Post #122 » by **truth18** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:47 pm

^awesome stuff.

No idea who the second guy Is. Crazy it's not LL, haha.

DavorFanCroatia · Post #123 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:49 pm

To Tenbomber...
No to Heinsohn and no to Sharman...
Come on guys...you can do this

Tenbomber · Post #124 » by **Tenbomber** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 6:58 pm

Reggie Lewis?

There has to be some obscure answer to one of these....

Backup guess....Sydney Wicks?

DavorFanCroatia · Post #125 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:02 pm

Reggie no, Wicks hell no

Tenbomber · Post #126 » by **Tenbomber** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:11 pm

DavorFanCroatia wrote:Reggie no, Wicks hell no

Thought about Reggie and what happened to him...Wicks was a gamble that didn't pay off....but come to think of it...he played later for whoever he was traded to...had to retire in a Celtic uniform...right?

Has to be a Celtic scorer who retired rather early, one would think?

Pete Maravich?

DavorFanCroatia · Post #127 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:12 pm

No to Pistol. Yes this is a player who retired in Celtics uniform.

Tenbomber · Post #128 » by **Tenbomber** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:19 pm

one last guess....Sam Jones?

Seems too obvious that it could be him though?

DavorFanCroatia · Post #129 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 7:23 pm

Sorry, its not #24...
And what a man must do to recieve a first And1

radcot · Post #130 » by **radcot** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:50 pm

Following the Pete Maravich line of reasoning, it might be someone like Tiny Archibald or Dave Bing. I think both ended their careers with the C's, but I'm not sure either scored enough career points to qualify.

DavorFanCroatia · Post #131 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 8:59 pm

And we have a winner...Its Dave Bing. In 1977/78 scored 21, 21 and 24 points in last 3 games. Halle of Fame player, TOP 50 player. Showed a lots of class...Because that was Havlicek farewell tour, Bing didn't announced retirement...he didn't wanna stole any of Hondo's thunder. Havlicek and Bing played last games of their great career as teammates and each scored 20+ points in last 3 games.

DavorFanCroatia · Post #132 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:08 pm

And NCAA championchips teams with multiple Celtics players
1947 Holy Cross: George Kaftan, Joe Mullaney and Bob Cousy
1951 Kentucky: Frank Ramsey and Lou Tsioropoulos
1955 San Francisco: Bill Russell and KC Jones
1960 Ohio State: John Havlicek and Larry Siegfried
1962 Cincinatti: Tom Thacker and Ron Bonham
1969, 1970 and 1971 UCLA: Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe
1996 Kentucky: Antoine Walker, Tony Delk, Ron Mercer, Walter McCarty and Wayne Turner

And the question: Which former Celtics is responsible for only quadruple double in NCAA D1 history?

truth18 · Post #133 » by **truth18** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:10 pm

This thread is fantastic. Great idea KGboss.

KGboss · Post #134 » by **KGboss** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:21 pm

truth18 wrote:This thread is fantastic. Great idea KGboss.

thanks man I've enjoyed reading and learning about this team over the last few days. Keep it going guys.

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KGboss · Post #135 » by **KGboss** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:26 pm

DavorFanCroatia wrote:And NCAA championchips teams with multiple Celtics players
1947 Holy Cross: George Kaftan, Joe Mullaney and Bob Cousy
1951 Kentucky: Frank Ramsey and Lou Tsioropoulos
1955 San Francisco: Bill Russell and KC Jones
1960 Ohio State: John Havlicek and Larry Siegfried
1962 Cincinatti: Tom Thacker and Ron Bonham
1969, 1970 and 1971 UCLA: Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe
1996 Kentucky: Antoine Walker, Tony Delk, Ron Mercer, Walter McCarty and Wayne Turner

And the question: Which former Celtics is responsible for only quadruple double in NCAA D1 history?

Lester Hudson with the 58th pick in the 2009 draft.

Which celtic is retired by their nickname?

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DavorFanCroatia · Post #136 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 9:56 pm

"Jungle" Jim Loscufoff... "Loscy" because his #18 was retired for Dave Cowens

DavorFanCroatia · Post #137 » by **DavorFanCroatia** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 10:08 pm

Which former Celtics is only player in basketball history to win NCAA, NBA and ABA championchips?

Fencer reregistered · Post #138 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:04 pm

Ed Pinkney wrote:Dee Brown - Dunk Contest
Larry Bird - 3 Point Contest (possibly twice?)
Paul Pierce - 3 Point Contest

And I can't remember if Gerald Green won the dunk contest before or after the Garnett trade.

Good job. I don't have any other examples in mind.

Fencer reregistered · Post #139 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:10 pm

DavorFanCroatia wrote:Hay, guys.
My name is Davor. I'm from Croatia, land of hopefully next Celtic great Mario Hezonja.
Celtics fan from 1986., activ on celticsblog...here i was just reading...
I'm former journalist in croatia basketball magazine and basketball historyan...
I saw that a lot of you guys think that the most future NBA head coaches on same Celtics team was 6.
Its wrong. The correct answer is 7.
1984/85 Celtics: Danny Ainge, Larry Bird, Quinn Bucknerr, Rick Carlisle, ML Carr, Dennis Johnson and Kevin McHale
Numerous Celtics team had a 6 head coaches. But two more had a 6,5
1960/61 Celtics: Bob Cousy, Tom Heinsohn, KC Jones, Bill Russell, Tom Sanders, Bill Sharman + Frank Ramsey (ABA coach, finals in 1971.)
1961/62 Celtics:- replace retired Bill Sharman with Carl Braun...so these two teams had a 6 NBA and a ABA head coach.
Hello to all Celtics fans around the World.

Well done, Sir! Your historical knowledge is magnificent!

I quite forgot about Quinn Buckner. Carl Braun -- who I'll admit to basically never having heard of before -- is however excluded on the slimmest of technicalities: I specified "future" head coaches.

And you actually missed one of my groups of 6, namely the one in which M. L. Carr -- and Quinn Buckner

-- were replaced by Sam Vincent.

There's one guy, however, who even you seem to be forgetting -- Sam Vincent.

Fencer reregistered · Post #140 » by **Fencer reregistered** » Tue Feb 17, 2015 11:12 pm

DavorFanCroatia wrote:And NCAA championchips teams with multiple Celtics players
1947 Holy Cross: George Kaftan, Joe Mullaney and Bob Cousy
1951 Kentucky: Frank Ramsey and Lou Tsioropoulos
1955 San Francisco: Bill Russell and KC Jones
1960 Ohio State: John Havlicek and Larry Siegfried
1962 Cincinatti: Tom Thacker and Ron Bonham
1969, 1970 and 1971 UCLA: Sidney Wicks and Curtis Rowe
1996 Kentucky: Antoine Walker, Tony Delk, Ron Mercer, Walter McCarty and Wayne Turner

And the question: Which former Celtics is responsible for only quadruple double in NCAA D1 history?

And from that 1951 team -- Cliff Hagan was ALMOST a Celtic.