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Today in Boston Celtics history, the Celtics elected to trade Courtney Lee to the Memphis Grizzlies<\/a> in 2014. The Celtics sent the Western Kentucky alum out as their part of a huge, three-team deal that sent out a second-round pick to the Grizzlies along with Lee, and it also saw Memphis move backup floor general Jerryd Bayless to the Celtics.<\/p>\n

Boston also sent out draft picks to the Oklahoma City Thunder<\/a>, who dealt Boston alum Ryan Gomes back to the Celtics for a very brief stint, with the Providence College alum soon cut after the trade was approved by the NBA.<\/p>\n

The Thunder also sent out draft picks and cash to complete the deal ending Lee’s two-season tenure with the Celtics franchise.<\/p>\n

Historic games<\/p>\n

It was also on this date in 2021 that the Celtics played a game against the Miami Heat<\/a> despite a violent mob roaming the US capital following attempts <\/a>to prevent the results of the 2020 US election from being certified and more police violence against people of color in Minnesota. Then-coach Brad Stevens spoke about the events at the nation’s capital ahead of the game. \u201cI watched it all. I\u2019m sure our players watched it all. I guess my reaction is sad,\u201d he related.<\/p>\n

“We play tonight\u2019s game with a heavy heart after yesterday\u2019s decision in Kenosha, and knowing that protesters in our nation\u2019s capital are treated differently by political leaders depending on what side of certain issues they are on,” it began.<\/p>\n

“The drastic difference between the way protesters this past spring and summer were treated and the encouragement given to today\u2019s protesters who acted illegally just shows how much more work we have to do. We have decided to play tonight\u2019s game to try to bring joy into people\u2019s lives.” The Celtics beat the Heat 107-105.<\/p>\n

Birthdays<\/p>\n

Finally, it is also the birthday of former Celtic guard Cecil Orgus Hankins, born this day in 1922 in Covin, Alabama. A product of Oklahoma State University, Hankins joined the now-defunct St. Louis Bombers in the Basketball Association of America’s (BAA — a precursor league to the NBA) inaugural season of 1946-47, even before there was a draft to be selected in.<\/p>\n

He would play a single season with that franchise before joining Boston in its second season of existence — his last in the BAA before retiring — putting up 2.8 points per game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Today in Boston Celtics history, the Celtics elected to trade Courtney Lee to the Memphis Grizzlies in 2014.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":520005,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3778],"tags":[7,3869,3164,311,294,144,1682,234,293,177,295,189,3881,70,85,6,62,67,310,179,38483,61,81,425,716,66,83,17,3870,312,713,2196,831,51391],"class_list":["post-520004","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-miami-heat","tag-basketball","tag-brad","tag-brad-stevens","tag-city","tag-grizzlies","tag-heat","tag-history","tag-kentucky","tag-memphis","tag-memphis-grizzlies","tag-miami","tag-miami-heat","tag-miamiheat","tag-national","tag-national-sports","tag-nba","tag-neutral","tag-news","tag-oklahoma","tag-oklahoma-city-thunder","tag-oklahoma-state-university","tag-overall","tag-overall-neutral","tag-smg","tag-smg-timely","tag-sports","tag-sports-news","tag-state","tag-stevens","tag-thunder","tag-timely","tag-university","tag-western","tag-western-kentucky-university"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/115847764671086661","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520004","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=520004"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520004\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/520005"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=520004"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520004"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520004"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}