With the entirety of college basketball fandom and then some focused on the 2023 NCAA Tournament as we inch closer to crowning a national champion at that level of the sport, attention to the college roots of the players of today and yesteryear also comes into momentary focus.
We can look back at the collegiate history of the Boston Celtics‘ top players, for example, and find a number of the storied ball club’s alumni are also among the highest earners for their respective schools at the NBA level. At blue blood schools like UConn, Duke, and Kansas to lesser-decorated but still well-represented universities like LSU, Arkansas, and Oklahoma, Celtics alumni have made a pretty penny at the NBA level.
Let’s take a look at which Celtics alumni are the top earners in the NBA for their respective colleges in the modern era.
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UConn - Ray Allen ($184,356,410)
Kansas - Paul Pierce ($200,708,312)
Arkansas - Joe Johnson ($217,468,696)
Duke - Kyrie Irving ($236,774,149)
Oklahoma - Blake Griffin ($261,338,564)
Florida - Al Horford ($269,728,232)
LSU - Shaquille O'Neal ($292,198,327)
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