Top 10 Scorers in Boston Celtics' Franchise History

#1 John Havlicek - 26,395 points

“Hondo,” as he was referred to, spent 16 seasons in the league, all in a Celtics uniform

Legendary Celtics head coach Red Auerbach described Havlicek as the "guts of the team". He is the Celtics all-time leader in terms of games played, points scored and field goals made. He played all 16 of his NBA seasons in Boston and took home the championship in eight of them.

His blazing career playoff average of 22 points per game shouts volumes of his finesse in closing crunch games, as he constantly pushed triple-double numbers being a full-time reserve. He won the NBA Finals MVP in 1974 and averaged an inhuman 27.1 ppg in the playoffs that year, and set the NBA Finals single-game record for most points in an overtime period.

When you spend 16 seasons playing for the same franchise in any sport, being named an All-Star for 13 consecutive years(1966-78), you become an immortalized figure for the coming generations. He was honoured as an inductee to the Naismith Memorial Basketball Hall of Fame in 1984, about six years after the Celtics retired his No. 17 jersey in 1978.

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