The wider Boston Celtics community lost a number of notable alumni in 2022 whose tenure with the storied franchise ranges from among the earliest years of the ball club up to the start of the team’s era of title contention in the 1980s.
The Celtics and the NBA community with it lost giants of the game alongside lesser-known but still important parts of the team’s and the league’s history. It occurred at a moment in franchise history when the organization appears to be entering yet another era where hanging banners is the overt goal of the ball club to continue the proud tradition those alumni helped create.
