Jan. 29, 2026, 5:01 a.m. ET
Today in Boston Celtics history, Stacey King was born in Lawton, Oklahoma back in 1967. King played his NCAA basketball at Oklahoma before being picked up with the sixth overall pick by the Chicago Bulls in the 1989 NBA Draft.
As far as being a part of the history of the storied franchise goes, you can’t get much more loose than the tenure of King with Boston. The man has almost as many rings (3– from his time with the Chicago Bulls, where he won 3 years in a row with Michael Jordan between 1991 and 1993) as he does games with Boston. King played a total of 5 tilts with the Celtics after he signed a 10-day contract but did not renew with a second, dissatisfied with how he was being used and how the organization was run under ML Carr. King was nearly at the end of his career, playing a short stint with the Dallas Mavericks before heading to the Continental Basketball Association (CBA – an analog of the G League at that time) and overseas.
He averaged 2.4 points and 1.8 rebounds per game as a Celtic.
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