On this day in Boston Celtics history, forward Edward “Ed” Lewis Pinckney was born in 1963 in the Bronx, New York City, New York. Pinckney played his collegiate basketball at Villanova where he won a national title in 1985 and was picked up tenth overall in the NBA draft of the same year by the Phoenix Suns.
He would later be traded to the Sacramento Kings, who would in turn trade Pinckney and Joe Kleine to Boston for now-team president Danny Ainge and Brad Lohaus in 1989. The Bronx native would play six seasons with the Celtics, averaging 6.1 points and 5.3 rebounds per game while with the team.
