It is also the date that former Boston guard Dick Murphy passed away in 1973. The New York native played 7 games for the Celtics in their first season of existence in 1946-47. An alumnus of Manhattan ...

And for today's article, we will continue with the first of 11 people to wear the No. 40, Boston wing alum Terry Duerod.

If you ask him about the otherworldly scoring performance he put on vs. the Atlanta Hawks, it was not even his favorite game.

In a neat wrinkle of history, the 3 came in the same game Boston icon Larry Bird made his NBA debut in 1979. Ford would go on ...