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1982-83 Boston Celtics Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 56-26, Finished 2nd in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: Bill Fitch (56-26)

Executive: Red Auerbach

PTS/G: 112.1 (7th of 23) Opp PTS/G: 106.7 (10th of 23)

SRS: 5.34 (2nd of 23) Pace: 104.0 (6th of 23)

Off Rtg: 106.9 (6th of 23) Def Rtg: 101.8 (7th of 23) Net Rtg: +5.1 (3rd of 23)

Expected W-L: 55-27 (3rd of 23)

Arena: Boston Garden Attendance: 621,829 (1st of 23)

NBA 1983 Playoffs:
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (2-1) versus Atlanta Hawks (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (0-4) versus Milwaukee Bucks (Series Stats)

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Recent Game Results

Height of bar is margin of victory • Mouseover bar for details • Click for box score • Grouped by Month

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date	Birth	Exp	College
44	Danny Ainge	SG	6-5	185	March 17, 1959	us US	1	BYU
7	Tiny Archibald	PG	6-1	150	September 2, 1948	us US	11	Texas-El Paso
33	Larry Bird	PF	6-9	220	December 7, 1956	us US	3	Indiana State University
35	Charles Bradley	SG	6-5	215	May 16, 1959	us US	1	Wyoming
28	Quinn Buckner	SG	6-3	190	August 20, 1954	us US	6	Indiana
30	M.L. Carr	SF	6-6	205	January 9, 1951	us US	7	Guilford College
43	Gerald Henderson	PG	6-2	175	January 16, 1956	us US	3	VCU
31	Cedric Maxwell	SF	6-8	205	November 21, 1955	us US	5	UNC Charlotte
32	Kevin McHale	PF	6-10	210	December 19, 1957	us US	2	Minnesota
00	Robert Parish	C	7-1	230	August 30, 1953	us US	6	Centenary (LA)
53	Rick Robey	C	6-11	230	January 30, 1956	us US	4	Kentucky
52	Darren Tillis	C	6-11	215	February 23, 1960	us US	R	Cleveland State University
8, 20	Scott Wedman	SF	6-7	215	July 29, 1952	us US	8	Colorado

Assistant Coaches and Staff

Team and Opponent Stats

Ranks are per game (except for MP, which are total) and sorted descending (except for TOV and PF); opponents ranked are flipped; year/year calculations are also per game

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Team Misc

Per Game

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Larry Bird	26	79	79	37.7	9.5	18.7	.504	0.3	1.0	.286	9.2	17.8	.516	.512	4.4	5.3	.840	2.4	8.6	11.0	5.8	1.9	0.9	3.0	2.5	23.6
2	Robert Parish	29	78	76	31.5	7.9	14.4	.550	0.0	0.0	.000	7.9	14.4	.551	.550	3.5	5.0	.698	3.3	7.3	10.6	1.8	1.0	1.9	2.4	2.8	19.3
3	Kevin McHale	25	82	13	28.6	5.9	10.9	.541	0.0	0.0	.000	5.9	10.9	.541	.541	2.4	3.3	.717	2.6	4.1	6.7	1.3	0.4	2.3	1.9	2.9	14.1
4	Cedric Maxwell	27	79	71	28.5	4.2	8.4	.499	0.0	0.0	.000	4.2	8.4	.500	.499	3.5	4.4	.812	2.3	3.0	5.3	2.4	0.8	0.5	2.1	2.6	11.9
5	Tiny Archibald	34	66	19	27.4	3.6	8.4	.425	0.1	0.4	.208	3.5	8.0	.435	.429	3.3	4.5	.743	0.4	1.0	1.4	6.2	0.6	0.1	2.5	1.7	10.5
6	Danny Ainge	23	80	76	25.6	4.5	9.0	.496	0.1	0.4	.172	4.4	8.6	.509	.499	0.9	1.2	.742	1.0	1.6	2.7	3.1	1.4	0.1	1.2	3.2	9.9
7	Quinn Buckner	28	72	56	21.7	3.4	7.8	.442	0.0	0.1	.000	3.4	7.7	.445	.442	1.0	1.6	.632	0.9	1.7	2.6	3.8	1.5	0.1	2.2	2.7	7.9
8	Gerald Henderson	27	82	9	18.9	3.5	7.5	.463	0.0	0.2	.188	3.5	7.3	.470	.465	1.2	1.6	.722	0.7	0.8	1.5	2.4	1.2	0.0	1.6	2.3	8.2
9	Rick Robey	27	59	6	14.5	1.7	3.6	.467	0.0	0.0		1.7	3.6	.467	.467	0.8	1.3	.577	1.3	2.4	3.7	1.1	0.2	0.1	1.2	2.2	4.2
10	Scott Wedman	30	40	0	12.6	2.4	5.1	.459	0.0	0.3	.100	2.3	4.9	.477	.461	0.5	0.8	.667	0.7	1.1	1.9	0.8	0.5	0.2	0.8	2.1	5.2
11	M.L. Carr	32	77	0	11.5	1.8	4.1	.429	0.0	0.2	.158	1.7	3.8	.446	.433	0.8	1.1	.741	0.7	1.1	1.8	0.9	0.6	0.1	1.0	1.8	4.3
12	Charles Bradley	23	51	5	10.4	1.4	3.5	.392	0.0	0.1	.000	1.4	3.4	.399	.392	0.9	1.8	.511	0.6	0.9	1.5	0.5	0.6	0.5	0.8	1.6	3.6
13	Darren Tillis	22	15	0	2.9	0.5	1.5	.304	0.0	0.1	.000	0.5	1.5	.318	.304	0.1	0.4	.333	0.3	0.3	0.6	0.1	0.0	0.1	0.3	0.5	1.1

Per Game Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Larry Bird	26	6		40.0	8.2	19.3	.422	0.2	0.7	.250	8.0	18.7	.429	.427	4.0	4.8	.828	3.3	9.2	12.5	6.8	2.2	0.5	3.2	2.5	20.5
2	Robert Parish	29	7		35.6	6.1	12.7	.483	0.0	0.0		6.1	12.7	.483	.483	2.4	2.9	.850	3.0	7.6	10.6	1.3	0.7	1.3	2.4	2.6	14.7
3	Cedric Maxwell	27	7		35.1	4.1	7.9	.527	0.0	0.0		4.1	7.9	.527	.527	4.6	5.4	.842	3.3	4.0	7.3	3.3	0.6	0.6	2.7	2.6	12.9
4	Danny Ainge	23	7		28.7	4.0	10.3	.389	0.3	0.7	.400	3.7	9.6	.388	.403	1.1	1.6	.727	0.3	1.7	2.0	3.6	0.7	0.1	0.9	3.4	9.4
5	Gerald Henderson	27	7		26.7	5.0	12.1	.412	0.0	0.4	.000	5.0	11.7	.427	.412	0.9	1.0	.857	1.1	0.9	2.0	4.4	1.6	0.1	2.0	3.6	10.9
6	Kevin McHale	25	7		25.3	4.9	8.9	.548	0.0	0.1	.000	4.9	8.7	.557	.548	1.4	2.6	.556	2.1	3.9	6.0	0.7	0.4	1.0	1.4	2.3	11.1
7	Tiny Archibald	34	7		23.0	3.1	9.7	.324	0.1	0.9	.167	3.0	8.9	.339	.331	3.1	4.1	.759	0.4	1.0	1.4	6.3	0.3	0.0	1.6	1.7	9.6
8	Quinn Buckner	28	7		14.0	2.3	5.3	.432	0.0	0.3	.000	2.3	5.0	.457	.432	0.0	0.3	.000	0.1	1.3	1.4	0.3	0.1	0.0	0.7	2.6	4.6
9	Scott Wedman	30	6		11.0	2.3	4.0	.583	0.0	0.3	.000	2.3	3.7	.636	.583	0.2	0.3	.500	0.5	1.8	2.3	0.0	0.2	0.0	0.7	1.8	4.8
10	M.L. Carr	32	3		7.3	0.7	2.7	.250	0.0	0.3	.000	0.7	2.3	.286	.250	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.3	0.0	0.3	0.0	0.7	0.0	0.0	1.0	2.0
11	Rick Robey	27	5		5.8	0.0	0.8	.000	0.0	0.2	.000	0.0	0.6	.000	.000	0.4	0.8	.500	0.6	1.0	1.6	0.2	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.8	0.4
12	Charles Bradley	23	2		2.0	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0			0.0	0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0

Totals

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Larry Bird	26	79	79	2982	747	1481	.504	22	77	.286	725	1404	.516	.512	351	418	.840	193	677	870	458	148	71	240	197	1867
2	Robert Parish	29	78	76	2459	619	1125	.550	0	1	.000	619	1124	.551	.550	271	388	.698	260	567	827	141	79	148	185	222	1509
3	Kevin McHale	25	82	13	2345	483	893	.541	0	1	.000	483	892	.541	.541	193	269	.717	215	338	553	104	34	192	159	241	1159
4	Cedric Maxwell	27	79	71	2252	331	663	.499	0	1	.000	331	662	.500	.499	280	345	.812	185	237	422	186	65	39	165	202	942
5	Danny Ainge	23	80	76	2048	357	720	.496	5	29	.172	352	691	.509	.499	72	97	.742	83	131	214	251	109	6	98	259	791
6	Tiny Archibald	34	66	19	1811	235	553	.425	5	24	.208	230	529	.435	.429	220	296	.743	25	66	91	409	38	4	163	110	695
7	Quinn Buckner	28	72	56	1565	248	561	.442	0	4	.000	248	557	.445	.442	74	117	.632	62	125	187	275	108	5	159	195	570
8	Gerald Henderson	27	82	9	1551	286	618	.463	3	16	.188	283	602	.470	.465	96	133	.722	57	67	124	195	95	3	128	190	671
9	M.L. Carr	32	77	0	883	135	315	.429	3	19	.158	132	296	.446	.433	60	81	.741	51	86	137	71	48	10	79	140	333
10	Rick Robey	27	59	6	855	100	214	.467	0	0		100	214	.467	.467	45	78	.577	79	140	219	65	13	8	72	131	245
11	Charles Bradley	23	51	5	532	69	176	.392	0	3	.000	69	173	.399	.392	46	90	.511	30	48	78	28	32	27	42	84	184
12	Scott Wedman	30	40	0	503	94	205	.459	1	10	.100	93	195	.477	.461	20	30	.667	29	45	74	31	20	6	32	83	209
13	Darren Tillis	22	15	0	44	7	23	.304	0	1	.000	7	22	.318	.304	2	6	.333	4	5	9	2	0	2	4	8	16
			82		19830	3711	7547	.492	39	186	.210	3672	7361	.499	.494	1730	2348	.737	1273	2532	3805	2216	789	521	1541	2062	9191

Totals Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	GS	MP	FG	FGA	FG%	3P	3PA	3P%	2P	2PA	2P%	eFG%	FT	FTA	FT%	ORB	DRB	TRB	AST	STL	BLK	TOV	PF	PTS
1	Robert Parish	29	7		249	43	89	.483	0	0		43	89	.483	.483	17	20	.850	21	53	74	9	5	9	17	18	103
2	Cedric Maxwell	27	7		246	29	55	.527	0	0		29	55	.527	.527	32	38	.842	23	28	51	23	4	4	19	18	90
3	Larry Bird	26	6		240	49	116	.422	1	4	.250	48	112	.429	.427	24	29	.828	20	55	75	41	13	3	19	15	123
4	Danny Ainge	23	7		201	28	72	.389	2	5	.400	26	67	.388	.403	8	11	.727	2	12	14	25	5	1	6	24	66
5	Gerald Henderson	27	7		187	35	85	.412	0	3	.000	35	82	.427	.412	6	7	.857	8	6	14	31	11	1	14	25	76
6	Kevin McHale	25	7		177	34	62	.548	0	1	.000	34	61	.557	.548	10	18	.556	15	27	42	5	3	7	10	16	78
7	Tiny Archibald	34	7		161	22	68	.324	1	6	.167	21	62	.339	.331	22	29	.759	3	7	10	44	2	0	11	12	67
8	Quinn Buckner	28	7		98	16	37	.432	0	2	.000	16	35	.457	.432	0	2	.000	1	9	10	2	1	0	5	18	32
9	Scott Wedman	30	6		66	14	24	.583	0	2	.000	14	22	.636	.583	1	2	.500	3	11	14	0	1	0	4	11	29
10	Rick Robey	27	5		29	0	4	.000	0	1	.000	0	3	.000	.000	2	4	.500	3	5	8	1	0	0	2	4	2
11	M.L. Carr	32	3		22	2	8	.250	0	1	.000	2	7	.286	.250	2	2	1.000	1	0	1	0	2	0	0	3	6
12	Charles Bradley	23	2		4	0	0		0	0		0	0			0	0		0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0	0

Advanced

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Larry Bird	26	79	2982	24.1	.561	.052	.282	7.0	24.2	15.7	22.4	2.3	1.3	12.6	25.0		8.4	5.6	14.0	.225		5.4	2.1	7.5	7.2
2	Robert Parish	29	78	2459	23.0	.582	.001	.345	11.4	24.6	18.1	8.4	1.5	3.3	12.5	23.6		6.2	4.6	10.8	.211		3.5	0.8	4.3	3.9
3	Kevin McHale	25	82	2345	17.6	.573	.001	.301	9.9	15.4	12.7	6.1	0.7	4.5	13.6	19.6		4.1	3.4	7.5	.154		0.9	0.7	1.6	2.1
4	Cedric Maxwell	27	79	2252	14.7	.578	.002	.520	8.9	11.2	10.1	10.5	1.3	1.0	16.8	17.0		4.0	2.5	6.6	.140		1.0	0.0	1.0	1.7
5	Danny Ainge	23	80	2048	13.2	.519	.040	.135	4.4	6.8	5.6	16.1	2.5	0.2	11.4	16.5		2.8	2.4	5.2	.121		-1.0	1.2	0.2	1.2
6	Tiny Archibald	34	66	1811	12.3	.509	.043	.535	1.5	3.9	2.7	28.0	1.0	0.1	19.3	18.3		1.7	1.2	2.9	.077		0.0	-2.0	-2.0	0.0
7	Quinn Buckner	28	72	1565	11.5	.465	.007	.209	4.3	8.5	6.4	22.6	3.2	0.2	20.6	19.3		-0.7	2.2	1.6	.048		-2.6	1.1	-1.4	0.2
8	Gerald Henderson	27	82	1551	12.1	.496	.026	.215	4.0	4.6	4.3	16.7	2.8	0.1	15.9	20.3		0.5	1.8	2.3	.073		-2.1	0.6	-1.5	0.2
9	M.L. Carr	32	77	883	9.7	.475	.060	.257	6.2	10.4	8.3	10.3	2.5	0.6	18.4	19.1		-0.4	1.2	0.8	.046		-3.6	0.7	-2.9	-0.2
10	Rick Robey	27	59	855	8.6	.493	.000	.364	10.0	17.5	13.8	9.3	0.7	0.5	22.5	14.7		-0.1	1.0	0.9	.049		-3.2	-0.3	-3.5	-0.3
11	Charles Bradley	23	51	532	8.7	.427	.017	.511	6.1	9.6	7.9	6.5	2.8	2.8	16.3	19.0		-0.6	0.9	0.2	.020		-4.1	1.5	-2.6	-0.1
12	Scott Wedman	30	40	503	10.3	.479	.049	.146	6.2	9.5	7.9	8.2	1.8	0.7	12.8	19.5		0.1	0.6	0.7	.063		-3.0	-0.1	-3.1	-0.1
13	Darren Tillis	22	15	44	1.5	.312	.043	.261	9.8	12.1	11.0	5.9	0.0	2.5	13.5	26.4		-0.2	0.0	-0.1	-0.147		-5.7	-0.9	-6.6	-0.1

Advanced Table
Rk	Player	Age	G	MP	PER	TS%	3PAr	FTr	ORB%	DRB%	TRB%	AST%	STL%	BLK%	TOV%	USG%		OWS	DWS	WS	WS/48		OBPM	DBPM	BPM	VORP
1	Robert Parish	29	7	249	14.7	.527	.000	.225	9.0	22.9	15.9	5.7	1.0	2.1	14.8	19.3		0.1	0.4	0.5	.103		0.8	-0.1	0.7	0.2
2	Cedric Maxwell	27	7	246	14.7	.627	.000	.691	10.0	12.3	11.1	13.5	0.8	0.9	20.9	15.5		0.4	0.3	0.7	.141		2.5	0.0	2.5	0.3
3	Larry Bird	26	6	240	20.3	.478	.034	.250	8.9	24.7	16.7	28.2	2.7	0.7	12.9	25.8		0.2	0.5	0.7	.134		5.0	2.4	7.4	0.6
4	Danny Ainge	23	7	201	8.5	.429	.069	.153	1.1	6.4	3.7	18.6	1.2	0.3	7.2	17.3		0.0	0.2	0.2	.047		-2.1	0.0	-2.1	0.0
5	Gerald Henderson	27	7	187	11.1	.431	.035	.082	4.6	3.5	4.0	26.6	2.9	0.3	13.7	22.9		-0.2	0.2	0.1	.023		-1.1	0.7	-0.4	0.1
6	Kevin McHale	25	7	177	15.0	.558	.016	.290	9.0	16.4	12.7	4.6	0.8	2.3	12.5	18.9		0.2	0.3	0.4	.114		1.3	-0.2	1.1	0.1
7	Tiny Archibald	34	7	161	12.3	.415	.088	.426	2.0	4.7	3.3	40.6	0.6	0.0	12.0	23.9		0.0	0.1	0.1	.035		1.6	-2.4	-0.9	0.0
8	Quinn Buckner	28	7	98	2.7	.422	.054	.054	1.1	9.9	5.5	3.2	0.5	0.0	11.7	18.3		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.041		-8.0	-1.1	-9.1	-0.2
9	Scott Wedman	30	6	66	10.8	.583	.083	.083	4.8	17.9	11.4	0.0	0.8	0.0	13.9	18.3		0.0	0.1	0.1	.076		-2.4	-0.4	-2.8	0.0
10	Rick Robey	27	5	29	-1.0	.174	.250	1.000	11.0	18.6	14.8	4.3	0.0	0.0	25.8	11.2		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.101		-7.3	-2.8	-10.1	-0.1
11	M.L. Carr	32	3	22	5.6	.338	.125	.250	4.8	0.0	2.4	0.0	4.5	0.0	0.0	16.9		0.0	0.0	0.0	.024		-4.6	0.8	-3.8	0.0
12	Charles Bradley	23	2	4	0.0				0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0		0.0		0.0	0.0	0.0	.019		-3.2	-2.3	-5.6	0.0

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