Boston Celtics 2020 Daily Sports Calendar

After the salary cap was instituted in 1984–85 season, the NBA has prohibited teams from employing a player-coach.

Trivia Questions:

Three parts:

1. Who also acted as Player/Coach for the Celtics?

2. Who also acted as Player/Coach after he left the Celtics?

3. Who also acted as Player/Coach before he played for the Celtics?

Any one answer counts on the Leader Board.  In other words, you don't have to get all three answers right to get a point.

1. Tom Sanders

2. Bob Cousy

3. Dave Bing

1. Tom Sanders

2. Bob Cousy

3. Dave Bing

BobC,

You get one point for #2, Bob Cousy.

FYI, that is the only one I knew before I discovered the others on a internet search.

1. Dave Cowens

bobc33 wrote:1. Dave Cowens

BobC,

You get one point for #1, Dave Cowens.

Hint:

#3 was one of the premier guards of the 1950s and spent 13 seasons in the NBA, all but the last with the New York Knicks. He ended his career in 1962, after one season with the Boston Celtics. He briefly pitched in the New York Yankees minor league system before a sore shoulder ended his baseball career.

Dick McGuire?
Wasn't Lenny Wilkens a player/coach at one time?

Gene Conley

willjr wrote:Dick McGuire?
Wasn't Lenny Wilkens a player/coach at one time?

willjr,

Dick McGuire was a player/coach for the Pistons, but he didn't play for the Celtics.

Lenny Wilkens was a player/coach for the SuperSonics and the Trail Blazers. He also didn't play for the Celtics.

Thanks for playing.

gyso

bobc33 wrote:Gene Conley

BobC,

Gene Conley did play for the Celtics, but he didn't act as a player/coach for any team, from what I can see.  He did play professional baseball.  

Gene's last season for the Celtics was 1961.  The player in the trivia contest played just the one season as a Celtics player, 1962.

Thanks for your guess,

gyso

3. Who also acted as Player/Coach before he played for the Celtics?

Interesting tidbit: Though sportscaster Marty Glickman made the term "swish" a popular basketball colloquialism, he attributed the genesis of the word to [this player], who he heard say it following a good shot during warmup. Glickman used the term frequently in broadcasts throughout the 1950s.

gyso wrote:3. Who also acted as Player/Coach before he played for the Celtics?

Interesting tidbit:  Though sportscaster Marty Glickman made the term "swish" a popular basketball colloquialism, he attributed the genesis of the word to [this player], who he heard say it following a good shot during warmup. Glickman used the term frequently in broadcasts throughout the 1950s.

Here's the answer:

3. Carl Braun

gyso wrote:January 2, 2020

Here's the answer:

1946

gyso wrote:Jan. 10, two parts:

1. Who did Isaiah tie for the record?

2. Who also hit nine three-pointers in a pre-season game (so it doesn't count)?

No answers.  Since Marcus Smart broke the record, no one shares the old record.

Here's the answer:

Celtics Trivia Contest Leader Board:

5 - BobC
2 - Cow
2 - mrkleen
1 - BobH

I gave the answer for any trivia questions that were a week or more old.  There is one trivia question still unanswered, from January 18/19.

Going forward, for any trivia answers that go a week without being answered correctly, I get the point(s).  Since that is an old rule that I just made up, I'll start at 0.

I'll try to update this list once a week. If you think your tally is incorrect, please let me know.

Go Celtics!!!

Looking in my rear view mirror I can barely see you all!

bobc33 wrote:Looking in my rear view mirror I can barely see you all!

LOL

I'd be at 4 if I'd made that rule earlier.  Look out, I'm coming for you!!

78 won MVP

86 won 6th man of year

Cow,

Correct.

Bill Walton won the NBA Season MVP Award in 1978 with the Portland Trail Blazers.

He won the Sixth Man of the Year Award in 1986 with the Boston Celtics.

Thanks for playing.

Bill Russell
Sam Jones
John Havlicek

Bill Russell
Sam Jones
Satch Sanders

Cow obviously guessed the first two before me.