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A Ball for Banner No. 17
The 2008 NBA World Championship title-winning Celtics brought home banner No. 17 in a hard-fought postseason that saw Boston play at least six games in all four playoffs series. The 2008 NBA Finals MV ...
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A Basketball Out of the Spotlight
Everyone knows Larry Bird, Bill Russell, Bob Cousy and John Havlicek, but the players that signed this basketball were all major contributors to championship teams – and some were even inducted into t ...
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Banner 17: Starting Off with a Bang
The Celtics celebrated their new ownership with a commemorative basketball dated with the completed sale on December 31, 2002. Led by Wyc Grousbeck, H. Irving Grousbeck, Steve Pagliuca and The Abbey G ...
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Boston’s Team of the Century
No NBA team has quite the storied history as the Celtics, as the signatures by these basketball legends attest. The 17-time NBA World Champions boast 49 Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall-of-Famers, ma ...
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Celtics Hall-of-Famers on a Basketball
Some of the greatest names in Celtics history signed this basketball, including Hall-of-Famers Larry Bird, Frank Ramsey, Jo Jo White and Sam Jones. Forty-nine Celtics players, coaches and executives h ...
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Celtics Pride on a Basketball
The early 1980s Celtics didn’t have “Showtime” (that belonged to their rivals in Los Angeles), but they did have the original Big Three of Larry Bird, Robert Parish and Kevin McHale. Joining the trio ...
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Cousy Scores for 15,000
Members of the 1961-62 Celtics signed a basketball for Bob Cousy after he became only the second player in NBA history to score 15,000 career points. On November 25, 1961, Cousy met the mark on a 20-f ...
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Getting Havlicek’s Signature
John Havlicek made out a special message to a fan named Pete on this basketball. Throughout his Celtics career, the Celtics legend was never big on signing autographs while dining out in public. “I wo ...
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Larry Bird Soars to 20,000
With 8:19 left in the third period in a game on November 30, 1990, Larry Bird hit a foul-line jumper to become the 15th player with 20,000 points in NBA history. Bird joked, “It really isn’t that big ...
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Radja Joins Exclusive Company
International basketball star Dino Radja, who flirted with the idea of playing in the NBA for years, finally came to the United States for the 1993-94 season as a member of the Celtics. While the team ...