Parish earns 22,000th Point; Sailors, Bloom Born; Wedman Trade

This day is a milestone in Boston Celtics’ history. In 1994, Robert Parish, a Hall of Fame Celtics player, scored the 22,000th point of a career in he played. An alum of Louisiana’s Centenary College, Parish was later drafted by the Golden State Warriors with the eighth overall pick of the 1976 NBA draft and would come to the Celtics in a famously lopsided trade in 1980.

He would play 14 seasons for Boston, winning all four of his NBA titles with them.

The game in which he hit the 22,000-point plateau was a 21-point performance in a 102 – 95 loss to the Los Angeles Clippers, Parish becoming (at that time) only the twelfth person in league history to reach that mark.

Today is also the birthday of Meyer “Mike” Bloom, born in 1915 in New York City, New York

Bloom played one season for the Celts in just their second season of 1947-48, back in their Basketball Association of America (BAA – a precursor league to the NBA) days.

In the regular season, Temple’s alumnus averaged 9.2 and 14 assists per match. The playoffs saw 12 points and 2 assists.

The New Yorker would go on to play three more seasons in the Basketball Association of America — two for the Minneapolis Lakers (who would later move to Los Angeles), and one for the now-defunct Chicago Stags in the second-to-last season for the club.

He shares his Birthday with Kenny Sailors (a fellow Celtics alumnus), who was also born this day, 1921, in Bushnell, Nebraska.

Sailors played with the Celtics in the penultimate game of his brief, but very busy NBA career. He was a guard who played 10 games during the 1950-51 season. He averaged 1.8 point per game for the team.

(AP Photo/Amy Sancetta)

The Cleveland Cavaliers traded Scott Wedman to Cleveland for Darren Tillis, a first-round draft pick, and finally, on this day in 1983.

Wedman would play parts of 5 seasons with Boston, where he’d help the Celtics win titles in 1984 and 1986.

The Colorado product averaged 6.2 point, 2.1 rebound and an assist in 271 games with Boston.

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Story originally appeared on Celtics Wire

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