{"id":636917,"date":"2026-03-03T16:29:29","date_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:29:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/636917\/"},"modified":"2026-03-03T16:29:29","modified_gmt":"2026-03-03T16:29:29","slug":"celtics-hugo-gonzalez-makes-basketball-history-only-done-before-by-larry-bird-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/636917\/","title":{"rendered":"Celtics&#8217; Hugo Gonzalez makes basketball history only done before by Larry Bird"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hugo Gonzalez, and Larry Bird.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s quite the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/boston-celtics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Boston Celtics<\/a> club that this year&#8217;s talented rookie just joined, keeping company with one of the greatest players in NBA history.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez did it Monday night thanks to a huge stat line against the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/milwaukee-bucks\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Milwaukee Bucks<\/a>. Jaylen Brown and Jayson Tatum were both out, as was Neemias Queta, which opened the door for Gonzalez to do everything.<\/p>\n<p>And check out these stats, because he really did do it all:<\/p>\n<p>18 points16 rebounds3 steals2 blocks<\/p>\n<p>MORE:\u00a0<a target=\"\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sportingnews.com\/us\/nba\/detroit-pistons\/news\/pistons-legend-rip-hamiltons-son-commits-d-i-college-basketball-program\/fa7586192b29e9d81adf64a8\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Rip Hamilton&#8217;s son is committed to play D-I college basketball<\/a><\/p>\n<p>That was a career-high for Gonzalez in points. And a career-high for Gonzalez in rebounds. And a career-high for Gonzalez in steals.<\/p>\n<p>In the process, he did something only done before by Bird.<\/p>\n<p>Gonzalez is the second Celtics rookie to reach that combination of four stats in one game, according to StatMuse, <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/statmuse\/status\/2028662277197496604\" rel=\"nofollow\">along with Bird<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The 20-year old Gonzalez was the No. 28 overall pick in the 2025 NBA Draft out of Spain.<\/p>\n<p>Entering Monday night, he was averaging 3.9 points and 3.3 rebounds per game.<\/p>\n<p>Given the runway to shine, though, Gonzalez had a monster night.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s hard to get much more encouraging for a young Celtics player than doing something that has only been done by Larry Legend.<\/p>\n<p>More NBA news:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hugo Gonzalez, and Larry Bird.\u00a0 That&#8217;s quite the Boston Celtics club that this year&#8217;s talented rookie just joined,&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":636918,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[7,45,75,3798,46,6],"class_list":["post-636917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-boston-celtics","tag-basketball","tag-boston","tag-boston-celtics","tag-bostonceltics","tag-celtics","tag-nba"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116166195104367499","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636917","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=636917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/636917\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/636918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=636917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=636917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=636917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}