The Boston Celtics have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA — the league that would become today’s NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of Celtics history.
To commemorate the players who wore those numbers, Celtics Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.
With 25 of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest Celtics to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover.
And for today’s article, we will continue with the 10th of 31 people to wear the No. 20 jersey, Boston forward alum Mark Minor. After ending his college career at Ohio State, Minor was picked up with the 165th overall selection (there were many more rounds in that era of the draft) of the 1972 NBA draft by the Celtics.
The Solon, Ohio native played just four games for Boston before he was cut by the team, his last in the league.
During his time suiting up for the Celtics, Minor wore only jersey No. 20 and put up 1.3 points and 1.0 rebounds per game.
All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.
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