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1988-89 Boston Celtics Roster and Stats

Previous Season

Record: 42-40, Finished 3rd in NBA Atlantic Division

Coach: Jimmy Rodgers (42-40)

Executive: Jan Volk

PTS/G: 109.2 (10th of 25) Opp PTS/G: 108.1 (10th of 25)

SRS: 1.26 (12th of 25) Pace: 98.1 (20th of 25)

Off Rtg: 110.8 (8th of 25) Def Rtg: 109.6 (20th of 25) Net Rtg: +1.2 (14th of 25)

Expected W-L: 44-38 (14th of 25)

Preseason Odds: Championship +1000

Arena: Boston Garden Attendance: 611,537 (13th of 25)

NBA 1989 Playoffs:
Lost NBA Eastern Conference First Round (0-3) versus Detroit Pistons (Series Stats)

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
42	Mark Acres	C	6-11	220	November 15, 1962	us	1	Oral Roberts
44	Danny Ainge	PG	6-4	175	March 17, 1959	us	7	BYU
33	Larry Bird	SF	6-9	220	December 7, 1956	us	9	Indiana State University
12	Otis Birdsong	SG	6-3	190	December 9, 1955	us	11	Houston
34	Kevin Gamble	SF	6-5	210	November 13, 1965	us	1	Iowa
31	Ron Grandison	PF	6-6	215	July 9, 1964	us	R	University of California, Irvine, New Orleans
3	Dennis Johnson	PG	6-4	185	September 18, 1954	us	12	Pepperdine
53	Joe Kleine	C	6-11	255	January 4, 1962	us	3	Notre Dame, Arkansas
35	Reggie Lewis	SF	6-7	195	November 21, 1965	us	1	Northeastern University
54	Brad Lohaus	PF	6-11	230	September 29, 1964	us	1	Iowa
32	Kevin McHale	PF	6-10	210	December 19, 1957	us	8	Minnesota
00	Robert Parish	C	7-1	230	August 30, 1953	us	12	Centenary (LA)
4	Jim Paxson	PG	6-6	200	July 9, 1957	us	9	Dayton
54	Ed Pinckney	PF	6-9	195	March 27, 1963	us	3	Villanova
45	Ramón Rivas	C	6-10	260	June 3, 1966	pr	R	Temple
20	Brian Shaw	SG	6-6	190	March 22, 1966	us	R	Saint Mary's, UC Santa Barbara
7	Kelvin Upshaw	SG	6-2	180	January 24, 1963	us	R	Utah

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	Kevin McHale	31	78	74	36.9	8.5	15.5	.546	0.0	0.1	.000	8.5	15.5	.548	.546	5.6	6.8	.818	2.9	5.3	8.2	2.2	0.3	1.2	2.5	2.9	22.5
2	Robert Parish	35	80	80	35.5	7.5	13.1	.570	0.0	0.0		7.5	13.1	.570	.570	3.7	5.1	.719	4.3	8.2	12.5	2.2	1.0	1.5	2.5	2.6	18.6
3	Reggie Lewis	23	81	57	32.8	7.5	15.3	.486	0.0	0.3	.136	7.4	15.1	.493	.488	3.5	4.5	.787	1.4	3.2	4.7	2.7	1.5	0.9	1.8	3.2	18.5
4	Dennis Johnson	34	72	72	32.1	3.8	8.9	.434	0.1	0.7	.140	3.8	8.2	.459	.440	2.2	2.7	.821	0.4	2.2	2.6	6.6	1.3	0.3	2.4	2.9	10.0
5	Larry Bird	32	6	6	31.5	8.2	17.3	.471	0.0	0.0		8.2	17.3	.471	.471	3.0	3.2	.947	0.2	6.0	6.2	4.8	1.0	0.8	1.8	3.0	19.3
6	Danny Ainge	29	45	28	30.0	6.0	13.1	.460	1.3	3.4	.374	4.7	9.6	.491	.509	2.5	2.8	.891	0.8	2.6	3.4	4.8	1.2	0.0	1.8	2.4	15.9
7	Brian Shaw	22	82	54	28.1	3.6	8.4	.433	0.0	0.2	.000	3.6	8.2	.441	.433	1.3	1.6	.826	1.5	3.1	4.6	5.8	1.0	0.3	2.3	2.6	8.6
8	Ed Pinckney	25	29	9	23.4	3.3	6.1	.540	0.0	0.0		3.3	6.1	.540	.540	3.6	4.4	.798	2.1	3.0	5.1	1.5	1.0	0.8	1.3	2.7	10.1
9	Kelvin Upshaw	26	23	0	20.6	3.2	6.5	.490	0.1	0.4	.200	3.1	6.0	.511	.497	0.6	0.9	.700	0.3	1.3	1.6	4.2	0.8	0.1	1.8	2.7	7.0
10	Jim Paxson	31	57	7	20.0	3.5	7.8	.454	0.1	0.4	.167	3.5	7.4	.470	.458	1.5	1.8	.816	0.3	1.0	1.3	1.9	0.7	0.1	1.0	1.7	8.6
11	Joe Kleine	27	28	2	17.8	2.1	4.6	.457	0.0	0.0	.000	2.1	4.6	.461	.457	1.9	2.3	.828	1.8	3.1	4.9	1.1	0.5	0.2	1.3	2.4	6.1
12	Brad Lohaus	24	48	15	15.4	2.4	5.6	.433	0.0	0.1	.000	2.4	5.5	.440	.433	0.7	1.0	.761	1.0	2.0	3.0	1.0	0.4	0.5	1.0	2.1	5.6
13	Mark Acres	26	62	0	10.2	0.9	1.8	.482	0.0	0.0	1.000	0.9	1.8	.478	.487	0.4	0.8	.542	1.0	1.4	2.4	0.3	0.3	0.1	0.4	1.5	2.2
14	Kevin Gamble	23	44	6	8.5	1.7	3.1	.551	0.0	0.3	.182	1.7	2.8	.584	.559	0.8	1.3	.636	0.3	0.7	1.0	0.8	0.3	0.1	0.4	0.9	4.3
15	Otis Birdsong	33	13	0	8.3	1.4	2.8	.500	0.1	0.2	.333	1.3	2.5	.515	.514	0.0	0.2	.000	0.3	0.7	1.0	0.7	0.2	0.1	0.9	0.8	2.8
16	Ron Grandison	24	72	0	7.3	0.8	2.0	.415	0.0	0.1	.000	0.8	1.8	.447	.415	0.8	1.1	.738	0.7	0.6	1.3	0.6	0.3	0.0	0.5	1.0	2.5
17	Ramón Rivas	22	28	0	3.3	0.4	1.1	.387	0.0	0.0	.000	0.4	1.1	.400	.387	0.6	0.9	.640	0.3	0.5	0.9	0.1	0.1	0.0	0.3	0.8	1.4

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	Reggie Lewis	23	3	3	41.7	8.7	18.3	.473	0.0	0.7	.000	8.7	17.7	.491	.473	3.0	4.3	.692	1.7	5.3	7.0	3.7	1.7	0.0	2.7	3.7	20.3
2	Brian Shaw	22	3	3	41.3	7.3	14.3	.512	0.0	0.3	.000	7.3	14.0	.524	.512	2.3	3.0	.778	0.7	5.0	5.7	6.3	1.0	0.0	2.0	3.7	17.0
3	Kevin McHale	31	3	3	38.3	6.7	13.7	.488	0.0	0.0		6.7	13.7	.488	.488	5.7	7.7	.739	2.3	5.7	8.0	3.0	0.3	0.7	1.3	4.3	19.0
4	Robert Parish	35	3	3	37.3	6.7	14.7	.455	0.0	0.0		6.7	14.7	.455	.455	2.3	3.0	.778	2.0	6.7	8.7	2.0	1.3	0.7	2.0	1.7	15.7
5	Kevin Gamble	23	1	1	29.0	4.0	11.0	.364	0.0	1.0	.000	4.0	10.0	.400	.364	0.0	2.0	.000	1.0	0.0	1.0	2.0	1.0	0.0	0.0	1.0	8.0
6	Joe Kleine	27	3	0	21.7	2.0	3.7	.545	0.0	0.3	.000	2.0	3.3	.600	.545	2.3	3.0	.778	1.3	4.3	5.7	0.7	0.0	0.3	2.0	3.0	6.3
7	Dennis Johnson	34	3	1	19.7	1.3	5.0	.267	0.0	0.0		1.3	5.0	.267	.267	0.0	0.0		0.7	0.7	1.3	3.0	1.0	0.0	1.0	2.7	2.7
8	Ed Pinckney	25	3	0	15.0	1.0	4.0	.250	0.0	0.0		1.0	4.0	.250	.250	0.7	0.7	1.000	0.7	1.0	1.7	0.3	0.3	0.3	1.3	2.3	2.7
9	Kelvin Upshaw	26	3	0	8.0	1.7	4.0	.417	0.0	0.0		1.7	4.0	.417	.417	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.7	0.7	1.7	0.3	0.0	0.3	1.3	3.3
10	Otis Birdsong	33	3	1	6.7	0.3	1.7	.200	0.0	0.7	.000	0.3	1.0	.333	.200	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.7	0.7	0.3	0.3	0.3	1.0	1.0	0.7
11	Mark Acres	26	2	0	1.0	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.5	.000	0.0	0.0		.000	0.0	0.0		0.0	0.5	0.5	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	Kevin McHale	31	78	74	2876	661	1211	.546	0	4	.000	661	1207	.548	.546	436	533	.818	223	414	637	172	26	97	196	223	1758
2	Robert Parish	35	80	80	2840	596	1045	.570	0	0		596	1045	.570	.570	294	409	.719	342	654	996	175	79	116	200	209	1486
3	Reggie Lewis	23	81	57	2657	604	1242	.486	3	22	.136	601	1220	.493	.488	284	361	.787	116	261	377	218	124	72	142	258	1495
4	Dennis Johnson	34	72	72	2309	277	638	.434	7	50	.140	270	588	.459	.440	160	195	.821	31	159	190	472	94	21	175	211	721
5	Brian Shaw	22	82	54	2301	297	686	.433	0	13	.000	297	673	.441	.433	109	132	.826	119	257	376	472	78	27	188	211	703
6	Danny Ainge	29	45	28	1349	271	589	.460	58	155	.374	213	434	.491	.509	114	128	.891	37	117	154	215	52	1	82	108	714
7	Jim Paxson	31	57	7	1138	202	445	.454	4	24	.167	198	421	.470	.458	84	103	.816	18	56	74	107	38	8	57	96	492
8	Brad Lohaus	24	48	15	738	117	270	.433	0	4	.000	117	266	.440	.433	35	46	.761	47	95	142	49	21	26	49	101	269
9	Ed Pinckney	25	29	9	678	95	176	.540	0	0		95	176	.540	.540	103	129	.798	60	88	148	44	29	23	38	77	293
10	Mark Acres	26	62	0	632	55	114	.482	1	1	1.000	54	113	.478	.487	26	48	.542	59	87	146	19	19	6	23	94	137
11	Ron Grandison	24	72	0	528	59	142	.415	0	10	.000	59	132	.447	.415	59	80	.738	47	45	92	42	18	3	36	71	177
12	Joe Kleine	27	28	2	498	59	129	.457	0	1	.000	59	128	.461	.457	53	64	.828	49	88	137	32	15	5	37	66	171
13	Kelvin Upshaw	26	23	0	473	73	149	.490	2	10	.200	71	139	.511	.497	14	20	.700	6	30	36	97	19	3	42	62	162
14	Kevin Gamble	23	44	6	375	75	136	.551	2	11	.182	73	125	.584	.559	35	55	.636	11	31	42	34	14	3	19	40	187
15	Larry Bird	32	6	6	189	49	104	.471	0	0		49	104	.471	.471	18	19	.947	1	36	37	29	6	5	11	18	116
16	Otis Birdsong	33	13	0	108	18	36	.500	1	3	.333	17	33	.515	.514	0	2	.000	4	9	13	9	3	1	12	10	37
17	Ramón Rivas	22	28	0	91	12	31	.387	0	1	.000	12	30	.400	.387	16	25	.640	9	15	24	3	4	1	9	21	40
			82		19780	3520	7143	.493	78	309	.252	3442	6834	.504	.498	1840	2349	.783	1179	2442	3621	2189	639	418	1336	1876	8958

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	Reggie Lewis	23	3	3	125	26	55	.473	0	2	.000	26	53	.491	.473	9	13	.692	5	16	21	11	5	0	8	11	61
2	Brian Shaw	22	3	3	124	22	43	.512	0	1	.000	22	42	.524	.512	7	9	.778	2	15	17	19	3	0	6	11	51
3	Kevin McHale	31	3	3	115	20	41	.488	0	0		20	41	.488	.488	17	23	.739	7	17	24	9	1	2	4	13	57
4	Robert Parish	35	3	3	112	20	44	.455	0	0		20	44	.455	.455	7	9	.778	6	20	26	6	4	2	6	5	47
5	Joe Kleine	27	3	0	65	6	11	.545	0	1	.000	6	10	.600	.545	7	9	.778	4	13	17	2	0	1	6	9	19
6	Dennis Johnson	34	3	1	59	4	15	.267	0	0		4	15	.267	.267	0	0		2	2	4	9	3	0	3	8	8
7	Ed Pinckney	25	3	0	45	3	12	.250	0	0		3	12	.250	.250	2	2	1.000	2	3	5	1	1	1	4	7	8
8	Kevin Gamble	23	1	1	29	4	11	.364	0	1	.000	4	10	.400	.364	0	2	.000	1	0	1	2	1	0	0	1	8
9	Kelvin Upshaw	26	3	0	24	5	12	.417	0	0		5	12	.417	.417	0	0		0	2	2	5	1	0	1	4	10
10	Otis Birdsong	33	3	1	20	1	5	.200	0	2	.000	1	3	.333	.200	0	0		0	2	2	1	1	1	3	3	2
11	Mark Acres	26	2	0	2	0	1	.000	0	1	.000	0	0		.000	0	0		0	1	1	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	Kevin McHale	31	78	2876	20.3	.608	.003	.440	9.0	16.3	12.7	9.1	0.4	2.0	11.9	23.7		8.1	1.9	10.1	.168		3.2	-1.1	2.1	3.0
2	Robert Parish	35	80	2840	21.6	.607	.000	.391	14.0	26.1	20.1	9.1	1.4	2.4	14.0	20.9		6.9	3.6	10.5	.177		3.5	-0.2	3.3	3.8
3	Reggie Lewis	23	81	2657	17.6	.534	.018	.291	5.1	11.1	8.1	12.4	2.3	1.6	9.2	24.1		4.4	2.4	6.9	.124		1.2	0.3	1.4	2.3
4	Dennis Johnson	34	72	2309	11.5	.498	.078	.306	1.6	7.8	4.7	26.6	2.0	0.5	19.5	16.2		1.0	1.5	2.5	.051		-1.4	-0.3	-1.7	0.2
5	Brian Shaw	22	82	2301	12.2	.472	.019	.192	6.0	12.7	9.4	27.0	1.7	0.7	20.2	16.8		0.5	1.7	2.2	.046		-0.6	0.0	-0.7	0.8
6	Danny Ainge	29	45	1349	17.5	.553	.263	.217	3.2	9.8	6.6	23.1	1.9	0.0	11.3	22.4		2.9	0.8	3.8	.133		2.7	-0.4	2.3	1.5
7	Jim Paxson	31	57	1138	11.5	.502	.054	.231	1.8	5.6	3.7	13.2	1.6	0.4	10.4	20.0		0.7	0.5	1.3	.053		-2.2	-1.0	-3.1	-0.3
8	Brad Lohaus	24	48	738	10.0	.463	.015	.170	7.4	14.6	11.0	9.1	1.4	2.1	14.4	19.1		-0.3	0.6	0.4	.023		-3.3	-0.2	-3.5	-0.3
9	Ed Pinckney	25	29	678	17.7	.629	.000	.733	10.3	14.7	12.5	8.7	2.1	2.0	14.0	16.6		1.8	0.7	2.5	.176		1.6	1.0	2.6	0.8
10	Mark Acres	26	62	632	8.2	.507	.009	.421	10.9	15.6	13.3	3.7	1.5	0.6	14.5	10.4		0.4	0.5	0.9	.066		-3.0	-0.4	-3.4	-0.2
11	Ron Grandison	24	72	528	10.1	.499	.070	.563	10.4	9.7	10.0	10.2	1.7	0.3	16.9	16.8		0.3	0.3	0.6	.055		-2.2	-0.7	-2.9	-0.1
12	Joe Kleine	27	28	498	12.2	.544	.008	.496	11.4	20.0	15.8	8.3	1.5	0.6	19.1	16.2		0.4	0.5	0.9	.085		-1.8	-0.5	-2.3	0.0
13	Kelvin Upshaw	26	23	473	10.9	.513	.067	.134	1.5	7.2	4.4	27.9	2.0	0.4	21.0	17.6		0.1	0.3	0.4	.036		-2.2	-0.4	-2.5	-0.1
14	Kevin Gamble	23	44	375	15.8	.584	.081	.404	3.4	9.4	6.4	13.1	1.8	0.5	10.6	19.9		0.7	0.2	1.0	.123		0.6	-0.1	0.4	0.2
15	Larry Bird	32	6	189	19.8	.516	.000	.183	0.6	21.6	11.2	24.3	1.6	1.6	8.9	27.1		0.3	0.2	0.5	.129		2.1	1.6	3.7	0.3
16	Otis Birdsong	33	13	108	7.0	.502	.083	.056	4.3	9.4	6.9	11.5	1.4	0.5	24.5	18.8		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.051		-3.6	-1.7	-5.3	-0.1
17	Ramón Rivas	22	28	91	9.3	.476	.032	.806	11.5	18.7	15.1	4.3	2.2	0.6	17.6	23.3		-0.1	0.1	0.0	.019		-6.6	-1.6	-8.2	-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	Reggie Lewis	23	3	125	14.7	.502	.036	.236	4.7	14.7	9.8	15.6	2.1	0.0	11.6	24.6		-0.1	0.2	0.1	.033		1.2	0.6	1.7	0.1
2	Brian Shaw	22	3	124	15.1	.543	.023	.209	1.9	13.9	8.0	25.8	1.3	0.0	11.3	19.1		0.1	0.1	0.2	.086		1.7	1.2	2.9	0.2
3	Kevin McHale	31	3	115	17.4	.558	.000	.561	7.1	17.0	12.1	13.1	0.4	1.1	7.3	21.5		0.2	0.1	0.3	.135		3.6	0.2	3.9	0.2
4	Robert Parish	35	3	112	14.7	.490	.000	.205	6.3	20.6	13.5	9.0	1.8	1.1	11.1	21.6		-0.1	0.2	0.1	.039		1.8	-0.1	1.7	0.1
5	Joe Kleine	27	3	65	8.6	.635	.091	.818	7.2	23.0	15.2	4.5	0.0	1.0	28.6	14.4		0.0	0.1	0.1	.038		-2.7	-0.4	-3.1	0.0
6	Dennis Johnson	34	3	59	3.2	.267	.000	.000	4.0	3.9	3.9	21.7	2.6	0.0	16.7	13.7		-0.2	0.1	-0.1	-0.086		-5.2	-0.4	-5.6	-0.1
7	Ed Pinckney	25	3	45	-1.7	.311	.000	.167	5.2	7.7	6.5	3.2	1.1	1.4	23.7	16.8		-0.2	0.0	-0.2	-0.163		-8.4	-2.7	-11.0	-0.1
8	Kevin Gamble	23	1	29	5.9	.337	.091	.182	4.0	0.0	2.0	10.9	1.8	0.0	0.0	18.3		-0.1	0.0	0.0	-0.075		-1.9	-1.6	-3.5	0.0
9	Kelvin Upshaw	26	3	24	11.7	.417	.000	.000	0.0	9.6	4.8	37.0	2.2	0.0	7.7	24.3		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.016		-1.5	0.8	-0.7	0.0
10	Otis Birdsong	33	3	20	-5.7	.200	.400	.000	0.0	11.5	5.8	6.9	2.6	3.1	37.5	17.9		-0.2	0.0	-0.1	-0.289		-11.6	0.1	-11.5	0.0
11	Mark Acres	26	2	2	-9.1	.000	1.000	.000	0.0	57.6	29.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	0.0	22.4		0.0	0.0	0.0	-0.454		-12.9	-5.9	-18.8	0.0

Players on League Leaderboards

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