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1986-87 Boston Celtics Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 59-23, Finished 1st in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: K.C. Jones (59-23)

Executive: Jan Volk

PTS/G: 112.6 (6th of 23) Opp PTS/G: 106.0 (4th of 23)

SRS: 6.57 (3rd of 23) Pace: 98.6 (19th of 23)

Off Rtg: 113.5 (3rd of 23) Def Rtg: 106.8 (9th of 23) Net Rtg: +6.7 (3rd of 23)

Expected W-L: 57-25 (3rd of 23)

Preseason Odds: Championship +160

Arena: Boston Garden Attendance: 611,222 (6th of 23)

NBA 1987 Playoffs:
Won NBA Eastern Conference First Round (3-0) versus Chicago Bulls (Series Stats)
Won NBA Eastern Conference Semifinals (4-3) versus Milwaukee Bucks (Series Stats)
Won NBA Eastern Conference Finals (4-3) versus Detroit Pistons (Series Stats)
Lost NBA Finals (2-4) versus Los Angeles Lakers (Series Stats)

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

1. Oct 31, BOS (1-0) beat WSB, 120-102

Roster

Roster Table
No.	Player	Pos	Ht	Wt	Birth Date		Exp	College
44	Danny Ainge	SG	6-4	175	March 17, 1959	us	5	BYU
33	Larry Bird	SF	6-9	220	December 7, 1956	us	7	Indiana State University
34	Rick Carlisle	SG	6-5	210	October 27, 1959	us	2	University of Maine, Virginia
20	Darren Daye	SF	6-8	220	November 30, 1960	us	3	UCLA
43	Conner Henry	SG	6-7	195	July 21, 1963	us	R	UC Santa Barbara
3	Dennis Johnson	PG	6-4	185	September 18, 1954	us	10	Pepperdine
50	Greg Kite	C	6-11	250	August 5, 1961	us	3	BYU
32	Kevin McHale	PF	6-10	210	December 19, 1957	us	6	Minnesota
00	Robert Parish	C	7-1	230	August 30, 1953	us	10	Centenary (LA)
31	Fred Roberts	PF	6-10	218	August 14, 1960	us	3	BYU
12	Jerry Sichting	PG	6-1	168	November 29, 1956	us	6	Purdue
45	David Thirdkill	SF	6-7	195	April 12, 1960	us	4	Bradley
7	Andre Turner	PG	5-11	160	December 13, 1964	us	R	Memphis
11	Sam Vincent	PG	6-2	185	May 18, 1963	us	1	Michigan State
5	Bill Walton	C	6-11	210	November 5, 1952	us	9	UCLA
8	Scott Wedman	SF	6-7	215	July 29, 1952	us	12	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

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	30	74	73	40.6	10.6	20.2	.525	1.2	3.0	.400	9.4	17.2	.547	.555	5.6	6.1	.910	1.7	7.5	9.2	7.6	1.8	0.9	3.2	2.5	28.1
2	Kevin McHale	29	77	77	39.7	10.3	17.0	.604	0.0	0.1	.000	10.3	16.9	.606	.604	5.6	6.6	.836	3.2	6.7	9.9	2.6	0.5	2.2	2.6	3.1	26.1
3	Robert Parish	33	80	80	37.4	7.4	13.2	.556	0.0	0.0	.000	7.4	13.2	.557	.556	2.8	3.9	.735	3.2	7.5	10.6	2.2	0.8	1.8	2.4	3.3	17.5
4	Dennis Johnson	32	79	78	37.1	5.4	12.1	.444	0.1	0.8	.113	5.3	11.3	.467	.448	2.6	3.2	.833	0.6	2.7	3.3	7.5	1.1	0.5	2.2	2.5	13.4
5	Danny Ainge	27	71	66	35.2	5.8	11.9	.486	1.2	2.7	.443	4.6	9.2	.498	.536	2.1	2.3	.897	0.7	2.7	3.4	5.6	1.4	0.2	2.0	2.7	14.8
6	Jerry Sichting	30	78	15	20.1	2.6	5.1	.508	0.1	0.3	.269	2.5	4.8	.524	.516	0.5	0.5	.881	0.3	0.9	1.2	2.4	0.5	0.0	0.8	1.6	5.7
7	Fred Roberts	26	73	11	14.8	1.9	3.7	.515	0.0	0.0	.000	1.9	3.7	.521	.515	1.7	2.1	.810	0.7	1.9	2.6	0.8	0.3	0.3	1.2	1.8	5.5
8	Scott Wedman	34	6	2	13.0	1.5	4.5	.333	0.2	0.3	.500	1.3	4.2	.320	.352	0.2	0.3	.500	0.5	1.0	1.5	1.0	0.3	0.3	0.5	1.0	3.3
9	Darren Daye	26	61	2	11.9	1.7	3.3	.500	0.0	0.0		1.7	3.3	.500	.500	0.6	1.1	.523	0.6	1.4	2.0	1.2	0.4	0.1	0.9	1.6	3.9
10	Bill Walton	34	10	0	11.2	1.0	2.6	.385	0.0	0.0		1.0	2.6	.385	.385	0.8	1.5	.533	1.1	2.0	3.1	0.9	0.1	1.0	1.5	2.3	2.8
11	Greg Kite	25	74	1	10.1	0.6	1.5	.427	0.0	0.0	.000	0.6	1.5	.431	.427	0.4	1.0	.382	0.8	1.5	2.3	0.4	0.2	0.6	0.5	2.0	1.7
12	Sam Vincent	23	46	5	8.1	1.3	3.0	.441	0.0	0.0		1.3	3.0	.441	.441	1.1	1.2	.927	0.1	0.5	0.6	1.3	0.3	0.0	0.7	0.7	3.7
13	Rick Carlisle	27	42	0	7.1	0.7	2.2	.326	0.1	0.4	.313	0.6	1.8	.329	.353	0.4	0.5	.750	0.2	0.5	0.7	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.6	0.7	1.9
14	Conner Henry	23	36	0	6.4	1.1	2.9	.369	0.3	0.9	.387	0.7	2.0	.361	.427	0.3	0.5	.588	0.2	0.6	0.8	0.8	0.2	0.0	0.5	0.8	2.7
15	Andre Turner	22	3	0	6.0	0.7	1.7	.400	0.0	0.3	.000	0.7	1.3	.500	.400	0.0	0.0		0.3	0.3	0.7	0.3	0.0	0.0	1.7	0.3	1.3
16	David Thirdkill	26	17	0	5.2	0.6	1.4	.417	0.0	0.1	.000	0.6	1.4	.435	.417	0.3	0.9	.313	0.3	0.8	1.1	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.7	1.5

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	30	23	23	44.1	9.4	19.7	.476	0.6	1.8	.341	8.8	18.0	.489	.491	7.7	8.4	.912	1.8	8.3	10.0	7.2	1.2	0.8	3.1	2.4	27.0
2	Dennis Johnson	32	23	23	41.9	7.3	15.7	.465	0.1	1.1	.115	7.2	14.6	.493	.470	4.2	4.9	.850	1.0	2.9	4.0	8.9	0.7	0.3	1.9	3.1	18.9
3	Kevin McHale	29	21	19	39.4	8.3	14.2	.584	0.0	0.0		8.3	14.2	.584	.584	4.6	6.0	.762	3.1	6.1	9.2	1.9	0.3	1.4	2.6	3.4	21.1
4	Danny Ainge	27	20	19	38.1	5.8	11.9	.487	1.6	3.7	.438	4.2	8.3	.509	.555	1.6	1.8	.861	0.7	2.0	2.6	4.6	1.2	0.2	2.1	3.1	14.8
5	Robert Parish	33	21	21	35.0	7.1	12.5	.567	0.0	0.0	.000	7.1	12.5	.569	.567	3.8	4.9	.767	2.8	6.6	9.4	1.3	0.9	1.7	1.8	3.8	18.0
6	Jerry Sichting	30	23	4	14.7	1.5	3.6	.427	0.0	0.3	.167	1.5	3.3	.447	.433	0.3	0.4	.800	0.2	0.7	0.9	1.4	0.4	0.0	0.4	1.6	3.4
7	Fred Roberts	26	20	4	13.3	1.5	3.0	.508	0.0	0.0		1.5	3.0	.508	.508	1.6	2.2	.705	0.8	0.9	1.7	0.6	0.3	0.2	0.6	2.4	4.6
8	Darren Daye	26	23	1	10.4	1.8	3.1	.583	0.0	0.0		1.8	3.1	.583	.583	1.4	1.6	.865	0.5	0.9	1.4	0.6	0.4	0.1	0.8	1.4	5.0
9	Greg Kite	25	20	1	8.6	0.4	1.0	.350	0.0	0.0		0.4	1.0	.350	.350	0.2	0.4	.429	0.8	1.6	2.3	0.4	0.1	0.4	0.4	2.2	0.9
10	Bill Walton	34	12	0	8.5	1.0	2.1	.480	0.0	0.0		1.0	2.1	.480	.480	0.4	1.2	.357	0.8	1.8	2.6	0.8	0.3	0.3	0.7	1.9	2.4
11	Sam Vincent	23	17	0	8.3	1.4	3.3	.411	0.1	0.1	.500	1.3	3.2	.407	.420	1.6	2.1	.771	0.2	0.5	0.7	1.1	0.2	0.1	0.6	0.8	4.4
12	Conner Henry	23	11	0	3.2	0.7	1.5	.500	0.1	0.5	.200	0.6	1.0	.636	.531	0.5	0.9	.500	0.3	0.3	0.5	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.4	0.3	2.0

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	Kevin McHale	29	77	77	3060	790	1307	.604	0	4	.000	790	1303	.606	.604	428	512	.836	247	516	763	198	38	172	197	240	2008
2	Larry Bird	30	74	73	3005	786	1497	.525	90	225	.400	696	1272	.547	.555	414	455	.910	124	558	682	566	135	70	240	185	2076
3	Robert Parish	33	80	80	2995	588	1057	.556	0	1	.000	588	1056	.557	.556	227	309	.735	254	597	851	173	64	144	191	266	1403
4	Dennis Johnson	32	79	78	2933	423	953	.444	7	62	.113	416	891	.467	.448	209	251	.833	45	216	261	594	87	38	177	201	1062
5	Danny Ainge	27	71	66	2499	410	844	.486	85	192	.443	325	652	.498	.536	148	165	.897	49	193	242	400	101	14	141	189	1053
6	Jerry Sichting	30	78	15	1566	202	398	.508	7	26	.269	195	372	.524	.516	37	42	.881	22	69	91	187	40	1	61	124	448
7	Fred Roberts	26	73	11	1079	139	270	.515	0	3	.000	139	267	.521	.515	124	153	.810	54	136	190	62	22	20	89	129	402
8	Greg Kite	25	74	1	745	47	110	.427	0	1	.000	47	109	.431	.427	29	76	.382	61	108	169	27	17	46	34	148	123
9	Darren Daye	26	61	2	724	101	202	.500	0	0		101	202	.500	.500	34	65	.523	37	87	124	75	25	7	56	98	236
10	Sam Vincent	23	46	5	374	60	136	.441	0	0		60	136	.441	.441	51	55	.927	5	22	27	59	13	1	33	33	171
11	Rick Carlisle	27	42	0	297	30	92	.326	5	16	.313	25	76	.329	.353	15	20	.750	8	22	30	35	8	0	25	28	80
12	Conner Henry	23	36	0	231	38	103	.369	12	31	.387	26	72	.361	.427	10	17	.588	7	20	27	27	6	1	17	27	98
13	Bill Walton	34	10	0	112	10	26	.385	0	0		10	26	.385	.385	8	15	.533	11	20	31	9	1	10	15	23	28
14	David Thirdkill	26	17	0	89	10	24	.417	0	1	.000	10	23	.435	.417	5	16	.313	5	14	19	2	2	0	5	12	25
15	Scott Wedman	34	6	2	78	9	27	.333	1	2	.500	8	25	.320	.352	1	2	.500	3	6	9	6	2	2	3	6	20
16	Andre Turner	22	3	0	18	2	5	.400	0	1	.000	2	4	.500	.400	0	0		1	1	2	1	0	0	5	1	4
			82		19805	3645	7051	.517	207	565	.366	3438	6486	.530	.532	1740	2153	.808	933	2585	3518	2421	561	526	1300	1710	9237

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	30	23	23	1015	216	454	.476	14	41	.341	202	413	.489	.491	176	193	.912	41	190	231	165	27	19	71	55	622
2	Dennis Johnson	32	23	23	964	168	361	.465	3	26	.115	165	335	.493	.470	96	113	.850	24	67	91	205	16	8	44	71	435
3	Kevin McHale	29	21	19	827	174	298	.584	0	0		174	298	.584	.584	96	126	.762	66	128	194	39	7	30	54	71	444
4	Danny Ainge	27	20	19	762	116	238	.487	32	73	.438	84	165	.509	.555	31	36	.861	13	39	52	92	24	4	41	62	295
5	Robert Parish	33	21	21	734	149	263	.567	0	1	.000	149	262	.569	.567	79	103	.767	59	139	198	28	18	35	38	79	377
6	Jerry Sichting	30	23	4	338	35	82	.427	1	6	.167	34	76	.447	.433	8	10	.800	5	15	20	33	9	0	10	36	79
7	Fred Roberts	26	20	4	265	30	59	.508	0	0		30	59	.508	.508	31	44	.705	15	18	33	12	6	3	12	47	91
8	Darren Daye	26	23	1	240	42	72	.583	0	0		42	72	.583	.583	32	37	.865	11	21	32	13	9	3	18	33	116
9	Greg Kite	25	20	1	172	7	20	.350	0	0		7	20	.350	.350	3	7	.429	15	31	46	8	2	8	7	43	17
10	Sam Vincent	23	17	0	141	23	56	.411	1	2	.500	22	54	.407	.420	27	35	.771	3	9	12	19	3	2	10	13	74
11	Bill Walton	34	12	0	102	12	25	.480	0	0		12	25	.480	.480	5	14	.357	9	22	31	10	3	4	8	23	29
12	Conner Henry	23	11	0	35	8	16	.500	1	5	.200	7	11	.636	.531	5	10	.500	3	3	6	0	0	0	4	3	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	Kevin McHale	29	77	3060	24.0	.655	.003	.392	9.9	17.5	14.0	9.8	0.6	3.1	11.4	24.1		10.8	4.0	14.8	.232		4.7	0.4	5.1	5.5
2	Larry Bird	30	74	3005	26.4	.612	.150	.304	5.1	19.2	12.8	28.6	2.2	1.3	12.4	27.5		10.4	4.8	15.2	.243		7.3	2.0	9.4	8.6
3	Robert Parish	33	80	2995	17.7	.588	.001	.292	10.4	20.7	16.0	8.0	1.0	2.7	13.8	19.7		4.6	4.5	9.2	.147		0.9	0.3	1.2	2.4
4	Dennis Johnson	32	79	2933	13.2	.499	.065	.263	1.9	7.6	5.0	26.1	1.4	0.7	14.3	18.0		2.5	2.6	5.2	.085		-0.2	-0.1	-0.4	1.2
5	Danny Ainge	27	71	2499	15.2	.574	.227	.195	2.4	8.0	5.4	21.2	2.0	0.3	13.3	18.0		4.1	2.5	6.7	.128		1.0	0.3	1.2	2.0
6	Jerry Sichting	30	78	1566	9.4	.538	.065	.106	1.7	4.6	3.3	15.1	1.2	0.0	12.8	13.0		1.2	1.0	2.3	.070		-2.0	-0.4	-2.4	-0.1
7	Fred Roberts	26	73	1079	10.7	.596	.011	.567	6.2	13.1	9.9	7.3	1.0	1.0	20.9	16.8		0.6	1.1	1.8	.078		-2.6	-0.7	-3.3	-0.4
8	Greg Kite	25	74	745	6.0	.429	.009	.691	10.1	15.0	12.8	4.2	1.1	3.4	19.2	10.1		-0.4	1.0	0.7	.044		-5.4	0.8	-4.7	-0.5
9	Darren Daye	26	61	724	9.6	.512	.000	.322	6.3	12.5	9.6	13.3	1.7	0.5	19.5	16.9		-0.2	0.8	0.6	.043		-3.2	0.0	-3.1	-0.2
10	Sam Vincent	23	46	374	12.8	.534	.000	.404	1.6	6.1	4.1	20.8	1.7	0.1	17.1	22.0		0.2	0.3	0.5	.069		-1.6	-0.8	-2.4	0.0
11	Rick Carlisle	27	42	297	4.6	.397	.174	.217	3.3	7.7	5.7	14.4	1.3	0.0	19.9	18.0		-0.6	0.2	-0.3	-0.054		-5.6	-1.6	-7.1	-0.4
12	Conner Henry	23	36	231	8.5	.444	.301	.165	3.7	9.0	6.6	15.5	1.3	0.2	13.3	23.5		-0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.012		-3.9	-2.3	-6.3	-0.2
13	Bill Walton	34	10	112	5.6	.429	.000	.577	12.1	18.5	15.6	9.7	0.4	5.0	31.5	18.1		-0.3	0.2	-0.1	-0.047		-6.4	2.3	-4.1	-0.1
14	David Thirdkill	26	17	89	4.5	.403	.042	.667	6.9	16.3	12.0	2.8	1.1	0.0	13.9	17.3		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.038		-8.3	-2.3	-10.7	-0.2
15	Scott Wedman	34	6	78	5.7	.359	.074	.074	4.7	8.0	6.5	9.6	1.2	1.4	9.7	16.9		-0.1	0.1	-0.1	-0.032		-4.3	-1.3	-5.6	-0.1
16	Andre Turner	22	3	18	-7.1	.400	.200	.000	6.8	5.8	6.2	6.9	0.0	0.0	50.0	23.7		-0.1	0.0	-0.1	-0.354		-10.7	-7.2	-18.0	-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	30	23	1015	21.8	.577	.090	.425	5.0	21.6	13.6	24.5	1.3	1.1	11.6	25.9		2.4	0.9	3.2	.152		5.7	0.6	6.3	2.1
2	Dennis Johnson	32	23	964	15.8	.530	.072	.313	3.1	8.0	5.6	30.3	0.8	0.5	9.7	20.4		1.7	0.3	2.0	.098		2.3	-0.2	2.0	1.0
3	Kevin McHale	29	21	827	17.9	.628	.000	.423	9.9	17.8	14.0	7.1	0.4	2.1	13.3	21.3		1.5	0.5	2.1	.120		2.7	-1.0	1.7	0.8
4	Danny Ainge	27	20	762	11.9	.581	.307	.151	2.1	5.9	4.1	16.7	1.6	0.3	13.9	16.7		0.7	0.3	1.0	.060		0.8	-0.3	0.6	0.5
5	Robert Parish	33	21	734	18.6	.611	.004	.392	10.0	21.8	16.1	5.7	1.2	2.8	11.0	20.4		1.4	0.7	2.1	.138		1.8	0.5	2.3	0.8
6	Jerry Sichting	30	23	338	6.2	.457	.073	.122	1.8	5.1	3.5	12.6	1.3	0.0	10.4	12.3		-0.1	0.1	0.0	.004		-3.3	-0.3	-3.6	-0.1
7	Fred Roberts	26	20	265	9.1	.581	.000	.746	7.0	7.8	7.4	5.9	1.1	0.7	13.3	14.7		0.3	0.1	0.4	.067		-2.4	-0.4	-2.8	0.0
8	Darren Daye	26	23	240	14.4	.657	.000	.514	5.7	10.1	8.0	7.7	1.9	0.7	16.9	19.1		0.4	0.1	0.5	.102		0.2	1.0	1.2	0.2
9	Greg Kite	25	20	172	3.9	.368	.000	.350	10.8	20.7	16.0	5.6	0.6	2.7	23.3	7.6		-0.1	0.1	0.1	.014		-5.5	1.2	-4.2	-0.1
10	Sam Vincent	23	17	141	13.4	.518	.036	.625	2.6	7.3	5.1	18.9	1.1	0.8	12.3	24.9		0.1	0.0	0.1	.041		-0.8	-1.9	-2.7	0.0
11	Bill Walton	34	12	102	9.2	.465	.000	.560	11.0	24.8	18.2	12.9	1.5	2.3	20.4	16.6		-0.1	0.1	0.0	.009		-4.4	1.9	-2.5	0.0
12	Conner Henry	23	11	35	10.8	.539	.313	.625	10.7	9.9	10.2	0.0	0.0	0.0	16.4	30.1		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.062		-2.7	-5.3	-8.0	-0.1

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