On this day in Boston Celtics history, former Celtics shooting guard Courtney Lee was born in Indianapolis, Indiana in 1985. An alum of Western Kentucky University, Lee was selected with the 22nd overall pick of the 2008 NBA draft by the Orlando Magic.
He played for that team, the (then) New Jersey (now, Brooklyn) Nets, and Houston Rockets before the latter club dealt him to the Celtics as part of a massive three-team deal. That trade would send JaJuan Johnson, E’Twaun Moore, Sean Williams, and draft assets to the Rockets, along with sending Sasha Pavlović to the Portland Trail Blazers.
Buy Celtics TicketsThe Indiana native played 108 games over 2 seasons with the team, logging 7.7 points, 2.2 rebounds, 1.6 assists, and a steal per game.
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It is also the very same day in 1985 that former Celtics point guard Jerry Sichting joined the team in a trade that sent draft assets back to the Indiana Pacers.
Sichting would play collegiately for the Purdue Boilermakers and was selected but waived by the Golden State Warriors with the 82nd overall pick of the draft (there were many more rounds in that era).
Picked up by Indy, the Martinsville, Indiana native played for his hometown franchise for five seasons before they dealt him to Boston, where he would win a title in a reserve role in 1985.
Sichting played three seasons for the Celtics and logged 5.9 points, 1.2 boards, and 2.4 assists per game while with the team.
Finally, Lee shares his birthday with Boston two way point guard JD Davison, who was born this day in Montgomery, Alabama in 2002.
An alum of his nearby Alabama, Davison was picked up by the Celtics with the 53rd overall pick of the 2022 NBA draft.
In the 12 games he has appeared in at the time of this writing at the NBA level, the former Crimson Tide guard averaged 1.6 points and just under an assist per game.
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