{"id":100461,"date":"2025-06-15T14:30:15","date_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:30:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100461\/"},"modified":"2025-06-15T14:30:15","modified_gmt":"2025-06-15T14:30:15","slug":"celtics-jersey-history-no-21","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/100461\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics jersey history No. 21"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/cms.megaphone.fm\/channel\/NSM6855951183\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Boston Celtics<\/a>\u00a0have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others not part of any numerical series) since their founding at the dawn of the Basketball Association of America (BAA &#8212; the league that would become today&#8217;s NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Celtics<\/a>\u00a0history.<\/p>\n<p>To commemorate the players who wore those numbers,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Celtics<\/a>\u00a0Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.<\/p>\n<p>With 25 of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Celtics<\/a>\u00a0to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover.<\/p>\n<p>And for today&#8217;s article, we will continue with the second of nine people to wear the No. 21, Boston big man alum Andy Duncan. After ending his college career at William and Mary, Duncan was picked up with the 53rd overall selection of the 1947 BAA draft by the New York Knicks.<\/p>\n<p>The Burford, Georgia instead played his first season in the league for the (then) Rochester Royals (now, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/sacramento-kings\/23\/\" data-autotag=\"3167e433-c189-4ca5-b7ab-4c9e41dbb11b\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sacramento Kings<\/a>) after playing a season in another domestic league. That ended when his contract was sold to Boston in 1950 for his final season in the league.<\/p>\n<p>During his time suiting up for the <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsdata.usatoday.com\/basketball\/nba\/teams\/boston-celtics\/2\/\" data-autotag=\"593bbaa3-06f5-4574-8d4d-eda805c7dc23\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Celtics<\/a>, Duncan wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 2.1 points and as many rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The\u00a0Boston Celtics\u00a0have had players suiting up in a total of 68 different jersey numbers (and have three others&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":84860,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[6700,7,45,75,3798,46,60,1539,3045,1836,6699,4056,7683,70,85,6,67,61,134,132,986,477,66,6704,7684,83,73],"class_list":{"0":"post-100461","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-apparel","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-content","15":"tag-evergreen","16":"tag-evergreen-content","17":"tag-fan","18":"tag-gear","19":"tag-kings","20":"tag-memorabilia","21":"tag-national","22":"tag-national-sports","23":"tag-nba","24":"tag-news","25":"tag-overall","26":"tag-overall-positive","27":"tag-positive","28":"tag-sacramento","29":"tag-sacramento-kings","30":"tag-sports","31":"tag-sports-fan-gear-u0026-apparel","32":"tag-sports-memorabilia","33":"tag-sports-news","34":"tag-u0026"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114687864001942653","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100461\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/84860"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}