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1985-86 Boston Celtics Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 67-15, Finished 1st in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: K.C. Jones (67-15)

Executive: Jan Volk

PTS/G: 114.1 (8th of 23) Opp PTS/G: 104.7 (3rd of 23)

SRS: 9.06 (1st of 23) Pace: 101.2 (16th of 23)

Off Rtg: 111.8 (3rd of 23) Def Rtg: 102.6 (1st of 23) Net Rtg: +9.2 (1st of 23)

Expected W-L: 63-19 (1st of 23)

Preseason Odds: Championship +250

Arena: Boston Garden Attendance: 610,571 (4th of 23)

NBA 1986 Playoffs:
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (3-0) versus Chicago Bulls (Series Stats)
Won NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (4-1) versus Atlanta Hawks (Series Stats)
Won NBA Eastern Conference Finals (4-0) versus Milwaukee Bucks (Series Stats)
Won NBA Finals (4-2) versus Houston Rockets (Series Stats)

NBA Champions
Eastern Conference Champions
Atlantic Div Champs

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		Exp	College
44	Danny Ainge	SG	6-4	175	March 17, 1959	us	4	BYU
33	Larry Bird	SF	6-9	220	December 7, 1956	us	6	Indiana State University
34	Rick Carlisle	SG	6-5	210	October 27, 1959	us	1	University of Maine, Virginia
3	Dennis Johnson	PG	6-4	185	September 18, 1954	us	9	Pepperdine
50	Greg Kite	C	6-11	250	August 5, 1961	us	2	BYU
32	Kevin McHale	PF	6-10	210	December 19, 1957	us	5	Minnesota
00	Robert Parish	C	7-1	230	August 30, 1953	us	9	Centenary (LA)
12	Jerry Sichting	PG	6-1	168	November 29, 1956	us	5	Purdue
45	David Thirdkill	PF	6-7	195	April 12, 1960	us	3	Bradley
11	Sam Vincent	SG	6-2	185	May 18, 1963	us	R	Michigan State
5	Bill Walton	C	6-11	210	November 5, 1952	us	8	UCLA
8	Scott Wedman	SF	6-7	215	July 29, 1952	us	11	Colorado
35	Sly Williams	SF	6-7	210	January 26, 1958	us	6	Rhode Island

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

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	29	82	81	38.0	9.7	19.6	.496	1.0	2.4	.423	8.7	17.2	.506	.521	5.4	6.0	.896	2.3	7.5	9.8	6.8	2.0	0.6	3.2	2.2	25.8
2	Kevin McHale	28	68	62	35.3	8.3	14.4	.574	0.0	0.0		8.3	14.4	.574	.574	4.8	6.2	.776	2.5	5.6	8.1	2.7	0.4	2.0	2.2	2.8	21.3
3	Dennis Johnson	31	78	78	35.0	6.2	13.6	.455	0.1	0.5	.143	6.1	13.1	.468	.458	3.1	3.8	.818	0.9	2.6	3.4	5.8	1.4	0.4	2.2	2.6	15.6
4	Robert Parish	32	81	80	31.7	6.5	11.9	.549	0.0	0.0		6.5	11.9	.549	.549	3.0	4.1	.731	3.0	6.5	9.5	1.8	0.8	1.4	2.3	2.7	16.1
5	Danny Ainge	26	80	78	30.1	4.4	8.8	.504	0.3	0.9	.356	4.1	7.9	.521	.522	1.5	1.7	.904	0.6	2.4	2.9	5.1	1.2	0.1	1.6	2.6	10.7
6	Jerry Sichting	29	82	7	19.5	2.9	5.0	.570	0.1	0.2	.375	2.8	4.8	.578	.578	0.7	0.8	.924	0.3	0.9	1.3	2.3	0.6	0.0	0.9	1.4	6.5
7	Bill Walton	33	80	2	19.3	2.9	5.1	.562	0.0	0.0		2.9	5.1	.562	.562	1.8	2.5	.713	1.7	5.1	6.8	2.1	0.5	1.3	1.9	2.6	7.6
8	Scott Wedman	33	79	19	17.7	3.6	7.7	.473	0.2	0.6	.354	3.4	7.1	.483	.487	0.6	0.9	.662	0.8	1.6	2.4	1.1	0.5	0.3	0.7	1.6	8.0
9	Rick Carlisle	26	77	1	9.9	1.2	2.5	.487	0.0	0.1	.000	1.2	2.3	.514	.487	0.2	0.3	.652	0.3	0.7	1.0	1.4	0.2	0.1	0.6	1.2	2.6
10	Sly Williams	28	6	0	9.0	0.8	3.5	.238	0.0	0.7	.000	0.8	2.8	.294	.238	1.2	2.0	.583	1.2	1.3	2.5	0.3	0.2	0.2	1.2	2.5	2.8
11	David Thirdkill	25	49	0	7.9	1.1	2.2	.491	0.0	0.0	.000	1.1	2.2	.495	.491	1.1	1.8	.625	0.6	0.9	1.4	0.3	0.2	0.1	0.4	1.1	3.3
12	Sam Vincent	22	57	0	7.6	1.0	2.8	.364	0.0	0.1	.250	1.0	2.8	.367	.367	1.1	1.2	.929	0.2	0.6	0.8	1.2	0.3	0.1	0.9	1.0	3.2
13	Greg Kite	24	64	2	7.3	0.5	1.4	.374	0.0	0.0	.000	0.5	1.4	.378	.374	0.2	0.6	.385	0.5	1.5	2.0	0.3	0.0	0.4	0.5	1.3	1.3

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	29	18	18	42.8	9.5	18.4	.517	1.3	3.1	.411	8.2	15.3	.538	.551	5.6	6.1	.927	1.9	7.4	9.3	8.2	2.1	0.6	2.6	3.1	25.9
2	Dennis Johnson	31	18	18	39.7	6.1	13.6	.445	0.3	0.9	.375	5.7	12.7	.450	.457	3.7	4.7	.798	1.3	2.9	4.2	5.9	2.2	0.3	2.8	3.2	16.2
3	Kevin McHale	28	18	18	39.7	9.3	16.1	.579	0.0	0.1	.000	9.3	16.1	.581	.579	6.2	7.8	.794	2.8	5.8	8.6	2.7	0.4	2.4	2.7	3.6	24.9
4	Danny Ainge	26	18	18	36.2	5.9	10.7	.554	0.8	1.9	.412	5.2	8.8	.585	.591	2.9	3.3	.867	1.2	3.0	4.2	5.2	2.3	0.1	1.7	3.2	15.6
5	Robert Parish	32	18	18	32.8	5.9	12.5	.471	0.0	0.0		5.9	12.5	.471	.471	3.2	4.9	.652	2.9	5.9	8.8	1.4	0.5	1.7	2.4	2.6	15.0
6	Bill Walton	33	16	0	18.2	3.4	5.8	.581	0.0	0.1	.000	3.4	5.8	.587	.581	1.2	1.4	.826	1.6	4.9	6.4	1.7	0.4	0.8	1.4	2.8	7.9
7	Jerry Sichting	29	18	0	15.2	1.5	3.4	.443	0.0	0.1	.000	1.5	3.3	.450	.443	0.2	0.4	.429	0.3	0.6	0.9	2.2	0.3	0.0	0.4	1.0	3.2
8	Scott Wedman	33	12	0	11.8	1.7	4.3	.392	0.2	0.3	.500	1.5	3.9	.383	.412	0.3	0.3	.750	0.9	0.9	1.8	0.7	0.8	0.3	0.5	1.2	3.8
9	Greg Kite	24	13	0	6.0	0.5	0.8	.700	0.0	0.0		0.5	0.8	.700	.700	0.3	0.5	.571	0.4	1.1	1.5	0.2	0.2	0.3	0.2	1.5	1.4
10	Rick Carlisle	26	10	0	5.4	0.8	1.5	.533	0.0	0.0		0.8	1.5	.533	.533	0.3	0.4	.750	0.3	0.2	0.5	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.3	0.9	1.9
11	Sam Vincent	22	9	0	4.6	0.9	3.1	.286	0.0	0.1	.000	0.9	3.0	.296	.286	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.1	0.7	0.8	0.6	0.2	0.0	0.4	1.0	2.4
12	David Thirdkill	25	13	0	3.6	0.5	1.4	.333	0.0	0.1	.000	0.5	1.3	.353	.333	0.4	0.8	.455	0.1	0.5	0.6	0.2	0.2	0.0	0.2	0.4	1.3

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	29	82	81	3113	796	1606	.496	82	194	.423	714	1412	.506	.521	441	492	.896	190	615	805	557	166	51	266	182	2115
2	Dennis Johnson	31	78	78	2732	482	1060	.455	6	42	.143	476	1018	.468	.458	243	297	.818	69	199	268	456	110	35	173	206	1213
3	Robert Parish	32	81	80	2567	530	966	.549	0	0		530	966	.549	.549	245	335	.731	246	524	770	145	65	116	187	215	1305
4	Danny Ainge	26	80	78	2407	353	701	.504	26	73	.356	327	628	.521	.522	123	136	.904	47	188	235	405	94	7	129	204	855
5	Kevin McHale	28	68	62	2397	561	978	.574	0	0		561	978	.574	.574	326	420	.776	171	380	551	181	29	134	149	192	1448
6	Jerry Sichting	29	82	7	1596	235	412	.570	6	16	.375	229	396	.578	.578	61	66	.924	27	77	104	188	50	0	73	118	537
7	Bill Walton	33	80	2	1546	231	411	.562	0	0		231	411	.562	.562	144	202	.713	136	408	544	165	38	106	151	210	606
8	Scott Wedman	33	79	19	1402	286	605	.473	17	48	.354	269	557	.483	.487	45	68	.662	66	126	192	83	38	22	54	127	634
9	Rick Carlisle	26	77	1	760	92	189	.487	0	10	.000	92	179	.514	.487	15	23	.652	22	55	77	104	19	4	50	92	199
10	Greg Kite	24	64	2	464	34	91	.374	0	1	.000	34	90	.378	.374	15	39	.385	35	93	128	17	3	28	32	81	83
11	Sam Vincent	22	57	0	432	59	162	.364	1	4	.250	58	158	.367	.367	65	70	.929	11	37	48	69	17	4	49	59	184
12	David Thirdkill	25	49	0	385	54	110	.491	0	1	.000	54	109	.495	.491	55	88	.625	27	43	70	15	11	3	19	55	163
13	Sly Williams	28	6	0	54	5	21	.238	0	4	.000	5	17	.294	.238	7	12	.583	7	8	15	2	1	1	7	15	17
			82		19855	3718	7312	.508	138	393	.351	3580	6919	.517	.518	1785	2248	.794	1054	2753	3807	2387	641	511	1360	1756	9359

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	29	18	18	770	171	331	.517	23	56	.411	148	275	.538	.551	101	109	.927	34	134	168	148	37	11	47	55	466
2	Dennis Johnson	31	18	18	715	109	245	.445	6	16	.375	103	229	.450	.457	67	84	.798	23	53	76	107	39	5	51	58	291
3	Kevin McHale	28	18	18	715	168	290	.579	0	1	.000	168	289	.581	.579	112	141	.794	51	104	155	48	8	43	48	64	448
4	Danny Ainge	26	18	18	652	107	193	.554	14	34	.412	93	159	.585	.591	52	60	.867	22	54	76	93	41	1	31	57	280
5	Robert Parish	32	18	18	591	106	225	.471	0	0		106	225	.471	.471	58	89	.652	52	106	158	25	9	30	44	47	270
6	Bill Walton	33	16	0	291	54	93	.581	0	1	.000	54	92	.587	.581	19	23	.826	25	78	103	27	6	12	22	45	127
7	Jerry Sichting	29	18	0	274	27	61	.443	0	1	.000	27	60	.450	.443	3	7	.429	5	11	16	40	5	0	8	18	57
8	Scott Wedman	33	12	0	142	20	51	.392	2	4	.500	18	47	.383	.412	3	4	.750	11	11	22	8	9	3	6	14	45
9	Greg Kite	24	13	0	78	7	10	.700	0	0		7	10	.700	.700	4	7	.571	5	14	19	3	2	4	3	20	18
10	Rick Carlisle	26	10	0	54	8	15	.533	0	0		8	15	.533	.533	3	4	.750	3	2	5	8	2	0	3	9	19
11	David Thirdkill	25	13	0	47	6	18	.333	0	1	.000	6	17	.353	.333	5	11	.455	1	7	8	3	2	0	3	5	17
12	Sam Vincent	22	9	0	41	8	28	.286	0	1	.000	8	27	.296	.286	6	6	1.000	1	6	7	5	2	0	4	9	22

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	29	82	3113	25.6	.580	.121	.306	7.2	20.4	14.2	26.3	2.5	0.9	12.7	27.6		9.6	6.2	15.8	.244		6.6	2.1	8.7	8.4
2	Dennis Johnson	31	78	2732	14.7	.509	.040	.280	3.0	7.5	5.4	22.0	1.9	0.7	12.7	20.5		3.0	3.7	6.7	.118		0.0	0.5	0.5	1.8
3	Robert Parish	32	81	2567	18.8	.586	.000	.347	11.3	21.1	16.5	7.7	1.2	2.5	14.4	20.8		4.4	4.8	9.2	.171		1.5	0.6	2.1	2.6
4	Danny Ainge	26	80	2407	13.6	.562	.104	.194	2.3	8.1	5.4	21.3	1.9	0.2	14.5	15.2		3.6	3.2	6.8	.136		-0.1	1.0	0.9	1.8
5	Kevin McHale	28	68	2397	21.6	.623	.000	.429	8.4	16.4	12.7	10.8	0.6	3.1	11.4	22.5		7.2	3.8	11.0	.220		3.7	0.8	4.4	3.9
6	Jerry Sichting	29	82	1596	11.9	.609	.039	.160	2.0	5.0	3.6	14.9	1.5	0.0	14.2	13.2		2.4	1.8	4.2	.126		-0.7	0.4	-0.2	0.7
7	Bill Walton	33	80	1546	17.0	.606	.000	.491	10.4	27.3	19.4	13.6	1.2	3.8	23.2	17.3		1.6	3.4	5.0	.157		0.1	2.9	3.0	2.0
8	Scott Wedman	33	79	1402	12.5	.499	.079	.112	5.5	9.3	7.5	8.1	1.3	0.9	7.8	20.2		0.9	1.8	2.7	.093		-1.0	-0.4	-1.4	0.2
9	Rick Carlisle	26	77	760	7.9	.500	.053	.122	3.4	7.5	5.6	16.8	1.2	0.3	20.1	13.5		0.0	0.9	0.9	.056		-3.2	0.2	-3.0	-0.2
10	Greg Kite	24	64	464	4.6	.384	.011	.429	8.9	20.7	15.2	4.2	0.3	3.3	22.8	12.4		-0.7	0.8	0.1	.007		-6.3	0.3	-6.0	-0.5
11	Sam Vincent	22	57	432	10.0	.477	.025	.432	3.0	8.9	6.1	20.0	1.9	0.5	20.3	23.0		-0.3	0.6	0.3	.037		-4.1	-0.7	-4.8	-0.3
12	David Thirdkill	25	49	385	12.1	.548	.009	.800	8.3	11.5	10.0	4.9	1.4	0.4	11.3	17.9		0.5	0.5	1.0	.129		-2.4	-0.8	-3.2	-0.1
13	Sly Williams	28	6	54	-0.6	.323	.190	.571	15.3	15.3	15.3	4.4	0.9	1.0	21.0	25.3		-0.2	0.1	-0.2	-0.136		-10.5	-1.7	-12.3	-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	Larry Bird	29	18	770	23.9	.615	.169	.329	5.3	18.0	12.1	28.1	2.3	0.8	11.0	23.3		2.7	1.5	4.2	.263		7.2	2.6	9.9	2.3
2	Dennis Johnson	31	18	715	13.2	.516	.065	.343	3.9	7.6	5.9	19.9	2.7	0.4	15.3	19.6		0.4	1.1	1.5	.102		-0.4	0.9	0.5	0.4
3	Kevin McHale	28	18	715	21.1	.636	.003	.486	8.6	15.0	12.1	10.0	0.5	3.4	12.0	23.6		2.0	1.2	3.2	.215		4.1	1.0	5.1	1.3
4	Danny Ainge	26	18	652	17.3	.638	.176	.311	4.1	8.5	6.5	19.3	3.1	0.1	12.4	16.2		1.6	1.1	2.7	.201		2.4	2.9	5.3	1.2
5	Robert Parish	32	18	591	13.8	.511	.000	.396	10.6	18.5	14.9	5.8	0.7	2.8	14.3	22.0		0.0	1.1	1.0	.085		-0.8	-1.0	-1.8	0.0
6	Bill Walton	33	16	291	17.3	.616	.011	.247	10.4	27.7	19.7	12.9	1.0	2.3	17.6	18.1		0.4	0.6	1.1	.175		1.0	2.1	3.1	0.4
7	Jerry Sichting	29	18	274	7.2	.445	.016	.115	2.2	4.1	3.2	18.1	0.9	0.0	11.1	11.1		0.1	0.3	0.3	.060		-1.8	-0.8	-2.5	0.0
8	Scott Wedman	33	12	142	9.9	.426	.078	.078	9.3	8.0	8.6	7.4	3.1	1.2	10.2	17.4		-0.1	0.3	0.2	.060		-1.6	0.5	-1.1	0.0
9	Greg Kite	24	13	78	9.7	.688	.000	.700	7.7	18.5	13.5	4.7	1.3	2.9	18.7	8.7		0.1	0.2	0.2	.152		-3.5	3.1	-0.4	0.0
10	Rick Carlisle	26	10	54	11.6	.567	.000	.267	6.7	3.8	5.1	19.6	1.8	0.0	15.2	15.4		0.1	0.1	0.1	.128		-0.9	1.3	0.4	0.0
11	David Thirdkill	25	13	47	5.3	.372	.056	.611	2.6	15.4	9.5	8.2	2.1	0.0	11.6	23.2		-0.1	0.1	-0.1	-0.054		-6.1	-1.2	-7.3	-0.1
12	Sam Vincent	22	9	41	5.3	.359	.036	.214	2.9	15.1	9.5	17.2	2.4	0.0	11.5	35.6		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.109		-10.1	-2.3	-12.4	-0.1

Players on League Leaderboards

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Salaries

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