{"id":116504,"date":"2025-06-22T15:01:25","date_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/116504\/"},"modified":"2025-06-22T15:01:25","modified_gmt":"2025-06-22T15:01:25","slug":"boston-celtics-jersey-history-no-21-ron-bonham-1964-66","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/116504\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Celtics jersey history No. 21 – Ron Bonham (1964-66)"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0Boston 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 — the league that would become today’s NBA), worn by well over 500 players in the course of\u00a0Celtics<\/a>\u00a0history.<\/p>\n

To commemorate the players who wore those numbers,\u00a0Celtics<\/a>\u00a0Wire is covering the entire history of jersey numbers and the players who sported them since the founding of the team.<\/p>\n

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With 25 of those jerseys now retired to honor some of the greatest\u00a0Celtics<\/a>\u00a0to wear those jerseys, there is a lot of history to cover.<\/p>\n

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University of Cincinnati coach Ed Jucker with some of the key players from his 1962 NCAA champion Bearcats: (L-R) Ron Bonham, Tony Yates, George Wilson and Tom Thacker. 636768344785313271-uc6162.jpg<\/p>\n

And for today’s article, we will continue with the ninth of nine people to wear the No. 21, Boston wing alum Ron Bonham. After ending his college career at Cincinnati, Bonham was picked up with the 18th overall selection of the 1964 NBA draft by the Celtics<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The Muncie, Indiana native would play the first two seasons of his pro career with Boston before temporarily retiring from the league, winning two titles with the team in a reserve role in that stretch.<\/p>\n

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During his time suiting up for the Celtics, Bonham wore only jersey No. 21 and put up 6.3 points and 1.5 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n

All stats and data courtesy of Basketball Reference.<\/p>\n

This article originally appeared on Celtics Wire: Celtics jersey history No. 21 – Ron Bonham (1964-66)<\/a><\/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…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":16058,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,4226,45,75,3798,46,4206,6,24014],"class_list":{"0":"post-116504","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-basketball","9":"tag-basketball-association-of-america","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-jersey-numbers","15":"tag-nba","16":"tag-ron-bonham"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/114727624076339927","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116504","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=116504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16058"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}