It is also the date that former Boston guard Dick Murphy passed away in 1973. The New York native played 7 games for the Celtics in their first season of existence in 1946-47. An alumnus of Manhattan ...

T oday in Boston Celtics history, John Havlicek played the first game of his NBA career with Boston in 1962. An alum of Ohio State, Hondo -- as Havlicek was sometimes called as a ...