Robert Parish News

Robert Lee Parish (Chief)

Position: Center ▪ Shoots: Right
Height: 7-0 ▪ Weight: 230 lbs.
Born: August 30, 1953 in Shreveport, Louisiana
High School: Woodlawn in Shreveport, Louisiana
College: Centenary College of Louisiana
Draft: Golden State Warriors, 1st round (8th pick, 8th overall), 1976 NBA Draft
NBA Debut: October 22, 1976
Hall of Fame: Inducted as Player in 2003 (Full List)

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News -- April 2013

4/22 Dancing With Noah: Against Time: *Note: I first started writing this story back in November of 2012. It’s a long, fictional speculation/assumption of how/why...

2/23 The Basketball Champs Belt: 1953-54: Waiting for The World to Change: By Michael Hogan Waiting for Godot describes the story of two men who pass the time waiting for a promised visit by the mysterious...
2/19 Celtics Life: Video: KG, Yoga, a banana, & the beach: What it do?! Figured we should post this video that's been making the rounds everywhere in Celtics Nation. Knew about Kevin...
2/14 The Basketball Champs Belt: 1953 Births: Chief, All-World, and Silk: As TBCB begins to prepare the 1953-54 NBA season summary, we set the stage by sharing related facts, stories, and highlights....

1/21 StoopSports.com: Dwyane Wade and the Art of the Alpha Dog: A.J. Rose- Dwyane Wade is not an idiot. Actually, one could make the argument that he’s a basketball genius. In the summer of...
1/8 NBA Jerks: Is DeMarcus Cousins Seeing Boston Green?: It takes a rock-hard disposition to ditch playing for one professional sports league three seasons into your career, to join another...
1/8 NBA Jerks: Is DeMarcus Cousins Seeing Boston Green?: It takes a rock-hard disposition to ditch playing for one professional sports league three seasons into your career, to join another...
1/2 Tyler's Think Tank: NBA All Decade Team 1980s: PG Magic Johnson--Gets the nod over Isiah Thomas SG Michael Jordan SF Larry Bird--Over Alex English and Dominique Wilkins PF...

12/16 Celtics Life: ESPN declares Reggie Miller better than Bird; Cousy unworthy of Hall of Fame: If you had to pick 2 of these guys for your NBA team who would they be? In ESPN The Magazine's Dec. 24 Hall of Fame...
12/15 The Wages of Wins Journal: The Truth about Magic Johnson’s Clutch Baby HookDre examines Magic "clutch shot win" over the Celtics in the epic 1987 finals and asks if it was really a good play....

11/30 Cowbell Kingdom: Cowbell Kingdom Podcast Ep 69: Clifford Ray, Sacramento Kings’ big man coachA conversation with Keith Smart's mentor and assistant...

6/13 Tyler's Think Tank: Celtics Post-Mortem: They were supposed to be too old, too tired, too slow. They should have been worn out after needing six games to dispose...
6/3 Celtics Life: Robert Parish sells 1981 championship ring: Earlier I posted the 1981 World Champion Celtics Locker Room Celebration video that I found earlier this week. Where...
6/3 Celtics Life: Video: 1981 World Champion Celtics Locker Room Celebration: Found this video earlier in the week, but we had so much to post I put it on the back burner. Honestly it was such an enjoyable...

3/10 Celtics Life: McHale: "I will always be grateful for Red for not trading me": Earlier this morning we shared from Jackie MacMullan's new column on ESPN Boston that Robert Parish late in his career nearly...
3/10 Celtics Life: As teammates Robert Parish and Michael Jordan nearly brawled: Jackie MacMullan has a great new article up on ESPN Boston this morning comparing the end of the original Big Three's careers...

1/15 Z krainy NBA: Dirk Nowitzki rzucił już 23000 punktów: Dirk Nowitzki został dziś w nocy 23. graczem w historii ligi NBA, który zdobył w sezonie regularnym ponad 23 000 punktów....

10/13 Z krainy NBA: Mecz dnia, Bulls – Celtics z sezonu 1986/87: Kolejny raz wasz wybór padł na mecz w wykonaniu Chicago Bulls. Tym razem jest to spotkanie między nimi, a Boston Celtics,...

8/31 The Wages of Wins Journal: NBA Players that Peaked LateDre looks at player that had a spike in production in their 30s and comes up with just 12 names....
8/23 The Wages of Wins Journal: Why Kobe is an All-Time Great, Wade is not yet, and Iguodala might be someday: Longevity and production are required to be considered one of the greatest of all time. Players like Kobe have that on their resume....
8/13 The Wages of Wins Journal: Defending Rodman (featuring the 100 Most Productive Seasons since 1978)Arturo makes a simple argument for the Greatness that is Dennis Rodman....

7/28 BBR Blog: Basketball on Paper WAR and the Best Peak Regular-Season Players Since 1978: If you've been following the blog recently, I've developed a way to convert a player's Basketball on Paper stats to a Statistical...

6/28 BBR Blog: Players & Coaches Who Won Championships With Multiple Teams: BBR user Kenneth asked: "I have a question regarding players and coaches with NBA titles--which player(s) and coach(es) have won...

5/29 BBR Blog: Miami-Dallas: The Strangest Finals Rematch Ever: Finals rematches usually involve a familiar cast of characters with a great deal of bad blood built up over past battles, right?...
5/4 BBR Blog: Tuesday Flashback: May 8, 1997: ...aka the last time the Hawks beat the Bulls in a playoff game: Scoring 1 2 3 4 T ATL ...

4/23 Chasing 23: Making John Havlicek Proud: Who Is the Best NBA Sixth Man of the Post-Merger Era?Ranking the NBA's Best Sixth Men of the Past 35 Years....
4/21 Chasing 23: Making John Havlicek Proud: Who Is the Best NBA Sixth Man of the Post-Merger Era?Ranking the NBA's Best Sixth Men of the Past 35 Years....

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