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Justin Quinn

On this day: Bird goes for 32 points, Tatum 33 more, and IT for 33; Vaughn passes

On this day in Boston Celtics history, three scoring greats of the storied franchise had games of note on the offensive side of the court dating all the way back to the late 1980s.

The first of the three scoring fiestas in question was put together by Boston’s iconic Hall of Fame small forward Larry Bird, who exploded on a hapless Milwaukee Bucks squad visiting the Celtics at the old Boston Garden on this date in 1988, which they would lose in no small part due to The Hick from French Lick’s (as Bird was sometimes called affectionately) scoring in a massive, 132-96 blowout.

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