{"id":699456,"date":"2026-04-05T11:51:59","date_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699456\/"},"modified":"2026-04-05T11:51:59","modified_gmt":"2026-04-05T11:51:59","slug":"alvin-julian-george-nostrand-shammond-williams-born","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/699456\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvin Julian, George Nostrand, Shammond Williams born"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>April 5, 2026, 6:01 a.m. ET<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Today in Boston Celtics history, Alvin &#8220;Doggie&#8221; Julian, the second coach of the Celtics, was born in 1901 in Reading, Pennsylvania. Prior to becoming the head coach of an emerging Celtics franchise, Julian played football, baseball, and basketball at Bucknell University, and he enjoyed a four-year professional baseball career with various teams from 1922 to 1926.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">Throughout his life, he coached all three sports at both the collegiate and high school levels, beginning his basketball coaching career at Muhlenberg College in 1936. In 1945, Julian started coaching at Holy Cross, winning an NCAA Championship there with future Celtic Bob Cousy, who would later join him on the Celtics in 1950.<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">The Reading native left Holy Cross for Boston in 1948 and would leave the pro ranks at the end of Cousy&#8217;s rookie season.<\/p>\n<p>Birthdays<\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It is the birthday of former Celtic center George Nostrand, who played for the team under Julian in 1949. Nostrand was born in Uniondale, New York in 1924, and played two seasons for Boston after his college ball at High Point and Wyoming, and several professional teams afterward. In those two seasons with the Celtics, Nostrand averaged 8.3 points and 1.2 assists plus an unknown number of rebounds per game \u2013 they had not yet begun tracking the statistic.<\/p>\n<p>Need a news break? <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\" data-t-l=\":body nav (play)|e|auto spike click:5|\u2691u\" class=\"gnt_ar_b_sp_a\" href=\"https:\/\/play.usatoday.com\/?itm_source=SPIKE&amp;itm_campaign=PLAYSPIKE&amp;itm_medium=ONSITE\">Check out the all new PLAY hub with puzzles, games and more!<\/a><img class=\"gnt_em_img_i\" style=\"height:556px\" fetchpriority=\"high\" data-g-r=\"lazy\" data-gl-src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/77114729007-39-139729.jpeg\" data-gl- decoding=\"async\" alt=\"BOSTON, UNITED STATES: Boston Celtics' Shammond Williams (TOP) battles for the ball with Jeff McInnis (BOTTOM) of the Portland Trail Blazers 03 January 2003 at the Fleet Center in Boston, Massachusetts. The Trail Blazers beat the Celtics 103-108.  AFP PHOTO\/JESSICA RINALDI (Photo credit should read JESSICA RINALDI\/AFP via Getty Images)\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"gnt_ar_b_p\">It is also the birthday of ex-Boston guard Shammond Williams, who was born on this day in 1975 in the Bronx. He happens to be the cousin of Hall of Fame forward Kevin Garnett, and played his collegiate basketball for the UNC Tarheels. He would come to Boston as part of the trade sending Vin Baker to Boston in exchange for Kenny Anderson, Joseph Forte, and Vitaly Potapenko in the summer of 2002. Williams played less than a season before being traded again, and averaged 7.3 points, 2.2 boards, and 2.5 assists in his sole season as a Celtic.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"April 5, 2026, 6:01 a.m. ET Today in Boston Celtics history, Alvin &#8220;Doggie&#8221; Julian, the second coach of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":699457,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3766],"tags":[72400,7,45,75,3798,46,6,72493,72494,72404,73607,87852,72445,73842,72526,72406,72403],"class_list":{"0":"post-699456","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-boston-celtics","8":"tag-accessfree","9":"tag-basketball","10":"tag-boston","11":"tag-boston-celtics","12":"tag-bostonceltics","13":"tag-celtics","14":"tag-nba","15":"tag-sstssportsnbaceltics","16":"tag-sstsnceltics","17":"tag-tagbasketball","18":"tag-taghistory","19":"tag-tagmuhlenberg-college","20":"tag-tagoverall-neutral","21":"tag-tagpennsylvania","22":"tag-tagsmg-timely","23":"tag-tagsports-news","24":"tag-typestory"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nba\/116351961725215364","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699456","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=699456"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/699456\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/699457"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=699456"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=699456"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nba\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=699456"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}