On this day in Boston Celtics history, big man Luke Cameron Harangody was born in Decatur, Illinois back in 1988. Harangody would play his college ball with the Notre Dame Fighting Irish men’s basketball team, where he won three consecutive Second Team All-American honors between 2008 and 2010, winning Big East Player of the Year in 2008.
Harangody was selected with the 52nd overall pick of the Celtics in the 2010 NBA draft, signing a two-year deal with the team in August of that year. The Illinois native would debut against the Detroit Pistons in November of that same year, playing a total of 49 games for the team that drafted him.
Harangody was then traded to the Cleveland Cavaliers along with center Semih Erden for draft assets.
It is also the date of the trade that sent Celtic guard Michael John “Red” Wallace to the (now defunct) Toronto Huskies for guard Charlie Hoefer.
Wallace had been one of the Celtics signed to the team in its inaugural season of 1946-47 even before there was a draft to be taken in.
Happy birthday in heaven Charlie “Dutch” Hoefer and Bob Kinney. #Celtics pic.twitter.com/wvOn5V2H20
— Honest☘️Larry (@HonestLarry1) September 16, 2021
Wallace played 85 contests with Boston over a total of two seasons, averaging 5.5 points per game.
Hoefer also played parts of two seasons with the Celtics, though in his case, just 42 games in which he put up 5.3 points per game.
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